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Citing EPA’s PFAS Data, PEER Renews Calls For Tougher RCRA Rules

by Inside EPA | November 9, 2023
Watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is pointing to a new analysis of EPA data showing significant increases in shipments of PFAS waste between 2018 and 2023 to renew its call for the agency to craft strict “hazardous waste” rules for such waste, ...

NIH integrity plan is ‘like a car without an engine’

by Research Professional News | November 9, 2023
Draft lacks rules to prevent suppression of research, says Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility group The National Institutes of Health’s draft scientific integrity policy is “like a car without an engine”, according to a not-for-profit that encourages government ...

EPA reexamining importation of harmful chemical wastewater to North Carolina

by NC Newsline | November 7, 2023
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, expressed similar concerns: “We welcome EPA’s decision to pause the import of PFAS waste for reclamation and disposal from the Netherlands.However, a long-term solution to the problem of PFAS ...

Agency that sued feds to get withheld investigative report on alleged crimes at Haskell says documents it received aren’t what it asked for

by LJ World.com | November 6, 2023
As the Journal-World has reported, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — a government watchdog nonprofit that, in part, assists public employees in fighting for accountability and transparency in government actions — sued the BIE in late July after the bureau withheld ...

Ranger Tim Caverly presents “The Challenge of Wilderness Living: Ranger Tales from Maine”

by Penobscot Bay Pilot | November 6, 2023
Tim Caverly is a Maine author who has written and published twelve books about Maine. He is a member of the New England Outdoor Writers Association, a brother of the Nollesemic Lodge #205 of the Free Masons, and ‘Son of the American Legion’ Post 80 in Millinocket. Tim is a graduate of ...

Louisiana sets first hunting season for iconic ‘Teddy’ bear in 2024 as population swells

by The News Star | November 2, 2023
But a 2018 lawsuit led by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) with co-counsel Atchafalaya Basinkeeper said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used “false assumptions and shoddy science” to make its decision for removal. It contends the bears still need ...

Board imposes stricter requirements for stormwater discharge

by Simi Valley Acorn | October 28, 2023
Norma Camacho, a Camarillo resident, chairs the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. She said the new permit incorporates revisions based on feedback from Boeing, as well as Parents Against SSFL, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Community to Bridge the Gap, Rocketdyne ...

EPA explains why it authorized imports of GenX from Netherlands to NC

by News From the States | October 27, 2023
This summer, Chemours provided confidential business information that addressed the previous information gaps. “Absent other disqualifying circumstances, it left EPA with no course of action other than to provide the conditional consent,” the agency spokesman said. Tim Whitehouse is ...

Environmental Protection Agency sued over Oak Ridge landfill for radioactive waste

by Tennessee Lookout | October 27, 2023
Former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler nevertheless approved the plan, which required waiving Clean Water Act rules, in the waning days of the Trump Administration — a decision upheld by his Biden Administration successor, Michael Regan. Now, according to the Public Employees for ...

Nonprofit: National Park Service plan to reduce single-use plastics is too slow

by KNAU | October 27, 2023
NPS plans to phase out all single-use plastics by 2032, but the nonprofit says the time frame is too long. “The Park Service’s plan is a disappointing ‘plan to plan’ without any near-term steps for meaningful plastic reduction,” Rocky Mountain PEER Director Chandra Rosenthal said ...

EPA explains why it authorized imports of GenX from Netherlands to NC

by NC Newsline | October 27, 2023
This summer, Chemours provided confidential business information that addressed the previous information gaps. “Absent other disqualifying circumstances, it left EPA with no course of action other than to provide the conditional consent,” the agency spokesman said. Tim Whitehouse is ...

Nonprofit says Park Service plan to reduce plastic doesn’t move fast enough

by KJZZ | October 25, 2023
A new report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is critical of a Park Service plan to reduce single-use plastics. The nonprofit says other public lands agencies are acting faster on similar projects. The Grand Canyon was once one of a handful of parks leading the way in ...

Board tightens rules for testing water discharged from Santa Susana Field Lab site

by Los Angeles Daily News | October 25, 2023
The vote came a few weeks after the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, released a report showing that two highly toxic chemicals are not being monitored at the Santa Susana Field lab and potentially could leak into the Los Angeles River. The 2,668- ...

NPS accused of foot-dragging with 10-year plastic waste plan

by E&E News | October 24, 2023
The National Park Service’s plan to ban single-use plastics at its 425 park sites by 2032 moves far too slowly, an environmental advocacy group said Tuesday. In an analysis of the plan, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility called it “needlessly protracted, encumbered ...

PEER: Why Is National Park Service Dragging Its Feet On Plastics?

by National Parks Traveler | October 24, 2023
A dozen years after Coca Cola reportedly was behind the National Park Service delay in banning disposable water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park, the agency again is dragging its feet on implementing a plastics ban, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. ...

This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.

by | October 24, 2023
The environmental nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is involved in the second WWP lawsuit, analyzed decades of BLM data and found that about half of the acreage it oversees that has been assessed fails to meet the agency’s own land health standards ...

Groups say Biden’s scientific integrity policy leaves a lot to be desired

by NJ Today | October 23, 2023
The first revamped agency scientific integrity policy crafted under a Biden initiative leaves a lot to be desired, according to comments submitted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a coalition of ten public health, transparency, and environmental groups. If ...

“The establishment” and disinformation over wild horses

by Horsetalk | October 21, 2023
This recent report compares livestock and wild horses and burros on US public lands and the tendency to fix the blame on the wild equids. Furthermore, America’s wild horses and burros should be protected under the National Historical Preservation Act, as they constitute a “living ...

The Unspoken Environmental Impact of Meat: Hogging all the land

by Zukus | October 20, 2023
While the lawsuit concerns the desert tortoise, Molvar said the problem extends far beyond this sliver of Nevada. BLM is generally mandated by federal law to assess the environmental health of grazing land before it renews ranchers permits, but Molvar said the agency often fails to do so ...

PEER Sues EPA In Bid To Assess Legality Of Oak Ridge Cleanup Decision

by Inside EPA | October 20, 2023
An environmental whistleblower group is suing EPA over its failure to make a final determination on the group’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records relating to the agency’s decision to uphold a controversial and precedent-setting Trump-era Superfund cleanup ...
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