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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, environmental protection organization of local, state, and national government natural resource and environmental professionals. PEER serves as a resource to potential government whistleblowers, allowing them to anonymously expose environmental wrongdoings and assisting them in redressing agency retaliation. Founded in 1996, PEER operates primarily by investigating claims from public employees about government environmental misconduct. Because whistleblowers often face direct retaliation from the offending agencies, PEER encourages employees to act through the organization to reveal government environmental misdeeds. Once a claim is made, PEER investigates it, often using Freedom of Information Act requests. The organization then can choose to take a number of actions, including press releases or lawsuits. PEER also serves to provide legal services to whistleblowers who find themselves the target of agency retaliation.〔Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. () Accessed June 6, 2009.〕 As of January 2011, PEER is formally affiliated with Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.〔New York Times, 25, Jan. 2011, "A Legal Defense Fund for Climate Scientists," http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/a-legal-defense-fund-for-climate-scientists/?src=recg〕 not-for-profit organization established in 2011 to protect scientific research and researchers of climate science from think tanks and legal foundations that have taken legal action against scientific institutions and individual scientists. ==Objectives of PEER== *Organize a broad base of support among employees within local, state and federal resource management agencies. *Monitor natural resource management agencies by serving as a "watch dog" for the public interest. *Inform the administration, Congress, state officials, media and the public about substantive environmental issues of concern to PEER members. *Defend and strengthen the legal rights of public employees who speak out about issues concerning natural resource management and environmental protection. Provide free legal assistance if and when necessary.〔Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. () Accessed June 6, 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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