Environmental Protection Agency

Following are PEER news releases, white papers, surveys and other activities for Environmental Protection Agency:
News Releases
November 9, 2009  EPA ORDERS EMPLOYEES TO REMOVE YOUTUBE CLIMATE VIDEO — Agency Threatens Discipline for Off-Duty Warnings on Cap & Trade Failures
November 4, 2009  INSPECTOR GENERAL TO PROBE EPA MARKETING OF COAL ASH — Agency Promotes Coal Waste “Beneficial Use” Without Completing Risk Assessment
October 28, 2009  SUIT TO AIR INTERNAL EPA PROTESTS ON RADIATION EXPOSURE PLAN — Experts’ Objections to Radically Higher Radiation Exposure Levels Yet to Be Seen
October 5, 2009  EPA PROMOTING COAL ASH FOR CONSUMER USE — Partnership with Industry Sidesteps Public and Worker Toxic Exposure Concerns
September 21, 2009  OBAMA GOES TO UN WITH EMPTY CLIMATE BAG — New Video Frames Fundamental Weaknesses of Cap & Trade Approach
September 14, 2009  EPA PUNTS ON RISKS TO CHILDREN FROM PLAYGROUND TIRE CRUMB — Agency Admits It Did Not Perform Promised Scientific Studies of Health Dangers
August 10, 2009  EPA TIMIDLY TIPTOES TOWARD TRANSPARENCY — Staff Ordered to Cooperate with Inspector General but Not Other Investigators
June 4, 2009  SAFETY OF SHREDDED TIRES IN PLAYGROUNDS UNDER QUESTION — EPA Endorsed Use without Analyzing Toxic Potential but Belated Studies in Limbo
May 20, 2009  LAWSUIT TO FORCE EPA TO REVEAL ITS RESEARCH PLANS — Bush-Era “Transformation” of EPA Science Arm Rests on New “Business Model”
May 4, 2009  HIGH CHROMIUM DANGER KNOWN BY NEW JERSEY LEADERS SINCE 2007 — Lisa Jackson and DEP Brass Decided to Proceed As If New Data Did Not Exist
April 29, 2009  EPA RELEASES LIBBY CLEAN-UP REPORT — PEER Lawsuit Prompts Belated Disclosure of Major Unresolved Public Health Issues
April 21, 2009  SECRET EPA REPORT ON LIBBY CLEAN-UP SPARKS LAWSUIT — Early Test of Obama/Holder Doctrine on Freedom of Information Act Openness
April 7, 2009  DEMOCRATS PRESSURE EPA TO GREEN-LIGHT PORK — Rep. Frank Says EPA Will Bar Anyone with a “Record of Hostility” to Pet Project
April 3, 2009  MICHIGAN GIVE FEDS NOTICE OF SURRENDERING WETLANDS PROGRAM — U.S. EPA and Army Corps to Begin Take-Over of State Permits and Enforcement
April 1, 2009  MAINE’S SEARS ISLAND PORT PLAN SLAMMED — Wetland Mitigation Bank Falls Flat as Gambit for Cargo Container Port
February 23, 2009  WHY THE OBAMA CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN WON’T WORK — Political Support for Cap & Trade Will Not Overcome Its Practical Shortcomings
January 29, 2009  DOW DIOXIN DEAL FLYING UNDER EPA RADAR — Contamination Case in Closed-Door Negotiations for “Non-Regulatory” Resolution
January 26, 2009  LISA JACKSON SHOULD FULFILL EPA CONFIRMATION PROMISES NOW — Concrete, Enforceable Policies Needed to Back Scientific and Legal Reform Pledges
January 21, 2009  RADIATION EXPOSURE LIMITS WEAKENED IN DEPARTING BUSH MOVE — Huge Hikes in Allowable Radioactivity in Drinking Water, Air and Soil
January 19, 2009  FEDS INTERVENE TO SET FLORIDA WATER QUALITY STANDARDS — Rising Percentage of State Rivers, Lakes and Estuaries Impaired by Excess Nutrients
January 6, 2009  TEN QUESTIONS THE SENATE SHOULD ASK LISA JACKSON — Committee Urged to Scrutinize Jackson’s Actions and Decisions in New Jersey
December 29, 2008  GLOBAL WARMING PROGRESS UNDER BUSH ILLUSORY, AUDIT FINDS — State Greenhouse Gas Plans, Such as New Jersey’s, Suffer from Same Pitfalls
