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Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said PFAS regulations are popping up in states around the nation. States are bearing the brunt of the cost of PFAS contamination, Bennett said, and she thinks the federal government isn’t ...

Tim Whitehouse discusses with Radio Télévision Suisse the impact of Donald Trump’s election on the federal workforce and what the incoming Trump administration’s agenda for the environment and public health. Read the PEER Story… ...

You don’t need to be a scientist to notice that something is going on at this site near The Paddocks shopping center in Mt. Juliet: The water is fuzzy and orange and it’s been the subject of litigation spanning more than a decade. The developer says it’s done its best to clean up a ...

Peter Jenkins, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, who represented Marin Audubon Society in the case, said he had only expected a few people in the Bay Area to be interested in the court ruling. “The focus of the case, it was not about the CEQ ...

The EPA currently has more than 16,000 employees, adding more than 6,000 during Joe Biden’s administration as the agency sought to rebuild. During Biden’s term, the agency stepped up enforcement of pollution rules, banned toxic pesticides, bolstered chemical safety protections, and ...

PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse, a former senior attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency, said agencies have more freedom to relocate members of the career Senior Executive Service, compared to rank-and-file federal employees. “They can move SES employees and their ...