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COMMENTARY | Minnesota Agency Reverses Course on Illegal Permit

Jan 27, 2023
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...

PEERMail | Meeting the House Challenge in the Trenches

Jan 24, 2023
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...

COMMENTARY | PEER at Age 30 – Some Perspective

Jan 17, 2023
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...

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...