After reviewing the emails, Joanna Citron Day, general counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Fugh was “right that there’s no ethics issue.” “This was a bunch of employees expressing their protected First Amendment right to dissent by signing a ...

Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said PFAS contain extremely strong carbon-fluorine bonds that allow them to persist in the environment for decades. “PFAS are synthetic; they’re all man-made,” Ms. Bennett said. “So ...

Independent testing results released in a separate analysis this week by the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) found multiple PFAS chemicals in the weed killer Indaziflam (sold as Rejuvra), which is applied to farm fields to control invasive grasses. The ...

“This is a release that is propaganda,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former senior enforcement attorney at the EPA. “It doesn’t reflect reality in a number of ways.” One example: The EPA has stopped enforcing ...

Yet organizations such as the Environmental Integrity Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility already released their own reports on declining EPA enforcement under Trump. The latter warned about a “collapse” in civil enforcement. PEER Executive Director Tim ...

Other organizations are taking their action to the next level: court. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, for example, is stepping up to defend federal workers in and out of the courtroom. At the core of any functioning scientific workforce is the capacity to ...

“It’s incredibly dangerous to the players, the community and the Earth,” said Kyla Bennett, the director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit organization supporting “current and former public employees who seek a higher standard of ...

Others had a different assessment. Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the ethics rules “were put there for a reason” and “should be mandatory.” “The ethics office hands out these waivers like candy on Halloween,” ...

PFAS — short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are often called “forever chemicals” because they do not readily break down in the environment. Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the chemicals share an extremely ...

On Wednesday, the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the AFL-CIO, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Democracy Forward filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit challenging Schedule Policy/ ...

The lawsuit was originally filed last year by nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group for government whistleblowers, to challenge Trump’s order. The case was stayed pending OPM’s rulemaking. Four unions joined PEER in the amended complaint ...

The revised lawsuit expands on previous legal actions from the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, along with the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the American Federation of Labor and ...

Unions and a watchdog organization are re-upping their legal challenge to stop President Donald Trump’s push to strip civil service protections from thousands of federal employees. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility; the American Federation of Government Employees; the ...

The coalition, which includes Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and American Federation of Government Employees, filed a consolidated and updated legal challenge against a final regulation that would potentially reclassify tens of thousands of federal policy-influencing ...

Kyla Bennett, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in New England, said there are alarming links between PFAS exposure and serious health problems. “With any chemical to say chemical A causes health outcome B is a difficult thing to do,” she said. “But we do ...

The 250th birthday of the United States is a day to celebrate nationally, but Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) wants to know whether the Trump administration is leveraging that event to sell access to President Donald Trump and use “taxpayer funds for ...

“I think everyone should be very worried as Americans about this kind of targeted repression of free speech,” Joanna Citron Day, an attorney representing Joslin, told CBS News. “We are seeing this administration go after groups it doesn’t agree with, people it doesn ...

Nobody had ever been disciplined before, much less fired and subject to criminal investigation,” said Paula Dinerstein, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is representing Joslin. The question of whether or not it was a demonstration also doesn’t ...

In August 2025, the Park Service, together with the Department of Justice, targeted Joslin for exercising their First Amendment rights, said a release from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. In May of that year, during their time off from work, Joslin and fellow rock ...

From January 2025 to January 2026, the EPA filed just one major Clean Air Act consent decree, a legal tool that forces companies to fix violations and pay penalties. That’s down from 26 cases during President Donald Trump’s first term and 22 during President Joe Biden’s ...