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PEERMail | Celebrating 30 Years of PEER

Jan 10, 2023
2023 marks PEER’s thirtieth anniversary!   When PEER first started, I was beginning my career as an EPA enforcement attorney, focusing on enforcing the Clean Water Act. I soon became aware of the feisty work of this small organization called PEER who was...

REPORT | PEER 2022 Annual Report (PDF) 

Jan 10, 2023
DESCRIPTION: 2022 Annual Report of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility DATE: January 10, 2023 View report below or click here to download....

COMMENTARY | Congress Jeopardizes North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery 

Jan 9, 2023
Saving the North Atlantic right whale was already an uphill battle. It just got a lot harder.  Maine’s congressional delegation, led by Sen. Susan Collins, succeeded in adding a provision to December’s massive government funding bill that will further endanger North...

COMMENTARY | Biden Strengthens Clean Water Rules

Jan 5, 2023
Biden Strengthens Clean Water Rules Last week, the Biden administration announced a new rule to expand and strengthen protections for U.S. waterways under the federal Clean Water Act. The new regulations repeal a Trump-era rule, called the “Dirty Water Rule” by many,...

PETITION | Protect the North Atlantic Right Whales from Extinction

Jan 3, 2023
The North Atlantic right whale is rapidly nearing extinction. With only about 350 individuals left and less than 100 breeding females, the future of this whale is bleak. The right whale suffers from two main threats, both completely solvable. The first, death by ship...

Letter to Forest Service – Futuring of Livestock Management

Dec 30, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Letter to J. Eric Davis Jr., U.S. Forest Service regarding the “futuring” of livestock management on federal public lands managed by the USFS TO: U.S. Forest Service FROM: Advocates for Snake Preservation, Aldo’s Silver City Broadband of the Great...

PEERMail | We Are Suing to Prevent Further PFAS Contamination

Dec 27, 2022
We Are Suing to Prevent Further PFAS Contamination Today PEER and the Center for Environmental Health filed a lawsuit against Inhance Technologies USA of Houston, Texas, for generating toxic PFAS or “forever chemicals” when fluorinating plastic containers, in...

PEERMail | Stop Scamming Federal Wildlife Aid

Dec 13, 2022
Stop Scamming Federal Wildlife Aid Yesterday, I wrote U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Martha Williams to request that the FWS immediately act to end the misuse of federal-aid funding under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (WRA) for Alaska’s...

COMMENTARY | Park Service’s Inhumane Inertia

Dec 9, 2022
Park Service’s Inhumane Inertia Undoubtedly, the worst thing the Trump administration did to national parks was to suspend federal protections for predators, such as wolves, black and brown bears, in the vast national park preserves within Alaska, such as those in...

COMMENTARY | The Hidden Dangers of Biosolids

Dec 7, 2022
The Hidden Dangers of Biosolids When we enter a grocery store, we assume that the produce we are about to buy is healthy and safe for ourselves and our family. However, we don’t think about the pollutants that are transferred to produce through biosolids, a fertilizer...

COMMENTARY | Why This Mining Permit Should Fail

Dec 2, 2022
Why This Mining Permit Should Fail In January 2020, a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee and PEER client testified that state regulators pressured his office to downplay concerns about a new mine’s potential pollution. Consequently, the...

PEERMail | Banning Lead Ammunition in National Parks

Nov 29, 2022
Banning Lead Ammunition in National Parks One of the great tragedies of lead ammunition is the widespread poisoning it causes to wildlife. That is why PEER has teamed up with the American Bird Conservancy and the Union of Concerned Scientists to petition the National...