Chemistry World

Is industry getting more or less safe?

by PEER | July 14, 2026
US non-profit organisation Peer (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) has highlighted the number of serious chemical incidents across the US in recent years, aiming to stress the risks attached to the US government’s proposals to reduce incident prevention requirements. ...

First came the redundancies at the EPA, now peer-reviewed science written by agency scientists has fallen dramatically

by PEER | May 13, 2026
‘These numbers represent a diminution of scientific contributions from the fewer, remaining EPA scientists,’ stated Kyla Bennett, a scientist and attorney who is Peer’s science policy director and formerly worked at the EPA. ‘It is as if EPA is seeking to reduce the sum total of ...

‘A battle of the scientific experts’: PFAS research at centre of Texas farms lawsuit contested

by PEER | April 2, 2025
Based on those results, Ames and Kyla Bennett, an ecologist with the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) who served as a consultant for the investigation, suggested that the fertiliser was contaminated with PFAS that leached onto the neighbouring farms ...

PFAS in fertilisers blamed for killing livestock in Texas and wreaking havoc

by PEER | February 11, 2025
Kyla Bennett, an ecologist who directs science policy for the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) and served as a consultant for the investigation, had previously been involved in a couple of cases involving biosolids and quickly connected the dots. ‘ ...

Whistleblowing microbiologist wins unfair dismissal case against USGS

by Elizabeth Duan | January 11, 2024
A microbiologist has won her case for unfair dismissal against a US federal agency after she blew the whistle on animal welfare and biosafety failures. The US Geological Survey (USGS) hired Evi Emmenegger as a fisheries microbiologist in 1994, and in 2006 promoted her to manager of the ...