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Got Plastic With a No. 2 Recycling Symbol? Beware a Toxic Problem

by Susan Sargent | September 28, 2023
Over the next couple of months, a colleague of Bennett’s at PEER tracked down white plastic jugs of Anvil 10+10 and shipped samples of the liquid to a Pennsylvania laboratory called Eurofins for testing. The results confirmed Bennett’s suspicions: The pesticide contained PFAS compounds ...

Forever chemicals at former Nasa lab are leaking into LA River, say watchdogs

“California’s pollution control agencies are not just asleep at the switch but appear to be in a coma,” said Jeff Ruch, Pacific director of the non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer), which has filed a lawsuit over the site’s cleanup. PFAS are a class ...

White House Censorship in the Name of Scientific Integrity

by Susan Sargent | September 27, 2023
Tim Whitehouse is the executive director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).that theorized in any hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence, once remarked that “Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo ...

Park Service Names New Seashore Superintendent

Flynn has had experience putting out more than one kind of fire, it seems. In July 2022, she issued a memo to NPS superintendents and chief rangers describing changes that would have to be made in the Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch, necessary, she wrote, because of the ...

Science group threatens lawsuit over OPM’s failure to implement limiting involuntary leave for feds accused of misconduct

by Susan Sargent | September 25, 2023
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit advocacy group, demanded action to implement the law last week in a petition for rulemaking, and warned if the agency fails to do so within 60 days, the nonprofit will file a lawsuit. In the years since the Administrative ...

National Park Service still has low employee morale and high attrition, nonprofit says

by Susan Sargent | September 21, 2023
The National Park Service has faced employee morale problems in recent years, including allegations of harassment. A nonprofit says that many problems persist. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has criticized the Park Service’s record of employee harassment, and how it ...
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