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.
The EPA is failing to protect the public from the health risks of this new class of chemicals.
The dangers of artificial turf such as toxic chemicals and carcinogens, including PFAS, are well documented.
Clean-ups of Superfund and other toxic sites are often mishandled by the EPA and state governments
The EPA is failing to protect the public from the health risks of this new class of chemicals.
The US Chemical Safety Board is failing in its duty to monitor, investigate and report on chemical safety accidents in the U.S.
Pesticides threaten public health as well as bees and other pollinators which sustain flowering plants and our food supply
Contaminated soil, air borne pollutants and toxic building materials should have no place in our schools.
Preventing the next pandemic by understanding the threat of zoonotic diseases and protecting public health experts from political influence and pressure.
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NEWS FROM PEER
Colorado Air Pollution – Suncor
The allegations against the CDPHE implicate the air permit renewal for the Suncor Energy oil refinery in Commerce City.
COMMENTARY | New England States Must Act on PFAS in Pesticides
PFAS laden pesticides being sprayed aerially to control mosquitoes is yet another exposure to this ubiquitous forever chemical.
Webinar | Long Island’s Toxic Forever Chemicals
The EPA’s failure to regulate PFAS is causing tremendous health, environmental, and economic damage on Long Island.
Former EPA Children’s Health chief has whistleblower hearing next week – September 13 through 15
press advisory
COMMENTARY | Dunn Landfill’s Environmental Injustice
Dunn Landfill in New York impacts the residents of Rensselaer with problems like truck traffic, odor, dust and leachate.
EPA Scientist Wins Award Amid Fight To Win Her Job Back
Dr. Etzel Seeks Return to Helm of Office of Children’s Health Protection
COMMENTARY | It’s Time to Ban Most PFAS Uses
Congress needs to step up and ban all but essential uses of PFAS and hold polluters accountable. Every delay in regulation increases exposure.
USGS Restores Fired Lab Biosafety Whistleblower
Scientist Had Raised Alarms about Wildlife Disease Lab Biosecurity Breaches
6 Things You Should Know About PFAS
PFAS is a ubiquitous chemical that is found in a range of everyday products. Here are six things you should know about “forever chemicals.”
Webinar | EPA’s Broken Pesticides Program
Webinar on steps that the Biden administration must take to fix its broken pesticides program at the EPA.
Colorado Orders Staff to Ignore Air Pollution Violations
Air Modelers Request Federal Intervention and Whistleblower Protection
PFAS Found in Widely Used Insecticide
Environmental groups call on EPA and Maryland to find and eliminate source
USGS Wildlife Labs Criticized Over Animal Care
Call for Independent Accreditation of All USGS Live Animal Facilities
PEERMail | Fraud in EPA’s Chemical Assessments
Toxic chemicals that are banned elsewhere continue to flood onto the U.S. market and fraudulent studies at the EPA are making matters worse.
BLOG | EPA’s Bad Chemistry Is Killing Us
We cannot afford to wait for EPA to finally become a 21st century regulator of harmful chemicals that find our way into food, water, and air.
Fraud Charged in EPA Pesticide Risk Assessment
Downgrade of Fumigant Cancer-Potential Due to Pervasive Misconduct
BLOG | Research Suppression at USDA and Stagnation of Agricultural Science
Jonathan Lundgren was a top-rated USDA research scientist until he started revealing the environmental harms of the neonicotinoid insecticides and other favorite products of the pesticide industry.
Newsom Backs Off Santa Susana Clean-Up Guarantee
Permanent Pollution OK Is Focus of Closed-Door Negotiation with Boeing
Federal Wildlife Disease Labs in Dangerous Shape
Biosafety Breaches Risk Zoonotic Outbreaks and Hinder COVID Research
BLOG | Social Distancing to Curb COVID-19 and Park Overcrowding
Biden Executive Order on COVID-19 protocols on federal property puts the National Park Service under a direct presidential order to do something it’s resisted for years – manage overcrowding.
