EPA Doubles Down on Mistakes Despite Whistleblower and IG Critiques ...

We are here to protect scientists like Evi Emmenegger who was fired after reporting dangerous biosafety breaches at a wildlife disease laboratory ...

Chemical companies are dodging a federal law designed to track how many PFAS “forever chemicals” their plants are discharging into the environment by exploiting a loophole created in the Trump administration’s final months, a new analysis of federal records has found. Read the PEER ...

Concerns around HF have endured for years. In early 2019, CSB similarly appealed to EPA to scrutinize the chemical following repeated incidents at refineries (Greenwire, April 24, 2019). That same year, months after the PES incident, EPA rejected a petition from Public Employees for ...

Some groups argue that EPA’s definition of PFAS is too narrow. One of these groups, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), filed a lawsuit against EPA in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia claiming that the agency is “withholding ...