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Letter re: Pausing Leases for Offshore Wind Projects

by PEER | December 29, 2025
Letter to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and House Committee on Natural Resources re: pausing leases for all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the United States ...

Burgum’s Offshore Wind Halt of Questionable Legality

by PEER |
Interior Department Riddled with Conflicts of Interest and Ethical Challenges ...

COMMENTARY | Trump and Congress Just Gifted Big Oil a Multimillion Dollar Stocking Stuffer

by Guest Contributor | December 19, 2025
As Congress recesses this week, it quietly gave the oil industry a multimillion dollar tax break by allowing the 9 cent-per-barrel oil tax into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to expire on December 31 ...

COMMENTARY | Building Accountability Back Into Government: Why It’s Essential for the Environment and Public Health

by Tim Whitehouse | December 18, 2025
At PEER, we believe restoring accountability is among the most urgent environmental and public health challenges of our time. It is also a challenge we know how to meet -- if we choose to strengthen, rather than silence, the institutions designed to keep the government honest ...

COMMENTARY | Environmental Attacks Continue at Full Speed; Much of it Under the Radar

by Tim Whitehouse | December 9, 2025
Several major rollbacks show a government being redirected to serve a narrow set of industries at the expense of the public ...