Video Library
PEER Eco-Champions
Evi Emmenegger: Blowing the Whistle on Biosafety
After 28 years of excellent job performance, Evi Emmenegger was targeted and fired by USGS management for raising a series of biosafety concerns.
Dr. Peter Corkeron: Fighting to Save the North Atlantic Right Whales
Dr. Corkeron faced enormous pressure during his time at NOAA, to not document and generally suppress concerns over the population management of North Atlantic Right Whales.
Webinars
Webinar | DOGE and Climate Change: What’s Really Happening at NOAA and EPA, and Why It Matters
Join experts to explore how changes at EPA and NOAA will weaken efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect communities from climate change.
Webinar | Whistleblowing and Anonymous Activism in the Age of Trump
Delve into the challenges that government employees who work on environmental, natural resource management, and public health issues are likely to face under the incoming administration.
Feature Videos
Why PFAS in Biosolids Threatens Our Food Supply and Farming Communities Throughout the United States
Every year, millions of tons of PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge, or biosolids, are applied to land as fertilizer on farms. Learn how these toxic chemicals are threatening our health and food supply, and what PEER is doing about it.
Devastation on the Ranch: PFAS in Biosolids
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a federal lawsuit over its failure to prevent toxic per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in biosolid fertilizers from contaminating farmlands, livestock, crops, and water supplies. Hear from James Farmer and Robin Alessi, two ranchers whose livelihoods were decimated after PFAS-laden biosolids from neighboring properties leached onto their land.
Interviews
VIDEO | Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Local Heroes
Congressman Jamie Raskin recognized PEER’s Executive Director Tim Whitehouse and the PEER team as Local Heroes who make sure the critical functions of our government run properly to protect the environment.
VIDEO | PFAS in Our Waste with Kyla Bennett
In this one-on-one 30-minute virtual conversation Just Zero's Senior Scientist, Laura Orlando, is joined by Kyla Bennett, Director of Science Policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Together, Orlando and Bennett discuss the PFAS, also known...
