The final rule also comes several months after the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a lawsuit against OPM to try to get the agency to finalize the long-awaited guidance on the Administrative Leave Act. “We like to think that our activism and advocacy and formal ...

PEER Petition and Lawsuit Prompted Move to Enforce 2016 Anti-Limbo Law ...

Congress designated the Old Spanish Trail in 2002. The U.S. Department of Interior was then supposed to submit a plan for the trail’s use and management – but never did. That’s why the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is leading a lawsuit against the federal ...

In a separate lawsuit filed against the EPA in June by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility on behalf of the farmers, the group claimed the agency failed to implement restrictions on PFAS in biosolids despite knowing the health risks posed by the chemicals. Johnson County ...

In late 2021, advocacy groups met with the EPA to press for these standards. They were rebuffed. The “institutional controls” — covering the radioactive waste dump with concrete and soil — were adequate, the agency responded. “As things stand now, the plan at Hunters Point is to ...