FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, March 1, 2023 CONTACT Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 Hudson Kingston [email protected] (202) 792-1277 Scientific Basis for EPA’s Definition of PFAS Still Missing Europe and Canada Embrace Inclusive PFAS...
US budget riders compromise conservation Originally published in Science Magazine, February 23, 2023. In the story “Research gets a boost in final 2023 spending agreement” (23 December 2022, p. 1263), the Science News Staff describe the US omnibus budget bill’s...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 28, 2023 CONTACT Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Colleen Teubner [email protected] (202) 464-2293 Supersonic Jet Climate Fears Not Relayed to NASA Brass “Major Concern” over Climate and Ozone from Independent...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 27, 2023 CONTACT Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 Congressional Rider Condemns Right Whale to Extinction In Letter Featured in Science, Experts Decry Entanglement Protections Delay Washington, DC —In a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 21, 2023 CONTACT Paula Dinerstein [email protected] (202) 265-6391 Colleen Teubner [email protected] (202) 464-2293 Public Health Scientist Sidelined by Industry Tactics Academic Freedom Complaint Filed with University...
Jumping the Gun in East Palestine The explosion of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio highlights the dangers of governments rushing to return to an air of normalcy after such a disaster without evaluating the full impacts of chemical exposure. To...
EPA Asks for Comment on PFAS Data It Won’t Release After failing to take action against Inhance Technologies for creating toxic PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) during the fluorine gas treatment of plastic bottles and containers, the U.S. Environmental...
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...
