PEER Blog

PEER outlines the critical steps that the National Park Service must take in order to return the agency to its original mission and move into the future ...

How the Park Service can continue to preserve the country’s natural and historical heritage for current and future generations ...

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s Autocratic Power Grab In an obscure announcement on July 22nd about President Trump’s border wall obsession, the Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, stated that he was handing 66 acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the ...

NOAA has informed its employees to avoid mentions of COVID-19 in publicly available documents as the hyper-political White House attempts to win reelection ...

The IUCN has uplisted the North Atlantic right whales from endangered to critically endangered which means is it "facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild ...

Former DOE scientist Bill Dam reveals groundwater contamination coming from several former uranium mills in Wyoming, endangering two Native American tribes ...

In light of the dangerous pattern of retaliation by the Trump Administration against those who report wrongdoing, it is more important than ever to preserve and reform federal whistleblower protections ...

Trump plans to stage a dangerous distraction disguised as fireworks at Mt. Rushmore, risking both wildfires and potentially, public health from the crowds ...

Pollinators are collapsing around the world and even more so in the United States. What we are witnessing is an “insect apocalypse ...

Not passing the HEROES Act will have devastating consequences to the economy, state governments and the public sector workforce ...

National Forests receive less attention than parks during COVID-19, but overcrowding, lack of resources, and risk to gateway communities are the same ...

The advice the government gets from its formal scientific advisors should be robust and independent, and the government should rely on the expertise of those advisors ...

The University of Colorado Boulder needs to ensure that special interests are not controlling climate change research conducted by university scientists ...

In the midst of a pandemic, corruption at the Department of Interior continues with slashed oil and gas royalties and fines on renewable energy companies ...

In order for national parks to remain “America’s Best Idea,” park managers must move from merely maximizing crowds to actually managing them ...

The outrage over recent racial violence and injustice, has been another reminder of our failure to address a history of racism and economic injustice ...

Despite the connection between exposure to air pollution and adverse outcomes from COVID-19, EPA continues to accelerate its efforts to gut important air quality protections, unleashing what a new staff report by U.S. Senator Carper calls a “pandemic of pollution.” Since March 1, EPA ...

Trump's firing of the State Department’s Inspector General should send a shiver of fear down the spine of every oversight functionary left in Washington ...

The new EPA plan to restrict science is subject to the interests of political appointees and is not based on exisitng scientific integrity standards ...

PEER and Western Watersheds Project sued the Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, alleging that Bernhardt has used temporary appointees to lead the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management in violation of federal laws and the U.S. Constitution ...