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Lawsuit contends Schedule Policy/Career exceeds presidential authority

by PEER | March 4, 2026
The revised lawsuit expands on previous legal actions from the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, along with the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the American Federation of Labor and ...

Groups sue to block Trump’s fed-firing rule

by PEER |
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

by 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

by 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

by 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

by 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 ...