This is a tough time to be a federal employee.
The atmosphere at environmental, public lands, and public health agencies has become toxic, with employees enduring more than a year of inflammatory, insulting, untrue, and shockingly partisan attacks from their political leaders.
That is one reason we just sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after EPA failed to respond to PEER’s Freedom of Information Act request to back up Administrator Zeldin’s claims of widespread absenteeism and ghost employees at the agency when he first joined.
This comes on the heels of a PEER report that shows environmental enforcement has collapsed under Zeldin’s watch.
The chaos endured by public employees and the dismantling of environmental programs show no sign of resolving in 2026, which is why we aren’t letting up on our work.
Onward,
Tim Whitehouse
Executive Director
Government Lawyer, Investigator Joins PEER
We are pleased to welcome Aaron Lloyd to PEER as senior counsel. Aaron comes to PEER from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), where he most recently served as Acting General Counsel. He has over 10 years of experience as an attorney and investigator at the Office of Special Counsel. Read More »
Protecting Free Speech Rights
PEER’s most recent webinar, Public Employees, Free Speech, and the Rise of Authoritarianism, comes at a timely moment in our country’s history. Speakers included PEER clients and legal experts, Derric Pennington, PhD, formerly of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and Lena Shapiro, JD, Director of the First Amendment Law Clinic at the University of Illinois College of Law. Watch the Recording »
