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New Evidence Shows Pesticides Contain PFAS, and the Scale of Contamination Is Unknown

by PEER | November 7, 2022
At the time, no one was talking about PFAS in pesticides, and Lasee didn’t know what to make of his results. That changed last year, when he began to see news coming out of two states. First, in December 2020, the nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ( ...

How the Hulk Took EPA to Task Over Forever Chemicals

by PEER | November 4, 2022
The document went on: “In addition, he has been retweeting stories after you made the announcement that say that ‘experts say the plan isn’t enough,’” as well as stories that “emphasize” Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and attorney Robert Bilott, the memo ...

Are scientific bottom trawling efforts in the Gulf of Mexico damaging habitats?

by PEER | November 3, 2022
That insight caused some government and private agencies to change how they capture information about seabed ecosystems. However, NOAA’s bottom trawling efforts in the Gulf of Mexico remained mostly unchanged, which recently compelled the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental ...

What killed off billions of Alaska’s snow crabs?

by PEER | October 28, 2022
A whistleblower who once worked with NOAA released a report in 2021 in Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, detailing supposed data falsification and other dishonest activities NOAA conducted. The report claims that “scientific fraud” is why the snow crab ...

Op-ed | The dirty secret behind some ‘clean energy’ offers

by Tim Whitehouse | October 26, 2022
As our climate spins out of control, an urgent need exists for clean energy advocates and watchdog organizations to ensure that protecting climate-conscious energy consumers goes hand in hand with efforts to support programs to address the climate crisis. A recent Maryland study  ...

Reader Participation Day: Should The NPS Conduct Environmental Studies In Building Air Tour Plans?

by PEER |
However, outside groups such as Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, have criticized the NPS and FAA for avoiding environmental reviews called for by NEPA in designing the management plans. According to PEER, the agencies are claiming “categorical exclusions” ...
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