December 17, 2008  EPA SCIENCE PROGRAM SCRAMBLED BY LAST MINUTE MOVES — Long-Term Research Plans Ditched; New Round of Buyouts; New “Brand” Emphasis
December 10, 2008  EPA DESECRATING NATIVE ARTIFACTS ON SUPERFUND SITES — Widespread Noncompliance Wipes Out Invaluable Prehistoric and Cultural Heritage
December 8, 2008  WHY LISA JACKSON SHOULD NOT RUN EPA — Disastrous Record in New Jersey Bodes Ill for Reforming EPA
December 3, 2008  EPA DELAY ON ELECTRONIC REPORTS UNDERCUTS ECO-ENFORCEMENT — Decade-Long Effort Derailed by Bush Appointee This Week without Explanation
November 17, 2008   HOW TO RESUSCITATE THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY — EPA Employees Want Committed Leaders Able to Resist Political Pressure
October 1, 2008  EPA DROPS PLAN FOR PESTICIDE ENDORSEMENTS AND CAUSE MARKETING — Loophole Left for Case-by-Case Okays of Label Pesticide Pitches, Plugs and Logos
September 29, 2008  SHUTTERED EPA LIBRARIES OPEN DOORS TOMORROW AFTER TWO YEARS — EPA Headquarters and Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City Regional Libraries Re-Open
September 22, 2008  EPA DELAYS EXPERIMENTS EXPOSING CHILDREN TO CHEMICALS — Studies Modeled on Infamous CHEERS Underline Enduring Ethical Uncertainties
September 15, 2008   RACIAL HARASSMENT RIFE IN EPA ENFORCEMENT OFFICE — “Management Mafia” Condones Slurs and Adverse Acts While Resisting Remedies
September 8, 2008  FEDS PROCEED QUICKLY ON STALLED NEW JERSEY TOXIC CLEAN-UPS — EPA Remediation Plan for Brick Township Landfill Ready for Public Review
August 20, 2008  EPA ELBOWS CORPS ASIDE TO PROTECT WESTERN RIVERS — L.A. and Santa Cruz Rivers Will Benefit from Clean Water Act Safeguards
August 14, 2008  STRING OF EPA LEGAL LOSSES ON EVERGLADES NO FLUKE — Latest Stinging Court Ruling Cites EPA Regional Office Clean Water Abdication
August 11, 2008  EPA LIBRARY RESTORATION PACT FINALIZED — Agency Settles Unfair labor Complaint on Librarian Services, Collections and Space
August 5, 2008  CLIMATE STAFF URGE EPA TO COME CLEAN BEFORE CONGRESS — “Professional Staff at EPA Has Nothing to Hide” Says Joint Letter to Johnson
July 28, 2008  EPA STAFF ORDERED TO STONEWALL INVESTIGATORS AND MEDIA — Employees Told Not to Answer Questions or “Make Any Statements”
June 16, 2008  EPA LIBRARY ON EFFECTS OF NEW CHEMICALS WILL REMAIN CLOSED — Four Key Committee Chairs Ask GAO to Review EPA Library “Restoration” Plans
June 9, 2008  EPA MISDEEDS ON TRIAL IN OMBUDSMAN WHISTLEBLOWER HEARING — Witnesses Detail 9/11 Contamination, Toxic Fertilizer and Litany of Other Failings
May 21, 2008  CLOSED EPA LIBRARIES TO RETURN IN LAVATORY-SIZED SPACES — Political Appointee Asserts Control over All Libraries, Repeals 30-Year-Old Manual
May 14, 2008  CAP & TRADE EMISSIONS CONTROL PLANS HAVE POOR TRACK RECORDS — Three Market-Based Air Pollution Programs This Decade Deemed Failures
May 6, 2008  EPA EXPERTS CAST DOUBTS ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING — Verification and Enforcement Challenges May Cripple Global Warming Strategy
April 28, 2008  LAW PROFESSORS BLAST EPA LIBRARIES PLAN — EPA Asks Media and Others to Engage in “National Dialogue” on Information Needs
April 14, 2008  EPA OPENS CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT TO CORPORATE LOBBYING — New Process Marginalizes Government Scientists and Promotes Industry Influence
March 31, 2008  LEAD-SAFE REPAIR RULES FOR PRE-1978 BUILDINGS ENACTED — Long Overdue Step Closes Main Pathway to Childhood Lead Poisoning in the U.S.
