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Toxic Chemicals Threaten Water Supply in Seven Municipalities

by PEER | March 6, 2019
From: Boston Globe “These off-the-charts PFAS levels represent a direct and immediate threat to the public health of the Commonwealth,” said Kyla Bennett, a former scientist at the EPA who now serves as director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in New England, an ...

EPA Plan to Shirk Pollution Prosecution Role

by PEER | March 5, 2019
Corporate Compliance Now Presumed Despite Evaporation of Enforcement ...

Toxic algae, polluted waters: Has Florida finally had enough? | Commentary

by PEER |
“This is why several communities in southwest Florida — including Venice, Sarasota and North Port — passed resolutions asking DeSantis to adopt measures specifically like the one Good and Livingston drafted. They are sick of everyone else’s crap (sometimes literally) fouling their ...

How Trump’s EPA is Letting Environmental Criminals Off the Hook, in One Chart

by PEER |
From: Vox “A January report from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an advocacy group for public sector workers who deal with environmental issues, shows that the number of criminal cases the EPA referred to the Justice Department under President Trump is at the ...

PFAS Breakthrough in Massachusetts

by PEER |
Army to Give Both Immediate Relief and Long-Term Treatment for Hard-Hit Town ...