FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, September 24, 2026 CONTACT Kyla Bennett | [email protected] Jeff Ruch | (510) 231-7028 | [email protected] EPA Retracts Central Claim of PFAS Progress Agency Makes Grudging Admission That PFAS Are Still Being Manufactured and Imported...
This blog post is adapted from our How We Fight Back email series. Read more by clicking the links below. A Constitutional, Legal, and Moral Crisis Interior — Another Stress Test for Democracy EPA Turns Against Its Own Mission — How We Fight Back Data Centers are...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 23, 2026 CONTACT Kevin Hood, FSEEE | (541) 484-2692 | [email protected] Chandra Rosenthal, PEER | (303) 898-0798 | [email protected] FSEEE and PEER Oppose USDA Plan to Weaken National Forest Protections and Expand Motorized...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 21, 2026 CONTACT Joanna Citron Day | (240) 247-3081 | [email protected] Former DOJ Tax Trial Attorney Isabelle Dietz Joins PEER as Staff Counsel Washington, DC — Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)...
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere in the news. When we heard that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was starting to use AI to help assess the safety of chemicals, we wanted to learn more. In March, we filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking...
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...
This blog post is adapted from our How We Fight Back email series. Read more by clicking the links below. A Constitutional, Legal, and Moral Crisis Interior — Another Stress Test for Democracy Our National Forests Are Under Attack — How We Fight Back Data Centers are...
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 —...
This blog post is adapted from our How We Fight Back email series. Read more by clicking the links below. A Constitutional, Legal, and Moral Crisis EPA Turns Against Its Own Mission — How We Fight Back Our National Forests Are Under Attack — How We Fight Back Data...
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...
