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Trump’s Attack on Science/ Year of the Co-op

by PEER | September 13, 2025
Ralph welcomes Timothy Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to speak about how federal workers across all government agencies are being unfairly denigrated and summarily fired by the Trump Administration to clear the way for corporate ...

EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS

by PEER | September 8, 2025
On August 13, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a federal environmental policy watchdog organization, sent Kennedy a petition asking the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission to take several concrete actions on forever chemicals. PEER recommends that the EPA ...

Court Upholds Ban On Air Tours Over Mt. Rushmore and Badlands

by PEER | September 6, 2025
Three South Dakota tour companies petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit to allow air tours to resume, arguing that they were “arbitrary and capricious.” But the court ruled Thursday to uphold the bans. The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks and ...

The unlikely alliance pressing Trump to regulate Pfas on US farms: ‘This is a basic human right’

by PEER | August 27, 2025
In Massachusetts, Bennett, the scientist, who is now with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit, has been frustrated with the Biden and Trump administrations’ policies on sludge, and has sued the EPA under the Clean Water Act to force the agency to ...

FEMA Suspends Staff Who Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

by PEER | August 26, 2025
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit group that defends the rights of civil servants, said the Constitution protected the free speech of the FEMA workers. “They have strong First Amendment claims because they shared ...

SSA whistleblower warns of major security risk following DOGE data access

by PEER |
“In the past, government agencies have worked hard to keep that information safe and secure, both to protect the American people’s private data and to ensure that government agencies don’t use it for the wrong purposes,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for ...
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