Protecting Public Health
Environmental and health specialists are heartsick over the malfeasance of their agencies in failing to protect the health of children, workers and the public at large. We expose information about the effects of environmental toxins on public health, challenge industry capture of our regulatory agencies, and fight for an effective safety net to protect us from dangerous toxins.
Covid-19 Pandemic
PEER is stepping up its efforts to ensure that public health experts have the capacity and the legal backing to speak truth to power and that government agencies continue their essential functions.
Air Pollution
Colorado has been undermining its own air pollution experts for years in favor of easing requirements for industry.
PFAS
The EPA is failing to protect the public from the health risks of this new class of chemicals.
Toxic Cleanups
EPA and state governments often fail to clean up some of the most dangerous toxic sites.
Chemical Safety
The US Chemical Safety Board is failing in its duty to monitor, investigate and report on chemical safety accidents in the U.S.
Artificial Turf
Human health risks from toxic chemicals and known carcinogens found in synthetic sports fields and playgrounds made from shredded tires remain largely unstudied.
Sick Schools
Contaminated soil, air borne pollutants and toxic building materials should have no place in our schools.
Coal Combustion Waste
Toxic coal ash is in a growing stream of consumer, agricultural and commercial products without oversight.
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NEWS FROM PEER
School District’s Own Tests Show Shocking PCB Levels
Highly Toxic Classrooms Still Occupied with No Abatement Date Slated
Federal Lawsuit to Force Toxic Cleanup of Malibu Schools
Immediate Removal of PCBs above Legal Limits and School-Wide Testing Sought
U.S. Product Safety Commission Stumbles on Artificial Turf
CPSC Slow-Walks Its Review of Tire Crumb Playgrounds as Children’s Products
Malibu Schools Spending Millions to Avoid Toxic Cleanup
Billings by Lawyers and Consultants Exceed What a Full Cleanup Would Cost
New Jersey Still Sitting on FEMA Sandy Energy Funds
Delays Caused by Continual State Dithering and Ever Shifting Priorities
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Seeks Damages vs Dupont at Pompton Lakes
Mercury Contamination of Jersey Water and Wildlife Will Last after EPA Cleanup
New Malibu Tests Show Alarming Classroom Contamination
Severe Health Risk from Most Toxic Form of PCBs in Stratospheric Concentrations
Malibu Schools Will Remove Known PCBs but Won’t Test for Them
Will School Act on Independent EPA-Lab Tests with Ultra-High Illegal PCB Levels?
Justice Pushes Whistleblower Bounties as EPA Abandons Them
Declining EPA Prosecutions Reflect Low Priority for Corporate Pollution vs. Fraud
District Attorney Called on New PCB Findings in Malibu Schools
School District Threatens Fearful Children with Truancy, Teachers with Termination
End Dumping of Fracking Fluids
Rulemaking Petition Urges EPA to Ban Surface Discharge of Fracking Fluids
Myopic IG Demand for Total Access Often Misses Mark
Pursuit of Trivial Information Masks IG Lack of Oversight on Serious Matters
Malibu Parents and Teachers Prep Lawsuit to Force Cleanup
Notice to Sue Filed Against District and EPA for Toxic Substances Control Act Violations
Malibu Teachers Face Firing for Balking at Toxic Classrooms
School Officials Threaten Parents With Arrest If They Protest on First Day of School
Malibu Schools Highly Contaminated With Toxic PCBs
Classroom Levels Highest in the Nation; Independent New Tests Show Need for Broader, More Aggressive Remediation Plan
More Safe Drinking Water Violations at Missouri State Parks
Cuivre River State Park Multiple Failures May Point to Uninspected Water Towers
U.S. Industrial Safety Lags Alarmingly Behind Developed World
U.S. Industrial Loss Burden 3 Times European Union and Gap Is Growing
Obama Retreats From His Own Chemical Safety Measures
Despite Recurring Disasters, Industrial Plants No Safer Now Than Under Bush
Why U.S. Is Not Embracing Inherently Safer Chemical Plants
Chevron Richmond Refinery Explosion Ignored in GOP Red Herring Oversight
Scott Environmental Success Claims Cut out of Whole Cloth
Astronomic 96% Compliance Boast False but Statistics Highlight Rising Dysfunction
