Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which has filed lawsuits over PFAS contamination in biosolids, is urging the EPA to take a more hands-on approach that reflects its first draft risk assessment. Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at PEER, said during the EPA’s ...

Removing lead from drinking water is a priority of the Make America Healthy Again movement, an influential constituency among the voters who backed Trump in the 2024 election. So these actions, together with the upbeat tone of the EPA’s report on its enforcement activities in the 2025 ...

Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) are experiencing a potentially catastrophic population decline, a sharp reversal from what had been considered a conservation success. In 2019, there were roughly 20,500 gray whales; by 2023, the population had declined to just 14,526 individuals, “ ...

Inside EPA’s Chemical Approval Machine by The New Lede Former whistleblower Kyla Bennett explains how the agency is influenced to protect industry profits, not people. Read on Substack Read the PEER Story… ...

“A pause is welcome, but it does not answer the fundamental question of why billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on these projects in the first place,” said Tim Whitehouse, Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) in a statement. “When ...

“This guidance is absurd,” said Laura Dumais, an attorney with the non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, at a recent EPA listening session on the draft guidance. Dumais said the EPA is shifting the burden onto farmers and consumers. “It’s ridiculous and it ...

The Great Battlefield · Protecting Public Employees Who Protect Our Environment and Health with Tim Whitehouse of PEER Tim Whitehouse joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and role as Executive Director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, where ...

“The National Park Service is being used as a piggy bank for Trump’s vanity projects,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which advocates on behalf of current and former parks employees. Whitehouse said, “The ...

In fact, the total spending for projects at the White House and National Mall is larger than the combined spending at nine of the largest US national parks, MacFarlane found. One anonymous federal employee who spoke with MacFarlane said that the spending shifts documented in internal ...

The majority of Florida’s waters don’t meet quality standards. That’s according to July report based on data from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), prepared by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Waterkeepers Florida. “ ...

For months, we’ve documented the real consequences of PFAS-tainted sludge being spread on America’s farmlands, from Texas to Michigan, Virginia to Maine and South Carolina; farmers are raising serious concerns. Former EPA scientist Kyla Bennett said it’s urgent the agency ...

Four environmental organizations filed a petition Thursday asking the Federal Communications Commission to reverse its approval of a startup’s plan to beam on-demand sunlight from space to Earth, arguing the agency ignored the project’s potential impacts on wildlife, astronomy research ...

A bill that would have banned the use of PFAS in food packaging, firefighter foam, and a range of consumer products was introduced in the Senate by State Sen. Julian Cyr and the House by Rep. Kate Hogan, but was not passed by either chamber before the session ended last Friday. “Our ...

Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental group that supports current and former government employees, said there should be an investigation of the people at Interior who pushed the vandalism narrative. “The people at the ...

Tim Whitehouse, the executive director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an organization that works with and supports park rangers, scientists, land managers and other civil servants, said he’s in touch with many NPS employees. He pointed out that rangers are ...

Despite the administration’s emphasis on improving the health of public lands, conservation groups say many grazing allotments are already degraded. Data from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility shows that nearly one million acres fail to meet the BLM’s rangeland ...

t’s not just Pirro’s office and the DOJ under fire for this debacle. While welcoming the motion to dismiss, Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), took aim at DOI in a Saturday statement. “This project has become ...

A majority of Florida waterways are failing water quality standards, even as the state’s pollution enforcement remains near historic lows, according to a new report. The report was published by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, and Waterkeepers Florida, a ...

These below-average numbers of enforcement actions align with a 19 percent decline in Florida’s environmental agency staff—the largest decrease in number of any state—from 2010 to 2025, according to a report from the Environmental Integrity Project. During the same period, the state ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm after a record-breaking spike in grey whales washing up along the Pacific Coast. The U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that these numbers are the highest seen in decades, raising urgent questions about the health of our ...