March 28, 2008  EPA TO RE-OPEN LIBRARIES BY FALL— BUT THEY WON’T BE THE SAME — Library Holdings Beyond “Core Reference” Require Political Approval
March 26, 2008  EPA PUSHING PESTICIDE PROMOTIONS ON SAFETY LABELS — Environmental Agency Will be Entangled in Details of Marketing Campaigns
March 19, 2008  EPA DROPPED BALL ON PHARMACEUTICALS IN DRINKING WATER — Decade Behind Statutory Deadlines to Screen Chemicals from Drinking Water
March 3, 2008  GROWING NO CONFIDENCE CHORUS CONFRONTS EPA HEAD — Scientist Unions Pledge to Secede from Cooperative Forum, Citing Rising Distrust
February 28, 2008  EPA LIBRARY CLOSURES HAMPERING AGENCY WORK, ARBITRATOR FINDS — EPA Guilty of Bad Faith and Unfair Labor Practice in Shutting Agency Libraries
February 20, 2008  EPA KISSES OFF FLORIDA’S WETLANDS — Developer Sway in EPA Breeds Algal Blooms and Aquifer Contamination
January 31, 2008  LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT SECURES LEAD-SAFE HOUSING RULES — Bush Administration Commits to Standards for Repairs of Older Buildings
January 24, 2008  EPA SCIENTISTS CONDEMN AGENCY’S GREENHOUSE GAS WAIVER DENIAL — EPA Staff Decry Hypocrisy of Johnson’s Pledges of Scientific Rigor and Openness
January 9, 2008  LIVESTOCK LOBBY PRESSURES TO RETAIN WILDLIFE POISONS — Two Front Battle to Block Legislative Ban and EPA Registration Revocation
January 8, 2008  EPA FIGHTS LEGAL BID TO RE-OPEN WORLD TRADE CENTER PROBE — Whistleblower Seeks Restoration of Independent EPA Ombudsman
December 27, 2007  EPA TO SURRENDER ALL DOCUMENTS ON CALIFORNIA WAIVER DECISION — Congress to Determine Whether Johnson Ignored His Legal and Technical Staff
December 21, 2007  CONGRESS DIRECTS EPA TO RE-OPEN ITS LIBRARIES — Omnibus Appropriations Bill Earmarks Money for Restoration of Library Services
December 19, 2007  PESTICIDES TO CARRY CELEBRITY PLUGS AND CHARITY PROMOTIONS — EPA Set to OK Marketing Tie-Ins on Labels Once Limited to Safe Usage Information
November 19, 2007  EPA TAKES FIRST STEP TO BAN WILDLIFE POISONS — Federal Register Notice Asks for Public Comments on Revoking Registration
November 15, 2007  HUMAN EXPERIMENT ETHICS REMAIN UNSETTLED AT EPA — Controversy Surrounding EPA Pesticide Experiments on Infants Lingers
October 22, 2007  EPA CELEBRATING LEAD POISONING PREVENTION WEEK RINGS HOLLOW — Agency Illegally Delays Elimination of Major Lead-Paint Hazard to Children
August 15, 2007  EPA GROWING MORE DEPENDENT ON CORPORATE RESEARCH PACTS — Corporate Research Needs Met with Tax Dollars Outside of Congressional Review
August 1, 2007  SCANT IMPROVEMENT IN SOUTHEAST WATERS UNDER BUSH — EPA Searches for "Mid-Course Corrections" to Solve Poor Water Quality in Region
July 17, 2007  PUBLIC ACCESS TO EPA LIBRARY HOLDINGS IN JEOPARDY — Agency Refuses to Consult with Its Own Scientists; Arbitration Hearing Scheduled
June 21, 2007  EPA STRIVES TO SCORE STYLE POINTS — Detailed Style Manual to Aid “Brand Extension” Yet No Plan for Global Warming
June 7, 2007  EPA TO CONTRACT OUT WATCHDOG FUNCTIONS — EPA Inspector General Shifting Focus to Emphasize Bush Management Agenda
May 24, 2007  EPA SCIENTISTS PROTEST PLANNED LABORATORY CLOSURES — Science Programs Called “Low Hanging Fruit” in Agency Budget Memo
