COMMENTARY | Shutdown Could Provide Glimpse into the Future of Public Lands
by Kaylee Rodriguez | October 9, 2025
The Department of Interior is gearing up to slash its workforce, and as past shutdowns indicate, this means danger ahead for our parks and public lands ...
COMMENTARY | The Supreme Court Must Stop the Slide to Authoritarian Rule
by Peter Jenkins | October 7, 2025
The Supreme Court, whose 2025-2026 Term began on October 6, has set the stage for a descent to authoritarian rule in a series of quick rulings that favored President Trump over the last nine months ...
COMMENTARY | Trump Administration Descends on Dissenters; They’re Still Speaking Out
by Kaylee Rodriguez | September 18, 2025
A recent series of dissent letters signed by federal government employees documents the devastation this administration is inflicting on public health, safety, and the environment ...
COMMENTARY | Trump’s Challenge to the Climate Endangerment Finding: Another Tragic Farce
by Laurie Williams | September 16, 2025
Trump is grabbing the bull by the horns and proposing to rescind the Endangerment Finding altogether. His plan for doing so is both rash and outlandish ...
COMMENTARY | Growing Resistance to Trump’s Cuts Indicates Budget Battle Ahead
by Kaylee Rodriguez | August 28, 2025
If the Interior and Environment Appropriations bills move to the floor, we can expect a showdown between “skinny budget” loyalists and other members of Congress who are increasingly pushing back against the broad slashing of funds ...
COMMENTARY | Redefining the US Forest Service Mission
by Guest Contributor | August 27, 2025
An anonymous US Forest Service employee shares their concerns about the recent direction for implementing EO 14225 “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production ...
COMMENTARY | Dumbing Down America’s Best Idea: National Parks in Free Fall
by Jeff Ruch | August 16, 2025
Even as the National Park Service sets new all-time visitation records, no one could claim our national parks are basking in a golden age ...
COMMENTARY | New Wave of Personnel Actions Threatens National Parks
by Kaylee Rodriguez | August 7, 2025
With peak visitation season underway, the National Park Service is struggling to keep up amid increasing uncertainty and understaffing ...
COMMENTARY | Commercial Space Activities and the Elimination of Science at NOAA
by Tim Whitehouse | August 5, 2025
The Trump Administration is doing everything in its power to limit or eliminate science-based oversight of industry activities and is using the threat of "pocket rescissions" to prevent harm to favored industries ...
COMMENTARY | Idiocracy: Loyalty Displaces Competence in Trump World
by Jeff Ruch | August 1, 2025
In his second term, Trump has assembled perhaps the least distinguished Cabinet in modern history, abandoning any pretense of picking people based upon competence ...
COMMENTARY | Trillion Dollar Return on Public Lands – Harvesting Hot Air
by Jeff Ruch | July 2, 2025
The Burgum-backed plans for Department of Interior lands promote a frenzy of extraction, overuse, and hasty disposal ...
COMMENTARY | Trump’s Attack on Science Will Leave Us All Sicker
by Tim Whitehouse | June 23, 2025
The Trump administration’s evisceration of the federal agencies that protect our health and environment is a full-throttled attack on science that will set our nation back for years, if not decades to come ...
COMMENTARY | Stop the Great Public Lands Heist
by Chandra Rosenthal | June 20, 2025
PEER opposes any conveyance of public land in the budget reconciliation. We oppose all efforts to sell off our public lands and gut our public lands agencies ...
COMMENTARY | Trump’s First Months in Office: PEER’s Response
by Tim Whitehouse | June 11, 2025
PEER is working to protecting the integrity of the civil service and represent government employees under attack by the Trump administration ...
COMMENTARY | The Time Has Come to Establish the International Arctic Ocean Sanctuary
by Guest Contributor | June 8, 2025
On World Ocean Day, the Arctic Ocean ecological crisis needs to be top of the list for attention by governments ...
COMMENTARY | House Budget Bill is a Disaster for Public Employees and the Environment
by Tim Whitehouse | 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 ...
COMMENTARY | EPA’s Disgraceful Forever Chemicals Retreat
by Kyla Bennett | May 22, 2025
EPA’s retreat on PFAS not only betrays the agency’s mission but makes a mockery of the Trump Administration’s self-proclaimed pledge to Make America Healthy Again ...
COMMENTARY | Pesticides on Public Lands: A Short-Term Solution with Long-Term Harm
by Chandra Rosenthal | May 20, 2025
Any use of pesticides on public lands must be carefully weighed against the many risks they pose to human health, soil health, native biodiversity, wildlife, and aquatic ecosystems ...
COMMENTARY | Rebalancing Checks and Balances: How to Curb Executive Abuse
by Jeff Ruch | April 25, 2025
President Trump has conclusively demonstrated that the executive branch cannot be trusted to police itself in following the law ...
COMMENTARY | National Parks or Jurassic Parks? Conservation Trump Style
by Jeff Ruch | April 22, 2025
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum suggests that technology can replace the role of habitat and intact ecosystems in the survival of wildlife ...
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