Park Service Masks Cuts in Sea Turtle Recovery

by PEER | January 18, 2022
Deceptive Press Release Omits Mentions of Rollbacks and Restrictions ...

Why Joe Biden’s bid to restore scientific integrity matters

by PEER | January 17, 2022
Evi Emmenegger spent 28 years as a research microbiologist at the Western Fisheries Research Center in Seattle, Washington, a biosafety laboratory operated by the US Geological Survey (USGS). It was home to numerous pathogens, including exotic and invasive viruses. Emmenegger says that, in ...

Unregulated Corrosive 9/11 Dust Lands EPA in Court

by PEER |
That was a critical danger facing first responders who arrived at the World Trade Center in September 2001 without health warnings or any personal protective equipment. The PEER lawsuit seeks a 10-fold tightening of the alkaline level of wastes classified as “corrosive” and thus “ ...

Spanberger leading effort to prevent insider trading by members of Congress

by PEER | January 16, 2022
“In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the public react to accusations of insider trading by lawmakers — not with shock, but with a shrug. The perception of insider trading itself, let alone the practice of it, by members of Congress is damaging to our democracy,” said ...

Roy: The largest-ever wild horse roundup has resumed in Wyoming, but who does it benefit?

by PEER | January 15, 2022
The 3.8-million-member Sierra Club has called out the BLM’s bias against wild horses in resource allocation and called for the removal of livestock from designated wild horse habitat areas instead of removing horses. Other groups, including Western Watersheds Project, Center for ...
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