May 16, 2007  MANURE PILES LEFT FOR NEXT ADMINISTRATION — EPA Defers Factory Farm Water Pollution Rules until February 2009
May 2, 2007  EPA QUIETLY RESUMES DISMANTLING LIBRARY SYSTEM — Environmental Prosecutions at Risk from Loss of Original Documents and Cost
April 25, 2007  EPA RELAXES AIR POLLUTION RULES FOR OIL INDUSTRY — Agency Rejects Petition for Controls on North Slope and Extends Ruling Nationally
March 21, 2007  EPA TO DEFANG ITS INSPECTOR GENERAL — Immediate Buy-Outs to Remove Auditors, Criminal Investigators and Chemists
February 8, 2007  EPA LIBRARY SYSTEM CONTINUES TO IMPLODE — Union Charges EPA with Unfair Labor Practice for Refusing to Consult on Closures
January 31, 2007  EPA LIBRARY SYSTEM IN SHAMBLES — On-Line System Unworkable After Physical Collections Dispersed
January 24, 2007  LEGAL BID TO BAN WILDLIFE POISONS — Petition Cites Bio-Terrorist Threat and Loss of “Non-Target” Animals
January 22, 2007  EPA OKAYS “CAUSE MARKETING” LABELS FOR PESTICIDES AND POISONS — Precedent Entangles EPA in Promotional Campaigns at Risk of Consumer Confusion
January 17, 2007  SENATE SHOULD REJECT EPA GENERAL COUNSEL NOMINEE — Actions Undermining Public Health Duties and Whistleblower Protection Cited
December 7, 2006  EPA SCRUBBING LIBRARY WEBSITE TO MAKE REPORTS UNAVAILABLE — Agency Sells $40,000 Worth of Furniture and Equipment for $350
December 5, 2006  EPA STIFLES INTERNAL WETLANDS PROTECTION PROTESTS — Political Appointees in DC to Vet All Objections to Army Corps Permits
November 29, 2006  EPA SCIENTISTS FILE MASS PETITION FOR ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING — Majority of Entire EPA Workforce Calls for Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
November 20, 2006  EPA IS HASTILY DISPOSING OF ITS LIBRARY COLLECTIONS — Orders to Trash Library Holdings Stirs Protests
October 30, 2006  STEALTH CLOSURE OF PRINCIPAL EPA CHEMICAL LIBRARY — Unannounced Move Hampers Agency Scientists’ Review of New Chemicals
October 16, 2006  EPA CLAIMS IMMUNITY FROM LEAD-SAFE HOUSING DUTY — Agency Asserts Its Environmental Responsibilities Evaporate After Six Years
October 9, 2006  EPA SCIENTISTS LOSING ACCESS TO JOURNALS — Cuts in Subscription Budgets Take Scientific Journals and Eco-News Offline
September 25, 2006  EPA TURNS BLIND EYE TO DANGERS OF MOSQUITO MISTING SYSTEMS — States and EPA Staff Calling for Restrictions on Automatic Pesticide Sprinkler Sales
September 21, 2006  EPA CLOSING ITS HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY OCTOBER 1 — Congress Asks for Review of Effects on Research, Regulation and Enforcement
September 13, 2006  BUSH ADMINISTRATION PLANS EVEN BIGGER EPA CUTS FOR ‘08 — Lab Closures, Buyouts and Other “Disinvestments” on the Drawing Board
September 5, 2006  ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT CONTINUES DECLINE UNDER BUSH — Sharp Drop in New Case Referrals Means Fewer Civil and Criminal Prosecutions
September 4, 2006  BUSH DECLARES ECO-WHISTLEBLOWER LAW VOID FOR EPA EMPLOYEES — Stealth Repeal of Clean Water Act Protections by Invoking “Sovereign Immunity”
