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President Trump’s move to eliminate civil service protections for a wide number of federal employees was challenged in federal court Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which maintained the effort exceeds the president’s authority. Under the president ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that supports “current and former public employees who seek a higher standard of environmental ethics and scientific integrity within their agencies,” lists 17 “orphaned” areas in the National Park System ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a federal lawsuit this week arguing that the Department of Interior has failed to develop a comprehensive management plan to preserve and protect the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. According to PEER, without such a plan, the ...

PEER maintains that the NPS has all but abandoned efforts to assess its law enforcement needs. Although NPS policy requires each park to perform a Law Enforcement Needs Assessment every three years, the agency has abandoned the practice, the group said. Meanwhile, a five-year-old ...

Inaction by the Biden administration on rules that would prevent bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska has reopened litigation over those rules. At issue are rules that would allow hunters on national preservers to use donuts and grease-soaked bread loaves to lure in bears, to kill ...