Mr. Trump paved over the Rose Garden’s lawn without seeking approvals. He has installed a 13-foot statue of Christopher Columbus on White House grounds without submitting a plan to any panel. And, most prominently, he tore down the historic East Wing of the White House without consulting ...

Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency are producing fewer peer-reviewed studies following recent staffing cuts, according to data released from an environmental nonprofit group. Figures released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility show the EPA produced 275 peer ...

A longtime Interior Department attorney has landed at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Tony Irish, who served over 20 years at Interior, has joined the watchdog group as a senior counsel, PEER announced Tuesday. He will support legal and investigatory work by the ...

The analysis was published by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit organization that advocates for public employees in the natural resource and environmental professions. The report tracks the number of peer-reviewed scientific studies authored by EPA ...

This is now being challenged, at least before the Merit Systems Protection Board, the group of EPA employees who were fired after they signed the letter, ended up taking their case — they’re being represented by a few law firms, as well as Public Employees for Environmental ...

At issue is a process to make the insides of plastic barrels more durable called fluorination, which creates dangerous PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as unintended byproducts that then leach into fertilizers, condiments and other products stored in the barrels. Environmental ...

Last year, the Department of Interior issued an order requiring thousands of employees from all its constituent bureaus transfer to the Office of the Secretary. The “consolidation, unification and optimization of administrative functions” would “achieve effectiveness, ...

On Monday, April 27, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) published a press release sharing a disclosure filed by a current federal employee who wished to remain anonymous. According to the document, the NPS has failed to warn current and former workers about ...

For all its claims of being tight-fisted stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars, the Trump administration really is footloose and fancy free when it comes to vanity projects and symbolic measures. A 2025 estimate suggested the federal government might be on the hook for a cool half-billion ...

Sometime before March 2025, a Yellowstone employee separately filed a complaint with the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General, alleging that the park failed to complete pre-renovation testing, take safety precautions and disclose the presence of lead paint in housing. Public ...

“Thousands of Yellowstone employees and their families have been and/or are currently being exposed to harmful levels of lead through the paint in their housing,” the disclosure states. “Many remain exposed today without a form of abatement. There are current and former residents ...

Last summer, more than 600 EPA employees signed the letter excoriating Zeldin’s leadership of the agency, alleging among other things that his leadership undermined scientific consensus in favor of polluters. Though a majority of signatories did so anonymously, the agency quickly ...

A whistleblower disclosure filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility states that Yellowstone National Park employees and their families, including young children and pregnant women, are currently being exposed to harmful levels of lead through the paint in their housing. ...

On June 6, PEER submitted a formal request seeking information about this massive reorganization. While the Interior Department shared some documents, these were “highly redacted” and “fragmentary” and did not include the requested information. This led PEER to file ...

Through a letter obtained using the Freedom of Information Act, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has discovered that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s reorganization of the agency a year ago has failed to produce the promised efficiencies. Burgum had insisted that ...

Laboratory reports commissioned by PEER found PFHxS (perfluorohexanesulfonic acid), PFHxA (perfluorohexanoic acid), PFBS (perfluorobutanesulfonic acid), and PFOS (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid) in all twelve samples of Rejuvra™ tested. [1] The herbicide’s active ingredient is ...

But conservation groups like Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) warn that closing specialized research stations from Alaska to Florida cripples the agency’s ability to understand local forest diversity and combat climate change. Sweeping changes could isolate groups ...

“It’s not streamlining, it’s dismantling,” said Chandra Rosenthal, Western lands and Rocky Mountain advocate with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that defends whistleblowers in the federal service. “It’s going to really impact how the Forest Service ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy and Northeast and mid-Atlantic director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, cautioned the smaller crowd that just because something may be within the legal limits for PFAS, it doesn’t mean it’s safe. “Every lab report that I ...

However, some environmental advocates say the attorney general is aiming at the wrong target, as Texas faces what they see as more pressing PFAS issues. “The amount of Lululemon that’s sold in Texas is probably a drop in the bucket, compared to how many farms in Texas are spreading ...