Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals. PEER's environmental work is solely directed by the needs of its members. As a consequence, we have the distinct honor of serving resource professionals who daily cast profiles in courage in cubicles across the country.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Thursday, January 10, 2013 Alaska Dropped Ball On Runaway Shell Vessel The State of Alaska’s oil spill prevention requirements did not cover the towing capacity for the ship that lost the Royal Dutch Shell PLC drilling vessel that recently ran aground, according to documents posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Instead, the state only looks at the ability of the towing ship to be towed itself. Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, January 07, 2013 Court Orders Tighter Off-Road Plan for Stanislaus Forest In a victory for wildlife habitat in the Sierra Nevada, a federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service failed in its management of forest trails created by off-road vehicles in the Stanislaus National Forest. The court decision released on Friday stated that the Travel Management Plan (TMP) violated federal law because it did not minimize damage to the environment caused by off-road vehicles. U.S. District Court Judge Kimberly Mueller ordered a hearing on February 15th to consider remedies for the illegal TMP. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, January 03, 2013 NOAA Declines to Probe Vast Underestimate of BP Spill The federal agency responsible for misrepresenting estimates for the 2010 BP Gulf oil spill will not investigate the errors, even though numbers presented to the public and decision-makers were less than half the true flow rate, according to documents posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) documenting the official response to its scientific integrity complaint on the subject. The President’s National Commission found that the inaccurate low-ball numbers hampered numerous attempts to cap the run-away well and slowed clean-up efforts. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, December 20, 2012 Arctic Offshore Drilling Safety Assurance Sought The federal agency overseeing offshore oil and gas operations slated for this spring in Arctic waters lacks basic assurances that disastrous spills and other accidents will be prevented or effectively contained, according to a lawsuit filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At issue are the safeguards required to protect against such known hazards as sea ice, subsurface ice scour and blowouts, as well as specifications for well design and well integrity control. Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Rolling Purple Purge Ribbles Through Florida Environmental Agency The Scott administration has begun laying off environmental employees in a shockingly draconian fashion, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Besides mass firings, state officials are abolishing scores of vacant positions, making it impossible to counter accumulated attrition at a time when environmental performance is already plummeting. During the past few weeks, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) – Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, November 08, 2012 Judge Orders Eradication of GE Plants on Wildlife Refuges In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern U.S. The court also ordered unprecedented steps to mitigate environmental damage from previous illegal cultivation of GE crops. The decision concludes a successful lawsuit brought by the public interest groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Beyond Pesticides. Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, November 05, 2012 Cascading Failures Threaten New Jersey Water Supplies New Jersey is in a race against time to safeguard its supply of drinkable water due to massive amounts of sewage flowing from treatment plants disabled by Hurricane Sandy, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Drinking water intakes on several rivers are under threat from potentially inoperative sewage plants, power blackouts and failing back-up generators. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, November 01, 2012 Most US Waters are Polluted and Getting Dirtier Hurricane Sandy has generated sewage overflows and storm-water run-off that is transforming many Eastern Seaboard waters into toxic soup, too hazardous to even touch. But many of these waters were already profoundly polluted, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) figures reposted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Judge Halts GE Crops on Southeastern Wildlife Refuges A federal court ruled in favor of the public interest groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Beyond Pesticides yesterday, halting cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) crops in all national wildlife refuges in the Southeastern U.S. The ruling is the third in a series of victories against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) resulting in the removal of GE cultivation from federal wildlife preserves. In March 2009, the same groups won a similar lawsuit against GE plantings on Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, October 02, 2012 Aerial Spraying Leaves Pesticide Footprint in Local Waters Detectable levels of a pesticide-borne chemical classified as a possible carcinogen have been found in Massachusetts water bodies, including drinking water sources, following aerial sprayings this summer, according to a state report posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). While not spraying directly above water bodies, state officials allowed applicators to spray right up to water’s edge, with no buffer zone or other attempt to limit pesticide drift into water bodies. Read more |