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A report issued Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, targets Trump’s executive order, issued last week, that mostly addressed spending on federal contracts and grants, but also called for clamping down on travel expenses and other issues. Trump’s order ...

EPA has been pressed to reveal what access Musk’s team has at the agency. In a letter last week to Administrator Lee Zeldin, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group, called on him to publicly disclose what agency databases are open to DOGE. EPA holds sensitive ...

Likewise, Peter Jenkins, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, called Trump’s move “mean-spirited” and a “power grab” by the president that “will be counter-productive for the effectiveness of the nation’s top career civil servants.” Jenkins ...

The final update arrives almost a year after EPA released a draft that was roundly criticized by organizations like Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group. In a Thursday interview, Kyla Bennett, the group’s science policy adviser, said the final version was ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said EPA likely underestimated the risks posed by PFAS-laden sewage sludge. She questioned EPA’s assertion that most food produced in the U.S. “is not grown on fields ...