FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 6, 2025 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse (240) 247-0299 twhitehouse@peer.org Colleen Teubner Zimmerman (202) 464-2293 czimmerman@peer.org Satellite-Generated Atmospheric Pollution to Skyrocket Scientific Research and Monitoring Cut as...
Congressman Jamie Raskin recognized Tim Whitehouse and the PEER team as Local Heroes who make sure the critical functions of our government run properly to protect the environment.
Over the past three months, we have worked hard to track and respond to many of the concerning DOGE-related efforts to dismantle the important work of federal agencies, especially those which may be lesser known to Congress and the public but are of critical...
The letter below will be sent to your representatives. You will have an opportunity to customize it. As your constituent, I am writing to express my deep concern about steps by the Trump administration to turn our public lands over to private commercial interests and...
Originally published in and reprinted with permission of Common Dreams. In his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has moved aggressively to expand the authority of the executive branch, thereby upending our traditional system of checks and balances among the...
DESCRIPTION: Comments on the implementation of the definition of “Waters of the United States” TO: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers FROM: The Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of itself and A2 –...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 24, 2025 CONTACT Kyla Bennett (508) 230-9933 kbennett@peer.org EPA Abandons Setting Chemical Testing Priorities Statutorily Mandated Updates of Target Chemicals Dropped from Agenda Washington, DC — In an erosion of public...
Doug Burgum has long expressed his admiration for Teddy Roosevelt, the president who arguably made the greatest contribution to the United States’ rich conservation heritage. But as Secretary of the Interior, the position best suited to build on Roosevelt’s...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 21, 2025 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse 240-247-0299 twhitehouse@peer.org Extensive Musk Tendrils in NOAA Revealed More Than 210,000 Recent Communications with Musk Operatives Washington, DC — The sheer volume of communications from...
DOGE and Climate Change: What’s Really Happening at NOAA and EPA, and Why It Matters The purge of federal workers from key agencies across the federal government includes those tasked with conducting critical science that helps predict changes to local and...
There is an urgent need to step up our work to protect the rule of law in our country. The latest example is our work representing a top attorney at the Department of the Interior. Our client is facing proposed termination for helping draft a memo seeking the...
The Trump Administration’s assaults against efforts to preserve a livable climate are breathtaking in their ambition, including: Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, firing climate-critical federal employees en masse, freezing billions in climate and clean energy...
DESCRIPTION: Letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick regarding recently fired probationary employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration TO: U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, cc. Department of Commerce...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 14, 2025 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse, twhitehouse@peer.org, 240-247-0299 Victory for Clean Energy in Maryland Incineration is Taken out of State’s Renewable Energy Program Washington, DC — After over a decade of campaigning by...
The recent Trump Administration terminations of vast numbers of Department of the Interior (DOI) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) employees are causing concern for many reasons, not only to those fired, but also for the tens of millions of Americans who enjoy and...
