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In joint comments submitted on Dec. 30, a coalition of nonprofits led by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, said the agencies are failing to meet that mandate by attempting to replace the management plan with a workaround that is not subject to environmental review ...

The Trump administration “wasted” $10bn on paid leave, or paying workers to stay home, as part of the “department of government efficiency’s” assault on the federal workforce, a new analysis by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) estimates. In a letter sent ...

Additionally, as Common Dreams reported Monday, the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility warned congressional committees that the DOI orders are “not legally defensible” and raise “significant” questions about conflicts of interest involving a top ...

Officials told park leaders that most employees should get a grade of 3, meaning that they had achieved their goals, rather than a 4 or 5, which are for exceeding expectations. Park Service watchdogs are critical of the move. “What they’re doing is discarding transparent standards,” ...

Timothy Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), wrote to the top members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Committee on Natural Resources regarding the pause on projects off the coasts of Virginia, New ...

The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a lawsuit on behalf of the farmers and ranchers in Johnson County in June 2024, arguing the EPA failed to identify and regulate toxic chemicals in sewage sludge. The lawsuit points to harmful impacts on communities ...