COMMENTARY | Spending Time in Nature Builds Resilience: A Lesson from Rachel Carson
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Guest Contributor | April 10, 2026
Rachel Carson reminds us that our connection with our precious blue planet is mutual. Just as we take action to protect the planet, so we can draw strength and support from it ...
COMMENTARY | Ending Attacks on Offshore Wind
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Tim Whitehouse | April 9, 2026
The Trump administration is trying to kill the United States offshore wind industry behind closed doors ...
COMMENTARY | The Intentional Vandalization of America’s National Parks
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Tim Whitehouse | April 1, 2026
Under Burgum’s leadership, the National Park Service is being dismantled piece by piece—through political interference, workforce depletion, corruption, and the systematic erasure of American history ...
COMMENTARY | When Government Silences Its Own Workers, We All Lose
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Tim Whitehouse | February 27, 2026
If agencies are allowed to punish speech they don’t like — especially when it touches on identity, science, or environmental protection — silence becomes the norm. And when silence becomes normal, everyone loses ...
COMMENTARY | Testimony on Freedom 250 and the Lack of Transparency in America’s Semiquincentennial
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Tim Whitehouse | February 18, 2026
PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse testified before the House Natural Resources Committee about the role of Freedom 250, a private, Trump-aligned company, in planning the United States’ 250th anniversary celebrations ...
COMMENTARY | Evisceration of the Federal Communications Commission NEPA
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Guest Contributor | December 22, 2025
The FCC is on the verge of promulgating NEPA rules that would further weaken its already skeletal NEPA rules and further exempt itself from NEPA obligations ...