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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.

Interior Has Bad Case of Climate “Cow Blindness”

by Susan Sargent | July 25, 2022
Failure to Address Commercial Livestock Climate Impacts Invites Lawsuits ...

Letter to Sec. Haaland – Climate Impacts of Livestock Grazing

by Susan Sargent | July 22, 2022
Letter to Secretary Deb Haaland and the Climate Task Force regarding Interior’s failure to address climate Impacts of its commercial livestock program ...

PEERMail | Agency Policies Threaten Iconic Bird

by Susan Sargent | June 27, 2022
The Interior Secretary announced a phaseout of single-use plastics in national parks and other public lands ...

VIDEO | Mapping the Range

by Susan Sargent | April 1, 2022
BLM needs to create a central BLM geodatabase, coordinate all of the agency databases, complete and update all Land Health Standards evaluations ...

PEERMail | Rangeland Health Means Fixing the BLM Grazing Program

by Tim Whitehouse | March 21, 2022
PEER is working to ensure that a functional BLM grazing program is a part of the land conservation conversation ...
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