DOGE cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink contracts, ex-workers warn

by PEER | March 25, 2025
A new emergency Freedom of Information Act request for communications among Noaa offices and Doge in part seeks to shine some light on those questions. The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) request noted that privatization of the agency has long been a goal of the ...

Comment – EPA petition seeking rulemaking to modify labeling requirements for pesticides and devices

by PEER | March 24, 2025
Comments on the Environmental Protection Agency petition seeking rulemaking to modify labeling requirements for pesticides and devices ...

Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock

by PEER | March 20, 2025
“Some people are saying, [PFAS contamination] are isolated incidents. No, they’re not. I guarantee that this is a problem in every single state that uses biosolids,” said Kyla Bennett, a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employee who is now a science policy director for the ...

EPA plans to cut scientific research program, could fire more than 1,000 employees

by PEER | March 18, 2025
Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the research office’s work is supposed to be uniquely protected from politics. It provides essential science, such as risk assessments for chemicals that pose health threats. The office, ...
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