DESCRIPTION: Initial Comment to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission regarding “the Application of Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC, for a Routing Permit” TO: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission FROM: Hudson Kingston, PEER DATE: October 7, 2022 TAGS: Minnesota,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 6, 2022 Contact Jeff Ruch, PEER, [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Melissa Bumstead, Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab [email protected] (818) 233-0642 Denise Duffield, Physicians for Social Responsibility,...
U.S. Geological Survey Labs Must Cure Culture of Reprisal One of America’s premier science agencies, the U.S. Geological Survey has recently hit a rough patch. The latest bad news comes out of its National Water Quality Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado....
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, October 5, 2022 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 EPA Says Hunters Point Will Never Be Fully Cleaned EPA Plans to Ignore Prop P Mandate and Its Own Superfund Standards Oakland, CA —The U.S. Environmental...
Shocking News on Pesticides PEER is urgently asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of PFAS in pesticides and to require that every manufacturer test every registered product and certify that they do not contain PFAS. This request comes on the...
“Climate Smart” Agriculture Requires Better Environmental Assessments The USDA is tripling the amount of funding for “climate smart” agriculture without doing proper environmental reviews, according to PEER and twelve other advocacy groups. The groups have asked the...
Glacier Skies Finally Go Quiet In the late 1990s, incessant helicopter flights of tourists over Glacier National Park often hovered over terrified wildlife. Park protests to local air operators did not curb these low-flying overflights even during sensitive periods,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 28, 2022 Contact: Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 Steve Miller [IIT] [email protected] (207) 734-6907 Rolf Olsen (FOSI) [email protected] (603) 443-0011 Maine Eyeing Sears Island for Port Again...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, September 26, 2022 Contact: Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 Substantial PFAS Contamination Found in Pesticides Threat to Food Chain Justifies Ban of All Pesticides Containing PFAS Washington, DC — New research has documented...
Save the EPA Tomorrow, thousands of people from around the country will take part in a rally outside of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, DC to protest EPA’s inaction on protecting children from cancer and illnesses. A determined...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 14, 20221 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-702 Peter Jenkins [email protected] (202)265-4189 USGS Inches Toward Accreditation of Wildlife Disease Lab Independent Review to Prevent Biosafety and Animal...
The Worst Kind of Backroom Deal It is time to work to stop the Manchin-Schumer side deal to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). On August 16, President Biden signed the IRA, a multi-faceted piece of legislation addressing climate change, oil and gas development and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 7, 20221 Contact: Kyla Bennett, [email protected], (508) 230-9933 EPA’s Belated PFAS Pesticide Ingredient Ban Does Little Banning a Dozen Inert Ingredients Does Not Stem PFAS Agricultural Spread Washington, DC —...
Climate Change, Plastics and Our National Parks Plastics are not only one of the most persistent pollutants on Earth, but their production also creates greenhouse gas emissions that are a major driver of global warming. According to a study by the Center for...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, August 29, 2022 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Monica Mercola [email protected] (202) 265-4187 NOAA Trashes Seabeds It Studies Call for NOAA to End Research Bottom Trawling in Gulf of Mexico Washington, DC — The...
EPA’s actions are too little and too late. While years down the road some communities may benefit from EPA’s action today, it does nothing to stem the tide of future Superfund sites caused by toxic PFAS contamination. EPA continues to ignore the one law that...
Save the Right Whales Extinction is a choice that humans often make about animals that inhabit the earth. Nowhere is that truer than with the North Atlantic right whale. With less than 350 individuals left, the future of this whale is bleak. For too long, the National...
The Inflation Reduction Act Funds Additional Staffing at National Park Service This week, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) into law. This multi-faceted piece of legislation addresses climate change and environmental agency funding...
