FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, August 1, 2026 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse | (240) 247-0299 | [email protected] Interior Department Leaders Must Now Be Held Accountable for Reflecting Pool Debacle PEER Calls on the Interior Secretary to Answer for No-Bid Contract...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, July 29, 2026 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse | (240) 247-0299 | [email protected] PEER: OPM Rule Creates Back Door Around Federal Workforce Protections Proposed Rule Would Gut Reduction in Force Protections and Violate the...
Since 2004, PEER has examined Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) files to assess pollution enforcement. In a state heavily reliant on its natural beauty for tourism revenue, it has fallen far short of acceptable pollution levels primarily in its...
Report Summary Since 2004, PEER has examined Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) data to assess state trends in pollution enforcement. This year, we have added a section on the state of water quality in Florida. Waterkeepers Florida developed...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 28, 2026 CONTACT Jen Lomberk, Esq. | (904) 471-9878 | [email protected] Tim Whitehouse | (240) 247-0299 | [email protected] New Report Finds Majority of Florida Waterways Fail Water Quality Standards State Pollution...
Most people hear “federal grants” and think about scientific research. Cancer treatments. Environmental monitoring. Public health. University labs. Those are certainly at stake under the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed overhaul of how the...
DESCRIPTION: Comments in opposition to the proposed rule “Promoting Employee Accountability,” Docket ID 2025-OPM-0012 TO: Office of Management and Budget and Merit Systems Protection Board FROM: PEER DATE: July 23, 2026 TAGS: OMB, MSPB, protecting public...
Last week, PEER filed formal comments opposing the Trump administration’s sweeping proposed rule that will pose a serious threat to honest government and destroy independent science in the United States. The rule would hand political appointees unreviewable control...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 23, 2026 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse | (240) 247-0299 | [email protected] PEER Comments in Opposition to OPM-MSPB “Promoting Employee Accountability” Rule Rule is Part of a Broader Effort to “Return Our Government to the Spoils...
DESCRIPTION: Letter in opposition to H.R. 9725, Restoring Integrity and Efficiency to Inspector General Oversight Act TO: The Honorable James Comer, Chairman Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives; The Honorable Robert Garcia,...
DESCRIPTION: Comment on Notice of Intent to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement; Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program TO: William Wesela, National Policy Manager U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...
DESCRIPTION: Comments on the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed regulation to revise the Uniform Guidance governing federal financial assistance TO: Office of Management and Budget FROM: PEER DATE: July 13, 2026 TAGS: federal grants,...
DESCRIPTION: Comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed revisions to its grazing regulations. TO: Steven Pearce, Director, Bureau of Land Management FROM: Chandra Rosenthal, Western Lands & Rocky Mountain Advocate, PEER; Vera Smith, Director of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 13, 2026 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse | (240) 247-0299 | [email protected] PEER Warns OMB Grant Proposal Would Institutionalize Corruption and Destroy American Science Administration Seeks Complete Political Control Over Federal...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 13, 2026 CONTACT Aaron Lloyd | (202) 367-9386 | [email protected] Kyla Bennett | [email protected] EPA’s Dire Fear of Addressing Microplastic Pollution EPA Engineer Fired after Asking for Microplastic Monitoring in Permit ...
DESCRIPTION: Protest comments on the proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement DOI-BLM-NV-S010-2022-0094-RMP-EIS Purple Sage Energy Center Project TO: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Southern Nevada...
Originally published in and reprinted with permission of The Daily Sentinel. Public lands belong to all of us — we should all have a say in how they’re managed. Yet, a proposed rule from the Bureau of Land Management threatens to strip the public out of public land...
Gray whales have existed in the Pacific Ocean for over a million years, but right now, they’re vanishing, and most of us have no idea it’s happening. To help shine a light on this calamity, PEER just released National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, July 8, 2026 CONTACT Perry Wheeler, Earthjustice, [email protected] Coalition Calls for Rigorous Federal Review of Space-Based Data Center Proposals As companies make plans to launch more than a million data centers into space,...
Donald Trump will certainly not go down in history as the Conservation President. At the current rate, his legacy will be as our first Despoiler-in-Chief. Through a series of executive orders, secretarial directives, and regulatory rollbacks, the current Trump...
