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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is maneuvering to shirk much of its responsibility for addressing the PFAS contamination crisis by narrowing the definition of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) it will use. That’s according to a report released recently from Public ...

A watchdog group says the Bureau of Land Management has allowed energy companies to sidestep timing restrictions and develop inside-buffer zones designed to protect the imperiled lesser prairie chicken in New Mexico. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, says records ...

The Merit Systems Protection Board on Monday upheld a judge’s ruling that the U.S. Geological Survey unlawfully retaliated against an agency-scientist-turned-whistleblower. In a two-judge decision, the board largely sided with the judge’s ruling in favor of Eveline (Evi) ...

Kyla Bennett, a former EPA scientist who now works with the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the emails provide more evidence that the EPA needs an overhaul and that it is steeped in an “industry-beholden culture” that persists regardless of which ...

The public interest organization, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), sued the National Park Service (NPS) under the Freedom of Information Act Tuesday to compel the agency to disclose records related to Wi-Fi or cellular proposals and installations across three parks ...

Money doesn’t come easily to farmland owners in the tranquil, rolling hills of Pennsylvania. So at first, Jim Halkias thought he’d hit the jackpot. A real estate broker had approached him in late 2018, and explained that a Denmark-based recycling company called Re-Match wanted to pay $ ...