PEER’s Response to Interior’s Law Enforcement Report The Interior Department has recently released a long-awaited report from its Law Enforcement Task Force. PEER Litigation and Policy Attorney Colleen Teubner, representing PEER, and PEER Board Member...
Redeeming Santa Susana: Micro-Steps Up a Mountain The long-time Boeing executive looked shocked. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has just rejected his attempt to add some 1,200 documents into the record of a hearing on whether to renew...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 6, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 NIH’s Science Integrity Plan Has Missing and Misplaced Pieces Draft Policy Faulted as Incomplete, Inconsistent, and Essentially Ineffective Washington, DC —A...
We Must Support Stronger Whistleblower Protections for Government Contractors Government contractors who blow the whistle on agency misconduct may finally join the ranks of their public employee counterparts in enjoying the same protections. Earlier this year,...
A National Park Service Blunder Reducing plastic consumption is one of the most important things we can do as a nation to fight climate change and protect wildlife and human health. That is why we were disappointed to learn that the National Park Service (NPS) is...
DESCRIPTION: Letter to Minnesota DNR regarding Sustainable Timber Harvest Implementation Report TO: Commissioner Sarah Strommen, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources FROM: Chandra Rosenthal, PEER DATE: October 24, 2023 TAGS: Timber, Minnesota ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, October 24, 2023 CONTACT Chandra Rosenthal [email protected] (303) 898-0798 Colleen Teubner [email protected] (202) 464-2293 National Park Service Punts on Plastic Reduction No Concrete Action for Years as Parks Ink New Plastic Bottle...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 19, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Lawsuit Probes Oak Ridge Clean Water Waiver What Did EPA Administrator Regan Know When He Overruled His Experts? Washington, DC —A controversial decision by...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, October 18, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Water Board Still in Dark About Santa Susana Discharges Staff Withholding Documents on PCB Poisoning of LA River on Eve of Vote Oakland, CA —Tomorrow the state...
A Gaping Climate Blind Spot The United States has a gaping climate blind spot, and PEER is asking the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to step in to help change that. At 800 miles long, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is one of the world’s...
Eveline (Evi) Emmenegger, a microbiologist, managed the highest biosafety level containment laboratory at USGS’ Seattle-based Western Fisheries Research Center, working there for more than 28 years with excellent job performance ratings until recently. She had filed a...
Artificial Turf Spreads Like Weeds on Long Island Despite known environmental harms, towns and businesses continue to install artificial turf fields at alarming rates. This is particularly concerning for residents in Long Island, New York, where contaminated runoff...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, October 17, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Bad Actors Awarded Top Park Service Jobs Allergy to Accountability Afflicting Park Service Undermines Morale Washington, DC —A new management appointment indicates...
DESCRIPTION: Letter to CEQ Chair Brenda Mallory to request BLM and DOI to evaluate climate impacts of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) TO: Chair Brenda Mallory, White House Council on Environmental Quality FROM: Timothy Whitehouse, PEER DATE: October 16, 2023...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 16, 2023 CONTACT Rick Steiner [email protected] (907) 360-4503 Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Trans-Alaska Pipeline: Gaping Climate Blind Spot No Federal Assessments of Climate Change Impacts Upon or From...
DESCRIPTION: Letter to Department of Interior Inspector General regarding misallocation of Pittman-Robertson and Dingell Johnson Funding in Minnesota TO: Inspector General Mark Greenblatt FROM: Tim Whitehouse, PEER DATE: October 12, 2023 TAGS: Pittman-Robertson,...
Dr. Peter Corkeron is a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist and, also formerly, a Senior Scientist at the New England Aquarium. Dr. Corkeron faced enormous pressure during his time at NOAA, to not document and generally suppress...
DESCRIPTION: Petition for Rulemaking to Establish Increments for the 1-hour Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Requesting a final rule, or rules, under the Clean Air Act establishing Class I, Class II, and Class III 1-hour...
An Epic Journey You Won’t Want to Miss The latest edition of Bloomberg Businessweek features an in-depth article on the epic quest by Kyla Bennett, PEER’s Science Policy Director, to uncover why her town’s drinking water was contaminated with a toxic class of...
