Two environmental groups on Feb. 15 sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking a permanent injunction directing it to disclose under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) all “wrongfully withheld documents” ...

Environmentalists are asking a court to force EPA to release data on the health effects of several PFAS that it has deemed “confidential business information” (CBI) under TSCA, further expanding a long-running legal fight over when material dealing with “health and safety studies” ...

Two environmental groups accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday of withholding test data on the presence of forever chemicals in fluorinated plastic containers in response to their Freedom of Information Act request… Read the PEER Story… ...

Two advocacy groups are suing EPA over claims it withheld data regarding the risks of “forever chemicals” in millions of fluorinated plastic barrels. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Center for Environmental Health, the two groups that brought the ...

The EPA has failed to disclose information the nation’s primary commercial chemicals law requires to be public, allege two nonprofit environmental advocacy groups in a lawsuit filed on Thursday. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Center for Environmental ...

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday by a pair of environmental advocacy groups accuses the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of “wrongfully withholding test data and other vital information” regarding the presence of so-called “forever chemicals” in millions of ...

The National Park Service is failing to recover fair market value on the leases for beef and dairy ranches at Point Reyes National Seashore, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which claims taxpayers are losing millions of dollars on the operations. The advocacy ...

As the U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) takes public comments on its updated scientific integrity policy (until February 23, 2024), Beyond Pesticides issued an action and reminds the agency that when it fails to carry out its mission to protect health and the environment—by allowing ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected four Colorado-issued air pollution permits at Weld County oil and gas processing sites, saying the state must rewrite the permits to ensure ozone-causing chemicals are burned off before hitting the atmosphere. Environmental advocates ...

Environmental groups in Tennessee will soon learn more about the approval process behind a radioactive waste landfill which has been processing and storing highly enriched uranium for six decades. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the Environmental Protection ...

The Bureau of Land Management and green groups have asked a D.C. federal court to reject efforts by Idaho, Utah and a coalition of agriculture industry groups to intervene in the environmentalists’ lawsuit challenging the grazing allotments… Read the PEER Story… ...

Environmental groups in Tennessee will soon learn more about the approval process behind a radioactive waste landfill which has been processing and storing highly enriched uranium for six decades. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the Environmental Protection ...

EPA released a rule that would list nine PFAS as “hazardous constituents” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, an action that could lead to cleanups of disposal and waste management facilities.   RCRA gives EPA the authority to regulate hazardous wastes the moment ...

EPA is proposing a rule that would list nine PFAS as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) “hazardous constituents,” moving to more than double the number of the substances it previously pledged to add to the RCRA list that will give regulators the authority to require cleanup ...

The Journal-World has obtained the two letters, sent by Bureau of Indian Education Director Tony Dearman in January 2023. The BIE oversees Haskell under the U.S. Department of the Interior. In the letters, Dearman delegates authority to propose and execute disciplinary actions based on the ...

Moments after he landed in Los Angeles for his son’s wedding last year, Gilbert “Kip” Wyand said he vomited a gallon of blood in the airport parking lot. Two months later, in May, Wyand was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia — a type of cancer of the blood and bone marrow ...

A process President Biden launched during his first week in office aims to ensure all agencies adopt scientific integrity policies that prohibit improper political interference in scientific research and prevent the suppression or distortion of scientific information. After an inter-agency ...

Individuals sickened after exposure to “forever chemicals” urged the Biden administration this week to press ahead with a pending rule that would set aggressive nationwide limits on the compounds in drinking water. Public drinking water is considered an important avenue for protecting ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is asking for employee feedback on its plan to protect career federal scientists from political influence and while early feedback from at least some of them is that the new policies are insufficient, EPA officials are pledging to be flexible and ...

EPA is drawing closer to cementing President Joe Biden’s plans for protecting science across the federal government, but the agency’s proposed safeguards for its own researchers are already coming under scrutiny. This month, EPA asked its employees to review the agency’s draft ...