BLOG: How Mitch McConnell Gutted the Pandemic Response
On March 23, Sen. Mitch McConnell took the Senate floor to excoriate opponents who were trying to amend the COVID-19 bill to include accountability and transparency measures, including an independent...
View ArticleNRC Stages Swift Sweeping Rollback During Pandemic
For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 2, 2020 Contact: Jeff Ruch (510) 213-7028; Kirsten Stade kstade@peer.orgread more
View ArticleBLOG: University of Colorado Faculty Must Address Climate Science Censorship
The University of Colorado – Boulder Faculty should pursue an independent investigation into the University of Colorado’s dismissal of world-renowned climate scientist, Dr. Detlev Helmig, according to...
View ArticleBLOG: Trumps War on Watchdogs
More than being the only modern President without a pet dog, his real phobia is about discordant messages emanating from the federal bureaucracy. Particularly irksome are critical reports from federal...
View ArticleNational Parks Epitomize Trump COVID Inconsistency
As more than 100 national park units have closed, hundreds more remain open in unevenly evolving situation that is confusing, at best. Unfortunately for all of us, this same stop-start approach is also...
View ArticleEPA Not on Emergency Footing
For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 9, 2020 Contact: Kyla Bennett (508) 230-9933; Kirsten Stade kstade@peer.orgread more
View ArticleBLOG: Opposing the EPA Plan to Restrict Science
The old saying that ignorance is bliss is no longer operative. In the current climate, ignorance can kill you.read more
View ArticleCan National Parks Practice Social Distancing?
The still unfolding pandemic has underlined the public health risks that national parks and refuges pose both to the visiting public and their own employees. Over the past few weeks, more than 140 park...
View ArticleAgencies Leadership Vacancies Tied to Poor Pandemic Response
Washington, DC. — Today 18 civil society organizations that work on government accountability, health, environmental protection, and other concerns urged key Senators to hold the Trump Administration...
View ArticleEPA Should Sit Out Earth Day This Year
This April 22nd is the 50th Earth Day. While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been a part of most every Earth Day celebration since the event was founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson of...
View ArticleNew Water Rule Guts Wetlands Projects
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) buried its own financial calculations predicting up to $485 million in losses annually to a thriving industry sector that preserves U.S. wetlands through...
View ArticleEPA COVID-19 Guidance Sows Employee Confusion
Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is directing critical workers in its Superfund program and other toxic cleanup employees that have been exposed to the Coronavirus to remain in...
View ArticleReopened National Parks Must Curb Overcrowding
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 27, 2020 Contact: Jeff Ruch (510) 213-7028; Kirsten Stade kstade@peer.orgread more
View ArticleLawsuit Threat on Illegal Interior Appointments
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Contact: Peter Jenkins, PEER (202) 265-4189, pjenkins@peer.org Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org...
View ArticleSuit Against EPAs Elimination of Clean Water Protections
For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 29, 2020 Contact: Kyla Bennett (508) 230-9933; Kirsten Stade kstade@peer.orgread more
View ArticleCourt Orders Limits on National Park Air Tours
For Immediate Release: Friday, May 1, 2020 Contact: Paula Dinerstein (301) 580-4020 Contact: Susan Sargent (202) 265-7337.read more
View ArticleSewage Spills Pose COVID-19 Risks
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Contact: Tim Whitehouse, 240-247-0299; Kirsten Stade kstade@peer.orgread more
View ArticleQuestionable Termination Undermines Climate Science
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Contact: Kirsten Stade kstade@peer.org Contact: Chandra Rosenthal (303) 898-0798.read more
View ArticleBlog: Sliming Lincolns Memorial
Last Sunday, Interior Secretary Bernhardt ordered the Lincoln Memorial closed to the public so that President Trump could “communicate an official message to the American people” via (what else?) Fox...
View ArticleLawsuit Seeks Ouster of Park Service and BLM Leaders
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 11, 2020 Contacts: Peter Jenkins, PEER (202) 265-4189 pjenkins@peer.org; Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org;...
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