“This report signifies that the public health threat posed by the unending stream of new chemicals entering the marketplace remains largely unabated,” Kyla Bennett, science policy director at the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), says in a statement ...

Eight environmental leaders are pressing Maryland energy regulators for more transparency on how the state’s renewable energy program is handled — and how the state hands out financial credits for entities that generate renewable energy. In a letter sent Tuesday to the five members ...

“Secretarial Orders that remain on the books are supposed to be authoritative, not relics of dead policies,” said Peter Jenkins, senior counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, noting that the Biden administration has already rescinded at least five pre-existing ...

The conversation on artificial turf is happening across the country, with bills pending in California and New York to ban synthetic turf, according to Kyla Bennett, the Massachusetts-based director of science policy at advocacy nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.  ...

Minnesota regulators did not adequately consider whether a key water permit for a proposed copper-nickel mine would comply with the Clean Water Act and did not take seriously federal regulators’ concerns, which were left out of the public record, on the permit, the Minnesota Supreme ...

Kyla Bennett, a former EPA employee who now directs science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said that number is proof “that EPA is making mistakes.” To fix its problems, the report made four recommendations to EPA: plan and finalize guidance for ...

A government watchdog nonprofit trying to obtain a report detailing an investigation into a number of alleged crimes at Haskell Indian Nations University filed suit Friday in Washington, D.C., against the federal agency that oversees Haskell. Public Employees for Environmental ...

Fluorinated plastic barrels have been found to leach dangerous “forever chemicals” into the foods, cleaning supplies and other products the containers may hold. The groups — the Center for Environmental Health and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — ...

The EPA doesn’t need to tighten its corrosivity standards under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the DC Circuit ruled Tuesday in a loss for an environmental group. “PEER has missed—by more than four decades—the 90-day deadline to file a direct challenge to the regulation ...

In 2019, near the end of the Trump administration, then–Interior Secretary David Bernhardt instructed national parks to allow e-bikes wherever traditional bikes were allowed. The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sued, arguing that NPS needed to undertake ...

While the National Park Service has been studying the impacts of eBikes in the National Park System, the agency really knows little about the impacts on the environment or on other trail users, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The draft “programmatic ...

“The fact that it has taken over two years for the Senate to take a final confirmation vote is extraordinary and shows how broken the Senate confirmation process has become,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

The EPA is also under fire from consumer groups for allowing the makers of plastic containers to use forever chemicals in food and personal care product containers. Consumer groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Center for Environmental Health recently ...

But other groups have challenged that assertion, including the whistleblower group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, saying one-third of the grazing lands administered by the BLM are not assessed for their effect on the environment. Among the late-breaking comments was an ...

The organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (“PEER”) issued a report addressing criminal prosecution of United States environmental laws. The report was issued pursuant to a July 13th news release titled: EPA Criminal Enforcement Sputters Back to Life FY 23 ...

“In the U.S., chemicals are innocent until proven guilty,” said Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit based outside Washington, D.C. “In the EU and Japan, chemicals are guilty until proven safe — and that’s why ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility also has spent years suing the Federal Aviation Administration and National Park Service over the two agencies’ failure to produce plans for managing air tourism in parks that see more than 50 overflights a year. Teton park historically ...

On Wednesday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which defends whistleblowers and uncovers wrongdoing in energy and environmental agencies, sent a letter to CSB, requesting it recover the misspent funds by Katherine Lemos, a former President Donald Trump appointee who led ...

Among the discoveries highlighted in the study — obtained through a public records request by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — were “two proboscidean tusks” that could have belonged to a woolly mammoth. The tusks are buried less than 5 feet ...

“In the U.S., chemicals are innocent until proven guilty,” said Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit based outside Washington, D.C. “In the EU and Japan, chemicals are guilty until proven safe — and ...