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PEERMail: The Shutdown’s Long-Term Costs

by Susan Sargent | January 15, 2019
The Shutdown’s Long-Term Costs Not only is this the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, it is also the dumbest. Incredibly, it is already the third shutdown during the relatively short but seemingly interminable Trump tenure. With the first round of missed paychecks, ...

PEERMail: Closing Out Our 25th Year

by Susan Sargent | December 31, 2018
Closing Out Our 25th Year This year, PEER celebrated its 25th anniversary. While we are not a big organization, we have generated a track record of major accomplishments in that time. 2018 was no exception. During the past twelve months, for example, we – Exposed perhaps the largest case ...

PEERMail: Clean Water Apocalypse

by Susan Sargent | December 14, 2018
Clean Water Apocalypse Each passing week, there is mounting competition for the most damaging environmental reversal proposed by the Trump administration. This week’s contestant may be the worst yet. In 2017, Trump ordered EPA to dramatically limit the scope of the 1972 Clean Water Act, ...

PEERMail: It Came From Outer Space

by Susan Sargent | November 30, 2018
PEER may have helped avert an existential threat to the planet. This time the source was not Donald Trump but something possibly even worse – Silicon Valley greed ...

PEERMail: We Need More Than Oversight

by Susan Sargent | November 16, 2018
We Need More Than Oversight Don’t get me wrong. For the past two years, congressional oversight has been synonymous with congressional overlook. Scrutiny enforced by subpoena would be a welcome change. If the past two years show anything, it’s that inside the Trump-sphere of ...

PEERMail: EPA Issues a Death Sentence

by Susan Sargent | November 1, 2018
Last week’s bizarre disappearing act involving a new acting Interior Inspector General was no anomaly – it is part of an emerging pattern ...
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