How the FCC Fails to Follow Environmental Laws and Fails the Public The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates radio, TV, satellite, cable, and wire and wireline communications, plays a critical role in providing universal broadband and...
Originally published in and reprinted with permission of Common Dreams. Herding Cats: Biden’s Myopic Approach to Scientific Integrity The president has made it clear he believes scientific integrity is an important value. Now he must show it more forcefully....
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 16, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Chandra Rosenthal [email protected] (303) 898-0798 National Park Fossils May Block Big Transmission Line Tule Springs Paleo Survey Results Complicate...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 13, 2023 CONTACT Sarah Packer (CEH), [email protected], (510) 594-9863 Bob Sussman (CEH), [email protected], (202) 716-0118 Kyla Bennett (PEER), [email protected], (508) 230-9933 Groups Call on EPA to Ban Plastic...
Scientific Integrity Plan has a Big Problem Protecting scientists from political interference has been a central tenet of PEER’s work over the past 30 years and will be for the next thirty years. That is why we were alarmed to find, buried inside the White House’s...
Conowingo: A Better Deal Coming for the Chesapeake Bay PEER is working with a coalition of groups led by the Waterkeepers Chesapeake to help ensure that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) imposes adequate pollution controls and wildlife conditions on a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 6, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Paula Dinerstein [email protected] (202) 265-6391 Science Integrity Plan Throws Scientists Under the Bus OSTP Encourages Dissent but Offers No Legal Protection...
DESCRIPTION: Statement of support of Colorado legislation HB1036 – a bill designed to encourage the use of nontoxic bullets for hunting by setting up an exchange program for sportspeople to trade-in toxic lead bullets and also increase educational efforts to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 1, 2023 CONTACT Josh Osher, Western Watersheds Project (406) 830-3099; [email protected] Chandra Rosenthal, PEER (303) 898-0798, [email protected] Cheaper than ever: Federal public land grazing fees stay low...
Our national parks are drowning in a rising tide of plastic waste. Single-use disposable plastic bottles are the single biggest component of national park waste streams. Mountains of plastic bottles and single-use plastic burden wildlife, create greenhouse gases,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, January 30, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 OSTP Slips Gag Rule into Model Scientific Integrity Policy Scientists Prohibited from Policy Recommendations in Presenting Research Washington, DC —Buried...
Minnesota Agency Reverses Course on Illegal Permit In 2005 the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (the Commission) granted permits to Great River Energy (GRE) for a power plant in Cambridge, MN, under Minnesota’s streamlined alternative review permitting system for...
Meeting the House Challenge in the Trenches Extreme right-wing control of the U.S. House of Representatives once again puts federal employees working to administer and enforce environmental and public health protections squarely on the front lines of a battle they did...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, January 23, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 Biden New Science Integrity Plan: Buzzwords and Evasions Guidance Unlikely to Strengthen Agency Policies Over Next 12...
PEER at Age 30 – Some Perspective Three decades ago, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility was born as a singular addition to the environmental movement. We were based on the somewhat novel idea that public servants could also be activists to advance their...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 12, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Colleen Teubner [email protected] (202) 464-2293 New NASA Supersonic Jet Is a Climate Debacle Huge Fuel Consumption Threatens Carbon Net Zero Aviation Goal ...
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...
DESCRIPTION: 2022 Annual Report of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility DATE: January 10, 2023 View report below or click here to download....
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...
