PEER works to support the enforcement of environmental and natural resource laws at the federal, state and local levels. The need for protection for our natural resources and public health has never been greater. Even as the need for strong environmental and natural resource protection is growing, enforcement programs are facing declining budgets, lower staffing levels, and dispirited morale.
Forest, Parks, and Lands Enforcement
PEER is dedicated to serving law enforcement rangers, agents and other professionals working in our forests, ranges and parklands.
Pollution Enforcement
PEER monitors federal, state and local governments to make sure they hold polluters accountable and protect public health and the environment.
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EPA’s Hypocritical Drinking Water Proposal
Proposed Budget Cuts Threaten Nation’s Drinking Water Quality
Treasure Island Cleanup Bathed in Fog
Navy Won’t Reveal Radiation Standards for “Free Release” of Contaminated Tracts
Navy Won’t Surrender Hunters Point Plans Without a Fight
Lawsuit Seeks Navy Next Steps to Remedy Tetra-Tech Radiation Falsifications
EPA Plan to Shirk Pollution Prosecution Role
Corporate Compliance Now Presumed Despite Evaporation of Enforcement
Park Service to Cut Law Enforcement Ranger Training
Moving from National Training Academy to Shorter Courses at Non-NPS Facilities
Treasure Island – Another Botched Navy Cleanup in SF Bay
Navy Refused to Review Tetra Tech Work Despite Extensive Hunters Point Fraud
EPA Oversight of State Permits Evaporating
Staff Ordered Not to Transmit Comments Even on Controversial Projects
Enforcement Resources
The EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) website contains databases that users can search for facilities around the country and see past compliance records. Beyond just searching ECHO for pollution sources in your area, for example, you also can:...
Citizen Enforcement
Pollution often slips through the cracks of state and federal enforcement. The reasons vary widely, from neglect to deliberate turning of heads to political pressure to technological failures. Citizens can fill those cracks. Americans can, and frequently do, assist...
State Enforcement
Some basic concepts related to state implementation and enforcement of federal environmental laws are: State Delegation “State Delegation” is when the federal law in question delegates some or all enforcement to the state agencies, typically after the state’s program...
U.S. EPA
EPA pursues three different types of enforcement actions: Administrative actions are non-judicial enforcement measures taken by a state agency or EPA using its own authority. They do not involve a judicial process. An administrative action may be either: 1) a notice...
Court Orders Disclosure of Chemical Accident Emissions
Chemical Safety Board Shirked Its Clean Air Act Mandate to Protect Communities
Tampa Sewage Meltdown Early Eco-Test for Desantis
Federal Intervention Needed If State Continues to Ignore Major Pollution Violations
Criminal Enforcement Collapse at EPA
Lowest Number of New Anti-Pollution Cases in 30 Years
Oil Tax for Federal Spill Fund Lapsed with New Year
Oil and Oil Sands Pay No Federal Taxes Despite Potentially Huge Cleanup Costs
Federal Shutdown Becoming a Polluters Holiday
Humans and Wildlife at Risk by End of Critical Monitoring and Pollution Testing
Not All the Trump Administration Wants a Wall
EPA Guidance Says Surveillance Technology Supplants Need for Physical Barriers
NHTSA Inaction on Carbon Monoxide Draws a Lawsuit
Documents on Keyless Ignitions and Lack of CO Safety Features Sought
Desantis Must Rebuild Floridas Broken Environment Agency
DEP Has to Return to Pollution Control Basics to Reverse Spiraling Eco-Threats
Mercury May Reach Orbit Through Regulatory Blindspot
Mercury Satellite Thruster Propellant Threatens Eco-Catastrophe Back on Earth