by Kyla Bennett | Jun 5, 2020
President Trump just announced that he was rescinding protections in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Marine Monument off the New England coast, one of only five Marine Monuments in the country. The 5,000 square mile area east of Cape Cod was closed to...
by Kyla Bennett | May 21, 2020
The old saying that ignorance is bliss is no longer operative. In the current climate, ignorance can kill you. A prime example of embracing ignorance can be found in a pending EPA plan to restrict science originally pushed in Republican legislation sponsored by the...
by Kyla Bennett | Jan 16, 2020
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...
by Kyla Bennett | Dec 4, 2019
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...
by Kyla Bennett | Nov 18, 2019
Impact of proposed Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) redefinition on wetlands and waters in New York: a case study The Trump Administration’s draconian proposal to redefine waters of the United States will wreak havoc on the wetlands and waters of New York. Given that New...
