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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, ...

The unit’s intensive management plan in the past has called for the removal of 60% of brown bears and 60% to 80% of black bears, though state officials say they have no immediate plans to kill bears now. Critics of the proposal, including Alaska Wildlife Alliance and Public Employees for ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is engaged with the federal government on many fronts and emphasizes that it fully supports the transition to renewable energy and decarbonization. “We believe our federal government is capable of achieving these goals the right ...

And it’s not just conservationists who are concerned. Federal employees have pushed back at political claims of government bloat while its employment levels have been static. “Across the board, we are seeing public land agencies being asked to do more with less,” said Chandra ...

For an agency that seems to just now be finding its stride on regulating PFAS, an industry-friendly administration could spell trouble for the crucial early work. “If I were EPA right now, I would be very worried that [the work on the PFAS risk assessment] would all be scrapped,” says ...