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National Parks Report Record Visitation Amid ‘Catastrophic’ Moment

by PEER | March 10, 2025
The 34 locations were part of a larger list of hundreds of federal properties the Trump administration is looking to give up or sell, The Washington Post reported. That includes nine visitor centers and visitor contact stations. Examples include the Klondike Gold Rush Historical Site ...

EPA reverses course, reinstating dozens of environmental justice workers

by PEER | March 7, 2025
“These leaves were conducted indiscriminately and without any consideration of statutory requirements, or of the effect the firings would have on Americans,” Kyla Bennett, the director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in an email. “It is ...

Face aux purges d’Elon Musk, les scientifiques américains se mettent «Debout pour les sciences»

by PEER |
Les sciences de l’environnement et du climat sont logiquement ciblées. Kyla Bennett, scientifique de formation et ancienne cadre de l’Agence pour l’environnement (EPA), est la directrice de Peer, la seule ONG spécialisée dans la protection juridique des fonctionnaires d’agences ...

‘They Can’t Do Their Jobs’: Trump Issues $1 Spending Limit for All Parks Workers

by PEER | March 6, 2025
Trump’s latest executive order applies to more than the National Park Service. According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit watchdog organization, it also impacts the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which will now have just two people designated ...

A Native University Is Losing a Quarter of Its Staff to Federal Cuts

by PEER | March 5, 2025
And a 2023 Interior Department report, which emerged last year after the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued to obtain a redacted copy, depicted Haskell as “severely dysfunctional.” The report concluded, in part, that the university had been ...

“Front row seats to a coup”: Trump and Musk gut NOAA and EPA, raising alarm among scientists

by PEER |
Dr. Kyla Bennett, the director of science policy for the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, is a professional advocate for workers facing exactly this type of mistreatment. Bennett previously worked at the EPA as wetlands enforcement coordinator in New England and says she ...
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