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New Testing Detects Toxic PFAS in Herbicide Applied Across Public Lands
Findings Raise Urgent Questions About Human Health, Wildlife, and Ecosystem Impacts
COMMENTARY
COMMENTARY | When Government Silences Its Own Workers, We All Lose
If agencies are allowed to punish speech they don’t like — especially when it touches on identity, science, or environmental protection — silence becomes the norm. And when silence becomes normal, everyone loses.
PEERMail | We’re suing the Trump administration – again
PEER and a coalition of unions filed a consolidated and updated legal challenge to the Trump-Vance administration’s effort to unlawfully convert potentially tens of thousands of merit-based, nonpartisan civil servants to at-will employees.
NEWS CLIPS
‘Forever chemicals’ found in vegetables from Long Island farm stands: study
Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said...

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VIDEO | Testimony Before the House Natural Resources Committee (Feb 10, 2026)
PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources on public-private partnerships related to America’s semiquincentennial.
