The Grudge Match Over Maine’s Plans for Offshore Wind
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PEER | September 25, 2024
Now that this longstanding conflict has become intertwined with the cause of carbon reduction, it is pitting an older generation of eco-warriors against a younger breed of climate activists, as well as local unions eager to get in on energy transition jobs. Unfortunately for Maine ...
Webinar | Saving Farmland: Battling Toxic PFAS in Biosolids in Texas and Beyond
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PEER | September 24, 2024
Learn how millions of tons of sewage sludge (or biosolids) are contaminating American farmland with toxic PFAS chemicals ...
Why PFAS in Biosolids Threatens Our Food Supply and Farming Communities Throughout the United States
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PEER | September 20, 2024
Every year, millions of tons of PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge, or biosolids, are applied to land as fertilizer on farms. Learn how these toxic chemicals are threatening our health and food supply, and what PEER is doing about it ...
EPA Watchdog Says Officials Violated Whistleblower Protections With Dissenting Scientist
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PEER | September 19, 2024
Kyla Bennett, director of policy at the organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), who filed the complaints on behalf of the scientists, said the problems flagged by the scientists have continued under the Biden Administration. PEER says the affected EPA ...
‘Bullying, Harassing, Name-Calling’: EPA ‘Retaliated Against’ Three Dissenting Scientists, Inspector General Finds
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PEER |
“EPA has received the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) reports on five whistleblower complaints in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention’s new chemicals program,” an EPA spokesperson said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The events ...