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Executive Director

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 | Saving Rare Sea Turtles

by Tim Whitehouse | July 31, 2020
International recognized Turtle Science and Recovery Program helps rescue loggerhead and green sea turtles but is being threatened by cuts to program funding ...

PEERMail | NOAA is Choosing Extinction

by Tim Whitehouse | 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 Tim Whitehouse | 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 ...

PEERMail | Wrong Approach to Reopening

by Tim Whitehouse | 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 ...

PEERMail | 100,000 and Counting – A Grim Milestone

by Tim Whitehouse | May 28, 2020
As we pass a grim mortality milestone for the COVID-19 pandemic, this immense death toll highlights the distressing extent of our national incapacity ...

PEERMail | Lifting the Curtain on Corruption

by Tim Whitehouse | May 15, 2020
Trump’s response to the pandemic further shows a corrupt administration intent on disabling government, dismantling oversight, and purging those who disagree ...
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