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 02, 2014 Malibu Teachers Protest District's Toxic Plans Teachers in a contaminated school complex are challenging the effectiveness, scope and integrity of their district’s hurried effort to clean classrooms while ignoring the source or extent of an array of other toxic chemicals found on campus, according to a letter released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The teachers are asking the district to discharge its current environmental consultant and open its arrangements to public review and input. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, October 31, 2013 Gas Pipeline Poised to Carve Through New Jersey's Pinelands The Christie administration has engineered the impending approval of a high-pressure gas pipeline that will cut through the heart of the Pinelands, a heavily forested coastal plain designated as an U.N. International Biosphere Reserve. Slated to cross two rivers and up to 14 streams, the 22-mile $90 million energy project would be a major environmental reversal, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Longlines Killing Pacific Seabirds at Record Rate Longline fishing fleets in the Pacific Ocean are killing and maiming more seabirds at the highest rates recorded, according to documents posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The growing loss of seabirds caught on hooks or tangled in fishing gear appears to signal that National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) mitigation plan implemented a decade ago has not curbed this unintended harvest. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, July 17, 2013 No Surprise Federal Pipeline Safety Exercises Since 2005 The federal pipeline safety agency has not conducted a single surprise exercise for more than eight years to determine whether an operator can execute emergency response plans, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Nor does the agency have a ready account of which emergency response plans it has approved, rejected or changed. Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, July 15, 2013 Exxon Valdez Recovery Remains Stuck in Limbo Nearly 25 years after the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, the recovery plan for long-term natural resource damages sits on a shelf, according to documents posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In recent court filings, the U.S. Justice Department and State of Alaska say they are still waiting for long overdue scientific studies before collecting a final $92 million claim to implement the recovery plan for unanticipated harm to fish, wildlife and habitat. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, May 16, 2013 High Seas Harassment of Fisheries Observers More Than Doubles Attacks against independent monitors of U.S. fishing fleets more than doubled between 2007 and 2011, according to official figures posted today by the Association for Professional Observers (APO) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In the vast majority of cases, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) took no enforcement action, and when it did, a warning was the most frequent sanction. Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, April 18, 2013 EPA Abdicates Oversight Role in Protecting Florida Waters The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has shirked its duty to enforce minimum national standards required by the Clean Water Act, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result, EPA has stood by as the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has systematically gutted water pollution safeguards. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Federal Pipeline Safety Vacuum Magnifies Risks In a week witnessing three major pipeline spills, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the entity supposed to be our first line of defense, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), is not up to the task. The size of the gap between what it is supposed to do and what it actually does is the subject of a lawsuit filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, March 04, 2013 Outages Spread in Critical Tsunami Warning System Our principal ocean-based tsunami warning system is suffering from large dead zones that compromise its effectiveness, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). New funding limits imposed by sequestration and unresolved budget strains inside of National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may result in even more system outages. Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, February 13, 2013 Federal Review of Missouri Parks' Drinking Water Sought Some Missouri state parks have a troubling number of violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to a call for a federal enforcement review made today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Since 2010, state park water systems have incurred 14 health-based violations for total coliform bacteria and two violations for E. coli. Read more |