“This is a release that is propaganda,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former senior enforcement attorney at the EPA. “It doesn’t reflect reality in a number of ways.” One example: The EPA has stopped enforcing ...

Yet organizations such as the Environmental Integrity Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility already released their own reports on declining EPA enforcement under Trump. The latter warned about a “collapse” in civil enforcement. PEER Executive Director Tim ...

Other organizations are taking their action to the next level: court. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, for example, is stepping up to defend federal workers in and out of the courtroom. At the core of any functioning scientific workforce is the capacity to ...

“It’s incredibly dangerous to the players, the community and the Earth,” said Kyla Bennett, the director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit organization supporting “current and former public employees who seek a higher standard of ...

Others had a different assessment. Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the ethics rules “were put there for a reason” and “should be mandatory.” “The ethics office hands out these waivers like candy on Halloween,” ...

PFAS — short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not readily break down in the environment. Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the chemicals share an extremely ...