Rick Steiner: Protecting Alaska’s Bounty
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 ...
John Fitzgerald: World Bank Whistleblower
In 2002, John was the sole analyst overseeing environmental compliance with U.S. participation in multinational development bank projects ...
Kyla Bennett: From Whistleblower to WhistleBlower Defender
While working in the EPA New England Regional Office in Boston, Kyla reached out to PEER to address a plan to illegally build a port on the largest undeveloped island on the Eastern Seaboard –Sear’s Island in Maine ...
Tim Mason: Uncovering Mass Desecration at Effigy Mounds
Tim led PEER to uncover the biggest official mass desecrations of Indian pre-historic burial sites in U.S. history ...
Martha Hahn: Eco-Warrior
As the Director of Idaho BLM early in the GW Bush administration, Martha worked to protect fragile resources from destructive overgrazing and was targeted for removal by then-U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho). Craig denounced BLM’s decision to restrict grazing in Owyhee County, ...
Don Sweeney: Economist Rising
Don was a senior economist with the Army Corps of Engineers and revealed through PEER that the agency had been falsifying cost-benefit numbers to justify a multi-billion dollar project: replacing and expanding all of the locks & dams on the Mississippi from St. Louis north ...