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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.

PEERMail | NOAA is Choosing Extinction

by Tim Whitehouse | July 15, 2020
As the North Atlantic right whale careens toward extinction, NOAA leaders refuse to act on the findings of the agency’s own scientists to protect them ...

NOAA Balks at Steps to Save Remaining Right Whales  

by PEER | July 9, 2020
Scientists Ignored as Agency Delays Entanglement and Ship Strike Relief ...

Statement | Uplisting of North Atlantic Right Whales

The IUCN has uplisted the North Atlantic right whales from endangered to critically endangered which means is it "facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild ...

Conservation Area No Longer Safe for Right Whales

by Kyla Bennett | June 5, 2020
Trump is stripping protections of our public lands off the New England coast, a critical conservation area for endangered North Atlantic right whale ...