Public Health

COMMENTARY | Addressing Radon Risks in Public Housing: PEER is Making Progress

by | January 28, 2024
Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after cigarette smoking and public housing is often ground zero for exposure ...

COMMENTARY | Rooting PFAS Out of Our Food Chain

by | January 22, 2024
Culminating three years of legal and advocacy work, the EPA issued an order prohibiting Inhance Technologies from producing PFAS during fluorination ...

PEERMail | A Surprising Victory on Toxic Plastics

by | December 14, 2023
In a surprise victory on toxic plastics containing PFAS, EPA ordered a company named Inhance to stop producing PFAS in its fluorination process of plastics ...

PEER and CEH Applaud EPA’s Decision to Protect People from PFAS that Leach from Plastic Containers

by | December 4, 2023
EPA Orders Inhance Technologies to Stop Exposing Millions of Americans to Dangerous PFAS in Fluorinated Plastic Containers ...

Santa Susana Slated to Remain Major Ecological Hazard

by | November 21, 2023
Post Cleanup Toxics Will Subject Wildlife to “Observable Adverse Effects ...

One Woman’s War Against ‘Forever Chemicals’

by | November 16, 2023
Dr. Kyla Bennett is featured in the short documentary from Bloomberg Originals on the dangerous conundrum of the useful, ubiquitous and highly toxic PFAS ...
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