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Thank you for standing with PEER!
This year’s Double Trouble campaign has come to a close, and we met our match, raising over $70,000 from our supporters! Whether you made a gift, forwarded our emails, or shared our work with friends and colleagues — we are genuinely grateful.
Protecting Big Bend National Park and Your Tax Dollars
PEER is calling on the DHS’s Inspector General to investigate billions of dollars in contracts awarded for border infrastructure projects in and around Big Bend National Park.
Doug Burgum’s Profound Betrayal
PEER is calling on Congress to investigate the Reflecting Pool debacle and demanding that those responsible face real consequences.
PEER Pushes Back on a Recipe for Corruption
Without honest government that welcomes oversight and dissent, we cannot have strong, lasting environmental protections.
Catastrophic Event for Gray Whales
Helping to save whale populations off the coasts of the United States will be a PEER priority in the coming years and something we all care deeply about.
PEER Calls Out Corruption on Capitol Hill
PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, on the issue of citizenship and America’s 250th anniversary.
New Legal Actions, New Board Leadership, and More
PEER’s team has grown in recent months, and we’re thrilled to introduce our newest board member!
PEERMail | Congress Must Act Now
Congress must be part of ensuring that the United States remains a nation of laws that values the environment and respects a merit-based civil service.
PEERMail | PEER’s Legal Team Just Got Even Stronger
We’re thrilled to welcome Tony Irish, a longtime Department of the Interior attorney, to the PEER team as senior counsel.
PEERMail | Is Congress Coming to Its Senses? No, But Now Is Still the Time to Act
Congress is finally feeling the heat for its deeply unpopular anti-environmental, anti-wildlife, and anti-government worker policies.
PEERMail | Rachel Carson and Earth Day
Learn about the extraordinary life of Rachel Carson, an unassuming U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service marine biologist credited with sparking the modern environmental movement.
PEERMail | A New and Dangerous Night Sky?
As our country’s relationship with space rapidly changes, PEER is tracking the possible environmental impacts of a rapidly growing number of satellites orbiting the Earth.
PEERMail | We’re Acting to Protect Our Food Supply
PEER is working with scientists, farmers, and local governments to protect America’s food supply from toxic chemicals.
PEERMail | We’re suing the Trump administration – again
PEER and a coalition of unions filed a consolidated and updated legal challenge to the Trump-Vance administration’s effort to unlawfully convert potentially tens of thousands of merit-based, nonpartisan civil servants to at-will employees.
PEERMail | Hijacking America’s Anniversary
PEER will continue to shine a light on attempts to use federal agencies and taxpayer funds for political interests rather than the public good.
PEERMail | PEER sues EPA, New Additions and More
The atmosphere at environmental, public lands, and public health agencies has become toxic, with employees enduring more than a year of inflammatory, insulting, untrue, and shockingly partisan attacks from their political leaders.
PEERMail | Free Speech, Moving Money Off the Books, and More
As the current Trump administration enters its second year, our work continues to unfold at a rapid pace.
PEERMail | New Strategy, Offshore Wind, and More
Our new strategic plan recognizes that restoring accountability is among the most urgent environmental and public health challenges of our time.
PEERMail | We’re Suing to Protect Independent Watchdogs
This lawsuit is part of our effort to make our government more transparent and accountable to Congress and the American people.
PEERMail | Taking Action to Protect Federal Employees
PEER is proud to be representing several EPA employees who have filed legal challenges to their recent firings for signing a letter of dissent warning that EPA’s actions under this administration were endangering public health and the environment.