Letters, Public Comments and Reports

2022 Annual Report of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

DESCRIPTION: Letter to J. Eric Davis Jr., U.S. Forest Service regarding the “futuring” of livestock management on federal public lands managed by the USFS TO: U.S. Forest Service FROM: Advocates for Snake Preservation, Aldo’s Silver City Broadband of the Great Old Broads for ...

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: Minnesota, pollution, ...

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, wildlife protection ...

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, pollution, energy See ...

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, 2022 TAGS: EPA, ...

Huge swaths of BLM lands are failing fundamental land health standards with current livestock grazing management identified as a significant cause ...

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, pollution, energy ...

DESCRIPTION: PEER and Sierra Club Tennessee measured concentrations of PFAS or “forever chemicals,” in three bags of Music City Gold, a fertilizer made of sewage waste from the Nashville Central and Whites Creek wastewater treatment plants. BY: Scott Banbury, Sonya Lunder, and Denise ...

DESCRIPTION: Letter to Secretary Deb Haaland to move up the Department of Interior/National Park Service plastic-free timeline from 10 years to 2 years TO: Secretary Deb Haaland FROM: PEER, Green Latinos and Beyond Plastics DATE: August 09, 2022 TAGS: NPS, Plastic Free Parks ...

Letter to Secretary Deb Haaland and the Climate Task Force regarding Interior’s failure to address climate Impacts of its commercial livestock program ...

Report on the Bureau of Land Management under the Biden Administration and its obligation to rebuild the agency to meet today’s challenges ...

Report on Enforcement Efforts by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection – Calendar Year 2021 ...

DESCRIPTION: Supplemental Comment to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission in the In the Matter of a Request for a Minor Alteration to Great River Energy’s 170 MW, Natural Gas-Fired, Simple Cycle Combustion Turbine Generator at its Cambridge 2 Peaking Plant Site near Cambridge, ...

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, rangers,   ...

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 Babbitt Minnesota. DATE: ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION: PEER letter to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission in the In the Matter of a Request for a Minor Alteration to Great River Energy’s 170 MW, Natural Gas-Fired, Simple Cycle Combustion Turbine Generator at its Cambridge 2 Peaking Plant Site near Cambridge, Isanti County ...

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: EPA, Colorado, ...

DESCRIPTION: PEER letter to Secretary Deb Haaland on Interior’s continued use of the harsh personnel policy known as Notice of Opportunity to Demonstrate Acceptable Performance process, known as a “NODAP.” TO: Secretary Deb Haaland FROM: Tim Whitehouse, PEER DATE: April 19, 2022 ...