Groups sue to block Trump’s fed-firing rule
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PEER | March 4, 2026
Unions and a watchdog organization are re-upping their legal challenge to stop President Donald Trump’s push to strip civil service protections from thousands of federal employees. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility; the American Federation of Government Employees; the ...
Unions Re-up Suit Against Trump Rule for Federal Worker Firings
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PEER |
The coalition, which includes Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and American Federation of Government Employees, filed a consolidated and updated legal challenge against a final regulation that would potentially reclassify tens of thousands of federal policy-influencing ...
Pepperell sues six companies over ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
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PEER | March 2, 2026
Kyla Bennett, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in New England, said there are alarming links between PFAS exposure and serious health problems. “With any chemical to say chemical A causes health outcome B is a difficult thing to do,” she said. “But we do ...
PEER Seeks Interior’s “Freedom 250” Funding Records
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PEER | February 26, 2026
The 250th birthday of the United States is a day to celebrate nationally, but Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) wants to know whether the Trump administration is leveraging that event to sell access to President Donald Trump and use “taxpayer funds for ...
Yosemite worker fired for hanging trans pride flag on El Capitan sues National Park Service
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PEER | February 25, 2026
“I think everyone should be very worried as Americans about this kind of targeted repression of free speech,” Joanna Citron Day, an attorney representing Joslin, told CBS News. “We are seeing this administration go after groups it doesn’t agree with, people it doesn ...
Yosemite Park Ranger Who Was Fired After Hanging Transgender Flag Files Lawsuit
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PEER | February 24, 2026
Nobody had ever been disciplined before, much less fired and subject to criminal investigation,” said Paula Dinerstein, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is representing Joslin. The question of whether or not it was a demonstration also doesn’t ...
