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by PEER | December 1, 2025
We used geospatial data compiled by the conservation group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility to tell us the land-health status of BLM allotments. The organization obtained the data, which was last updated in December 2023, from the BLM via a public records request. Read the ...

US navy accused of cover-up over dangerous plutonium in San Francisco

by PEER | November 27, 2025
The navy is trying to avoid spending several billion dollars to do a proper clean up, said Jeff Ruch, senior counsel with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility nonprofit, which is involved in litigation at the site. “It’s been one thing after another after another,” ...

Synthetic Turf Proposed for CVU Leads to Environmental Concerns

by PEER | November 26, 2025
Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in Massachusetts, said the proposed CVU field should be held to Vermont’s tougher standard for PFAS contamination in water, not soil, and measured in parts per trillion, not billion. That ...

Farmers re-up push to regulate PFAS-tainted fertilizer

by PEER | November 25, 2025
The five Texas farmers who originally brought the lawsuit said the spread of PFAS from biosolids has harmed their animals’ health and severely limited their abilities to grow crops. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the Potomac Riverkeeper Network joined the ...

US government agency hit with complaint for allegedly misleading public: ‘It is the height of hypocrisy’

by PEER | November 23, 2025
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a complaint Oct. 29 demanding the EPA retract or defend information on its website about PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid, a chemical that belongs to a group of manmade chemicals commonly referred to as “forever chemicals&# ...

Doug Burgum is charging Interior Department agencies a premium to subsume their employees

by PEER | November 19, 2025
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has issued a Freedom of Information Act request to solicit information on Interior’s reorganization and what the fee structure looks like and recently filed a lawsuit after failing to get a timely response. Jeff Ruch, PEER’s senior ...
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