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“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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The group of farmers are represented by advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June. It comes after the constable in Johnson County, Texas, partnered with scientists at PEER to ...

EPA is urging a federal court to dismiss litigation brought by farmers who allege the agency has failed to meet Clean Water Act (CWA) requirements to regulate PFAS in biosolids, arguing the law gives the agency discretion on whether to identify and regulate toxic pollutants in sewage ...

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ended most uses of the notorious pesticide DDT back in 1972, it wasn’t just because of the poison’s then suspected links to cancer and serious reproductive effects in humans. Evidence also suggested that the chemical would bioaccumulate in ...