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A study released last week from a national government watchdog group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, suggested that design flaws in the RPS “are undermining the state’s transition to clean electricity and imposing significant costs on Maryland ratepayers.” ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s efforts, though, said the executive order is an attempt to politicize the career federal workforce. Many have said it will ultimately harm the non-partisan nature of agencies and threaten national security. “These moves are designed to weaken the ...

Watchdog nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility assisted Ames’s office with the testing and analysis of Synagro’s fertilizer. On behalf of the affected farmers in Johnson County, the nonprofit filed a civil lawsuit against the EPA, alleging the agency ...

Environmental and public health advocacy groups, including Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Parents Against SSFL, Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles Chapter, and the Committee to Bridge the Gap, condemned DOE’s proposed changes. They argue that weaker ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that supports “current and former public employees who seek a higher standard of environmental ethics and scientific integrity within their agencies,” lists 17 “orphaned” areas in the National Park System ...

Likewise, Peter Jenkins, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, called Trump’s move “mean-spirited” and a “power grab” by the president that “will be counter-productive for the effectiveness of the nation’s top career civil servants.” Jenkins ...