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Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group working with the Texas ranchers, said the E.P.A.’s assessment was a good first step, but noted the agency had looked at only two kinds of PFAS, even as more were being ...

Numerous studies have raised the concern that waste exports could create a “race to the bottom” in which pollution ends up going to the places with the least environmental oversight. “The waste trade works like any other … They find the cheapest place to bring it,” said Tim ...

“Climate change is 100% responsible” for the wildfires Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at the activist group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told Salon. “No question. I am very scared about our future — meaning all of us, not just Americans.” Bennett ...

Despite the toxic emissions, incinerators often position themselves as “green” businesses to receive subsidies for producing energy. The new reporting requirements “will help disprove the claims”, said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the public health advocacy group Peer, and ...

Jeff Ruch, director of Pacific Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit organization that supports government employees at environmental agencies, said EPA employees are considering retiring or leaving before the new administration takes office. “I would imagine the ...

The U.S. EPA said it will initiate a rulemaking process to require certain incineration, combustion and gasification facilities to report toxic chemical releases through the agency’s Toxics Release Inventory, as is required with other industrial pollution sources. The decision comes in ...