The bulldozers and backhoes have razed the East Wing of the White House to make way for President Trump’s big, beautiful ballroom. Characteristically, Trump has barreled ahead, heedless of the law, tradition, or concerns about historic protection and good taste ...

The proposal to repeal the endangerment finding is part of a concentrated effort by the Trump administration to abandon science in favor of a political agenda ...

Remnants of typhoon Halong battered Alaska with hellacious winds and record-breaking storm surges, yet national and even state policies are unlikely to change in its aftermath ...

Mass firings won’t meaningfully reduce the federal budget, but they will strip federal agencies of invaluable expertise and leadership ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An anonymous US Forest Service employee shares their concerns about the recent direction for implementing EO 14225 “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production ...

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 ...

With peak visitation season underway, the National Park Service is struggling to keep up amid increasing uncertainty and understaffing ...

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 ...

In his second term, Trump has assembled perhaps the least distinguished Cabinet in modern history, abandoning any pretense of picking people based upon competence ...

The Burgum-backed plans for Department of Interior lands promote a frenzy of extraction, overuse, and hasty disposal ...

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 ...

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 ...

PEER is working to protecting the integrity of the civil service and represent government employees under attack by the Trump administration ...

On World Ocean Day, the Arctic Ocean ecological crisis needs to be top of the list for attention by governments ...

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 ...