EPA Resumes Posting Chemical Risk Data to Agency Website

by PEER | February 3, 2022
The EPA said its resumed posting data online about new types of problems potentially caused by commercial chemicals, less than a month after an advocacy group sued for the information. Substantial risk notices for hundreds of chemicals are now available through the ChemView database, the ...

Letter to Office of Personnel Management – Clean Record Settlements Rulemaking

by PEER |
DESCRIPTION: PEER submitted comments supporting a proposed OPM rulemaking that would remove a prohibition on “clean record” settlements for whistleblowers who are challenging illegal retaliation. TO: Office of Personnel Management FROM: Hudson Kingston, PEER DATE: February 3, 2022 TAGS ...

PEER: Ironman Competition Eyed For Blue Ridge Parkway Conflicts With NPS Policies

by PEER | January 31, 2022
A proposal to close a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway for an Ironman competition runs counter to National Park Service policies and regulations, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The proposed race would close 21 miles of the scenic highway to the public ...

Letter to Minnesota Public Utilities Commission – on Liquified Carbon Dioxide Rulemaking

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DESCRIPTION: PEER letter to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission regarding whether the Commission should initiate a rulemaking to cover carbon pipelines under existing hazardous liquid pipeline authority TO: Consumer Affairs Office, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission FROM: Hudson ...

Full-time NAGPRA investigator hired for first time in decades

by PEER |
As for the Effigy Mounds, the theft of ancestral remains wasn’t the only blemish at the monument, which is home to hundreds of tribal burial mounds, some in unique animal and other shapes. Following Munson’s departure, staff constructed walkways, damaged sacred sites and undertook ...
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