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OPM finally issues regulations implementing 2016 administrative leave reforms

by Government Executive | December 16, 2024
Though OPM proposed regulations to implement all of the law’s provisions in 2017, only the provisions governing weather and safety leave actually made it across the finish line. But earlier this year, the environmental advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued ...

PEER Files Lawsuit To Safeguard Old Spanish National Historic Trail

by National Parks Traveler | December 15, 2024
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a federal lawsuit this week arguing that the Department of Interior has failed to develop a comprehensive management plan to preserve and protect the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. According to PEER, without such a plan, the ...

How the Renewable Energy Boom Is Remaking the American West

by Inside Climate News | December 15, 2024
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group focused on environmental agencies, said it is considering a lawsuit over the impact to Tule Springs. “The Bureau of Land Management’s decision sets a dangerous precedent by allowing a project to move forward that will ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton sues companies over “forever chemicals”

by The Texas Tribune | December 12, 2024
Many other farmers in other parts of the country have also shut down their operations due to PFAS contamination after using fertilizer made from “biosolids” produced from human waste. Laura Dumais, a staff attorney with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Paxton&# ...

As Trump escalates war on facts, scientists warn “we are going to get screwed”

by Salon | December 12, 2024
Comer didn’t reference Trump by accident. Since his first term, the once-and-future president has attacked environmental science at every opportunity, suppressing information about how human activity causes climate change and opposing scientists’ suggestions on the regulation of common ...

Judge rejects enviro push for EPA ban on some ‘forever chemicals’ production

by E&E News | December 12, 2024
At issue is one company’s practice of fluorination, a process that coats the inner walls of plastic containers and barrels to make them more durable, which also inadvertently creates three of the riskiest PFAS as byproducts. Inhance, a Texas-based, plastics-focused company with 11 U. ...

Greens sue feds over Old Spanish Trail management

by E&E News | December 11, 2024
The Interior Department, BLM and NPS all declined to comment on the lawsuit. While the agencies began drafting a comprehensive management plan after the trail’s 2002 establishment, in 2014 they announced that they would instead follow a “comprehensive administrative strategy” that ...

Environmental group files lawsuit to conserve Old Spanish Trail

by KKCO 11 News | December 11, 2024
The Old Spanish Trail is the focus of a new lawsuit issued by the Public Employees for Environment Responsibility (PEER). This trail is among the National Historic Trails. “They are historic routes of national significance,” said John Hiscock, Old Spanish Trail Advocate. The Old ...

Feds sued over Old Spanish Trail management

by Daily Sentinel | December 10, 2024
The suit points in part to the Bureau of Land Management recently providing for only a 50-meter trail buffer when it comes to surface disturbances related to oil and gas leasing in its amended resource management plan for the Grand Junction Field Office. Plaintiffs in the suit include ...

Lawsuit alleges federal agencies failed to protect Old Spanish National Historic Trail

by KNAU | December 10, 2024
Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., alleging the federal government has failed to protect the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. The suit alleges that the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management ...

Lawsuit aims to protect historic Old Spanish Trail from ‘eco-assault’ in Nevada, across Southwest

by 8 News Now | December 10, 2024
A Nevada conservation group is among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed on Monday, Dec. 9, that aims to protect the historic Old Spanish Trail as development spreads into remote regions in the Southwest. The lawsuit alleges failure to provide a comprehensive management plan, arguing the ...

Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. Now, They Want Protection From Lawsuits.

by New York Times | December 6, 2024
But critics point to research that for years has detected PFAS in wastewater. Recent studies have also explored how the chemicals can move from the soil into water and plants, and then to the livestock that feed on them. Regarding Synagro, “it seems crazy to be able to say they’re a ...

Trump moves spark fear of brain drain at environment agencies

by The Hill | December 5, 2024
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said his group is hearing from some workers that they may leave the federal workforce out of concern that their jobs may no longer be stable. “If they were uncertain about whether to retire now or ...

Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock

by The Texas Tribune | December 2, 2024
But nobody knows how much of that fertilizer is contaminated with PFAS, which can be absorbed by crops, consumed by livestock, and then enter the food supply. There are no requirements to test biosolids for PFAS, or to warn farmers and ranchers that they could be using contaminated ...

Trump allies begin attack on EPA and rules protecting US drinking water

by The Guardian | December 2, 2024
The Republicans promptly moving to shred the integrity policies – which critics say were weak to begin with – demonstrates how party officials are “bending over backwards” to assist Trump in attacking career servants, said Jeff Ruch, a former EPA official now with the Public ...

Colorado’s process of creating PFAS bans could offer insights for New Mexico

by Santa Fe New Mexican | December 2, 2024
Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said PFAS regulations are popping up in states around the nation. States are bearing the brunt of the cost of PFAS contamination, Bennett said, and she thinks the federal government isn’t ...

Vers une restructuration profonde de l’Etat fédéral américain

by Radio Télévision Suisse | November 14, 2024
Tim Whitehouse discusses with Radio Télévision Suisse the impact of Donald Trump’s election on the federal workforce and what the incoming Trump administration’s agenda for the environment and public health. Read the PEER Story… ...

There is orange water in Wilson County. Who will clean it up?

by News Channel 5 Nashville | November 14, 2024
You don’t need to be a scientist to notice that something is going on at this site near The Paddocks shopping center in Mt. Juliet: The water is fuzzy and orange and it’s been the subject of litigation spanning more than a decade. The developer says it’s done its best to clean up a ...

Trump may entrench DC Circuit’s stunning NEPA ruling

by E&E News | November 13, 2024
Peter Jenkins, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, who represented Marin Audubon Society in the case, said he had only expected a few people in the Bay Area to be interested in the court ruling. “The focus of the case, it was not about the CEQ ...

EPA staff fear Trump will destroy how it protects Americans from pollution

by The Guardian | November 11, 2024
The EPA currently has more than 16,000 employees, adding more than 6,000 during Joe Biden’s administration as the agency sought to rebuild. During Biden’s term, the agency stepped up enforcement of pollution rules, banned toxic pesticides, bolstered chemical safety protections, and ...
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