Executive Director

Tim Whitehouse

Tim is PEER’s Executive Director, leveraging more than 30 years of experience working on environmental issues with governments, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and community groups. Prior to joining PEER, he was a senior attorney at the United States Environmental Protection Agency and was head of the Law and Policy Program at the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation in Montreal, Canada. He has worked as a consultant for companies on environmental compliance issues, and with nonprofit organizations focusing on clean energy issues. Most recently, he was executive director of Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, a health advocacy group working to address climate change, toxics pollution, and nuclear disarmament issues. Tim’s interest is in the intersection of science, policy, and civil service. He believes in protecting employees who raise concerns about their workplace and in exposing undue influence on government for private gain. He holds a JD and BA from Emory University and an MA from New York University.

PEERMail | NOAA is Choosing Extinction

by | July 15, 2020
As the North Atlantic right whale careens toward extinction, NOAA leaders refuse to act on the findings of the agency’s own scientists to protect them ...

PEERMail | Climate Change Intensifies While University Stifles Research

by | July 1, 2020
Greenhouse gases continue to rise to record levels driving global climate change, but one university is curtailing research by firing influential scientist ...

BLOG | The Decimation of the Public Sector Workforce

by | June 18, 2020
Not passing the HEROES Act will have devastating consequences to the economy, state governments and the public sector workforce ...

PEERMail | Wrong Approach to Reopening

by | June 15, 2020
Federal agencies are under White House pressure to "reopen" by bringing federal workers back to their offices. This is the wrong approach to reopening ...

COMMENTARY | National Forests and COVID-19. What’s Happening?

by | June 12, 2020
National Forests receive less attention than parks during COVID-19, but overcrowding, lack of resources, and risk to gateway communities are the same ...
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