About the Center

Welcome to the PEER Center! PEER stands for Public Entity EMS Resource Center and provides a broad array of information and tools to help public entities sustainably manage their organizations using a proven Plan-Do-Check-Act framework embodied in environmental management systems and similar approaches.  The PEER Center is a collaboration between the Office of Water at U.S. EPA and the Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF). In addition, a number of organizations around the country called PEER EMS Local Resource Centers (e.g. PEER Centers) are reaching out to local governments to help them adopt EMSs and other sustainable management approaches.