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 ...

The strandings this year represent what Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a whistleblower protection and environmental advocacy group, is calling a new catastrophic die-off. This year’s count most likely underestimates the actual number of gray whales dying off the ...

US non-profit organisation Peer (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) has highlighted the number of serious chemical incidents across the US in recent years, aiming to stress the risks attached to the US government’s proposals to reduce incident prevention requirements. ...

The industry-aligned SACC will probably ensure that scientific research that supports industry positions are used, and the board “will just rubber-stamp everything”, said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA scientist now with the Public Employees for Responsibility non-profit. “It will give ...

Trump megadonor and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, the comment notes, was allowed to oversee the cancellation of the contracts for numerous vendors while never touching any of the more than $19 billion his businesses held in federal contracts. “This is ...

“What we are seeing is the methodical implementation of a system where nonpolitical career employees can be fired for doing their job correctly but inconveniently, and where they will have nowhere to go for a fair, independent second look,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public ...

In an interview, Mr. Tyler said he did no such thing. “We’re supposed to be using science and making science-based decisions,” Mr. Tyler said. He said he wrote the memo and circulated it to agency attorneys whose job it is to be aware of documents that potentially shouldn’t be made ...

Over the last few months, a number of different companies have requested licenses from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch data centers into space. SpaceX’s proposal alone requests licenses for up to one million satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). But the ...

Kyla Bennett of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, who was involved in both appeals, has been sounding the alarm about PFAS in artificial turf for years. “I actually was sued by an artificial turf company in my individual capacity for saying that artificial turf has PFAS ...

The number of US chemical accidents is rising just as the Trump administration guts protections against the disasters, a new analysis of federal data by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit found. The report found the number of chemical accidents, ...

 A coalition of environmental groups is urging the Trump administration to scrutinize the cumulative impacts of efforts to launch more than a million data centers into orbit, citing risks to human health and the climate. DarkSky International, Environment America and Public Employees for ...

Pacific gray whales are facing a “catastrophic mortality event,” with 145 fatal strandings reported along the West Coast this year — including at least 20 in California so far — environmentalists warned this week, citing NOAA‑linked data. The organization Public Employees for ...

In addition, in 2024, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sued the EPA on behalf of Texas farmers over its failure to regulate PFAS in biosolids and prevent them from contaminating farmlands. The US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the case in 2025 ...

But the initiative did not come without a cost to taxpayers. In December, the executive director of the environmental nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) claimed the Trump administration cost taxpayers an estimated $10 billion in 2025 through its ...

CNBC’s Luke Fountain is at the Great American State Fair on the Washington Mall for celebrations of the nation’s 250th Independence Day. Freedom 250, the sponsor of the state fair, has become politicized because the Trump administration has pushed many events through that, ...

Tony Irish, a former Interior Department attorney who now works for the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told SFGATE that many employees believe department leaders underestimated how specialized communications jobs are within individual bureaus. “What a ...

Tony Irish, a former associate solicitor for general law at the Interior Department who left government in 2025, told USA TODAY that the effort to capture Americans’ personal data is concerning, especially since the Freedom 250 events are using considerable U.S. government civilian and ...

On May 11, 2026, PEER brought a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.to force the release of key documents regarding the “Freedom 250” initiative. An official ...

“Farmers are waking up. They’re angry. But a lot of them also don’t have any choice in the matter,” says Kyla Bennett, a former EPA staffer who is now director of science policy for the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). She called the use of ...

Plans by the Trump administration to roll back regulations on chemical facility safety will allow for the continued rise in industrial chemical accidents, which are already up by 50% since 2021, a watchdog group warned this week. The administration is making an “appalling” divestment ...