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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 ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Center for Environmental Health filed a notice of appeal in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Dec. 26, two weeks after a federal district judge in D.C. rejected the groups’ request for injunctive relief ...

At issue is one company’s practice of fluorination, a process that coats the inner walls of plastic containers and barrels to make them more durable, which also inadvertently creates three of the riskiest PFAS as byproducts. Inhance, a Texas-based, plastics-focused company with 11 U. ...