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“This is a release that is propaganda,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former senior enforcement attorney at the EPA. “It doesn’t reflect reality in a number of ways.” One example: The EPA has stopped enforcing ...

The findings echo two recent analyses from the nonprofits Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Earthjustice, which both documented dwindling environmental enforcement under Trump. From day one of Trump’s second term, the administration has pursued an aggressive ...

“We are seeing an unprecedented and illegal purge of nonpartisan federal workers,” said Joanna Citron Day, general counsel at PEER, “and it’s getting worse.” “PEER is challenging the Trump administration’s illegal attempt through executive order to allow the president and his ...

Public health advocates and some Congress members are now mobilizing to kill the rider, which they say is likely illegal because it pre-empts the Clean Water Act. The attempt to kill the risk assessment is “absolutely insane,” said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA attorney who is now science ...

Instead, it has stalled the growth of Maryland’s renewable energy sector, undermined the transition to fossil-free electricity and funneled billions in public subsidies to out-of-state energy producers with significant consequences for the environment and ratepayers, according to the ...