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News Releases

HUNTERS POINT RADIATION PROBLEMS WORSEN

Navy Says Tetra Tech Building Radiation Survey Data Are Also Bogus

PRUITT’S NEW DIRTY AIR PLAN HATCHED BEHIND THE SCENES

Ambient or Outdoor Air Pollution Standards Set for Rollback per Industry Playbook

EPA’S NEW SCIENTIFIC TRANSPARENCY EXEMPTS PESTICIDES

Industry Pesticide Registration Data Hidden from Public and Outside Pruitt Plan

RADIATION PROBLEMS MULTIPLY FOR SAN FRANCISCOS HUNTERS POINT

Nearly All U.S. Navy Radiation Samples Were Falsified, Fraudulent or Unreliable

LAWSUIT PROBES EPA’S WEAPONIZED PRESS OFFICE

Disinformation Campaign against Outspoken Departing Employee Targeted

PRUITT HIJACKS NATIONAL STREAM AND WETLANDS PROTECTIONS

Pruitt Strips EPA Offices of Decision Power on Pebble Mine and Other Big Projects

EPA POLLUTION ENFORCEMENT SHRIVELS ACROSS THE BOARD

Pruitt Pushing Polluter Settlements behind Closed Doors for “Informal” Handling

CREW AND PEER SUE PRUITT AND EPA OVER FEDERAL RECORDS LAW VIOLATIONS

Washington—Scott Pruitt and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appear to be violating federal records laws by systematically failing to create and maintain documents of essential EPA activities,…

PROMISED EPA SCIENTIFIC FREEDOMS REAL OR A MIRAGE?

Pruitt Sued to Produce Noninterference Directives He Claims to Have Issued

PRUITT SUPERFUND PLAN LEAVES NO FINGERPRINTS

Task Force Viewed No Material, Produced No Notes or Draft Recommendations



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