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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which supports public employees whose work involves the environment, natural resources, and public health, are trying to help workers one at a time. “We’re getting inundated with calls from public employees about how to address ...

Employees on administrative leave are still on salary and get benefits. Federal agencies are only allowed to place employees on administrative leave for 10 days in a calendar year, according to Peter Jenkins, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. It is ...

“I think we’re going to see a breakdown across the whole system, where the federal agencies will be referring very few cases to the Department of Justice, and then there’ll be issues at the Department of Justice with carrying out the enforcement of these actions that the agencies ...

The consequences for the attacks on the EPA and other agencies are “all connected”, said the former EPA official Kyla Bennett, now with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility non-profit. “By cutting the Clean Water Act and wetland protection, flooding is going to be ...

“This email is another ill-motivated effort to get as many federal employees to quit as soon as possible,” said Peter Jenkins, senior counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). “OPM has no legal authority to reliably claim that the Trump administration will ...

The plaintiffs in the case never applied biosolids on their own properties, said Laura Dumais, a staff attorney with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility who is representing them. Instead, their land was contaminated by runoff from neighbors. “Shortly after this material was ...