August 28, 2006  EPA ENFORCEMENT THREATENED BY LIBRARY CLOSURES — Prosecutions at Risk from Loss of Timely Access to Key Documents
August 24, 2006  EPA IS FLYING BLIND, MULTIPLE STUDIES CONCLUDE — Breakdowns in Information Quality and Scientific Integrity Hamstring Agency
August 21, 2006  EPA BEGINS CLOSING LIBRARIES BEFORE CONGRESS ACTS ON PLAN — End of Public Access to Technical Holdings as Original Collections Shuttered
June 29, 2006   10,000 EPA SCIENTISTS PROTEST LIBRARY CLOSURES — Loss of Access to Collections Will Hamper Emergency Response and Research
June 23, 2006  EPA FORGOT TO SHIELD NURSING MOTHERS IN PESTICIDE EXPERIMENTS — Rule Amendment to Correct Oversight Underlines Flaws in Human Testing Plan
May 30, 2006  PESTICIDE INDUSTRY PLOTTED BUSH HUMAN TESTING POLICY — Meeting with OMB Staff Laid Out Exemptions for Experiments on Children
May 25, 2006  EPA SCIENTISTS PROTEST PENDING PESTICIDE APPROVALS — Unacceptable Risk to Children and Political Pressure on Scientists Decried
May 24, 2006  EPA LEAD CLEANUP PLAN OMITS DAY CARE AND PREGNANT WOMEN — Public Comment Deadline Signals Start of Pitched Legal Battle
May 8, 2006  TAKING THE “E” OUT OF EPA — Agency Elevating Security Functions While Cutting Child Health Efforts
April 19, 2006  CONSERVATION GROUPS CHARGE EPA WITH VIOLATING ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT — Call for fisheries biologists to evaluate pollution discharged into critical habitat
March 16, 2006  EPA CLOSING ITS MIDWEST LIBRARY — Holding Will Be Stored Indefinitely; Public Access to Research Compromised
March 16, 2006  EPA DUMBING DOWN ITS RESEARCH — Shrinking Environmental Research Budget Siphoned Off to Other Tasks
February 28, 2006  EPA OKAYS CHEMICAL TESTING ON FETAL TISSUE — Mysterious Language Change Buried within Final Human Subject Testing Rule
February 15, 2006  EPA CONTINUES TO SCREEN ALL INTERVIEWS WITH SCIENTISTS — EPA Will Not Match “Open Science” Policies Adopted at NASA and NOAA
February 10, 2006  BUSH AXING LIBRARIES WHILE PUSHING FOR MORE RESEARCH — EPA Set to Close Library Network and Electronic Catalog
January 5, 2006  EPA SURVEYS NEWS EDITORS TO ASSESS ITS IMAGE — Tax Dollars Used to Bolster Agency’s Tattered Reputation
December 20, 2005  EPA SUED FOR IGNORING LEAD POISONING HAZARDS — More than One Million Children at Risk from Lead Paint Exposure in Older Homes
December 12, 2005  EPA TO EXPAND USE OF HUMAN CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS — Public Comment Period Closes Today on EPA Plan
December 8, 2005  DEVELOPERS REPRESENTED BY TOP EPA OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO PRISON — EPA Official Testified Against His Own Agency at Criminal Trial
November 3, 2005  EPA CREATES “INTELLIGENCE” UNIT IN NEW REORGANIZATION — Office of Children’s Health Protection Axed
October 6, 2005  EPA BECOMING ARM OF CORPORATE R & D — Bush Nominee to Head EPA Research Program Opposed
October 5, 2005  CHEMICAL INDUSTRY IS NOW EPA’S MAIN RESEARCH PARTNER — Research Joint Ventures Focus on Corporate Needs Rather Than Public Health
October 3, 2005  EPA TO OUTSOURCE ITS STAFF — Five % of Total Workforce on the Block by 2008; Enforcement Positions Included
