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Ultimately, most targeted for retribution were issued letters of reprimand or forced to take two weeks’ unpaid leave. But around 15 workers, including seven employees still serving their one-year probationary period, were terminated in early October, shortly after the start of the 43-day ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is representing the fired employees, said that the EPA of President Donald Trump has undermined the First Amendment’s free speech protections and has also put the public in danger by removing experienced employees from their ...

Six staffers who the Trump administration fired after they signed a “Declaration of Dissent” letter have filed claims with the Merit Systems Protection Board, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is helping to represent the ex-employees. The ...

We used geospatial data compiled by the conservation group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility to tell us the land-health status of BLM allotments. The organization obtained the data, which was last updated in December 2023, from the BLM via a public records request. Read the ...

The navy is trying to avoid spending several billion dollars to do a proper clean up, said Jeff Ruch, senior counsel with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility nonprofit, which is involved in litigation at the site. “It’s been one thing after another after another,” ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in Massachusetts, said the proposed CVU field should be held to Vermont’s tougher standard for PFAS contamination in water, not soil, and measured in parts per trillion, not billion. That ...