Nobody had ever been disciplined before, much less fired and subject to criminal investigation,” said Paula Dinerstein, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is representing Joslin. The question of whether or not it was a demonstration also doesn’t ...

In August 2025, the Park Service, together with the Department of Justice, targeted Joslin for exercising their First Amendment rights, said a release from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. In May of that year, during their time off from work, Joslin and fellow rock ...

From January 2025 to January 2026, the EPA filed just one major Clean Air Act consent decree, a legal tool that forces companies to fix violations and pay penalties. That’s down from 26 cases during President Donald Trump’s first term and 22 during President Joe Biden’s ...

“This administration is targeting Dr. Joslin because it wants to scare people into silence,” said Joanna Citron Day, general counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, adding that Joslin “exercised their First Amendment rights and is being punished to send a ...

To determine whether an employee’s speech is protected, there is often a balancing test between an individual’s rights and disruption to agency operations. The speech also must be made in the employee’s capacity as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, which Joslin’s ...

The EPA’s enforcement program “is dying on the vine, and that’s intentional”, said Tim Whitehouse, Peer’s executive director and a former EPA attorney. “Without an adequate enforcement program that provides deterrence to polluters, the laws become voluntary, and when laws ...

Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said during the congressional hearing that he’s concerned about the way Freedom 250 accepts donations. “The issue is there’s no accountability. There’s no transparency ...

A source familiar with the funding for America250, who was not authorized to speak publicly about it, said that the anticipated amount dropped to $50 million and that so far the organization has received just $25 million. Federal funding cuts last year already had led some communities to ...

Science has found that grazing can both harm and help sage grouse habitat, but “it’s a question of how it’s managed,” said Nada Wolff Culver, the BLM’s former principal deputy director during the Biden administration. But for decades, the BLM has lacked the staffing to adequately ...

The findings echo two recent analyses from the nonprofits Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Earthjustice, which both documented dwindling environmental enforcement under Trump. From day one of Trump’s second term, the administration has pursued an aggressive ...

Kyla Bennett, a science policy director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, has raised alarm about outdoor turf deposits like the one in Susquehanna County, saying they can release PFAS — man-made chemicals that could be linked to a variety of health risks. “If (the ...

In a complaint filed last April, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility accused EPA of violating federal law by idling some workers indefinitely because of their purported connection to environmental justice work. The group asked the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an ...

According to a report issued last November by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the consolidation boosted the Interior Office of the Secretary staff level to nearly 8,200 employees, up from about 3,300 in September 2024, During the same period, the PEER report calculated ...

This past year, our series of investigations into PFAS contamination in farmland and food systems has examined how chemicals in sludge can move from soil to animals, food and people. Dumais, with the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, is leading a ...

Within a six-month span last year, the EPA said it cut the number of rodents at its newly formed Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions from 466 down to 41. In place of mammals, the agency promotes emerging New Approach Methods like computer modeling and in vitro diagnostics ...

The new policy comes as the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility on Thursday issued a report saying that there has been a “collapse” of civil enforcement of environmental laws in Trump’s first year back in office. DOJ lodged consent decrees in ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said in a report released Thursday there is a “collapse of environmental civil enforcement” across programs designed to clean up air pollution, dirty water and toxic waste. Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has rallied ...

In the report, The Collapse of Environmental Enforcement Under Trump’s EPA, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) noted Thursday that in the first year of former President Joe Biden’s administration, 71 cases referred by the EPA were prosecuted by the US Department ...

Critics of President Donald Trump’s administration say the rollout of the new ratings system at the Park Service could herald broader changes across the federal government. “The National Park Service is enforcing this with great vigor, which is surprising and disappointing given how ...

Under Trump’s EPA, restrictions on dangerous chemicals are being loosened and risk assessments are being altered or delayed. Critics say the public will be paying the price with their health. “EPA no longer cares about human health,” Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public ...