Jennifer Peters

As Water Programs Director, Jennifer spearheads the organization’s national water policy work, including leading our current priority campaign to strengthen Clean Water Act protections for streams, wetlands and other waters. Jennifer has worked on a variety of water policy and watershed management issues for over a decade, in both nonprofit and government sectors. She has BS in Environmental Science from Humboldt State University and a MS in Environmental Policy from Bard College. Jennifer worked with Clean Water from 2011 until 2024 and is currently writing her first novel.

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Publications by Jennifer Peters

Letter to EPA: On 2022 Draft Aquatic Life Ambient Water Criteria Recommendations for PFOA and PFOS

Clean Water urges EPA to finalize the most protective PFOA/PFOS aquatic life criteria possible and to move quickly to draft aquatic life criteria for other PFAS compounds.

Letter to Congress: Support The Environmental Justice For All Act

The Environmental Justice for All Act (H.R. 2021), introduced by Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Representative Donald McEachin, (D-VA) is a long overdue package of reforms that will help address the history of environmental injustice that has led to undue burdens of pollution on people of color and low-income communities. Clean Water Action has submitted the following letter to the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee in support of this legislation.

RE: Comments on Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15, Docket Number

While we commend EPA’s efforts, we are seriously concerned that the agency is not moving quickly enough to address PFAS wastewater discharges from other point source categories that are known or suspected of using these toxic “forever chemicals.”