Why PFAS in Biosolids Threatens Our Food Supply and Farming Communities Throughout the United States
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PEER | September 20, 2024
Every year, millions of tons of PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge, or biosolids, are applied to land as fertilizer on farms. Learn how these toxic chemicals are threatening our health and food supply, and what PEER is doing about it ...
EPA Watchdog Says Officials Violated Whistleblower Protections With Dissenting Scientist
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PEER | September 19, 2024
Kyla Bennett, director of policy at the organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), who filed the complaints on behalf of the scientists, said the problems flagged by the scientists have continued under the Biden Administration. PEER says the affected EPA ...
‘Bullying, Harassing, Name-Calling’: EPA ‘Retaliated Against’ Three Dissenting Scientists, Inspector General Finds
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PEER |
“EPA has received the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) reports on five whistleblower complaints in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention’s new chemicals program,” an EPA spokesperson said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The events ...
EPA officials retaliated against 3 scientists, watchdog says
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PEER | September 18, 2024
“Since day one, the Biden-Harris Administration has restored scientific integrity as the cornerstone of its work to protect public health and the environment, including reinstating key whistleblower protections that empower employees to share their own, differing scientific opinions,” ...
EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.
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PEER |
After they were forced to leave their jobs assessing new chemicals, the scientists filed the first of what would be six complaints with the EPA inspector general in June 2021. Their allegations, which detailed industry pressure that continued under the administration of President Joe Biden ...
