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On April 6, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit brought by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to prevent Inhance Technologies USA (Inhance) from generating per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...

A group representing federal whistleblowers is ramping up scrutiny of the Navy’s cleanup of radiation waste at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNS) in San Francisco, petitioning the service’s inspector general to investigate officials’ allegedly inaccurate statements ...

OIG is an independent branch of EPA that can receive complaints of mismanagement, misconduct, abuse of authority, or censorship, including those related to scientific or research misconduct, without fear of improper influence. Through its statutory mandate, OIG investigates these ...

The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Energy Justice Network (collectively “PEER”) submitted an April 3rd document to EPA titled: Petition for Rulemaking Pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, ...

“That rule ensures that citizen suits serve to ‘supplement rather than to supplant governmental action,'” Boasberg, an Obama appointee, wrote in the opinion. At issue in the lawsuit from the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Public Employees for Environmental ...

An environmental group is applying fresh pressure on the agencies charged with the cleanup and oversight of the Hunters Point shipyard, a former naval base on the southeastern tip of San Francisco. On Thursday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Bay Area-based nonprofit ...