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Amid an increase in visitation and crimes in national parks, the National Park Service has narrowed the scope of the crimes its dwindling number of top-level investigators will handle. According to a National Park Service internal memo released Thursday by the watchdog group Public ...

The defendant, Inhance, produces tens of millions of consumer containers that contain PFAS, according to the consumer advocacy group behind the lawsuit. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to order Inhance to follow EPA rules that require it to receive approval for its production process ...

Amid an increase in visitation and crimes in national parks, the National Park Service has narrowed the scope of the crimes its dwindling number of top-level investigators will handle. According to a National Park Service internal memo released Thursday by the watchdog group Public ...

A Houston-based company that reinforces plastic packaging for food and household goods is putting the public at risk of exposure to toxic “forever chemicals,” according to a new lawsuit brought by environmental and public health groups. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

An environmental whistleblower group is petitioning EPA to release records relating to the agency’s decision to uphold a controversial and precedent-setting Trump-era Superfund cleanup decision at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge nuclear site, signaling that it plans to use the ...

Inhance, a Houston-based company named as a defendant, produces tens of millions of consumer containers that contain PFAS, the consumer advocacy groups behind the lawsuit say. The plaintiffs ask a judge to order Inhance to follow Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that require it ...

The U.S. EPA is currently involved in a major lawsuit that — depending on the results — would be huge for both environmental and human health. Together the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) are suing Texas-based container ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) posted EPA’s Dec. 19 complaint as an addendum to its Dec. 27 release announcing a separate Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) suit that it and the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) filed against Inhance Technologies — ...

A pair of nonprofit advocacy groups on Tuesday sued a Texas company in a bid to stop it from generating so-called “forever chemicals” while manufacturing plastic containers. The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) ...

The groups also charge that regulators have known of the potential health threat since early 2021 but have failed to eliminate it. “It’s a grave concern for me that these containers are used for food, full stop,” said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA scientist who is now with Public ...

A plastics technology company’s use of flourine gas is contaminating household supplies with PFAS, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by environmental non-profit groups. The Center for Environmental Health and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed the complaint  ...

One possible source of the chemical contamination being investigated by the town: Fertilizers used by area farmers, including some using treated sewage waste from the Potomac River. “We’re very concerned about biosolids and fertilizers. So we know those come from wastewater ...

A national watchdog group has urged U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Martha Williams to take stronger action against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for allegedly logging public wildlife lands primarily for commercial timber production. The complaint letter this week from Tim ...

Apart from The Intercept, “only a handful of niche publications have reported on the matter,” Project Censored noted. However, in January 2022 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a lawsuit to compel EPA to disclose the reports, following up on an ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says EPA has been “unable to account for” 53 investigations into claims of scientific integrity violations — many at the TSCA office — that it told the Office of Inspector General (OIG) it had closed in 2021-22, ...

Two prominent, mainstream environmental organizations — Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Western Watersheds Project — exposed the BLM’s own grazing data that reveals commercial livestock, not wild horses, responsible for overgrazing.  These organizations were ...

I recently participated in a conversation with midlevel managers at the APCD.  The meeting had been arranged by Chandra Rosenthal, the regional attorney for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).  She and PEER had recently represented 3 pollution modelers from the APCD ...

Concurring with that sentiment was environmentalist Bill Wolfe, who served in various roles with the NJDEP for 13 years, including that of policy advisor to the commissioner, was policy director of the New Jersey Sierra Club for seven years, founder of the nonprofit Public Employees for ...

Apart from the Intercept, “only a handful of niche publications have reported on the matter,” Project Censored noted. However, in January 2022 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a lawsuit to compel EPA to disclose the reports, following up on an earlier ...

The ongoing controversy surrounding Hunters Point recently flared up again this fall, when the EPA made it known that it doesn’t intend to hold the Navy responsible for a full cleanup at the site. Failure to do so would disregard Proposition P, a measure passed overwhelmingly by San ...