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The undersigned civil society organizations urge you to allow the full Senate to consider and vote on pending nominations to all three vacancies on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which serves millions of federal employees as the primary adjudicative agency for worker claims of ...

Interior said in its motion that Loewen was fired in November 2021 “based on his unacceptable performance and failure to follow instructions.” But lawyers for the government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is representing Loewen, counter ...

But for environmentalists and at least one member of the School Committee, Dr. Tim Lepore, the jury is still out. The concern is over the turf field, and not only the potential for environmental harm to the groundwater from chemical leaching, but an allegation that the school has attempted ...

Maryland lawmakers, a conservation nonprofit and a charter boat association all urged the D.C. Circuit to vacate a 50-year license issued to a 570-megawatt hydroelectric dam, arguing federal energy regulators didn’t… Read the PEER Story… ...

Lepore, who has been outspoken in questioning the risks that PFAS chemicals used to manufacture synthetic turf fields might cause to the island’s sole-source aquifer, has invited to the workshop scientific voices who have made their positions clear, when the use of turf fields was being ...

Lunder said before work by Physicians for Social Responsibility and the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the issue of PFAS chemicals used in drilling was “really flying under our radar.” “We have this long list of places where we’ve seen PFAS contamination, ...