Climate Change and Energy Dependence
Climate change is an urgent threat that demands decisive government action. PEER works to hold government accountable to ambitious climate goals based on sound science and policy and supports holistic approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building resiliency in our communities.
Our work supports meaningful climate actions at the federal, state and local level, including efforts to rapidly increase clean energy production, improve energy conservation, preserve nature and biodiversity, decrease our use of toxic chemicals and pesticides, and improve our agricultural practices.
We are also a watchdog for hidden dangers and scams that result from any new climate program. Our efforts to address climate change must occur in the context of transparency, scientific integrity, and the support of meaningful dissent, and there must be systems in place to evaluate the effectiveness of climate and energy programs.
COMMENTARY | New Green Guides Must Address Renewable Energy
Concern about climate change creates fertile ground for misleading marketing claims around renewable energy and other environmental issues.
NEWS FROM PEER – Climate and Energy
COMMENTARY | New Green Guides Must Address Renewable Energy
Concern about climate change creates fertile ground for misleading marketing claims around renewable energy and other environmental issues.
Waste Incinerators’ Toxic Output Should Be Reported
Incinerator Chemical Releases Not Included in EPA Toxics Release Inventory
COMMENTARY | Speed Bumps on the Road to Sustainable Mining
To transition from fossil fuels to electric transportation requires an increase in electric generating capacity and copper is the best conductor in the world.
COMMENTARY | Suspend your disbelief—Minnesota Permitting Process Self-Corrects
An air pollution permit granted illegally in to a power plant in Minnesota has been suspended pending environmental review.
Supersonic Jet Climate Fears Not Relayed to NASA Brass
“Major Concern” over Climate and Ozone from Independent Panel Buried
COMMENTARY | Conowingo: A Better Deal Coming for the Chesapeake Bay
In a major victory for waterman and environmental groups, courts have vacated the licensing for Maryland’s Conowingo Dam.
COMMENTARY | Minnesota Agency Reverses Course on Illegal Permit
One Minnesota agency corrected its misstep and retracted a bad permit but time will tell if the others follow suit.
New NASA Supersonic Jet Is a Climate Debacle
Huge Fuel Consumption Threatens Carbon Net Zero Aviation Goal
COMMENTARY | Why This Mining Permit Should Fail
Should an agency’s misbehavior invalidate their decisions? When it comes to mining permits in Minnesota, PEER thinks so.
Op-ed | The dirty secret behind some ‘clean energy’ offers
As our climate spins out of control, an urgent need exists for clean energy advocates and watchdog organizations to ensure that protecting climate-conscious energy consumers goes hand in hand with efforts to support programs to address the climate crisis. A recent...
Colorado Balks at EPA Ozone Reducing Recommendations
State Resists Reforms Identified by Whistleblowers and Confirmed by EPA
COMMENTARY | “Climate Smart” Agriculture Requires Better Environmental Assessments
USDA should skip playing the markets and allow for greater public input as it develops its climate programs
Eco-Studies Releasing Most Potent Greenhouse Gas
NSF Projects in Parks and Forests Pump Pounds of SF6 into Atmosphere
COMMENTARY | Building Better Climate Solutions
To address climate change we must move faster to clean energy sources, reduce energy consumption, and conserve vast spaces of land and water.
COMMENTARY | Senate Agreement Kick-Starts Climate Action
The Senate is one step closer to historic climate legislation that would benefit communities and invest hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy programs
Letter to Sec. Haaland – Climate Impacts of Livestock Grazing – 07-22-2022 (PDF)
Letter to Secretary Deb Haaland and the Climate Task Force regarding Interior’s failure to address climate Impacts of its commercial livestock program
EPA Validates Colorado Air Whistleblowers’ Charge
State Directed to Fix Illegal Permits and Cease Enabling Pollution Evasions
COMMENTARY | Extreme Judicial Activism in West Virginia v. EPA
The ruling, in effect, smothers any attempt to use EPA’s existing statutory authorities to control carbon emissions or meaningfully slow climate change
Minnesota Power Plant Must Undergo Environmental Review
Public Utilities Commission Agrees with Petitioners that New Oil-Fired Unit Must Be Studied Under MEPA
PEERMail | Getting Climate Right
There is no easy formula for stopping, or even slowing, the effects of climate change but we know that inaction is making it worse.