August 18, 2005  EPA WALKING AWAY FROM NATION’S LARGEST SUPERFUND SITE — Deal With BP/ARCO Will Leave Butte Contaminated for Centuries
August 11, 2005  EPA PROPOSES ONLY HALF-STEPS ON HUMAN CHEMICAL TESTING — Proposed Rule Riddled With Loopholes; Would Not Bar Infamous “CHEERS” Study
August 2, 2005  EPA MULLING REGULATORY OPTIONS ON LEAD PAINT — Agency Looking at Economics Not Public Health in Crafting Renovation Rule
August 1, 2005  EPA SCIENTISTS CRITICAL OF LEADERSHIP — Agency Survey Shows Declining Trust and Deteriorating Communication
July 26, 2005  EPA ROLLING OUT MULTI-YEAR PR CAMPAIGN – “SCIENCE FOR YOU” — Inspector General Opens Investigation; PR Execs Now Running Labs
July 18, 2005  EPA SPENDING MILLIONS TO ENHANCE ITS “CORPORATE IMAGE” — Contract for Public Relations Firms to Improve Agency’s Scientific Reputation
July 6, 2005  EPA TO FACE LEAD-BASED PAINT LAWSUIT — Public Health Groups Serve Notice That Nine-Year Delay is Too Long
June 16, 2005  EPA ENCOURAGING PESTICIDE COMPANIES TO CONDUCT HUMAN STUDIES — Proposed New Rules Lack Any Ethical Protections for Study Subjects
June 2, 2005  EPA DROPS VOLUNTARY PROGRAM FOR LEAD POISON PREVENTION — Agency Had Touted Its Voluntary Approach As Alternative to Regulation
May 18, 2005  TOP EPA OFFICIAL TESTIFIES AGAINST OWN AGENCY IN CRIMINAL TRIAL — Jimmy Palmer Sides With Developer Found Guilty of Water Pollution, Fraud and Conspiracy
May 9, 2005  EPA ON THRESHOLD OF BRAVE NEW WORLD OF HUMAN TESTING — EPA Invites Industry to Mimic Practices of Discontinued CHEERS Study
April 12, 2005  ATTORNEY GENERALS PROTEST EPA LEAD PAINT REVERSAL BY JOHNSON — Eliot Spitzer and Lisa Madigan Call for Action on Lead-Safe Remodeling Rule
April 8, 2005  EPA GRUDGINGLY PULLS PLUG ON QUESTIONABLE “CHEERS” STUDY — Other Human Pesticide Dosing Studies Without Safeguards Can Continue
March 31, 2005  EPA REFUSES TO RELEASE RESULTS OF SCIENTIST SURVEYS — Group Sues to Force Disclosure of Polls of Agency Scientists
March 14, 2005  EPA ABANDONS LEAD-BASED PAINT PROTECTIONS — 1.4 Million Children and Thousands of Construction Workers Remain At Risk
February 7, 2005  EPA EMBRACES HUMAN PESTICIDE DOSING WITHOUT SAFEGUARDS — Ethical Rules “Non-Binding”— No Standards to Protect Infants and Fetuses
December 6, 2004  EPA STIFLES OBJECTIONS TO BUSH ROADLESS PLAN — Water Quality, Habitat and Other Concerns Cut from Comments to Forest Service
November 30, 2004  EPA SET TO ACCEPT HUMAN PESTICIDE DOSING STUDIES — "Senior Agency Officials" to Decide Ethical Concerns on "Case-By-Case Basis"
November 9, 2004  EPA STALLS INFANT PESTICIDE DOSING STUDY — Cites Negative News Coverage As Need for Further Review
November 1, 2004  EPA PAYS FAMILIES TO EXPOSE THEIR INFANTS TO PESTICIDES — Joint Study With Chemical Industry to Measure Exposure in the Home
September 22, 2004  EPA ISSUES PRE-ELECTION GAG ORDER TO STAFF — EPA Directs Employees to "Refrain From Answering" Media Inquiries
August 26, 2004  STATE & NATIONAL CONSERVATION GROUPS SET TO SUE FEDERAL AGENCIES TO PROTECT TENNESSEE WETLANDS — Challenges Administration Policy on "Isolated Waters"
March 31, 2004  LEAVITT DAMPENS EPA CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT — Promised Reforms Not Implemented, Vacancies Unfilled, Prosecutions Falling
