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A group that promotes environmental integrity among public employees filed a complaint with the state University at Albany on Tuesday urging the school’s Senate to investigate what it called “wrongful retaliatory actions” against Dr. David O. Carpenter, the longtime ...

Just a week after his inauguration nearly two years ago, President Joe Biden issued an all-agency directive to strengthen the scientific integrity policies commissioned under former President Barack Obama and that had proven to be utterly ineffectual during the “alternative facts&# ...

Tim Whitehouse, a former senior EPA enforcement attorney who is the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), told Newsweek that there’s “tremendous pressure” for EPA officials to create an “air of normalcy” after an ...

Plans for a mega-transmission corridor in Nevada have hit a roadblock in the form of a survey showing that its route through a national park would likely destroy a trove of prehistoric fossils, according to the results of a ground-penetrating survey released today Public Employees for ...

Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that is campaigning with AFGE in Washington this week, said that in addition to helping the U.S. achieve its climate goals, an expanded workforce would allow the EPA to more ...

Kyla Bennett is the director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former wetlands enforcement coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency. Bennett has frequently called for bans on artificial turf, citing that it exposes athletes to cancer-causing chemicals. ...