The election next week will be momentous. The outcome will profoundly affect the civil service, the environment, and public health for generations to come.
Here are a few articles that offer our perspective on some of the issues at stake:
- PEER’s Rocky Mountain Director Chandra Rosenthal offers her thoughts on the future of public lands management in light of the extreme recommendations proposed in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 document.
- Here, I offer some thoughts on the Inflation Reduction Act, climate change, and the upcoming election.
- PEER’s Pacific Director Jeff Ruch offers his insights into how a recent Supreme Court immunity ruling will impact a future Trump administration.
- Senior Counsel Peter Jenkins discusses PEER’s efforts to reign in attempts at “retribution” of federal workers.
- In this article, I speak with Politico about my concerns that under a second Trump administration, we will see a full-throttled assault on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s program that manages the potential risk to human health and the environment from chemicals new to the marketplace.
- And in this Washington Post article, I discuss why agency scientific integrity policies will offer few protections for scientists in a second Trump term.
There is so much at risk with this election. For PEER, this election serves as a reminder that fighting for environmental protection and supporting good governance go hand in hand. In this election, both will be on the ballot.
Onward!
Tim Whitehouse
Executive Director
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