February 9, 2004  EPA RELAXES AIR POLLUTION RULES FOR NORTH SLOPE OIL OPERATIONS — Leavitt Asked to Intervene on BP Permit
December 16, 2003  EPA TO REVAMP CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT — Review Urges Cutback in Security Details, Better Case Tracking and Outside Audit
December 10, 2003  STAFF SAY EPA BEING POLITICIZED AS NEVER BEFORE — Survey Cites Lack of Candor, Fear of Retaliation
October 22, 2003  WETLANDS POLLUTE, SAYS STUDY OKAYED BY EPA — EPA Biologist Resigns in Protest; Study Clears Way for SW Florida Developments
October 16, 2003  EPA INSPECTOR GENERAL GRADES ENFORCEMENT AS SHAKY — Inability to Track Workload or Results
October 2, 2003  GROUPS PETITION EPA TO PROTECT WETLANDS IN SW FLORIDA — Western Everglades At Risk From Development
September 15, 2003  EPA FACING LARGE REDUCTIONS IN "CORE PROGRAMS" — Congressional Earmarks and Diversions Padding the Budget While Forcing Cuts
July 9, 2003  EPA CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT CHIEF REMOVED — Slumping Enforcement Program Faces Restructure
May 2, 2003  EPA, US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, AND USFWS WIN PEER'S 2003 ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AWARD — Handling of Proposed Route 11 Project
April 29, 2003  CASES FOR POLLUTION PROSECUTIONS PLUMMETING UNDER WHITMAN — New Referrals Way Down; Agents Cite Enforcement De-emphasis
April 28, 2003  WHITMAN'S OUTSIZED SECURITY ESCORT DRAINS POLLUTION ENFORCEMENT — Agents Used for Personal Errands, "Guarding Miss Daisy"
April 28, 2003  EPA NOW STRESSING SECURITY AT EXPENSE OF ENFORCEMENT — Criminal Program Headed in Wrong Direction, Staff Says
December 19, 2002  FEDERAL OUTSOURCING THREATENS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION — "Science for Sale" Favors Industry
November 29, 2002  BACK DOOR TRADING OF POLLUTION CREDITS SLATED FOR LOUISIANA — EPA Staff Protests Ignored
November 25, 2002  CORZINE CALLS FOR HEARINGS ON HAZARDOUS CONTAMINANTS — Cites Recent Reports Noting Threat from Inactive Military Ranges
November 25, 2002  LEFTOVER WEAPONS ON MILITARY SITES REQUIRE "LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP" IN HISTORY — Area Larger Than the State of Florida Contaminated
November 12, 2002  L.A. AIR POLLUTION TRADING GETS LOW MARKS FROM EPA — Report Dampens President's "Clear Skies" Projections
October 2, 2002  EPA INSPECTOR GENERAL SLAMS POLLUTION TRADING — Critical Reports Confirm Employee Criticisms; EPA Will Ignore I.G. Recommendations
September 16, 2002  NEW JERSEY REJECTS EPA PLAN FOR TRADING POLLUTION CREDITS — Rebuked EPA Weighs Enforcement Against Companies Using Credits
May 23, 2002  EPA "IG" REVIEWS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IMPACTS OF EMISSION TRADING — Toxic Hot Spots in Poor Areas Feared
May 14, 2002  EPA RIPS BP PERMIT — Feds Echo Concerns of Censored ADEC Employee
April 29, 2002  EPA IGNORES WARNING OF PHONY POLLUTION CREDITS — US TO APPROVE MICHIGAN AS FIRST "OPEN MARKET" AIR TRADING PROGRAM
March 25, 2002  NOMINEE UNQUALIFIED FOR EPA ENFORCEMENT POST, SAYS EMPLOYEE GROUP — Mediocre Record As Prosecutor
