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Newsom Muscling Boeing Sweetheart Deal Through

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 8, 2022 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Newsom Muscling Boeing Sweetheart Deal Through Water Board Chair Replaced by Former Boeing Consultant Before Hearing   Oakland —The Newsom administration appears to be...

COMMENTARY | New Mexico Dairy Farmers’ Toxic Fight

New Mexico Dairy Farmers’ Toxic Fight Recently, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) announced a plan to help a fourth generation New Mexico dairy farmer who lost his entire herd as a result of contamination from perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances...

Public Comment on Polymet Mine Permit – Fond du Lac Band’s Objection

DESCRIPTION: PEER’s comment to the Army Corps of Engineers regarding the Fond du Lac Band’s Objection to the Proposed Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit for the NorthMet Mine Project TO: Col. Jansen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers FROM: Hudson Kingston, PEER DATE: June...

PEERMail | Environmental Review Required for E-Bikes

Environmental Review Required for E-Bikes A federal judge handed PEER a qualified victory in its effort to require the National Park Service to conduct environmental reviews before allowing e-bikes on park trails. PEER had filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump...

Media Advisory | Biosafety Whistleblower Hearing Media Sign-Up

Deadly Wildlife Disease Releases at USGS Labs Litigated WHAT: Merits System Protection Board (MSPB) hearing concerning the employment status of U.S. Geological Survey microbiologist Eveline (Evi) Emmenegger who has revealed several pathogen releases from supposedly...

COMMENTARY | One of “Donald’s Children”

This week marked the passing of a great American, Donald K. Ross. Donald was a life-long activist, a former Nader’s Raider who helped develop the network of Public Interest Research groups (PIRGs) and was a pioneering philanthropist. He directed fundraising to help...

COMMENTARY | Preventing Future Zoonotic Pandemics

As the United States passes one million mortalities after more than two years of this horrid pandemic, we must learn lessons to avoid the next one. The most important beginning point is that Covid-19 is a zoonotic disease, that is, originally transmitted to humans via...

COMMENTARY | Colorado PFAS Prevention Act Passes

PFAS chemical contamination is an emerging crisis across the country. PFAS are a class of highly persistent chemicals associated with cancer, birth defects, developmental damage to infants, and impaired functioning of the liver, kidneys, and immune system and an...

PEERMail | Getting Climate Right

The wildfires ripping through New Mexico and other western states are the latest heart-breaking signs of climate change and its devastating impacts on communities and ecosystems throughout the United States. There is no easy formula for how best to stop this impending...

COMMENTARY | Fighting Government Secrecy

Fighting Government Secrecy Originally published in the Spring 2022 edition of PEEReview. Over the past few years, PEER has been spending more time collecting environ-mental data from federal agencies. Too often, we find that agencies are coming up short in their...

Letter to EPA and Colorado DPHE- Review of Civil Rights Compliance

DESCRIPTION: PEER letter on state of Colorado’s air permitting program with regard to EPA’s nondiscrimination regulation and the current review TO: EPA and Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment FROM: Chandra Rosenthal, PEER DATE: May 9, 2022 TAGS:...