Kyla Bennett is the director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former wetlands enforcement coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency. Bennett has frequently called for bans on artificial turf, citing that it exposes athletes to cancer-causing chemicals. ...

Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that is campaigning with AFGE in Washington this week, said that in addition to helping the U.S. achieve its climate goals, an expanded workforce would allow the EPA to more ...

On October 26, 2020, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility released concerning information about the level of forever chemicals, or PFAS, in Delray drinking water. When Rob heard this, he immediately informed Delray residents through his newsletter and suggested Delray Beach ...

However, some say the framework does not go far enough. GovExec reports Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says the administration made a mistake “in not identifying specific, new procedures to guarantee career scientists would not face retaliation for presenting ...

Union members plan to meet with lawmakers between Monday and Wednesday in what they are calling a “lobbying blitz.” On Tuesday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) will speak at an AFGE rally, while on Wednesday, more than 40 employees will hold another rally outside the EPA headquarters ...

Environmental advocates are cranking up pressure on regulators amid a high profile “forever chemicals” crisis that has implicated a plastics company. Two groups — the Center for Environmental Health and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — called on the ...

The study, which appeared in the January 17 edition of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (attached below), followed by a handful of years a wolf study in Yukon-Charley Rivers that was forced to end in 2016 because the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had sponsored a predator ...

Clean Up The River Environment, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations note that burning fuel oil instead of natural gas will increase particulate matter, mercury, lead, carcinogenic diesel exhaust and arsenic. Hudson ...

The Biden administration has proposed what some critics label a “gag order” on federal scientists in the US that would largely bar them from publicly discussing their research, and could effectively prohibit them from taking part in controversial studies on issues like the climate ...

Kyla Bennett is the director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former wetlands enforcement coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency. Bennett said that in addition to being a source of greenhouse gas emissions, artificial turf contains many different ...

The plant’s natural gas equipment has been retooled to burn fuel oil. In addition, Great River Energy will add onsite storage for the fuel oil. Clean Up The River Environment, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations note ...

While inflation has jacked up the prices of most goods and services, it hasn’t disrupted the price Western ranchers pay to graze cattle or other animals on federal lands. The Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service announced at the end of January that the two agencies would ...

The framework forms a subcommittee on scientific integrity—made up of career officials—within the National Science Technology Council, creates metrics against which agencies should track their policies and standardizes definitions across the government. To Public Employees for ...

Kyla Bennett is fed up with the pollution flowing into her house through its water pipes. “I can’t drink my water. I’m not supposed to shower in my water. And we’ve been waiting now 2 years for this filtration plant to come on line. It’s costing us, the taxpayers, $9 million,” ...

“These very, very high levels are likely to be transported into food and drinking water,” says Monica Mercola, staff counsel with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The other groups involved in the testing are the Montgomery Countryside Alliance and the Sugarloaf ...

The Agriculture Department’s integrity policy includes similar language saying that scientists shouldn’t make policy judgments. In a press release complaining about the measure on Monday, the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility described the provision against ...

We are waking up to the dangers of toxic “forever chemicals” called PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and the sources of these dangerous compounds. A recent alarming discovery: common pesticides, which are sprayed across our communities, farms, health care facilities, ...

In a press release complaining about the measure on Monday, the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility described the provision against policy judgments as a “gag rule.” Jeff Ruch, the group’s Pacific director, said that restricting federal scientists from commenting ...

So what are the problems, and what needs to change? For starters, the current cattle program is deeply under-resourced, said Chandra Rosenthal in a video interview with Gizmodo. Rosenthal is the head of the Rocky Mountain office of the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental ...

Environmental advocates like the Conservation Law Foundation and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility are urging Maine to go even further, calling on the Board of Pesticides Control to conduct independent PFAS tests on all registered pesticides rather than relying on ...