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The U.S. EPA said it will initiate a rulemaking process to require certain incineration, combustion and gasification facilities to report toxic chemical releases through the agency’s Toxics Release Inventory, as is required with other industrial pollution sources. The decision comes in ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Center for Environmental Health filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Dec. 26, two weeks after a federal district judge in D.C. rejected the groups’ request for injunctive relief ...

Several maneuvers the Trump administration made during its first term to attempt to shrink or hobble the federal workforce are expected to be reprised more effectively this time. That includes potentially designating staffers involved in policymaking as “Schedule F,” effectively making ...

Among entities that filed protests related to the solar plan were Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, which along with some others raised concerns about threats from solar development to the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. That route runs from Santa Fe to Los ...

In June, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sued the EPA on behalf of a group of farmers, ranchers, and green groups “for failing to perform its nondiscretionary duty to identify and regulate toxic pollutants in sewage sludge” used as fertilizer. In ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will start a process to require municipal waste incinerators to report their toxic chemical emissions to the agency’s Toxics Release Inventory, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Silver Spring, Maryland, ...