Protecting Public Health
Environmental and health specialists are heartsick over the malfeasance of their agencies in failing to protect the health of children, workers and the public at large. We expose information about the effects of environmental toxins on public health, challenge industry capture of our regulatory agencies, and fight for an effective safety net to protect us from dangerous toxins.
Covid-19 Pandemic
In response to Covid-10 global pandemic, PEER is stepping up its efforts to ensure that public health experts have the capacity and the legal backing to speak truth to power and that government agencies continue their essential functions.
Artificial Turf
Human health risks from toxic chemicals and known carcinogens found in synthetic sports fields and playgrounds made from shredded tires remain largely unstudied.
PFAS
The EPA is failing to protect the public from the health risks of this new class of chemicals.
Toxic Cleanups
EPA and state governments often fail to clean up some of the most dangerous toxic sites.
Chemical Safety
The US Chemical Safety Board is failing in its duty to monitor, investigate and report on chemical safety accidents in the U.S.
Sick Schools
Contaminated soil, air borne pollutants and toxic building materials should have no place in our schools.
Coal Combustion Waste
Toxic coal ash is in a growing stream of consumer, agricultural and commercial products without oversight.
NEWS FROM PEER
Fraud Charged in EPA Pesticide Risk Assessment
Downgrade of Fumigant Cancer-Potential Due to Pervasive Misconduct
EPA Scientist Wins Award Amid Fight To Win Her Job Back
Dr. Etzel Seeks Return to Helm of Office of Children’s Health Protection
BLOG | It’s Time to Ban Most PFAS Uses
Congress needs to step up and ban all but essential uses of PFAS and hold polluters accountable. Every delay in regulation increases exposure.
USGS Restores Fired Lab Biosafety Whistleblower
Scientist Had Raised Alarms about Wildlife Disease Lab Biosecurity Breaches
6 Things You Should Know About PFAS
PFAS is a ubiquitous chemical that is found in a range of everyday products. Here are six things you should know about “forever chemicals.”
Webinar | EPA’s Broken Pesticides Program
Webinar on steps that the Biden administration must take to fix its broken pesticides program at the EPA.
PFAS Found in Widely Used Insecticide
Environmental groups call on EPA and Maryland to find and eliminate source
USGS Wildlife Labs Criticized Over Animal Care
Call for Independent Accreditation of All USGS Live Animal Facilities
PEERMail | Fraud in EPA’s Chemical Assessments
Toxic chemicals that are banned elsewhere continue to flood onto the U.S. market and fraudulent studies at the EPA are making matters worse.
BLOG | EPA’s Bad Chemistry Is Killing Us
We cannot afford to wait for EPA to finally become a 21st century regulator of harmful chemicals that find our way into food, water, and air.
Fraud Charged in EPA Pesticide Risk Assessment
Downgrade of Fumigant Cancer-Potential Due to Pervasive Misconduct
BLOG | Research Suppression at USDA and Stagnation of Agricultural Science
Jonathan Lundgren was a top-rated USDA research scientist until he started revealing the environmental harms of the neonicotinoid insecticides and other favorite products of the pesticide industry.
Federal Wildlife Disease Labs in Dangerous Shape
Biosafety Breaches Risk Zoonotic Outbreaks and Hinder COVID Research
BLOG | Social Distancing to Curb COVID-19 and Park Overcrowding
Biden Executive Order on COVID-19 protocols on federal property puts the National Park Service under a direct presidential order to do something it’s resisted for years – manage overcrowding.
Statement | Biden Administration’s New Direction on Climate
Biden’s executive orders are the first steps to a rapid transition from fossil fuels and increased protections for our communities, public lands and oceans.
Op-Ed | Viewpoint: EPA Needs to Return to Its Public Health Roots
By returning to its public health roots, the EPA can begin to restore the public’s trust in its ability to protect both public health and the environment.
EPA Confirms PFAS in Aerial Pesticides
Regulatory Loopholes Allow Massive Spread of Toxic “Forever Chemicals”
Beyond 2020: Pollution Enforcement
The strength of pollution regulation in the U.S. relies on enforcement, and the agency in charge is falling down on the job.
BLOG | Wheeler Trashes Science on His Way Out the Door at EPA
The new rule is an attempt to restrict EPA’s ability to rely on science when taking regulatory actions or making science-based decisions.
New EPA Lead and Copper Rule Inadequate
Final Rule Perpetuates Risk to Minority Communities
Beyond 2020: Pesticides
Recommendations to Congress and the EPA to protect the environment and public health from the dangers of pesticides.
