Jeff DeBonis: PEER Origin Story
As a timber sale planner on Oregon’s Willamette National Forest in the late 1980s, Jeff came to the conclusion that the Forest Service was over-logging which would lead to the type of eco-degradation he had seen in Central America in the Peace Corps. He co-founded PEER ...
Teresa Chambers: The Honest Chief
Teresa waged a 7-year legal battle through PEER to overturn her termination for honestly answering a reporter’s questions as first female Chief of the U.S. Park Police. Her case created important protections for all national security and public safety whistleblowers ...
Steve Gniadek: Talking Down a Jumper
Steve was the chief biologist at Glacier National Park, who reached out to PEER for help when his superintendent was pushing a permit for a parking lot that would have destroyed old growth forest without proper environmental review ...
Brian McKenna: Michigan Environmental Anthropologist
An anthropologist in the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Department of Behavioral Sciences, Brian works as an environmental scholar. Three years before joining academia, Brian was hired by the Ingham County Health Department to conduct an analysis of environmental issues within ...
Ben Lomeli: Standing Up for Scientific Integrity
Ben called on PEER to assist his efforts to save Arizona’s San Pedro River from excessive groundwater withdrawals ...