Trump administration begins sweeping layoffs with probationary workers, warns of larger cuts to come
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PEER | February 13, 2025
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that defends government workers, said the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service would be hit especially hard by laying off probationary employees because it has trouble recruiting inspectors required to be ...
Canyon de Chelly in Arizona will become latest national park unit to ban commercial air tours
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PEER | December 20, 2024
Canyon de Chelly is the last of roughly two dozen national park units where the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility had fought for flyover restrictions. Other national parks where such commercial flyovers essentially are or will be banned in coming years include ...
Pilots flying tourists over national parks face new rules. None are stricter than at Mount Rushmore
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Elizabeth Duan | December 4, 2023
Fewer planes and helicopters will be flying tourists over Mount Rushmore and other national monuments and parks as new regulations take effect that are intended to protect the serenity of some of the most beloved natural areas in the United States. “Mostly, the plans have been pretty ...
Watchdog: Chemical safety agency impeded by staff shortage
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PEER | September 9, 2022
“The Chemical Safety Board barely survived the Trump war of attrition against it,″ said Jeff Ruch, a top official at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group of current and former public employees. The watchdog group had sharply criticized Lemos and ...
Lawsuit to Protect Real-Life ‘Teddy Bears’ Tossed by Judge
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PEER | February 11, 2020
“NEW ORLEANS — A lawsuit seeking to return federal protection to the real bears that inspired teddy bears has been thrown out by a federal judge. The people and environmental groups who sued in 2018 didn’t provide any evidence to back up their claims that they would be hurt by ...
