Posted on August 20, 2018
Nearly 100 Red Tide-Related Deaths So Far; Second-Highest Total This Decade Washington, DC — Driven by toxic red tides, Florida manatee mortality this year has already surpassed losses during all of 2017, according to figures posted today by… Read More
Category: Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News Tags: algae, manatee, peer, Pollution, red tide
Posted on June 25, 2018
Fewer Investigators Translates into Fewer Referrals, Prosecutions, and Defendants Washington, DC — Belying Scott Pruitt’s claims to be a tough polluter prosecutor, criminal enforcement by his U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in a freefall, according to figures… Read More
Category: Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News Tags: EPA, peer, scott pruitt
Posted on November 30, 2017
No Notice to Residents at Thousands of Sites Polluted by Leaking Petroleum Tanks Tallahassee — Florida is plagued by a stain of stealth pollution seeping from thousands of leaking petroleum tanks fouling both surface and groundwater, according… Read More
Category: Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News Tags: contaminated water, DEP, peer, Petroleum Tanks
Posted on November 7, 2017
Washington, DC — Survival of the Louisiana black bear requires that it regain protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, according to a notice of intent to file suit released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)…. Read More
Category: Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News Tags: black bear, Louisiana, peer
Posted on October 17, 2017
Washington, DC — In a startling public health reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now declaring that radiation exposures equivalent to as many as 5,000 chest x-rays “usually result in no harmful health effects,” according to an… Read More
Posted on September 28, 2017
Washington, DC — The Trump effort to slash the scope of Clean Water Act protections is unprecedented, underhanded, and unsupported by a factual record, according to public comments filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The… Read More
Category: Climate Justice, Featured, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs Tags: Clean Water Act, Climate COP, COP, Donald Trump, EPA, peer, UN
Posted on August 2, 2017
Criminal Complaint Cites State Payments for Hunting Dogs Killed in Wolf Clashes Washington, DC — Hunters unleashing packs of dogs to tree bears in Wisconsin woods are criminally harassing gray wolves in violation of the Endangered Species… Read More
Category: Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Social Media News Tags: bear, DNR, Endangered Species Act, forests, grey wolves, hounding, hunting, peer, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Posted on July 21, 2017
Washington, DC — The Trump administration is taking aim at restrictions on recreational hunting and trapping inside parks and refuges in Alaska, according to directives posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The regulations limit questionable… Read More
Posted on March 13, 2017
Lawsuit to Block Transfer at Critical Stage as Refuge Withers on Starvation Diet Washington, DC — It is now up to new Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to decide how the government will respond to the Public Employees… Read More
Category: Featured, Social Media News Tags: bison range, Fish & Wildlife Service, interior secretary, peer, peer.org
Posted on January 27, 2017
This week’s Earth Watch guest on the Sojourner Truth Radio show was PEER executive director Jeff Ruch. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals. Ruch and show host… Read More
Category: Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Social Media News Tags: Donald Trump, earth radio, earth watch, Jeff Ruch, kpfk, margaret prescod, pacifica radio, peer, sojourner truth, sojourner truth show
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