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TELL CONGRESS | Stop Efforts to Sell Our Public Lands

Jun 20, 2025
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 Congress and the Trump administration to turn our public lands over to private commercial...

NOAA Careers Cut Short

Jun 11, 2025
Former probationary employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), illegally fired by the Trump administration, share their concerns about the agency’s future without their roles. They also reflect on what they could accomplish for the...

PEERMail | Former DOJ Attorney Joins PEER

Jun 11, 2025
I am pleased to announce that Joanna Citron Day has joined PEER as its new General Counsel. Joanna is an environmental enforcement attorney with more than 20 years of experience within the Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of the...

Trump’s First Months in Office: PEER’s Response

Jun 11, 2025
In the months since Trump was inaugurated, the administration has sought to undermine democratic values and the rule of law, dismantle the civil service, and gut environmental and public health protections. Its efforts to consolidate power, suppress dissent, weaken...

The Time Has Come to Establish the International Arctic Ocean Sanctuary

Jun 8, 2025
Originally published in and reprinted with permission of Common Dreams. On World Ocean Day, and the eve of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France opening Monday, the Arctic Ocean ecological crisis needs to be top of the list for attention by governments....

Comment – Schedule P/C

Jun 5, 2025
DESCRIPTION: Comment to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in opposition to the Proposed Rule “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service” TO: Office of Personnel Management FROM: PEER Senior Counsel Peter Jenkins DATE: June 5,...

TELL CONGRESS | Stop the Destruction of NOAA

May 29, 2025
To: Members of Congress​ I am deeply concerned about the rapid destruction of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at the hands of the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The agency is illegally firing...

PEERMail | Help Save our National Parks

May 28, 2025
Our country’s National Park System (NPS) is under attack the likes of which this country has never witnessed before. Until this administration, support for our NPS in Congress has been bipartisan and widespread. That is no longer the case. Under the leadership of...

House Budget Bill is a Disaster for Public Employees and the Environment

May 23, 2025
PEER condemns the budget reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives as disastrous for our country’s fiscal health and our public lands, wildlife, and environmental protections. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration. The bill, known as...

EPA’s Disgraceful Forever Chemicals Retreat

May 22, 2025
Two weeks after U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin issued a nebulous pledge to “combat PFAS contamination”, he sounded a timid retreat in a press release announcing EPA would rescind some recent safeguards and postpone the compliance...

PEERMail | Where do we go from here?

May 14, 2025
This is the time of year we ask our community to fill out a short survey to help us stay relevant and to position us to better serve public employees. I hope you will take a moment to share your thoughts. As always, don’t hesitate to contact us directly if you have...