PEERMail: Clean Water Apocalypse
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PEER | 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
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PEER | 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
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PEER | 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
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PEER | 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 ...
PEERMail: The Demise of Advise and Consent
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PEER | October 22, 2018
Last week’s bizarre disappearing act involving a new acting Interior Inspector General was no anomaly – it is part of an emerging pattern ...
PEERMail: Shuffling the Deck Chairs
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PEER | October 4, 2018
The best way to disrupt a public agency is to reorganize it. Thus, it not surprising that the Trump administration is in a reorganization lather ...