That leaves regulators attempting to protect the public without essential information for some chemicals and in effect creates a “shadow regulatory government” in the EPA, said Tim Whitehouse, a former EPA attorney who is now director of Public Employees for Environmental ...

The EPA’s inspector general office, in a string of partially redacted reports, found managers in the EPA’s New Chemicals Division, part of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, retaliated against employees who raised concerns about chemicals being approved for ...

As the Tyler Morning Telegraph and Longview News-Journal reported last year, some rural East Texas water utilities feared the rule would require the installation of expensive plant upgrades if PFAS contamination was found. “I think the PFAS drinking water standards are one of the first ...

After they were forced to leave their jobs assessing new chemicals, the scientists filed the first of what would be six complaints with the EPA inspector general in June 2021. Their allegations, which detailed industry pressure that continued under the administration of President Joe Biden ...

The problem, the coalition said Monday, is that the plan does not protect infringement on Old Spanish Trail rights of way. The agency failed to incorporate its trail management policies when developing the big plan, according to the group that includes Western Watersheds Project, Public ...

Laura Dumais is staff counselor at PEER, which is currently working with two separate farmers outside of Dallas Fort-Worth. Following the spread of illness and loss of cattle, the families brought their concerns to the county. “There was a huge dump of sewage sludge biosolids on a ...

What’s more, BLM violated the National Environmental Policy Act by not properly evaluating potential impacts to the national trail system from encouraging solar applications within trail boundaries, the coalition, led by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said. ...

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) are currently in a legal dispute about sewage sludge used in farm fertilizer. According to PEER, the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that the EPA must regulate these contaminants, but ...

Now that this longstanding conflict has become intertwined with the cause of carbon reduction, it is pitting an older generation of eco-warriors against a younger breed of climate activists, as well as local unions eager to get in on energy transition jobs. Unfortunately for Maine ...

Kyla Bennett, director of policy at the organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), who filed the complaints on behalf of the scientists, said the problems flagged by the scientists have continued under the Biden Administration. PEER says the affected EPA ...

“EPA has received the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) reports on five whistleblower complaints in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention’s new chemicals program,” an EPA spokesperson said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The events ...

“Since day one, the Biden-Harris Administration has restored scientific integrity as the cornerstone of its work to protect public health and the environment, including reinstating key whistleblower protections that empower employees to share their own, differing scientific opinions,” ...

After they were forced to leave their jobs assessing new chemicals, the scientists filed the first of what would be six complaints with the EPA inspector general in June 2021. Their allegations, which detailed industry pressure that continued under the administration of President Joe Biden ...

An EPA spokesperson said the whistleblower’s complaints are a bygone of the Trump administration, and the agency under President Joe Biden “has restored scientific integrity as the cornerstone of its work to protect public health and the environment, including reinstating key ...

The group of farmers are represented by advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June. It comes after the constable in Johnson County, Texas, partnered with scientists at PEER to ...

EPA is urging a federal court to dismiss litigation brought by farmers who allege the agency has failed to meet Clean Water Act (CWA) requirements to regulate PFAS in biosolids, arguing the law gives the agency discretion on whether to identify and regulate toxic pollutants in sewage ...

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ended most uses of the notorious pesticide DDT back in 1972, it wasn’t just because of the poison’s then suspected links to cancer and serious reproductive effects in humans. Evidence also suggested that the chemical would bioaccumulate in ...

US regulators claim they are not legally required to regulate toxic PFAS chemicals in sewage sludge spread on farmland across the country, according to a court filing the government made this week in response to a lawsuit from an environmental watchdog group. In its Sept. 9 filing, the ...

The Interior Department posted a revised scientific integrity policy last month. It requires each component agency to appoint a career staff person as scientific integrity officer. But to one group of scientists, the policy differs little from protections that were greatly weakened during ...

Now it’s likely the environmental groups will have to file their own lawsuit with the 10th Circuit, demanding the EPA’s tougher open-access rule be put back in place. Coloradans wanting to check up on actual air pollution emissions from oil and gas or other sites will be “getting ...