“PFAS are in every single sample that I have seen a lab report done correctly on,” Bennett said of further research she’s reviewed on turf fields. In addition to the potential for PFAS, Bennett noted the likelihood that turf fields will emit microplastics, which have also been linked ...

We now know that the Trump administration had been planning further cuts to the federal workforce during the shutdown ...

“It is the height of hypocrisy for EPA to pretend these chemicals are no longer being manufactured when they are permeating our chain of commerce,” said Kyla Bennett, science policy director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), in an Oct. 29 press release ...

The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility submitted a formal complaint to the EPA Oct. 29, challenging what it said was EPA claims of progress on PFAS compounds. It argues the agency’s statements that domestic production of PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid, have been ...

The complaint, filed October 29 by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) under the Information Quality Act, calls the EPA’s claims that perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is no longer produced or imported by the US “inaccurate, incomplete, and misleading.” PEER demands ...