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Colorado finds “forever chemicals” PFAS in 100% of fish sampled in three big counties

by Susan Sargent | April 22, 2022
Fountain, where the El Paso fish samples were taken, had to shut down its municipal water supply in 2015 after PFAS was detected, replacing it with supplies from a cleaner Pueblo Reservoir. The city eventually began treating its water sources with PFAS-removing materials supplied by the U ...

Planning board hears from artificial turf opposition

by Susan Sargent | April 20, 2022
Kyla Bennett, director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said PFAS are a very large class of compounds that are toxic in minute amounts. She said the DEP will be reassessing its maximum contaminant levels for PFAS next year, and she anticipates that the state will ...

State task force recommends Mass. do more to crack down on PFAS

But Kyla Bennett, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in New England, found it “disappointing.” ”I thought that the goals were wimpy … and I thought the language was a little slippery,” she said. She said she’d hoped the report would include more ...

Minnesota Supreme Court to take up PolyMet water permit case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday also granted requests from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 704 , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Public Records Media, Minnesota Coalition on Government Information, Minnesota Well Owners Organization and two ...

GovExec Daily: Empowering Employees Will Help Conservation Efforts

by Susan Sargent | April 19, 2022
Lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, predominantly in the Western United States, cover nearly 250 million acres or about 10% of the land in the U.S. But, conserving public lands depends on the White House empowering federal employees at the land management agencies. Chandra ...

At Least It Won’t Be Raining Mercury

In 2018, an employee at Apollo Fusion approached the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that investigates environmental misconduct in the United States. The employee—who has remained anonymous—alleged that the Mountain View, Calif.–based space ...
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