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 ...

“This is a release that is propaganda,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former senior enforcement attorney at the EPA. “It doesn’t reflect reality in a number of ways.” One example: The EPA has stopped enforcing ...

Yet organizations such as the Environmental Integrity Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility already released their own reports on declining EPA enforcement under Trump. The latter warned about a “collapse” in civil enforcement. PEER Executive Director Tim ...

Other organizations are taking their action to the next level: court. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, for example, is stepping up to defend federal workers in and out of the courtroom. At the core of any functioning scientific workforce is the capacity to ...