The New Republic

One State’s War on Forever Chemicals in Milk

by PEER | December 20, 2024
For an agency that seems to just now be finding its stride on regulating PFAS, an industry-friendly administration could spell trouble for the crucial early work. “If I were EPA right now, I would be very worried that [the work on the PFAS risk assessment] would all be scrapped,” says ...

You’d Be Amazed How Many People Want Big Oil Charged With Homicide

by Elizabeth Duan | May 30, 2024
Former Environmental Protection Agency employees with the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have accused the EPA of incorrectly reporting the results of PFAS testing in pesticides, falsely telling the public that these long-lasting, potentially damaging chemicals ...

The Biden Administration Is Letting Corporate Criminals Off the Hook

by Elizabeth Duan | January 10, 2024
Tim Whitehouse, a former EPA enforcement attorney and the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, praised the Biden administration’s recent improvements on enforcement while acknowledging the strong headwinds such efforts face. “It takes years of ...

It Will Take Years to Undo the Damage from Trump’s Environmental Rollback

by Elizabeth Duan | June 29, 2020
“The Trump administration’s response to a pandemic that has killed more than 120,000 Americans and forced much of the country into a devastating economic slowdown has been a massive failure, leading to new levels of anger and disappointment at the president. But none of that has ...

The Trump Official Who Could Obliterate Public Lands

by PEER | February 3, 2020
“It’s a natural fit for an administration as chaotic and corrupt as President Donald Trump’s that William Perry Pendley, who loathes America’s public lands, was picked last September, and reappointed in January, to manage them. The Bureau of Land Management, which Pendley now ...
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