March 18, 2002  COLORADO COMPANY TO BUY NJ RADIOACTIVE WASTE — Group Calls for Public Input
March 11, 2002  ONE THIRD OF MAJOR AIR POLLUTERS STILL LACK PERMITS — New England Trails
January 10, 2002  ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT PLUMMETS UNDER BUSH — Drop Prior to 9-11 Further Declines; Forecast as Nearly Half of Agents Reassigned
May 31, 2001  ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS OPPOSE OPEN MARKET EMISSIONS TRADING — Groups Ask EPA For Moratorium On State Trading Programs
April 30, 2001  BUSH BUDGET CUTS ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT — Double Digit Drops in Inspections, Civil & Criminal Cases
February 14, 2001  NEW POLLUTION TRADING FOR FOUR STATES GUTS CLEAN AIR ACT — Whitman Trading Plans Emerge as First EPA Policies
December 11, 2000  THREE STATES TO START AIR POLLUTION TRADING — EPA Overrides Internal Objections on Ability to Enforce
September 13, 2000  CHICAGO GETS SPECIAL CLEAN AIR EXEMPTION — Unprecedented Pre-Election Deal Rushed Through
June 29, 2000  EPA ABANDONS CLEAN WATER GOALS — Drive for "Healthy Aquatic Communities" Dropped
June 26, 2000  PLAN FOR TRADING AIR POLLUTION ON OPEN MARKET IS PREMATURE, SAY EMPLOYEES — EPA Stifles Internal Dissent About Problems
June 5, 2000  SECRET EPA PLAN TO RELAX CLEAN AIR RULES — Avoidance of Clean Air Act is Stated Goal; Privatizes Pollution Enforcement
May 25, 2000  TEXAS IS TOO SWINE-FRIENDLY UNDER BUSH — Pig Plants Plague Panhandle
January 26, 2000  "GENETIC GENIE" REPORT RELEASED — EPA Scientists Detail Weaknesses in Risk Assessments of Genetically Modified Organisms
White Papers
Trading Thin Air — EPA's Plan to Allow Open Market Trading of Air Pollution Credits (June 2000)
This report details the problems plaguing EPA plans for open market trading of air pollution credits and explains their consequences for public health and the environment. more >>
Murky Waters — An Inside Look at EPA's Implementation of the Clean Water Act (May 1999)
An inside look at EPA's implementation of the Clean Water Act. This report contains a set of recommendations to remedy the deficiencies in the water quailty assesment for our nation's rivers and streams. more >>
Genetic Genie — The Premature Commercial Release of Genetically Engineered Bacteria (August 1995)
The EPA is preparing to approve the first commercial release of genetically engineered bacteria for use in agriculture. EPA scientists charge that the agency has not adequately assessed the environmental or human health risks of releasing this new life form into the environment. more >>
Surveys
2003  EPA Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics & Training Survey
2003  2003 PEER Survey of EPA Region 8 Employees
1998  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 1 Survey
Other PEER Activities
PEER Campaign: EPA and Human Testing
PEER Opposition to the Confirmation of Donald Schregardus as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement & Compliance Assurance (OECA), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Read PEER's comments on the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) proposed rulemaking