But Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group, cited a report provided to the Board of Health that tested samples of the proposed turf system. It found “trace concentrations” of forever chemicals PFBA and PFOA, ...

Over the 33 years the provision has been in place, the EPA has never used its biennial sewage sludge review process to identify toxic pollutants requiring regulation and to then regulate those harmful chemicals, PEER said in its appeal filed with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ...

But Interior staff reorganized into Burgum’s office who later left say they encountered a hostile, inefficient work culture designed to push people out. Russell Vought, the powerful director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, said in a private speech between Trump’s two ...

After reviewing the emails, Joanna Citron Day, general counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Fugh was “right that there’s no ethics issue.” “This was a bunch of employees expressing their protected First Amendment right to dissent by signing a ...

Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said PFAS contain extremely strong carbon-fluorine bonds that allow them to persist in the environment for decades. “PFAS are synthetic; they’re all man-made,” Ms. Bennett said. “So ...

Independent testing results released in a separate analysis this week by the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) found multiple PFAS chemicals in the weed killer Indaziflam (sold as Rejuvra), which is applied to farm fields to control invasive grasses. The ...