Environmental Protection Agency

News Releases

CLOSED EPA LIBRARIES TO RETURN IN LAVATORY-SIZED SPACES

Political Appointee Asserts Control over All Libraries, Repeals 30-Year-Old Manual

CAP & TRADE EMISSIONS CONTROL PLANS HAVE POOR TRACK RECORDS

Three Market-Based Air Pollution Programs This Decade Deemed Failures

EPA EXPERTS CAST DOUBTS ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TRADING

Verification and Enforcement Challenges May Cripple Global Warming Strategy

LAW PROFESSORS BLAST EPA LIBRARIES PLAN

EPA Asks Media and Others to Engage in “National Dialogue” on Information Needs

EPA OPENS CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT TO CORPORATE LOBBYING

New Process Marginalizes Government Scientists and Promotes Industry Influence

LEAD-SAFE REPAIR RULES FOR PRE-1978 BUILDINGS ENACTED

Long Overdue Step Closes Main Pathway to Childhood Lead Poisoning in the U.S.

EPA TO RE-OPEN LIBRARIES BY FALL— BUT THEY WON’T BE THE SAME

Library Holdings Beyond “Core Reference” Require Political Approval

EPA PUSHING PESTICIDE PROMOTIONS ON SAFETY LABELS

Environmental Agency Will be Entangled in Details of Marketing Campaigns

EPA DROPPED BALL ON PHARMACEUTICALS IN DRINKING WATER

Decade Behind Statutory Deadlines to Screen Chemicals from Drinking Water

GROWING NO CONFIDENCE CHORUS CONFRONTS EPA HEAD

Scientist Unions Pledge to Secede from Cooperative Forum, Citing Rising Distrust



White Papers
Trading Thin AirEPA's Plan to Allow Open Market Trading of Air Pollution Credits (June 2000)
This report details the problems plaguing EPA plans for open market trading of air pollution credits and explains their consequences for public health and the environment. more >>

Murky WatersAn Inside Look at EPA's Implementation of the Clean Water Act (May 1999)
An inside look at EPA's implementation of the Clean Water Act. This report contains a set of recommendations to remedy the deficiencies in the water quailty assesment for our nation's rivers and streams. more >>

Genetic GenieThe Premature Commercial Release of Genetically Engineered Bacteria (August 1995)
The EPA is preparing to approve the first commercial release of genetically engineered bacteria for use in agriculture. EPA scientists charge that the agency has not adequately assessed the environmental or human health risks of releasing this new life form into the environment. more >>

Surveys
2010  2010 EPA Criminal Investigation Division Agents Survey

2003  EPA Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics & Training Survey

2003  2003 PEER Survey of EPA Region 8 Employees

1998  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 1 Survey

Other PEER Activities
PEER Campaign: EPA and Human Testing

PEER Opposition to the Confirmation of Donald Schregardus as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement & Compliance Assurance (OECA), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Read PEER's comments on the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANCC) proposed rulemaking