In June, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sued the EPA on behalf of a group of farmers, ranchers, and green groups “for failing to perform its nondiscretionary duty to identify and regulate toxic pollutants in sewage sludge” used as fertilizer. In ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will start a process to require municipal waste incinerators to report their toxic chemical emissions to the agency’s Toxics Release Inventory, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Silver Spring, Maryland, ...

The unit’s intensive management plan in the past has called for the removal of 60% of brown bears and 60% to 80% of black bears, though state officials say they have no immediate plans to kill bears now. Critics of the proposal, including Alaska Wildlife Alliance and Public Employees for ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is engaged with the federal government on many fronts and emphasizes that it fully supports the transition to renewable energy and decarbonization. “We believe our federal government is capable of achieving these goals the right ...

And it’s not just conservationists who are concerned. Federal employees have pushed back at political claims of government bloat while its employment levels have been static. “Across the board, we are seeing public land agencies being asked to do more with less,” said Chandra ...

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 ...

Canyon de Chelly is the last of roughly two dozen national park units where the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility had fought for flyover restrictions. Other national parks where such commercial flyovers essentially are or will be banned in coming years include ...

The final rule also comes several months after the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a lawsuit against OPM to try to get the agency to finalize the long-awaited guidance on the Administrative Leave Act. “We like to think that our activism and advocacy and formal ...

Congress designated the Old Spanish Trail in 2002. The U.S. Department of Interior was then supposed to submit a plan for the trail’s use and management – but never did. That’s why the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is leading a lawsuit against the federal ...

In a separate lawsuit filed against the EPA in June by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility on behalf of the farmers, the group claimed the agency failed to implement restrictions on PFAS in biosolids despite knowing the health risks posed by the chemicals. Johnson County ...

In late 2021, advocacy groups met with the EPA to press for these standards. They were rebuffed. The “institutional controls” — covering the radioactive waste dump with concrete and soil — were adequate, the agency responded. “As things stand now, the plan at Hunters Point is to ...

Though OPM proposed regulations to implement all of the law’s provisions in 2017, only the provisions governing weather and safety leave actually made it across the finish line. But earlier this year, the environmental advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a federal lawsuit this week arguing that the Department of Interior has failed to develop a comprehensive management plan to preserve and protect the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. According to PEER, without such a plan, the ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group focused on environmental agencies, said it is considering a lawsuit over the impact to Tule Springs. “The Bureau of Land Management’s decision sets a dangerous precedent by allowing a project to move forward that will ...

Many other farmers in other parts of the country have also shut down their operations due to PFAS contamination after using fertilizer made from “biosolids” produced from human waste. Laura Dumais, a staff attorney with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Paxton&# ...

Comer didn’t reference Trump by accident. Since his first term, the once-and-future president has attacked environmental science at every opportunity, suppressing information about how human activity causes climate change and opposing scientists’ suggestions on the regulation of common ...

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. ...

The Interior Department, BLM and NPS all declined to comment on the lawsuit. While the agencies began drafting a comprehensive management plan after the trail’s 2002 establishment, in 2014 they announced that they would instead follow a “comprehensive administrative strategy” that ...

The Old Spanish Trail is the focus of a new lawsuit issued by the Public Employees for Environment Responsibility (PEER). This trail is among the National Historic Trails. “They are historic routes of national significance,” said John Hiscock, Old Spanish Trail Advocate. The Old ...

The suit points in part to the Bureau of Land Management recently providing for only a 50-meter trail buffer when it comes to surface disturbances related to oil and gas leasing in its amended resource management plan for the Grand Junction Field Office. Plaintiffs in the suit include ...