Academic Freedom & the First Amendment
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 The Durango Herald | 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
Summary Report of The Voices Project, 2019, which encouraged National Park Service employees to speak out about their work environments ...
Sand Island Savagery
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 ...
Militarization of Wildlife Management
Wildlife management in the U.S. has increasingly centered on eradicating critters deemed troublesome. At the apex of this mortality industrial complex is the ironically named Wildlife Services. It is an arm of USDA’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, where Wildlife Services ...
News Releases
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