House Gives Hope to Federal Whistleblowers, Senate Must Step Up On September 15, 2022, the House made significant strides in safeguarding whistleblowers by passing the Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act (“WPIA”) with a vote of 221-203. Now, it’s up to the Senate...
As our climate spins out of control, an urgent need exists for clean energy advocates and watchdog organizations to ensure that protecting climate-conscious energy consumers goes hand in hand with efforts to support programs to address the climate crisis. A recent...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 24, 2022 Contact: Colleen Teubner, [email protected], (240) 247-0295 Jaime Honkawa [email protected] (310) 625-7277 Florida’s Manatees Suffering Another Very Bad Year Mortality Through September on Track for Second...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 24, 2022 Contact: Chandra Rosenthal [email protected] (303) 898-0798 Colorado Balks at EPA Ozone Reducing Recommendations State Resists Reforms Identified by Whistleblowers and Confirmed by EPA Denver, CO — As...
EPA Continues to Exempt the Most Widespread Bee- and Bird-Killing Insecticides On September 27th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied a formal petition by the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and others, requesting the agency to correct its failure to...
Biden’s First Monument Not Very Monumental Earlier this month, nearly halfway through his term, President Biden made the first use of his Antiquity Act powers to create a new national monument – The Camp Hale – Continental Divide National Monument. In so doing,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Contact: Kyla Bennett, [email protected], 508-230-9933 Jaime Honkawa [email protected] (310) 625-7277 Los Angeles’ Artificial Turf Plan Misguided PFAS Found in Turf Dangerous for Children Los Angeles, CA —...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Contact: Kyla Bennett, [email protected], 508-230-9933 Fumigant Decision Shows EPA Science at Its Worst EPA Doubles Down on Mistakes Despite Whistleblower and IG Critiques Washington, DC —After a...
Ending a Culture of Reprisal at USGS For over 5 years, we have represented Evi Emmenegger, a U.S. Geological Survey microbiologist who was fired after reporting dangerous biosafety breaches at a wildlife disease laboratory, This month, a federal judge has ruled that...
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...
