Heather Wylie: Kayaking to Save the L.A. River
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PEER | March 8, 2018
Heather took part in a demonstration to protect the L.A. River, and footage of her kayaking to prove its navigability ended up on YouTube, leading her superiors to propose a career-crippling suspension. PEER mounted a First Amendment defense (the kayaking protest as symbolic Free Speech) ...
Brian McKenna: Michigan Environmental Anthropologist
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PEER | February 28, 2018
An anthropologist in the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Department of Behavioral Sciences, Brian works as an environmental scholar. Three years before joining academia, Brian was hired by the Ingham County Health Department to conduct an analysis of environmental issues within ...
Ben Lomeli: Standing Up for Scientific Integrity
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PEER | February 27, 2018
Ben called on PEER to assist his efforts to save Arizona’s San Pedro River from excessive groundwater withdrawals ...
Paul Berkowitz: Case of the Indian Trader
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PEER | February 21, 2018
Paul Berkowitz led PEER to do an autopsy of an official screw-up that was compounded by a cover-up at the National Park Service ...
Matt Chew: Free Speech With A Price
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PEER | February 6, 2018
Matt was an Arizona States Parks employee who was fired when he brought attention to the resource conservation impacts of high visitation in places like Kartchner Caverns. With PEER's help, Matt was reinstated ...
Rick Steiner: Protecting Alaska’s Bounty
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PEER | January 30, 2018
As a faculty member of the University of Alaska during the Bush Administration, Rick spoke out about the environmental risks of offshore drilling in Arctic waters ...