Colorado AG Probe Confirms Air Pollution Failures
Washington, DC — A report issued today from a law firm engaged by the Colorado Attorney General found the state’s environmental agency improperly issued air pollution permits that exacerbated air...
View ArticleHUD Resists Public Housing Radon Safeguards
Washington, DC — Hundreds of thousands of public housing residents remain at risk from radon exposure due to intransigence within holdover management at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban...
View ArticleFAA Off Course on National Park Air Tour Plans
Washington, DC — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Park Service (NPS) are skipping key steps required under law as they struggle to finalize long-delayed air tour management plans...
View ArticleColorado May Have the Most PFAS Sites of Any State
Denver — Colorado may bear the biggest PFAS burden of any state even as the PFAS footprint across the U.S. may be growing several times larger than previously reported, according to documents released...
View ArticleCalifornia May Have Second Most PFAS Sites of Any State
Oakland — The PFAS footprint across California and the U.S. may be several times larger than previously reported, according to data released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility...
View ArticleEPAs PFAS Action Plan A Dud
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new plan to stem an escalating PFAS contamination crisis is woefully inadequate, according to Public Employees for Environmental...
View ArticleEPA Identifies More Than 120,000 Potential PFAS Sites in U.S.
Washington, DC — The PFAS footprint across the U.S. may be several times larger than previously reported, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility...
View ArticleEPAs Pesticides Office Labeled as a Failure
Washington, DC (October 26, 2021) – The Office of Pesticides Programs within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has become so captured by industry that it has lost sight of its health and...
View ArticleEPA Employees Pan State of Scientific Integrity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2021 Contact (510) 213-7028; Kyla Bennett kbennett@peer.org (508) 230-9955.read more
View ArticleIs EPA Playing with Funny Numbers in its Methane Proposal?
EPA’s much-anticipated methane regulations have arrived. President Biden had called on the agency to regulate this super-potent greenhouse gas soon after taking office. On Tuesday, EPA answered with a...
View ArticlePark Service Shelved Employee Harassment Review
Washington, DC — A detailed examination of the toxic work culture within the National Park Service (NPS) has gathered dust for the past three years despite promises that it would be used as a critical...
View ArticleRadioactive Buildings Dynamited Near L.A.
Simi Valley, CA — The State of California has allowed the U.S. Department of Energy to dynamite two radioactive buildings without required dust control to prevent the spread of contamination and did so...
View ArticleBLM Fires Migratory Bird Whistleblower on Second Try
Washington, DC — A two-year effort by senior Wyoming Bureau of Land Management officials to terminate an environmental analyst who had embarrassed them for ignoring harms to migratory birds has...
View ArticleExpertise Gaps Plague EPA Chemical Assessments
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency programs for assessing hazards for both new and existing chemicals is hamstrung by an overall staff shortage but even more so by lack of needed...
View ArticleEPA Sued Over Refusal to Regulate Corrosive 9/11 Dust
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s corrosivity standard is so lax that it illegally subjects people who breathe or ingest unregulated alkaline dust to serious harm, according...
View ArticleEPA Hid Cancer Danger of Green Chemical It Promotes
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prevented its scientists from acting on data showing that a chemical it promotes carries a significant cancer risk, according to a complaint...
View ArticleEPA Tunes Out Industrys Chemical Safety Alarms
Washington, DC —Contrary to longstanding practice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency no longer publicly posts substantial risk advisories sent to it by chemical manufacturers, according to a...
View ArticleBidens Scientific Integrity Task Force Not Up to the Task
Washington, DC — In a long-overdue report, an ad-hoc interagency Task Force concedes federal scientific integrity policies do not work but offered only general suggestions as to how to strengthen them,...
View ArticlePark Service Masks Cuts in Sea Turtle Recovery
Washington, D.C. – Padre Island National Seashore continues dismantling its globally renowned Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Program but has issued a blatantly deceptive public statement to the...
View ArticlePollution Prosecution Plunge Continues under Biden
Washington, D.C. – Record low criminal anti-pollution enforcement levels under Trump remain largely unchanged so far under Biden. One key measure is getting substantially worse, however: U.S....
View ArticleEPAs Lax Methane Stance Decried
Washington, D.C. – By using a century-long timeframe for measuring the atmospheric impact of methane, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is inappropriately weakening efforts to combat climate...
View ArticleEPA Belatedly Posts Industry Chemical Safety Warnings
Washington, D.C. – Last night, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abruptly reversed course and publicly posted at least some of the more than 1,300 substantial risk reports submitted by chemical...
View ArticleForever Chemical Disposal Becoming Eco-Nightmare
Washington, DC —New data compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency underscores the herculean task of controlling pollution from toxic “forever chemicals”, according to Public Employees for...
