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How Trump 2.0 and Project 2025 could reshape chemical rules

by E&E News | October 25, 2024
Former members of the Trump administration say that EPA under his watch laid the groundwork for the Biden administration’s efforts to address PFAS contamination. But health advocates say the Trump administration downplayed the risks of the chemicals, was slow to take action on PFAS and ...

Township BOE Makes Progress on Turf Field

by The Retrospect | October 24, 2024
Furthermore, stormwater now must stay onsite for a certain period of time to minimize flooding in a vault or a tank, which will increase the project’s costs. Downie and Farrell explained that the drainage system is under the field. “The only way it’s going to get into the drainage ...

Arizona is launching PFAS mitigation efforts ahead of the EPA deadline. But critics say it isn’t enough

by Cronkite News | October 23, 2024
At last count, water systems with levels of PFAS above Environmental Protection Agency standards are serving between 83 and 105 million people throughout the country, according to the EPA. Arizona already has eight projects underway to address this issue. “To continue to allow Americans ...

One year later, federal response to parental concerns about Native school still unclear

by Lee Enterprises | October 18, 2024
Jeff Ruch, director of PEER’s Pacific office, said the report pointed to the BIE’s “lack of administrative competence and responsible oversight. So for example, I mean, one of the most attention-grabbing parts of the report was reports of sexual assault on students that was drawing ...

Lawsuits aim to prevent ‘illegal’ hiding of toxic chemicals by US regulators

by The Guardian | October 17, 2024
That leaves regulators attempting to protect the public without essential information for some chemicals and in effect creates a “shadow regulatory government” in the EPA, said Tim Whitehouse, a former EPA attorney who is now director of Public Employees for Environmental ...

EPA scientists retaliated against over chemical safety disagreements, watchdog finds

by Federal News Network | October 10, 2024
The EPA’s inspector general office, in a string of partially redacted reports, found managers in the EPA’s New Chemicals Division, part of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, retaliated against employees who raised concerns about chemicals being approved for ...

Supreme Court decisions could determine future of clean air, water in East Texas

by ETX View | October 8, 2024
As the Tyler Morning Telegraph and Longview News-Journal reported last year, some rural East Texas water utilities feared the rule would require the installation of expensive plant upgrades if PFAS contamination was found. “I think the PFAS drinking water standards are one of the first ...

EPA Whistleblowers Expose Agencies Efforts To Approve Harmful Chemicals

by The Washington Standard | October 5, 2024
After they were forced to leave their jobs assessing new chemicals, the scientists filed the first of what would be six complaints with the EPA inspector general in June 2021. Their allegations, which detailed industry pressure that continued under the administration of President Joe Biden ...

Yes to solar power — just not there

by Colorado Sun | October 2, 2024
The problem, the coalition said Monday, is that the plan does not protect infringement on Old Spanish Trail rights of way. The agency failed to incorporate its trail management policies when developing the big plan, according to the group that includes Western Watersheds Project, Public ...

Forever chemicals and the fight for Texas farmers: nonprofit leads lawsuit against the EPA

by High Plains Public Radio | October 2, 2024
Laura Dumais is staff counselor at PEER, which is currently working with two separate farmers outside of Dallas Fort-Worth. Following the spread of illness and loss of cattle, the families brought their concerns to the county. “There was a huge dump of sewage sludge biosolids on a ...

Groups challenge BLM’s Western Solar Plan over impact to trails

by E&E News | September 30, 2024
What’s more, BLM violated the National Environmental Policy Act by not properly evaluating potential impacts to the national trail system from encouraging solar applications within trail boundaries, the coalition, led by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said. ...

PFAS Roundup: Minnesota PFAS regulation said to be the strictest

by Great Lakes Now | September 27, 2024
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) are currently in a legal dispute about sewage sludge used in farm fertilizer. According to PEER, the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that the EPA must regulate these contaminants, but ...

The Grudge Match Over Maine’s Plans for Offshore Wind

by Heatmap | September 25, 2024
Now that this longstanding conflict has become intertwined with the cause of carbon reduction, it is pitting an older generation of eco-warriors against a younger breed of climate activists, as well as local unions eager to get in on energy transition jobs. Unfortunately for Maine ...

EPA Watchdog Says Officials Violated Whistleblower Protections With Dissenting Scientist

by Epoch Times | September 19, 2024
Kyla Bennett, director of policy at the organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), who filed the complaints on behalf of the scientists, said the problems flagged by the scientists have continued under the Biden Administration. PEER says the affected EPA ...

‘Bullying, Harassing, Name-Calling’: EPA ‘Retaliated Against’ Three Dissenting Scientists, Inspector General Finds

by | September 19, 2024
“EPA has received the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) reports on five whistleblower complaints in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention’s new chemicals program,” an EPA spokesperson said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The events ...

EPA officials retaliated against 3 scientists, watchdog says

by The Hill | September 18, 2024
“Since day one, the Biden-Harris Administration has restored scientific integrity as the cornerstone of its work to protect public health and the environment, including reinstating key whistleblower protections that empower employees to share their own, differing scientific opinions,” ...

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.

by ProPublica | September 18, 2024
After they were forced to leave their jobs assessing new chemicals, the scientists filed the first of what would be six complaints with the EPA inspector general in June 2021. Their allegations, which detailed industry pressure that continued under the administration of President Joe Biden ...

Watchdog slams EPA for retaliation on chemical reviews

by E&E News | September 18, 2024
An EPA spokesperson said the whistleblower’s complaints are a bygone of the Trump administration, and the agency under President Joe Biden “has restored scientific integrity as the cornerstone of its work to protect public health and the environment, including reinstating key ...

EPA says it has no obligation to regulate PFAS in biosolids in federal lawsuit

by Waste Dive | September 16, 2024
The group of farmers are represented by advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June. It comes after the constable in Johnson County, Texas, partnered with scientists at PEER to ...

EPA Seeks To Dismiss Suit On Biosolids Rules For PFAS, Citing Discretion

by Inside EPA | September 11, 2024
EPA is urging a federal court to dismiss litigation brought by farmers who allege the agency has failed to meet Clean Water Act (CWA) requirements to regulate PFAS in biosolids, arguing the law gives the agency discretion on whether to identify and regulate toxic pollutants in sewage ...
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