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Commerce takes back job reclassifications for NOAA workers

by PEER | April 7, 2025
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is providing advice and legal counsel to an undisclosed number of NOAA employees, said he believes Friday’s email rescinding the Schedule F notifications “reflects a significant power ...

NOAA employees reinstated but remain on leave

by PEER | March 17, 2025
It is unclear how many federal employees received the letter, which was first reported to POLITICO’s E&E News by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is advising more than 120 terminated staffers. A copy of the letter was shared with E&E News by PEER and a ...

Trump credit card freeze has caused Interior ‘chaos,’ watchdog says

by PEER | March 4, 2025
A report issued Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, targets Trump’s executive order, issued last week, that mostly addressed spending on federal contracts and grants, but also called for clamping down on travel expenses and other issues. Trump’s order ...

DOGE lands at EPA

by PEER | February 12, 2025
EPA has been pressed to reveal what access Musk’s team has at the agency. In a letter last week to Administrator Lee Zeldin, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group, called on him to publicly disclose what agency databases are open to DOGE. EPA holds sensitive ...

Trump boosts political control over top-tier federal workers

by PEER | January 24, 2025
Likewise, Peter Jenkins, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, called Trump’s move “mean-spirited” and a “power grab” by the president that “will be counter-productive for the effectiveness of the nation’s top career civil servants.” Jenkins ...
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