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.
Coronavirus
In response to the novel coronavirus, 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 born 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
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PEERMail: Anti-Science Agenda Getting a Green Light
Failure to address the pandemic lies with Trump and politicians like Mitch McConnell who have a long history gutting funding of our public health agencies and ignoring the advice of scientists and health advocates.
BLOG: How Mitch McConnell Gutted the Pandemic Response
While he has been the Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell has led efforts to cut $1.6 trillion in critical funding for CDC and NIH research. And now, as our public health services are begging for resources to save lives from the pandemic, Americans are living the policy result of Sen. McConnell’s efforts.
PEER Letter to Suspend Action During Coronavirus Crisis
A coalition of more than 90 conservation groups issued a letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt urging the department to “suspend major policy changes, changes to regulations, oil and gas lease sales and public comment periods.”
BLOG: Self-Dealing, COVID-19 and the Public Trust
U.S. Senators sold millions of dollars in stock after receiving non-public information during Congressional briefings in January on the coronavirus threat.
Coronavirus Leaves National Parks in Leaderless Limbo
Park Entrance Fees Waived as Visitor Centers Shuttered and Staff Telework
ALERT: Pandemic Perspective
As the novel coronavirus spreads across the country, many people have asked how we plan to continue to our work. The global impact of the coronavirus is bringing dramatic changes to how we live, many of which we have already begun to feel around the nation.
Trump’s Misguided Pandemic Talking Points
Officials Ordered to Praise the President and Downplay Risks
PFAS Taints Upper Hudson Valley
New York State Must Act to Close Toxic Landfill
PEERMail: Bungling Public Health in a Pandemic
The bungled response to the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the rapid decline in the U.S. government’s ability to anticipate and respond to emerging and existing public health threats.
PEER Obtains Evidence of “Forever Chemicals” at Air Force Academy
Washing Your Hands Can’t Stop PFAS in Water
Massachusetts PFAS Plan Good Start, But Too Limited
Sets Limits too High, Omits Thousands of PFAS and Fails to Address Sources
BLOG: Weak Industrial Accident Emissions Rule Final But Not Effective
After more than 20 years of delay and a successful lawsuit by PEER and chemical safety advocacy groups, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) dashed hopes that it would at long last issue a robust rule requiring the reporting of incidents involving the release of...
Artificial Turf’s Big Lie: Old Fields Not Recycled
No Recycling Facilities, So Tons of Plastic Carpet Dumped
Groups Petition EPA to Regulate PFAS Waste
The absence of any federal standards for tracking and managing wastes contaminated with toxic per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) poses a major and growing threat to our health, water, and soil. That is why, on January 15, 2020, on behalf of the Green Science...
PEERMail: Exploding in a Neighborhood Near You
Politicians of both parties cite America’s crumbling bridges, dams, and other public infrastructure but few say anything about our aging industrial infrastructure. Consider: Most all of America’s 148 refineries were built before 1985. Most all suffer from aging...
Industrial Accident Emissions Reporting Plan Too Weak
CSB Proposal Would Not Produce Useful, Accurate, or Timely Information
BLOG: EPA Continues to Approve Bee-Killing Insecticides
With over 40 percent of insect life threatened with extinction in the next few decades, the Environmental Protection Agency continues to issue emergency exemptions to toxic pollinator-killing insecticides at unprecedented rates, according to data gathered by the...
Colorado Lags in Controlling Forever Chemicals
Dangerous Levels of PFAS in Drinking Water Without Enforceable Limits
Malibu School Toxic PCB Clean-Up Still a Mess
Students and Teachers Still in Rooms Contaminated Well Above Legal Limits
BLOG: Dark Waters and the Threat of PFAS Chemicals
We aren’t usually in the movie promotion business, but we did want to tell you about the movie Dark Waters and how it relates to our work at PEER. Dark Waters is a recently released movie based on a true story about a lawyer and a community who fought DuPont chemical...
