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 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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Treasure Island – Another Botched Navy Cleanup in SF Bay
Navy Refused to Review Tetra Tech Work Despite Extensive Hunters Point Fraud
BLM Cuts Engineering Oversight of Aging Trans-Alaska Pipeline
BLM Alaska Downsizing Reduces Both Staff and Oil Company Reimbursements
Is EPA Truly Transparent Now That Pruitt Is Gone?
Lawsuit Induced Wheeler to Make a New Records Policy and Transparency Vow
Federal Shutdown Becoming a Polluters Holiday
Humans and Wildlife at Risk by End of Critical Monitoring and Pollution Testing
Not All the Trump Administration Wants a Wall
EPA Guidance Says Surveillance Technology Supplants Need for Physical Barriers
Malibu Schools Want 5 Year Delay in Toxic PCB Cleanup
Students and Teachers Would Remain in Unsafe Classrooms Until 2024 Demolition
PEERMail: It Came From Outer Space
PEER may have helped avert an existential threat to the planet. This time the source was not Donald Trump but something possibly even worse – Silicon Valley greed.
Mercury May Reach Orbit Through Regulatory Blindspot
Mercury Satellite Thruster Propellant Threatens Eco-Catastrophe Back on Earth
Lake O’s Gateway City Spewing Illegal Wastewater
Clewiston Phosphorus and Other Pollution Violations Go Unpunished and Unabated
Tele-Press Conference on EPA Failure to Prevent Future Flint Crises
Retired EPA Experts Discuss Lack of Early Warning System to Avert Lead Drinking Water Tragedies
EPA Has Done Little to Prevent Future Flint Crises
Agency Still Lacks Early Warning System to Avert Lead Drinking Water Tragedies
Suit for Suppressed EPA Formaldehyde Assessment
Furious Industry Lobbying Has Kept Significant Public Health Report Under Wraps
Federal Lab Dumps Fish Pathogens into Lake Washington
Six-Month High-Risk Bio-Breach Prompted No State Action as Recurrences Loom
Navy Sprinkles Pixie Dust Across Hunters Point
Bizarre Retesting Plan Claims 80% of Contaminated Soil Samples Are Clean
EPA Promises Steps to Prevent Child-Lead Dust Exposure
Whistleblower Disclosure Forces Grudging Progress in Housing Renovation Program
SF-Owned Hunters Point Parcels Soil Testing Falsified
EPA Finds 93% of Soil Samples Unreliable on Parcels Transferred to City in 2015
Hunters Point Radiation Problems Worsen
Navy Says Tetra Tech Building Radiation Survey Data Are Also Bogus
EPA’s New Scientific Transparency Exempts Pesticides
Industry Pesticide Registration Data Hidden from Public and Outside Pruitt Plan
Radiation Problems Multiply For San Francisco’s Hunters Point
Nearly All U.S. Navy Radiation Samples Were Falsified, Fraudulent or Unreliable
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to Lapse at Month’s End
No Reauthorization Bill Introduced to Extend Oil Excise Tax for Cleanup Funds
