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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility claims Clark’s role as acting administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs now runs afoul of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. If Clark’s appointment is deemed invalid, his actions in office — and many of the ...

The officials “are improperly using titles and issuing regulatory decisions and other actions stating they are the ‘acting’ officials in positions that require Senate confirmation,” said Timothy Whitehouse, PEER’s executive director, in the letter. Whitehouse asked Interior to ...

At the same time, law enforcement ranks for all parks have been in precipitous decline. Since 2010, the number of park law enforcement positions has fallen by 48 percent, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit watchdog group. Read the PEER Story… ...

“Whistleblowing has traditionally been a nonpartisan thing,” said Tim Whitehouse, who joined PEER as its executive director in 2019, following stints leading Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility and a decade at EPA. But under Trump 2.0, PEER has seen a “20-fold increase ...

According to records collected by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, HUD submitted the rule in early July, and then yanked it just days later. In their letter, the senators said that “the status of the interim rule is unclear.” Read the PEER Story… ...