FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Contact: Tim Whitehouse | (240) 247-0299 | [email protected] Kevin Bell | (202) 946-3642 Groups Appeal EPA’s Refusal to Release Impact Assessments for High-Impact Artificial Intelligence Tools PEER and FIG...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, September 3, 2026 CONTACT Kyla Bennett | (202) 265-7337 | [email protected] EPA’s “Historic Action” to Curb Microplastics in Drinking Water Meaningless Microplastics Added to a “Candidate List” With Scant Chance at Regulation ...
I want to start this email with a huge thank you! This year’s Double Trouble campaign has come to a close, and I have exciting news to share: we met our match, raising over $70,000 from our supporters! Whether you made a gift, forwarded our emails, or shared our work...
DESCRIPTION: Letter requesting an extension of the scoping period on the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) Right-of-Way (ROW) Renewal Environmental Assessment. TO: Bureau of Land Management FROM: Cooper Freeman, Alaska Director, Center for Biological Diversity; Tim...
To: EPA I am writing to urge you to set enforceable federal standards for PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer, also known as biosolids. PFAS in biosolids pose serious risks to human health and the environment. EPA’s 2025 draft risk assessment found that sludge...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, August 28, 2026 CONTACT Richard Steiner | (907) 360-4503 | [email protected] Aging Trans-Alaska Pipeline to Get Only Perfunctory Review 30-Year Right-of-Way Renewal Subject to 15-Day Public Comment Period Washington, DC —...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 26, 2026 CONTACT Kyla Bennett | (508) 230-9933 | [email protected] Laura Dumais | (202) 792-1277 | [email protected] PEER to EPA: Withdraw PFAS Biosolids Proposal and Follow the Law Sewage Sludge Guidance Will Lead to More Harm...
I am writing to urge you to keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in place. For 25 years, the Rule has stood between 45 million acres of forest and the development that would change it forever. Rescission of the Rule would be another blow to imperiled species and...
DESCRIPTION: Comments opposing the proposed rule eliminating public participation requirements for “minor” new source review permitting TO: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin FROM: 1000 Friends of Wisconsin; 198 methods; 350 Bay Area Action; 350 Conejo / San Fernando...
PEER is calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Inspector General to investigate billions of dollars in contracts awarded for border infrastructure projects in and around Big Bend National Park in Texas. Here’s what’s happening — this...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 19, 2026 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse | (240) 247-0299 | [email protected] PEER Seeks Investigation into Billions in Big Bend Border Contracts DHS Inspector General Asked to Examine Political Influence, Contractor Selection,...
More reorganizations are in the air at the Department of the Interior under Doug Burgum’s leadership. What good will come out of this latest round of reorganizations, which are supposed to come to the fore in September? Probably not much. When historians look back at...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, August 17, 2026 CONTACT Perry Wheeler | [email protected] Chandra Rosenthal | (303) 898-0798 | [email protected] Interior Faces Widespread Backlash Over Effort to Weaken Wilderness Protections Across Millions of Acres of Public...
DESCRIPTION: Comments on the review of the Department of the Interior’s existing wilderness stewardship policies TO: Interior Secretary Burgum, BLM Director Pearce, NPS Comptroller Ms. Bowron, and FWS Director Nesvik FROM: Melissa Amarello, Executive Director,...
The Old Spanish National Historic Trail is one of the great historic routes of the American West. Stretching roughly 2,700 miles between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Los Angeles, California, the Trail follows the path of a 19th-century trade route through some of the...
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PEER, DarkSky International, the American Bird Conservancy, and Environment America — represented by Earthjustice — filed a formal Application for Review asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse its Space Bureau’s approval of Reflect Orbital...
