Protecting Public Employee Whistleblowers
PEER has a long history of working with environmental, natural resource, and public health whistleblowers. We help public employees make informed decisions about how to protect their rights and their careers while revealing government wrong-doing and abuses.
PEER also works with clients on more effective and less costly alternatives to whistleblowing, because it is important to keep conscientious people inside public service. However, if your efforts to protect the environment have gotten you into trouble, we will use whistleblower and other laws to defend you in administrative or court proceedings.
Whistleblowers are an important line of defense against corruption and abuse by governments. We have spent over 25 years protecting the work of public servants and holding governments accountable. All of our services are pro bono, or without cost to you.

Reforming Whistleblower Protection Laws
In the past several years, we have witnessed the uncomfortable but indisputable undermining of federal whistleblower protections by the Executive Branch and members of Congress. Just as the administration intends, the very public flogging of whistleblowers by this administration and its cronies is rippling through the civil service and having a chilling effect on those who would like to report wrongdoing in their federal agencies. Read More »
The Whistleblower Protection Act
The Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) protects federal employees who make disclosures which the employee reasonably believes evidence (does not have to actually be true):
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- Any violation of any law, rule, or regulation;
- Gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority; or
- A substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.
NEWS FROM PEER
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Redskin Owner Tree-Cutting Whistleblower Case Resolved
Special Counsel Mediation Brings Happy Ending for Park Service Ranger Danno
EPA Un-Fires 9/11 Whistleblower but Vows to Try Again
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EPA Moves to Fire 9/11 Whistleblower – Again
Scientist Who Disclosed First Responder Risks Faces Removal after Restoration
Chances of Whistleblower Success Remain Slim
New Administration Plan Ignores Factors Eviscerating Whistleblower Protections
Whistleblower Paradox: Laws Improve as Prosecutions Mount
Major Expansion of Federal Safeguards While States Steadily Strengthen Statutes
OSHA Whistleblower Wins $820,000 Settlement
Agency Recordkeeping Critic Purged in 2009 Paid Not to Return
Fisheries Observers Gain Whistleblower Protections
New Law Takes Effect as NMFS Undertakes Review of Grievance Procedures
Fisheries Violation Reporting Reforms Overdue
Agency Admits System “Inadequate” for Tracking Resource and Pollution Offenses
Boca Raton Drinking Water Violations Swept Under Rug
Scathing Palm Beach Health Department Findings Prompt Slap-on-Wrist Settlement
Scientific Whistleblower Complaint Resolved
Successful Mediation Under Auspices of U.S. Office of Special Counsel
Farewell Message That BLM Has Lost Its Way
Sole Focus on Commodities Threatens Natural Heritage, 44-Year Veteran Warns
Federal Appeals Court Rules for OSHA Whistleblower
OSHA Purged Prominent Critic of Injury and Illness Recordkeeping System
Crusading EPA Scientist Returned to Work
Her Termination Thrown Out due to Constitutional Violations by Agency
Time to Appoint an Effective Inspector General at Interior
Devaney Shielded Politicos by Targeting Small Fish, Letting Big Ones off the Hook
Fisheries Observers Told to Turn Blind Eye to Violations
Shark Finning, Pollution and Safety Complaints Trigger Reprisal, Not Enforcement
Chemical Weapons Whistleblower Wins New Hearing
Nerve Agent Monitoring Lapses Triggered Separation from Blue Grass Depot
States Strengthening Their Whistleblower Laws
Red and Blue States See Whistleblowers as Tool for Cutting Waste and Fraud
OSHA Half-Steps Won’t Heal Broken Whistleblower Program
New Layer of Bureaucracy Feeds into Same Regional Structure Scorched in Reviews
Whistleblower Protections for Scientists Sidelined
Science Integrity Initiative Allows Agencies to Certify Current Practices as Sufficient
Assembly Line Injustice for Federal Whistleblowers
MSPB Plan to Speed up Appeal Process Magnifies Underlying Dysfunctions