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
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.
Air Pollution
Colorado has been undermining its own air pollution experts for years in favor of easing requirements for industry.
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.
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.
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
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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 dangerous chemicals from oil refineries and other industrial facilities.
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
Absence of any federal standards for tracking and managing wastes contaminated with toxic polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) poses a major and growing threat to our health, water, and soil.
PEERMail: Exploding in a Neighborhood Near You
America’s industrial infrastructure suffers from aging pipes prone to corrosive leaks leading to ignition that have led to near-catastrophic accidents..
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, the EPA continues to issue emergency exemptions to toxic pollinator-killing insecticides.
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...
Fertilizers Spread Forever Chemicals Across U.S.
Biosolids Carry High PFAS Content; Often Produced at Taxpayer Expense
Massachusetts Issues Permit for PFAS It Is Fighting
Big Discharge Slated for Merrimack River – Water Source for Half-Million
EPA Declines to Avert Mass-Casualty Refinery Accidents
Despite Near Misses, Agency Claims Ignorance on Hydrogen Fluoride Risks
Industry in a Dither about PFAS in Synthetic Turf
Non-Denials and Trade Secret Claims Prompt More Testing of Carpet
Toxic Forever Chemicals Infest Artificial Turf
Processing aids that contaminate synthetic turf with PFAS may be in other plastic goods
PEERMail: EPA Weaponizing Water
Last week, EPA's Inspector General slammed the agency for repeatedly looking the other way when public water systems don't inform their customers of violations that could jeopardize their health. The IG found that EPA does a poor job of oversight and of warning the...
Forever Chemical Requires Cradle-to-Grave Approach
To Stem Exponential Spread All PFAS Chains Must Be Classified Hazardous
