Prior to joining PEER as Senior Counsel in 2026, Janet Weiner served 35 years as an attorney at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in senior legal and program management positions. Her experience spans the full range of EPA’s programs including TSCA, FIFRA, CERCLA, Emergency and Oil Spill Response, SPCC, CAA, CWA, Congressional Affairs, Budget, Suspension and Debarment, and OIG/GAO audits. Her early career was in private environmental law practice at a large national law firm. She is a member of the DC Bar. Weiner earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she served as Editor-In-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law and was the recipient of the Alfred S. Forsyth Prize, awarded to the top student in Environmental Law. She received her M.P.A. and her B.A. with highest honors from the University of Pennsylvania. Weiner also has a deep commitment and decades of leadership experience in the charitable and non-profit community, most notably a member of the board of the Metro DC Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Patient and Family Advisory Board of the Inova Transplant Institute. She is also an Ambassador for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.