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At EPA, staffing crisis clashes with expanded mission

by PEER | February 14, 2023
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 ...

Rob Long Will Make Sure Every Delray Beach resident has access to clean, safe drinking water

by PEER |
On October 26, 2020, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility released concerning information about the level of forever chemicals, or PFAS, in Delray drinking water. When Rob heard this, he immediately informed Delray residents through his newsletter and suggested Delray Beach ...

New Framework to Standardize Government Science Policies, Keep Politics at Bay

by PEER |
However, some say the framework does not go far enough. GovExec reports Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says the administration made a mistake “in not identifying specific, new procedures to guarantee career scientists would not face retaliation for presenting ...

EPA’s biggest union to warn Congress of ‘staffing crisis’

by PEER | February 13, 2023
Union members plan to meet with lawmakers between Monday and Wednesday in what they are calling a “lobbying blitz.” On Tuesday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) will speak at an AFGE rally, while on Wednesday, more than 40 employees will hold another rally outside the EPA headquarters ...

Pressure mounts over plastic company’s ‘forever chemicals’

by PEER |
Environmental advocates are cranking up pressure on regulators amid a high profile “forever chemicals” crisis that has implicated a plastics company. Two groups — the Center for Environmental Health and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — called on the ...

Study: States And NPS Need To Reach Cooperative Goals On Wolves

by PEER | February 12, 2023
The study, which appeared in the January 17 edition of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (attached below), followed by a handful of years a wolf study in Yukon-Charley Rivers that was forced to end in 2016 because the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had sponsored a predator ...
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