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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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has found several examples of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources misusing federal funds to facilitate logging in Wildlife Management Areas. While the federal government provides tens of millions of dollars in grants each year to support state ...

Months after the Supreme Court stripped federal protections for over half the nation’s wetlands, scientists and legal experts are raising new concerns about how the ruling could affect permits for pollutants in rivers and streams. “This is about, ‘Are we going to have enough clean ...

We’ve all been there. We thought we were doing our civic duty, participating in democracy by auto-filling our names and addresses on form letters sent out by our trusted NGOs, adding our voices in the public comment period on public lands, wildlife, or social justice issues. But does it ...

A recently released report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or FWS, provides stunning conclusions on what appears to be a wholesale violation of a federal grant program by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The draft report, completed nearly four years ago, was only made ...

The Louisiana Wildlife Commission voted unanimously in November to establish the season for the iconic “Teddy” bear in December 2024 in which 10 adult bears can be killed.   A 2018 lawsuit led by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) with co-counsel ...

A new plan to reduce the amount of air tours over Haleakala National Park, which has been in the making for two decades, was completed on Thursday by the National Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration, according to a news release.   The Air Tour Management Plan puts the NPS and ...

Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said MDE should not only expand its testing of fish but use that information to reduce contamination of waterways. PEER did some testing of its own that found PFAS in an oyster, a crab and striped bass ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is tightening requirements imposed on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources when the state wants to cut trees in wildlife management areas. The latest details, included in a letter from the federal agency to the DNR, were made public by the ...

A microbiologist has won her case for unfair dismissal against a US federal agency after she blew the whistle on animal welfare and biosafety failures. The US Geological Survey (USGS) hired Evi Emmenegger as a fisheries microbiologist in 1994, and in 2006 promoted her to manager of the ...