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At issue is a process to make the insides of plastic barrels more durable called fluorination, which creates dangerous PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as unintended byproducts that then leach into fertilizers, condiments and other products stored in the barrels. Environmental ...

Joanna Citron Day, general counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Nichols’ analysis that the letter was protected speech is “a stunning admission” by the agency. “It is disheartening. It is shocking. It is horrific,” Citron Day said. “It is our ...

The watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility highlighted the declining health of rangelands in a new analysis Thursday based on data compiled by the Bureau of Land Management. “These numbers reveal a landscape under pressure,” Chandra Rosenthal, PEER’s Western ...

After reviewing the emails, Joanna Citron Day, general counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Fugh was “right that there’s no ethics issue.” “This was a bunch of employees expressing their protected First Amendment right to dissent by signing a ...

Others had a different assessment. Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the ethics rules “were put there for a reason” and “should be mandatory.” “The ethics office hands out these waivers like candy on Halloween,” ...