These below-average numbers of enforcement actions align with a 19 percent decline in Florida’s environmental agency staff—the largest decrease in number of any state—from 2010 to 2025, according to a report from the Environmental Integrity Project. During the same period, the state ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm after a record-breaking spike in grey whales washing up along the Pacific Coast. The U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that these numbers are the highest seen in decades, raising urgent questions about the health of our ...

Like the Environmental Integrity Project, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) analyzed court records and found a “collapse” of environmental enforcement under Trump II, with a sharp drop in civil cases settled by the DOJ that were referred by the EPA. “The ...

Kyla Bennett is the science policy director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. While some companies tout safer alternatives, she says there’s no such thing. “My personal opinion is that I do not think it’s possible today to buy a PFAS-free field. Again ...

There’s a whale of a problem off the U.S. West Coast. Gray whales are undergoing a “catastrophic mortality event,” said the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), with close to 150 carcasses found on beaches along the Pacific Ocean just this year. The ...

Many of these herbicides and pesticides contain complex mixtures of supposedly “inert” compounds whose full ingredient lists remain shielded as trade secrets. Chemical manufacturers, of course, insist on the safety of these chemicals, however researchers from the nonprofit ...

However, in comments published to the federal register, the EPA also advised the US public to “research” sludge companies to protect itself from the highly toxic chemicals contaminating home fertilizer widely sold for use in home gardens. The decision is “a bit bonkers”, said ...

But in December, the executive director of the environmental nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said the Trump administration cost taxpayers an estimated $10 billion last year via its deferred resignation program, through which it offered federal workers full ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility recently described the die-off as a “Catastrophic Mortality Event.” However, John Calambokidis, a senior research biologist with Cascadia Research, said no such formal designation has been made. PEER is also urging federal action. It is ...

The strandings this year represent what Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a whistleblower protection and environmental advocacy group, is calling a new catastrophic die-off. This year’s count most likely underestimates the actual number of gray whales dying off the ...

US non-profit organisation Peer (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) has highlighted the number of serious chemical incidents across the US in recent years, aiming to stress the risks attached to the US government’s proposals to reduce incident prevention requirements. ...

The industry-aligned SACC will probably ensure that scientific research that supports industry positions are used, and the board “will just rubber-stamp everything”, said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA scientist now with the Public Employees for Responsibility non-profit. “It will give ...

Trump megadonor and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, the comment notes, was allowed to oversee the cancellation of the contracts for numerous vendors while never touching any of the more than $19 billion his businesses held in federal contracts. “This is ...

“What we are seeing is the methodical implementation of a system where nonpolitical career employees can be fired for doing their job correctly but inconveniently, and where they will have nowhere to go for a fair, independent second look,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public ...

In an interview, Mr. Tyler said he did no such thing. “We’re supposed to be using science and making science-based decisions,” Mr. Tyler said. He said he wrote the memo and circulated it to agency attorneys whose job it is to be aware of documents that potentially shouldn’t be made ...

Over the last few months, a number of different companies have requested licenses from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch data centers into space. SpaceX’s proposal alone requests licenses for up to one million satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). But the ...

Kyla Bennett of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, who was involved in both appeals, has been sounding the alarm about PFAS in artificial turf for years. “I actually was sued by an artificial turf company in my individual capacity for saying that artificial turf has PFAS ...

The number of US chemical accidents is rising just as the Trump administration guts protections against the disasters, a new analysis of federal data by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit found. The report found the number of chemical accidents, ...

 A coalition of environmental groups is urging the Trump administration to scrutinize the cumulative impacts of efforts to launch more than a million data centers into orbit, citing risks to human health and the climate. DarkSky International, Environment America and Public Employees for ...

Pacific gray whales are facing a “catastrophic mortality event,” with 145 fatal strandings reported along the West Coast this year — including at least 20 in California so far — environmentalists warned this week, citing NOAA‑linked data. The organization Public Employees for ...