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COMMENTARY | Speed Bumps on the Road to Sustainable Mining
by Guest Contributor | March 22, 2023
To transition from fossil fuels to electric transportation requires an increase in electric generating capacity and copper is the best conductor in the world ...
COMMENTARY | Suspend your disbelief—Minnesota Permitting Process Self-Corrects
by Hudson Kingston | March 21, 2023
An air pollution permit granted illegally in to a power plant in Minnesota has been suspended pending environmental review ...
COMMENTARY | The EPA is Hiding Behind Industry Secrets
by Tim Whitehouse | March 15, 2023
This Sunshine Week, we discuss the use of “Confidential Business Information” to hide health and safety information from the public ...
COMMENTARY | Scientific Integrity Is Not a Popularity Contest
by Tim Whitehouse | March 9, 2023
Scientists who formally file dissenting opinions that challenge the orthodoxy of their agency, are often on a lonely, fraught journey ...
COMMENTARY | Public Health Scientist Vindicated
by Colleen Zimmerman | March 7, 2023
Even though Dr. Carpenter's case has been resolved, we hope the University at Albany will address the broader academic freedom issues that this case has opened ...
US budget riders compromise conservation
by Kyla Bennett | February 28, 2023
The use of appropriations riders as shortcuts to pass policies to circumvent environmental laws put endangered species at risk ...
COMMENTARY | EPA Asks for Comment on PFAS Data It Won’t Release
by Kyla Bennett | February 20, 2023
EPA is asking the public to comment on fluorination of plastics but keeping important materials, including health studies, confidential ...
COMMENTARY | How the FCC Fails to Follow Environmental Laws and Fails the Public
by Guest Contributor | February 20, 2023
Given the FCC’s lack of oversight and failure to comply with environmental laws, numerous environmental harms occur under the agency’s watch ...
Op-Ed | Herding Cats: Biden’s Myopic Approach to Scientific Integrity
by Jeff Ruch | February 16, 2023
The president has made it clear he believes scientific integrity is an important value. Now he must show it more forcefully ...
COMMENTARY | Conowingo: A Better Deal Coming for the Chesapeake Bay
by Paula Dinerstein | February 6, 2023
In a major victory for waterman and environmental groups, courts have vacated the licensing for Maryland's Conowingo Dam ...
COMMENTARY | Minnesota Agency Reverses Course on Illegal Permit
by Hudson Kingston | January 27, 2023
One Minnesota agency corrected its misstep and retracted a bad permit but time will tell if the others follow suit ...
COMMENTARY | PEER at Age 30 – Some Perspective
by Jeff Ruch | January 17, 2023
PEER is based on the somewhat novel idea that public servants can also be activists to advance their agencies’ mission when they fell short ...
COMMENTARY | Congress Jeopardizes North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery
by Colleen Zimmerman | January 9, 2023
Our elected officials and government agencies must do better to protect the North Atlantic right whale ...
COMMENTARY | Biden Strengthens Clean Water Rules
by Tim Whitehouse | January 5, 2023
The new regulations repeal a Trump-era rule, called the “Dirty Water Rule” by many, that left millions of acres of waterways unprotected from pollution ...
COMMENTARY | Park Service’s Inhumane Inertia
by Jeff Ruch | December 9, 2022
The Biden administration has left several disastrous Trump policies in place - from allowing inhumane hunting practices to not taking action on park crowding ...
COMMENTARY | The Hidden Dangers of Biosolids
by Monica Mercola | December 7, 2022
Biosolids are often marketed as "all-natural" but we don’t think about the pollutants that are transferred to produce from the fertilizers ...
COMMENTARY | Why This Mining Permit Should Fail
by Hudson Kingston | December 2, 2022
Should an agency's misbehavior invalidate their decisions? When it comes to mining permits in Minnesota, PEER thinks so ...
Park Service Lack of Transparency Created Its Huge FOIA Backlog
by Jeff Ruch | November 18, 2022
The National Park Service is drowning in FOIA requests - the backlog has nearly doubled during the past two years ...
COMMENTARY | Saving Species Under Threat
by Tim Whitehouse | November 15, 2022
Protecting biodiversity and endangered species such as the North Atlantic Right Whale is one of the great challenges of our time ...
COMMENTARY | Home on the Range: Wild Horses on Public Lands
by Chandra Rosenthal | November 9, 2022
Wild horses are given a bad reputation for damaging public lands but BLM data shows that livestock are the real problem ...
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