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Congress passed the Administrative Leave Act to put tighter restrictions on how long agencies can put their employees on paid administrative or investigative leave. But OPM is more than seven years late in providing guidance to agencies on how to implement the legislation. Public Employees ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, is representing farmers who are suing EPA to force regulation of PFAS in biosolids. Bennett said the “patchwork approach” to regulation employed so far won’t work because the pollution can ...

Still, a breakdown in the relationship between the EPA and its watchdog increases the chances that people and the environment will suffer, said Jeff Ruch, Pacific director of the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Ultimately, the inspector general can’t ...

One water well yielded PFAS levels measured at 268.2 ppt while one of the ponds had over 1,333 ppt of PFAS. The flesh of a stillborn calf tested at 610,000 ppt of PFOS, according to PEER’s analysis of the testing results, which was released in February. Two catfish tested had 74,000 and ...

Former members of the Trump administration say that EPA under his watch laid the groundwork for the Biden administration’s efforts to address PFAS contamination. But health advocates say the Trump administration downplayed the risks of the chemicals, was slow to take action on PFAS and ...

Furthermore, stormwater now must stay onsite for a certain period of time to minimize flooding in a vault or a tank, which will increase the project’s costs. Downie and Farrell explained that the drainage system is under the field. “The only way it’s going to get into the drainage ...