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The EPA data was obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that obtained the files through a Freedom of Information Act request. It said the companies identified may be making, importing, handling or storing the chemicals. “These figures show a ...

The I-Team reviewed state data and found, since 2017, Port Richey has reported 14 spills to the Department of Environmental Protection. Throughout 2020, Florida PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) monitored those emergency alerts of sewage overflows across the ...

“The Biden administration unveiled a sweeping plan to address every form of PFAS pollution today, cracking down on “forever chemicals” linked to diseases including cancer and found in a wide range of everyday products and in thousands of drinking water systems nationwide ...

Environmental and public health groups on Monday approved of the Biden administration’s focus on the issue but criticized regulators for not moving quickly enough on forceful actions. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which represents government employees in ...

Another interest group, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), called the EPA’s new road map “woefully inadequate” to offset “an escalating PFAS contamination crisis.” The road map is essentially “future promises of planning to plan,” the group said. ...

Some environmental groups were disappointed the administration didn’t go further in its Monday announcement plans. A group of local, state and national government natural resource and environmental professionals panned Biden’s PFAS plan as “woefully inadequate” ...