Roll Call

Activities around the 250th highlight America’s disunity

by PEER | June 4, 2026
Democrats and other critics have raised questions about whether funds appropriated by Congress for America250 have been diverted to the White House group and combined with private donations that are not being disclosed. The watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

100 days to 250 years, with 350 million invited

by PEER | March 26, 2026
America250 has received nearly $80 million from Congress since fiscal 2019, including $15 million in each of the past four years, according to the group’s latest annual report, and the Republican budget reconciliation law known as the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” allocated $150 million ...

Congress leads reversal of land use rules amid BLM director questions

by PEER | November 3, 2025
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which filed a challenge of Pendley’s tenure in 2020, sent a letter Friday to the Interior Department expressing concern that the various BLM acting heads, including Groffy, don’t satisfy the requirements of the law that outlines who ...

Spending law presents challenges for environmental regulators

by PEER | January 6, 2023
A provision in the new funding law blocks any of the money it distributes from being used to “regulate the lead content of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle” under the Toxic Substances Control Act. The Union of Concerned Scientists, the American Bird Conservancy and ...

National Park Service still waiting for Biden to pick a director

by PEER | August 18, 2021
“There’s a real problem with not having a leader at the head of the agency. It’s killing morale. Killing morale,” Kristen Brengel, senior vice president for government affairs with the National Parks Conservation Association, said in an interview. Jeff Ruch of the Public Employees ...