Last summer, more than 600 EPA employees signed the letter excoriating Zeldin’s leadership of the agency, alleging among other things that his leadership undermined scientific consensus in favor of polluters. Though a majority of signatories did so anonymously, the agency quickly ...

A whistleblower disclosure filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility states that Yellowstone National Park employees and their families, including young children and pregnant women, are currently being exposed to harmful levels of lead through the paint in their housing. ...

On June 6, PEER submitted a formal request seeking information about this massive reorganization. While the Interior Department shared some documents, these were “highly redacted” and “fragmentary” and did not include the requested information. This led PEER to file ...

Through a letter obtained using the Freedom of Information Act, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has discovered that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s reorganization of the agency a year ago has failed to produce the promised efficiencies. Burgum had insisted that ...

Laboratory reports commissioned by PEER found PFHxS (perfluorohexanesulfonic acid), PFHxA (perfluorohexanoic acid), PFBS (perfluorobutanesulfonic acid), and PFOS (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid) in all twelve samples of Rejuvra™ tested. [1] The herbicide’s active ingredient is ...

But conservation groups like Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) warn that closing specialized research stations from Alaska to Florida cripples the agency’s ability to understand local forest diversity and combat climate change. Sweeping changes could isolate groups ...

“It’s not streamlining, it’s dismantling,” said Chandra Rosenthal, Western lands and Rocky Mountain advocate with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that defends whistleblowers in the federal service. “It’s going to really impact how the Forest Service ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy and Northeast and mid-Atlantic director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, cautioned the smaller crowd that just because something may be within the legal limits for PFAS, it doesn’t mean it’s safe. “Every lab report that I ...

However, some environmental advocates say the attorney general is aiming at the wrong target, as Texas faces what they see as more pressing PFAS issues. “The amount of Lululemon that’s sold in Texas is probably a drop in the bucket, compared to how many farms in Texas are spreading ...

“Shaking things up is going to get people to abandon their positions, and that’s the intent,” said Chandra Rosenthal, Western lands and Rocky Mountain advocate with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that defends whistleblowers in the federal service. “It’ ...

At the heart of PEER’s complaint is a timeline that the organization says undermines the credibility of the entire certification process. The auditors issued the state’s 2025 certificate of compliance on Oct. 29, 2025, yet auditors hired by Bureau Veritas did not come to Minnesota for ...

In a news release, The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, said the USDA’s move to close these research facilities “abandons science.” “Scientific research is vital to the successful management of our nation’s forests,” PEER Western Lands and Rocky ...

Joanna Citron Day, general counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Nichols’ analysis that the letter was protected speech is “a stunning admission” by the agency. “It is disheartening. It is shocking. It is horrific,” Citron Day said. “It is our ...

The watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility highlighted the declining health of rangelands in a new analysis Thursday based on data compiled by the Bureau of Land Management. “These numbers reveal a landscape under pressure,” Chandra Rosenthal, PEER’s Western ...

“The [formaldehyde] regulatory changes are happening at Beck and Dekleva’s direction, with their direct oversight and supervision, and with their approval of the final language,” said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA scientist now with the Public Employees for Responsibility non-profit. It ...

It appears that the Trump administration no longer wants to monitor the health of these landscapes, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Statistics compiled from scientific assessments by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) show that the percentage of ...

America250 has received nearly $80 million from Congress since fiscal 2019, including $15 million in each of the past four years, according to the group’s latest annual report, and the Republican budget reconciliation law known as the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” allocated $150 million ...

Research has shown that the “forever chemicals” can be extremely toxic even at low levels, putting firefighters at risk, according to Kyla Bennett, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in New England. Read the PEER Story… ...

But Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group, cited a report provided to the Board of Health that tested samples of the proposed turf system. It found “trace concentrations” of forever chemicals PFBA and PFOA, ...

Over the 33 years the provision has been in place, the EPA has never used its biennial sewage sludge review process to identify toxic pollutants requiring regulation and to then regulate those harmful chemicals, PEER said in its appeal filed with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ...