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In a quick turnaround following complaints by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Office of Personnel Management has softened a requirement imposed in late May that federal job-seekers write four short essays, including an explanation of how they would “help implement ...

PEER Science Policy Director Kyla Bennett, a scientist and attorney formally with EPA, said the cuts amounted to the EPA “abandoning its status as a premier scientific organization.” “Scientific research is vital to EPA’s core mission of protecting public health and the ...

Yellowstone National Park’s superintendent disputes a group’s contention the agency has waived $1.2 million in right-of-way fees for a company that is installing 187 miles of fiber -optic cable in the park, recently released documents show. Public Employees for Environmental ...

Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit organization that supports environmental workers and has been tracking these administrative problems, said the errors suggest leadership problems within the agency. “They’re ...

Jeff Ruch, who serves as senior counsel to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, warned that efforts to shed protections for career employees, or make them easier to fire, could result in a significant waste of federal resources, as well as talent. “If they get rid of a ...

By one estimate, there are now over 100,000 federal employees currently on paid administrative leave. Some took the deferred resignation option offered early in the Trump Administration, but about 50% were put on administrative leave involuntarily. Public Employees for Environmental ...