The FAA Is Enabling Helicopters to Ruin the Outdoors
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Susan Sargent | September 1, 2021
“In 2019, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono (HICOP) sued the FAA and NPS to force them to implement the law. Their suit named seven NPS sites: Bryce Canyon, Glacier, Great Smoky Mountains, Haleakala, Hawaii Volcanoes, ...
How Biden’s team rushed to dump a Trump-era PFAS assessment
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Susan Sargent |
“Kyla Bennett, who directs science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, meanwhile expressed alarm. The conversations, she said, “prove what we always suspected — Trump Administration political appointees improperly manipulated science at EPA,” ...
EPA exposed for hiding chemical risks, favoring corporate interests
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Susan Sargent | August 31, 2021
“In June 2021, four EPA scientists, each working within the agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), publicly accused the the EPA of deliberate tampering with chemical risk assessments. The four whistleblowers made their complaints public through a group ...
POSTED IN CHESAPEAKE BAY ‘Forever chemicals’ from Navy lab flowing into the Chesapeake Bay
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Susan Sargent | August 30, 2021
“In the wake of high PFAS levels found in groundwater at Naval Air Station Patuxent in St. Mary’s County, an independent lab analysis commissioned by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility last year found higher levels in an oyster, blue crab, and striped bass caught ...
Group’s Allegations of Destroying Records Spur EPA Investigation
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Susan Sargent | August 27, 2021
“The EPA says it will fully investigate allegations from a public interest group that it illegally destroys the original versions of its internal communications and draft documents once they’re edited, according to an agency spokesman. The Environmental Protection Agency pledged to ...
EPA is falsifying risk assessments for dangerous chemicals, say whistleblowers
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Susan Sargent |
““The depth of it is pretty horrifying,” said Kyla Bennett, New England director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a non-profit whose attorneys are representing the four scientists. “I don’t sleep at night knowing what I know from the whistleblowers ...