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Executive Director

Tim is PEER’s Executive Director, with 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: Scientific Integrity Under Attack

by Tim Whitehouse | August 1, 2019
The Trump administration has taken its anti-science agenda to a whole new level ...

PEERMail: A Growing Water Crisis

by PEER | July 16, 2019
As two PEER staffers, we are here to let you know some of the water issues we are working on and why we are continuing to fight every day against the disastrous ideology that the government should go soft on polluters. EPA’s embrace of this ideology is laying the groundwork for a full- ...

PEERMail: Edging Closer to Extinction

by PEER | July 1, 2019
Last week was an incredibly bad week for one of the most endangered whales in the world. Six North Atlantic right whales were found dead in and around the Gulf of Lawrence. Some of these animals, known to researchers for many years, were successful breeders and expected to continue ...

PEERMail: Threats to Public Lands

by PEER | June 18, 2019
By now, you have probably have heard about the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to fire Craig Hoover, a long-time, highly respected range management veteran in Nevada. Mr. Hoover got on the wrong side of his management for reporting illegal grazing in the Ely, Nevada area. In ...

PEERMail: Climate Alert

by PEER | May 30, 2019
At PEER, we’re on the front lines every day of the Trump Administration’s disastrous war on climate science. As a PEER staff attorney working on climate and science issues, I have prepared this special report of PEERNews on climate change to let you know what I do and how you can help ...

PEERMail: Interior Reorganizing to Better Quash Dissent

by PEER | May 16, 2019
There are different bureaus with different missions that sometimes conflict. A unitary command would prevent these conflicts from surfacing ...