PEERMail | A Surprising Victory on Toxic Plastics
In a surprise victory on toxic plastics containing PFAS, EPA ordered a company named Inhance to stop producing PFAS in its fluorination process of plastics ...
PEER Sues National Park Service for Disclosure of Wi-Fi, Cell Tower Records in 3 Parks
The public interest organization, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), sued the National Park Service (NPS) under the Freedom of Information Act Tuesday to compel the agency to disclose records related to Wi-Fi or cellular proposals and installations across three parks ...
‘Forever Fields’: How Pennsylvania became a dumping ground for discarded artificial turf
by Philadelphia Inquirer | December 13, 2023
Money doesn’t come easily to farmland owners in the tranquil, rolling hills of Pennsylvania. So at first, Jim Halkias thought he’d hit the jackpot. A real estate broker had approached him in late 2018, and explained that a Denmark-based recycling company called Re-Match wanted to pay $ ...
Letter to Minnesota Legislative Auditor – Request to Audit MN DNR
DESCRIPTION: Letter to Minnesota Legislative Auditor Randall to Audit the Minnesota DNR TO: Auditor Judy Randall, Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor FROM: Chandra Rosenthal, PEER DATE: December 13, 2023 ...
EPA gets until Friday to answer Oak Ridge Freedom of Information suit
by Exchange Monitor | December 12, 2023
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has given the U.S. government until this Friday, Dec. 15, to answer a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by an environmental group over documents concerning a low-level radioactive waste landfill at the Department of Energy’s… Read the PEER Story&# ...
