FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Contact: Chandra Rosenthal (303) 898-0798 [email protected] BLM Oil Exemptions Undercut Sage Grouse Safeguards More Than 80 Waivers from Just 3 Field Offices Prompt Call for Inquiry and Lawsuit Washington, DC —...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 17, 2022 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Trump Holdover’s Hasty Exit Not Fast Enough Chemical Safety Board Chair Lemos Resigns but Wants to Stay Thru July 22 Washington, DC — The Trump-appointed head of the...
How to Build a Better BLM? The Biden administration has promised a renewed commitment to realizing the potential of public lands to contribute to conservation and climate change mitigation. As the country’s largest public land agency, the Bureau of Land Management...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Contact: Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 EPA Takes First Baby Steps on PFAS Nonregulatory Health Advisories on Just Four of Thousands of PFAS Washington, DC —The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...
Good News on Banning Plastics Good news! Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced a phaseout of single-use plastics in national parks and other public lands that the department manages. The Department of the Interior’s plastic ban will keep millions of...
DESCRIPTION: Outside Witness Testimony in Support of Increasing Staffing Levels in Public Land Use Agencies TO: The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies FROM: PEER DATE: June 10, 2022 TAGS: NPS, DOI, BLM, law enforcement,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 10, 2022 Contact: Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 Monica Mercola [email protected] (202) 265-4187 Gaping Hole in Biden PFAS Strategy Documents Show EPA Has No Consistent Definition of PFAS Washington, DC —The...
DESCRIPTION: Amicus Brief In the Matter of the Denial of Contested Case Hearing Requests and Issuance of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System/State Disposal System Permit No. MN0071013 for the Proposed NorthMet Project St. Louis County Hoyt Lakes and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 8, 2022 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Opposition Mounts to Newsom-Boeing Sweetheart Deal Water Board Hearing on Santa Susana Cleanup Axed as Localities Protest Oakland, CA —The only public hearing on a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Contact: Paula Dinerstein [email protected] (301) 580-4020 National Park E-Bike Rule Lacks Required Eco-Review Court Directs Park Service to Consider Cumulative and Foreseeable Impacts Washington, DC —The...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Contact: Chandra Rosenthal, [email protected] National Park Service Punts on Plastic-Free Policies NPS Balks on Plastic Bottle Sales Ban or Restoring Superintendent Discretion Washington, DC —The National Park...
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...
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...
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...
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...
