How does The Pew Charitable Trusts address environmental issues?
The Trusts’ work on environmental issues is spearheaded by the Pew Environment Group (PEG). PEG has built a strong reputation for its timely, focused and effective campaigns on large-scale issues like climate change, wilderness conservation and the protection of fisheries and other living marine resources. Our campaigns are underpinned and informed by the best available science and public polling research, and we utilize a wide variety of communications strategies in our work to ensure that we effectively reach specific audiences that are critical to achieving our policy goals. We often work in coalition with other organizations representing diverse constituencies in order to maximize the impact of our human and financial resources. Our work is focused primarily on strengthening environmental policy at the regional, federal and international levels because victories in the policy sphere often lead to sweeping changes in environmental quality and provide the biggest bang for the philant
