PEER serves as a resource to potential government whistleblowers, allowing them to anonymously expose environmental wrongdoings and assisting them in redressing agency retaliation.
Because whistleblowers often face direct retaliation from the offending agencies, PEER encourages employees to act through the organization to reveal government environmental misdeeds.
PEER works with current and former local, state and federal employees who want government agencies to do more to protect people and wildlife from toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or "forever chemicals".
Former chief of the United States Park Police Teresa Chambers served for nearly two years before she was fired after revealing in an interview the potential dangers of their low staffing levels.
[4] They have also been critical of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' lax regulation of recreational hunting and its impact on the federally endangered Great Lakes gray wolf.
[8] PEER board member, Frank Buono, along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, filed a lawsuit to remove an 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) white cross displayed in the Mojave National Preserve.