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Report | 2021 Bureau of Land Management Employee Survey

by Susan Sargent | March 1, 2021
PEER conducted a survey with current and former Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees on the state of the agency, these are the findings ...

PEERMail: We Need a Radical Departure on Pesticides

by Susan Sargent | December 15, 2020
The federal law that provides for  regulation of pesticides has proven utterly inadequate and we need a radical depature from current policy ...

Academic Freedom & the First Amendment

by Susan Sargent | September 24, 2020
Thanks to a seminal Supreme Court ruling in 2006, public employees at all levels have no – as in zero – First Amendment free speech rights when in their role as public servants.  This because, the court reasons, government owns their speech.  Only by stepping outside that role and ...

White House withdraws nomination for Bureau of Land Management head

by Elizabeth Duan | August 17, 2020
“The Trump administration withdrew its nomination of William Perry Pendley to lead the Bureau of Land Management on Saturday after both Republican and Democratic senators said he would face tough questioning in a confirmation hearing. Peter Jenkins, senior counsel for Public ...

NPS Voices Summary Report

by PEER | June 6, 2019
Summary Report of The Voices Project, 2019, which encouraged National Park Service employees to speak out about their work environments ...

Sand Island Savagery

by Susan Sargent | October 22, 2014
Welcome to Sand Island. Today, more 40% of all double-crested cormorants in the West nest at East Sand Island, the only place on the Pacific Flyway where their population is growing.   PEER is trying to block a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to shoot 20,000 double-crested cormorants at ...