View Article2022 Begins Another Deadly Year for Manatees
Washington, DC — The new year is not starting well for Florida’s beleaguered and shrinking population of manatees, according to new figures posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility...
View ArticleBoeing Money Preceded Waiver of Pollution Penalties
Oakland, CA — A key state official may have acted illegally in forgiving pollution fines caused by toxic and radioactive contaminants released in runoff following the devastating Woolsey Fire,...
View ArticleBiden Estimate of Conserved Waters Inflated
Washington, DC —The Biden administration plan to conserve 30% of all U.S. waters by 2030 rests on a shallow foundation of questionable assumptions, according to comments filed today by Public Employees...
View ArticleFloridas Seagrass Under Relentless Pollution Assault
Tallahassee, FL —One of Florida’s most pristine coastal stretches with beaches of “sugar-sand” is suffering from persistent sewage overflows and water pollution violations, according to a new report by...
View ArticleFalse Artificial Turf Recycling Claims Ripped
Washington, DC —Synthetic turf manufacturers are guilty of false and deceptive sales practices in pitching their products as recyclable, according to a complaint filed by Public Employees for...
View ArticleAnother Record Manatee Mortality Year Unfolding
Tallahassee — Hundreds of Florida manatees have died in little more than the first eight weeks of 2022, the latest state figures indicate. Unabated pollution in Florida waters continues to smother...
View ArticlePark Service Eliminates Public Notice of New Cell Towers
Washington, DC — The National Park Service is no longer required to inform the public about applications for new cell towers or provide basic information about visual impacts or signal strength,...
View ArticleBiden Scientific Integrity Initiative in Limbo
Washington, DC — The effort commissioned by President Biden just days after his inauguration to reform notoriously weak scientific integrity policies will fail absent a significant change of approach,...
View ArticleMore Toxic Runoff From Santa Susana Field Lab
Oakland, CA —One of the most toxic sites in the country continues to leak contaminants offsite, according to a pollution monitoring report posted today by Public Employees for Environmental...
View ArticleForeign Research Vessels Free to Wreak Eco-Havoc
Washington, DC —The U.S. State Department approves foreign vessels to conduct scientific research in U.S. waters without public notice or ensuring they obtain the same permits domestic researchers must...
View ArticleMinnesota Power Plant Must Undergo Environmental Review
Public Utilities Commission Agrees with Petitioners that New Oil-Fired Unit Must Be Studied Under MEPA.read more
View ArticleFloridas Waters Awash in Sewage Spills
Tallahassee, FL —Despite increasing pollution, Florida still lacks a coherent enforcement program, according to a new analysis by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Especially...
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View ArticleFumigant Decision Shows EPA Science at Its Worst
Washington, DC —After a devastating exposé confirmed by its Inspector General, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still wants to plow ahead with a dangerously unwarranted downgrade of the cancer...
View ArticleFloridas Manatees Suffering Another Very Bad Year
Washington, DC — The all-time-record manatee die-off in 2021 will likely be followed by the second worst on record based on figures through the first ten months, according to Public Employees for...
View ArticleColorado Balks at EPA Ozone Reducing Recommendations
Denver, CO — As Colorado slides into “severe nonattainment” with federal ozone standards, the state continues to resist tightening its air pollution permits process and to tolerate major lapses...
View ArticleNOAA Passes the Buck on Alaska Crab Fishery Collapses
Washington, DC — The federal agency that produced wildly inflated population estimates for the Bristol Bay red king crab is avoiding any responsibility for that fishery’s collapse, according to...
View ArticleNewsom Lets Boeing Keep Groundwater Forever Polluted
Oakland, CA — The Newsom administration has executed a Covenant “in perpetuity” with the Boeing Company allowing the highly polluted groundwater under the Santa Susana Field Laboratory to remain...
View ArticleAlaska Misuses Federal Wildlife Aid on Killing Predators
Washington, DC — The State of Alaska illegally diverts millions of dollars in federal wildlife conservation aid to support prohibited predator control that dispatches hundreds of wolves and bears each...
View ArticleMinnesota Should Axe Its Timber Cord Quotas
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, December 21, 2022 CONTACT Tim Whitehouse (240) 247-0299 Hudson Kingston (202) 792-1277.read more
View ArticleTens of Millions of Plastic Containers Treated with Fluorine Gas Leach Toxic...
Nonprofit Organizations File Suit Against Inhance Technologies to Stop Violations of U.S. EPA Regulations.read more
View ArticlePark Service Criminal Investigators Down by Nearly Half
Washington, DC —The ranks of Special Agents who handle complex criminal investigations for the National Park Service have fallen by 45% in the past 20 years, according to an NPS memo obtained by Public...
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