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Why Companies Are Funding Competing National July 4th Parties

by PEER | July 3, 2026
CNBC’s Luke Fountain is at the Great American State Fair on the Washington Mall for celebrations of the nation’s 250th Independence Day. Freedom 250, the sponsor of the state fair, has become politicized because the Trump administration has pushed many events through that, ...

ANALYSIS-Cause of Philadelphia fire sounds alarm over aging U.S. refineries

by PEER | November 6, 2019
The CSB found that prior to the California and Washington fires, as well as the BP Texas City blast in 2005 that killed 15, internal and external instructions for keeping plants operating safely were either ignored or not followed correctly. That regulatory approach makes rules difficult ...

Trump’s SEC ‘determined to leave public in the dark’ on climate change, Sierra Club alleges in lawsuit

by PEER | October 24, 2019
“The Sierra Club has a recent history of success litigating FOIA issues against the Trump administration. It sued the Environmental Protection Agency after FOIA requests made under former Trump EPA director Scott Pruitt were ignored, and the ultimate release of those documents — ...