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Tim Whitehouse

Tim Whitehouse has more than 25 years of experience working on a wide range of environmental issues with governments, businesses, nonprofit organizations and community groups. Tim was a senior attorney at the United States Environmental Protection Agency for 10 years, where he specialized in enforcement of the Clean Water Act and in hazardous waste compliance issues. He was also head of the Law and Policy Program at the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation in Montreal, Canada for 5 years. He has worked as a consultant for companies on environmental compliance issues, and with non-profit 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 in Maryland. He holds a JD and BA from Emory University and an MA from New York University.

PETITION | Protect the North Atlantic Right Whales from Extinction

by | January 3, 2023
Petition to NOAA Administrator to require trap fisheries to convert to new rope-less or “pop-up” gear within the next two years to protect right whales ...

COMMENTARY | Saving Species Under Threat

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

PEERMail | Save the Right Whales

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

COMMENTARY | Cottontail, Dead at 12

by | April 6, 2021
A 12 year old male North Atlantic right whale, one of around 350 left in the world, is presumed dead after becoming entangled in fishing gear ...
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