“The National Park Service is being used as a piggy bank for Trump’s vanity projects,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which advocates on behalf of current and former parks employees. Whitehouse said, “The ...

In fact, the total spending for projects at the White House and National Mall is larger than the combined spending at nine of the largest US national parks, MacFarlane found. One anonymous federal employee who spoke with MacFarlane said that the spending shifts documented in internal ...

The majority of Florida’s waters don’t meet quality standards. That’s according to July report based on data from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), prepared by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Waterkeepers Florida. “ ...

For months, we’ve documented the real consequences of PFAS-tainted sludge being spread on America’s farmlands, from Texas to Michigan, Virginia to Maine and South Carolina; farmers are raising serious concerns. Former EPA scientist Kyla Bennett said it’s urgent the agency ...

Four environmental organizations filed a petition Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission to reverse its approval of a startup’s plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space to Earth, arguing the agency ignored the project’s potential impacts on wildlife, astronomy research ...

A bill that would have banned the use of PFAS in food packaging, firefighter foam, and a range of consumer products was introduced in the Senate by State Sen. Julian Cyr and the House by Rep. Kate Hogan, but was not passed by either chamber before the session ended last Friday. “Our ...

Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental group that supports current and former government employees, said there should be an investigation of the people at Interior who pushed the vandalism narrative. “The people at the ...

Tim Whitehouse, the executive director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an organization that works with and supports park rangers, scientists, land managers and other civil servants, said he’s in touch with many NPS employees. He pointed out that rangers are ...

Despite the administration’s emphasis on improving the health of public lands, conservation groups say many grazing allotments are already degraded. Data from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility shows that nearly one million acres fail to meet the BLM’s rangeland ...

t’s not just Pirro’s office and the DOJ under fire for this debacle. While welcoming the motion to dismiss, Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), took aim at DOI in a Saturday statement. “This project has become ...

A majority of Florida waterways are failing water quality standards, even as the state’s pollution enforcement remains near historic lows, according to a new report. The report was published by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, and Waterkeepers Florida, a ...

These below-average numbers of enforcement actions align with a 19 percent decline in Florida’s environmental agency staff—the largest decrease in number of any state—from 2010 to 2025, according to a report from the Environmental Integrity Project. During the same period, the state ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm after a record-breaking spike in grey whales washing up along the Pacific Coast. The U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that these numbers are the highest seen in decades, raising urgent questions about the health of our ...

Like the Environmental Integrity Project, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) analyzed court records and found a “collapse” of environmental enforcement under Trump II, with a sharp drop in civil cases settled by the DOJ that were referred by the EPA. “The ...

Kyla Bennett is the science policy director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. While some companies tout safer alternatives, she says there’s no such thing. “My personal opinion is that I do not think it’s possible today to buy a PFAS-free field. Again ...

There’s a whale of a problem off the U.S. West Coast. Gray whales are undergoing a “catastrophic mortality event,” said the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), with close to 150 carcasses found on beaches along the Pacific Ocean just this year. The ...

Many of these herbicides and pesticides contain complex mixtures of supposedly “inert” compounds whose full ingredient lists remain shielded as trade secrets. Chemical manufacturers, of course, insist on the safety of these chemicals, however researchers from the nonprofit ...

However, in comments published to the federal register, the EPA also advised the US public to “research” sludge companies to protect itself from the highly toxic chemicals contaminating home fertilizer widely sold for use in home gardens. The decision is “a bit bonkers”, said ...

But in December, the executive director of the environmental nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said the Trump administration cost taxpayers an estimated $10 billion last year via its deferred resignation program, through which it offered federal workers full ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility recently described the die-off as a “Catastrophic Mortality Event.” However, John Calambokidis, a senior research biologist with Cascadia Research, said no such formal designation has been made. PEER is also urging federal action. It is ...