“The fact that these studies aren’t being included means there’s a very good chance there are some chemical assessments where we should have reached different conclusions,” said another EPA staff member who is familiar with the chemical assessment process. The information comes ...

In Delaware, some 200 sites have been identified as possible sources of PFAS, according to a new report from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit, which used EPA data on industrial facilities that “may be handling” the chemicals. The Delaware sites ...

Petition to Sec of Interior to disqualify states from receiving wildlife restoration funding if they allow hunting or trapping at levels that compromise healthy populations of wildlife ...

Today, 13 environmental and social justice groups announced the creation of the Reclaim Renewable Energy Coalition (Reclaim REC); formed to clean up Maryland’s Renewable portfolio standard (RPS). Maryland’s RPS was created by the state legislature in 2004 as a way to ramp up the ...

While wolf advocates await a decision from USFWS, some wildlife activists are pursuing a parallel strategy of trying to use financial pressure to compel states to drop their anti-wolf laws. The Global Indigenous Council, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Center for ...