FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, December 12, 2022 CONTACT Rick Steiner (907) 360-4503 [email protected] Jeff Ruch (510) 213-7028 [email protected] Alaska Misuses Federal Wildlife Aid on Killing Predators Penalize Alaska for Diverting Conservation Dollars...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 22, 2022 CONTACT Jeff Ruch (510) 213-7028 [email protected] Newsom Lets Boeing Keep Groundwater Forever Polluted New Deal Sets No Timetable for Cleaning Highly Toxic Santa Susana Aquifer Oakland, CA — The Newsom...
DESCRIPTION: Supplemental 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: November 21, 2022 TAGS:...
Park Service Lack of Transparency Created Its Huge FOIA Backlog The National Park Service is drowning in unanswered Freedom of Information Act requests. According to the Interior Department’s latest quarterly report, NPS led all other Interior agencies in both new...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 17, 2022 CONTACT Chandra Rosenthal (303) 898-0798 [email protected] Jeff Ruch (510) 213-7028 [email protected] Ban Lead Ammunition and Tackle from National Parks Groups Petition to Protect Wildlife, Human Health and the...
DESCRIPTION: Rulemaking Petition to Secretary Deb Haaland to ban the use of lead ammunition and tackle in national parks TO: Secretary Deb Haaland FROM: PEER, American Bird Conservancy, Union of Concerned Scientists DATE: November 17, 2022 TAGS: NPS, lead ammo,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 16, 2022 CONTACT Braxton Dew [email protected] Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 NOAA Passes the Buck on Alaska Crab Fishery Collapses Denies Blame for Wildly Inflated Population Estimates Causing Overfishing...
Saving Species Under Threat How to better care for and protect the Earth’s remaining biodiversity is a major reason that public employees come to us for assistance. Such is the case with our work on the North Atlantic right whale. For over a decade, PEER has been...
Are Wild Horses to Blame for Failing Rangeland Health? Many private ranchers blame wild horses for degrading public lands in the west, but what role do these animals play in harming the landscape? We decided to investigate this important question after the Bureau of...
DESCRIPTION: Reply 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: November 14, 2022 TAGS: Minnesota,...
DESCRIPTION: Letter to EPA Region 8 Administrator KC Becker requesting meeting on Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment’s (CDPHE) New Source Review Permitting TO: EPA Region 8 Administrator KC Becker FROM: Chandra Rosenthal, PEER DATE: November 11,...
Home on the Range: Wild Horses on Public Lands Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rangeland health data, collected and analyzed by PEER, paints a bleak picture of the conditions on a broad swath of public lands. The main reason for the cited ecological destruction is...
BLM Identifies Millions of Acres of Failing Lands The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is responsible for 245 million acres of public lands in 13 western states. The agency manages more public land than any other land management agency. This report makes...
Countering the Western War on Wolves Following the removal of Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf in the waning weeks of the Trump administration, several Western states have declared open season on this alpha predator. PEER is working to curb the...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 1, 2022 Contact: Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 Chandra Rosenthal [email protected] (303) 898-0798 Substantial PFAS Contamination Found in Pesticides in Colorado Threat to Food Chain Justifies Colorado...
What This Election Means With the mid-term elections right around the corner, the economy, inflation, a woman’s right to choose, and the state of our democracy are on a lot of people’s minds. There is a lot at stake in these elections. The outcome will not only have a...
