NOAA

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.

COMMENTARY | Saving Species Under Threat

by Tim Whitehouse | November 15, 2022
Protecting biodiversity and endangered species such as the North Atlantic Right Whale is one of the great challenges of our time ...

NOAA Trashes Seabeds It Studies

by PEER | August 29, 2022
Call for NOAA to End Research Bottom Trawling in Gulf of Mexico ...

PEERMail | Save the Right Whales

by PEER | August 22, 2022
Extinction is a choice that humans often make about animals and nowhere is that truer than with the North Atlantic right whale ...

Foreign Research Vessels Free to Wreak Eco-Havoc

by PEER | April 14, 2022
No Notice, Permits, or Monitoring; Mass Beaching of Rare Whales Probed ...

Letter to Scientific Integrity Task Force

by PEER | May 27, 2021
DESCRIPTION: Letter to Scientific Integrity Task Force regarding how the Scientific Integrity Policies mask misconducts by refusing to investigate formal complaints  TO: Scientific Integrity Task Force FROM: PEER DATE: May 27, 2021 TAGS: BLM, whistleblowers, FWS, NOAA, EPA ...