Trump and Congress Just Gifted Big Oil a Multimillion Dollar Stocking Stuffer
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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 ...
Building Accountability Back Into Government: Why It’s Essential for the Environment and Public Health
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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 ...
Environmental Attacks Continue at Full Speed; Much of it Under the Radar
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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 ...
EPA’s Rollback of Endangerment Finding is Cloaked in Secrecy and Science-Denial
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Kaylee Rodriguez | October 23, 2025
The proposal to repeal the endangerment finding is part of a concentrated effort by the Trump administration to abandon science in favor of a political agenda ...
Alaska Can No Longer Ignore Climate Change: Latest Disaster Should Be Wake-Up Call
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Jeff Ruch | October 21, 2025
Remnants of typhoon Halong battered Alaska with hellacious winds and record-breaking storm surges, yet national and even state policies are unlikely to change in its aftermath ...
Comment – 2009 Endangerment Finding and GHG Vehicle Standards Reconsideration
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PEER | September 22, 2025
Comments on Proposed Rule: “Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards ...