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Jeff Ruch is the Pacific Director for the Washington D.C-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility or PEER. Ruch says, “They’re letting the state take over a significant part of the sale administration, basically letting your neighbor come in and sort your own pantry ...

Both the New Hampshire landfill, which is owned by Waste Management, a national company, and the Madison treatment plant were operating within the bounds of their respective permits, neither of which require monitoring for PFAS. But environmental health groups said the lack of standards or ...

“PFAS in synthetic turf should sound alarm bells for parents and for all municipalities with these fields,” said Kyla Bennett of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “For the health of our children and communities, we urgently need to take a hard look at PFAS in ...

A government watchdog on Wednesday filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management to find out why it hired a one-time, anti-public lands advocate to run the agency. The non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, said it initially filed a public records ...

“November 8, 2019 – Phil Francis, Chair of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, released a statement in response to the recent report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) on evaporating staff levels at the National Park Service (NPS). “ ...

“Seriously, why is it so necessary to “boost agency revenues” and treat park campgrounds as an “under performing asset?” It’s because Trump wants to cut $481 million out of an already inadequate National Park Service budget. Public Employees for ...