‘Truth Is Not a Fireable Offense’: Former EPA Staffers File Legal Challenge Over Terminations by Trump
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PEER | December 3, 2025
The fired workers also argued that they arbitrarily received harsher treatment than many other employees who signed the letter, who were suspended without pay for two weeks. According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), one of the groups defending the employees, ...
EPA workers fired over dissent letter appeal to MSPB
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Ultimately, most targeted for retribution were issued letters of reprimand or forced to take two weeks’ unpaid leave. But around 15 workers, including seven employees still serving their one-year probationary period, were terminated in early October, shortly after the start of the 43-day ...
Fired employees file First Amendment lawsuit against EPA
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is representing the fired employees, said that the EPA of President Donald Trump has undermined the First Amendment’s free speech protections and has also put the public in danger by removing experienced employees from their ...
EPA staffers challenge their terminations over ‘dissent’ letter
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Six staffers who the Trump administration fired after they signed a “Declaration of Dissent” letter have filed claims with the Merit Systems Protection Board, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is helping to represent the ex-employees. The ...
Free Range
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PEER | December 1, 2025
We used geospatial data compiled by the conservation group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility to tell us the land-health status of BLM allotments. The organization obtained the data, which was last updated in December 2023, from the BLM via a public records request. Read the ...
US navy accused of cover-up over dangerous plutonium in San Francisco
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PEER | November 27, 2025
The navy is trying to avoid spending several billion dollars to do a proper clean up, said Jeff Ruch, senior counsel with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility nonprofit, which is involved in litigation at the site. “It’s been one thing after another after another,” ...