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Denver Parks and Recreation Department Monitoring Possible PFAS

by PEER | May 6, 2022
Chandra Rosenthal, Rocky Mountain office director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, lives near Robinson Park, located at 200 Fairfax Street. When the park’s playground got an update thanks to a 2017 Elevate Bond, Rosenthal was concerned that artificial turf was part ...

Lawsuit seeks to unravel mystery over 2018 mass whale stranding near Adak

by PEER | May 2, 2022
ight whales that washed up on the shores of Adak – near the tip of the Aleutian chain – back in the summer of 2018 are at the center of the suit. They are whales that relatively little is known about – called Stejneger’s beaked whales. It’s not even clear what their population is ...

Whistleblowers Serve a Vital Function. Governments Should Treat Them Better.

by PEER | April 29, 2022
The reason that Manata’s story is repeated all over the country is because state and local governments are not hospitable places for whistleblowing. This is due in part to an incoherent mosaic of state laws purporting to protect whistleblowers. According to a compilation of ...

PFAS Definitions Spur Group’s Lawsuit Seeking EPA Documents

by PEER | April 28, 2022
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility asked a federal district court Thursday to compel the EPA to turn over agency records that could offer insight into the rationale behind the chemical office’s PFAS definition. PEER’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) complaint alleges ...

Forest Service takes the lead in e-bike access

by PEER | April 27, 2022
Ultimately, the legality of e-bikes on public lands is likely to be settled in the courts. A decision is expected soon in a lawsuit seeking to block the NPS e-bike policy filed by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Judge Rudolph Contreras of the ...

Trump firing policy still on the books at Interior, DOE

by PEER | April 26, 2022
The Interior Department has kept a strict Trump-era firing policy in place, something critics say contradicts President Joe Biden’s order to protect the federal workforce. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, has called on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ...