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In 2019, near the end of the Trump administration, then–Interior Secretary David Bernhardt instructed national parks to allow e-bikes wherever traditional bikes were allowed. The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sued, arguing that NPS needed to undertake ...

While the National Park Service has been studying the impacts of eBikes in the National Park System, the agency really knows little about the impacts on the environment or on other trail users, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The draft “programmatic ...

“The fact that it has taken over two years for the Senate to take a final confirmation vote is extraordinary and shows how broken the Senate confirmation process has become,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

The EPA is also under fire from consumer groups for allowing the makers of plastic containers to use forever chemicals in food and personal care product containers. Consumer groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Center for Environmental Health recently ...

But other groups have challenged that assertion, including the whistleblower group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, saying one-third of the grazing lands administered by the BLM are not assessed for their effect on the environment. Among the late-breaking comments was an ...

The organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (“PEER”) issued a report addressing criminal prosecution of United States environmental laws. The report was issued pursuant to a July 13th news release titled: EPA Criminal Enforcement Sputters Back to Life FY 23 ...