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The Grudge Match Over Maine’s Plans for Offshore Wind

by PEER | September 25, 2024
Now that this longstanding conflict has become intertwined with the cause of carbon reduction, it is pitting an older generation of eco-warriors against a younger breed of climate activists, as well as local unions eager to get in on energy transition jobs. Unfortunately for Maine ...

EPA Watchdog Says Officials Violated Whistleblower Protections With Dissenting Scientist

by PEER | September 19, 2024
Kyla Bennett, director of policy at the organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), who filed the complaints on behalf of the scientists, said the problems flagged by the scientists have continued under the Biden Administration. PEER says the affected EPA ...

‘Bullying, Harassing, Name-Calling’: EPA ‘Retaliated Against’ Three Dissenting Scientists, Inspector General Finds

by PEER |
“EPA has received the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) reports on five whistleblower complaints in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention’s new chemicals program,” an EPA spokesperson said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The events ...

EPA officials retaliated against 3 scientists, watchdog says

by PEER | September 18, 2024
“Since day one, the Biden-Harris Administration has restored scientific integrity as the cornerstone of its work to protect public health and the environment, including reinstating key whistleblower protections that empower employees to share their own, differing scientific opinions,” ...

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.

by PEER |
After they were forced to leave their jobs assessing new chemicals, the scientists filed the first of what would be six complaints with the EPA inspector general in June 2021. Their allegations, which detailed industry pressure that continued under the administration of President Joe Biden ...

Watchdog slams EPA for retaliation on chemical reviews

by PEER |
An EPA spokesperson said the whistleblower’s complaints are a bygone of the Trump administration, and the agency under President Joe Biden “has restored scientific integrity as the cornerstone of its work to protect public health and the environment, including reinstating key ...
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