INTRODUCING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
PEER
WHAT DOES PEER DO?
PEER's primary role is to provide
American citizens with environmental information
obtained with
taxpayers money--a property that belongs to
them.
Using all available tools
of law, media and politics, PEER works with and
on behalf of government employees
on the inside, who are courageous and idealistic
enough to want to protect environmental values and
scientific integrity within their agencies, and make
sure that government decisions will serve the interests
of all citizens. PEER often shields government
whistle-blowers by releasing environmental information,
which has been withheld from the public for political
reasons.
PEER's objectives are to:
* Organize employees
within local, state, and federal resource management
agencies.
* Monitor natural resource
management agencies by serving as an employee-directed
watch-dogs for
the public interest.
* Inform policy-makers
and the public about the facts behind the environmental
concerns of PEER
members.
* Defend the legal rights
of public employees who speak out about environmental
protection.
visit our website: www.peer.org
PEER is effective!
We speak for government
insiders who know what is going on -- a one-of-a-kind
underground network. PEER protects their federal,
state, and local government jobs, reporting for them
the political lies, deceits, dirty tricks, and other
wrongdoing that they have witnessed in their agencies.
Recent federal revelations have included:
* Sec. of the Interior
Gale Norton's falsified Fish and Wildlife Service
data to obscure the impact
of oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge on caribou birthing
grounds
* Karl Rove's influence
on the distribution of Klamath River water to irrigators,
killing fish
to win the farmer's votes for Bush
* EPA's assignment of
criminal agents to escort its former chief Christie
Todd Whitman, taking them
away from environmental pollution investigations,
* The
land deals of former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, who
succeeded Whitman
at EPA, with the Dept.
of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management's lies
about them to Congress,
PEER's
National Office is at 2001 S Street, NW, Suite
570, Washington, D.C.,
20009.
Telephone:
202-265-PEER (7337); FAX 202-265-4192
email: info@peer.org; website: http://www.peer.org
PEER also has a California office, which has worked
on numerous land and water protection issues, including:
* Protected a NOAA Fisheries biologist who blew
the whistle on the Klamath fish kill
* Obtained strong conditions on State Water Board
permit waivers for silvicultural activities and
* Continuing to press federal
agencies to enforce environmentally protective
rules when approving routes
for use by Off-Road motorcyclists and ATVs.
To contact California PEER:
email: karens@innercite.com
or call (530) 333-2545
