scientific integrity

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.

Federal Lab Biosafety Whistleblower Targeted

by Susan Sargent | February 24, 2020
USGS Plagued by Mishaps Endangering Scientists, Experiments, and Animals ...

EPA Political Appointees Violate Science Integrity Rules

by Susan Sargent | January 19, 2020
Complaint Details HQ Systematically Sidelining Science in WOTUS Review ...

Scientific Integrity Policies Now Dead Letters

by Susan Sargent | July 23, 2019
Few Complaints Filed Inside Interior and None Sustained Since 2015 ...

Politicized Science The Bane Of The Mexican Wolf

by Susan Sargent | July 15, 2019
Study Dissects How Politics Skewed Science to Jeopardize Wolf Survival ...

COMMENTARY | The Trump Administration’s War on Climate Science

by Tim Whitehouse | April 29, 2019
The Trump administration’s pro-industry, anti-science agenda has undermined the work of every federal agency that conducts climate science and has a broad chilling effect on agency personnel ...
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