Here’s what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department
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PEER | May 26, 2025
A Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has been given sweeping powers to overhaul the federal department that manages vast tracts of resource-rich public lands, but he hasn’t divested his energy investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with ...
EPA announces broad reorganization that includes shuffle of scientific research
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PEER | May 3, 2025
“The problem is that some areas of the country have much worse air pollution, and it cannot be treated as a one-size-fits-all,” said Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that supports public employees who raise ...
EPA plans to cut scientific research program, could fire more than 1,000 employees
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PEER | March 18, 2025
Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the research office’s work is supposed to be uniquely protected from politics. It provides essential science, such as risk assessments for chemicals that pose health threats. The office, ...
National Park Service restores some jobs of fired employees, pledges to hire 7,700 seasonal workers
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PEER | February 21, 2025
“There’s no real staffing plan. It’s chaotic, and there’s no leadership from the secretary of the Interior,’’ said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Burgum “needs to step up and make sure these parks are ...
Trump administration begins sweeping layoffs with probationary workers, warns of larger cuts to come
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PEER | February 13, 2025
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that defends government workers, said the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service would be hit especially hard by laying off probationary employees because it has trouble recruiting inspectors required to be ...