Sovern Media: Fake Whistleblowers and the Praise They Don't Deserve This video features Government Accountability President, Louis Clark, and was originally published here. How do we tell a real whistleblower from a fake one? How do we tell the difference between somebody who is jeopardizing everything from one who is trying to cash in? [...]
JURIST: Journalist Banned from Twitter Says It’s Important That Users Not Self-Censor This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Steve Herman, and was originally published here. In an exclusive interview with JURIST Friday, VOA Chief National Correspondent and JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman, banned from Twitter in mid-December, said it is important that [...]
Grassroots Protest Targets Lack Of EPA Action To Prevent Cancer Clusters This article excerpt features an event sponsored by Government Accountability Project, and was originally published here. "Grassroots organizers are gearing up for a protest march on EPA headquarters next week to call attention to what they say is the failure of EPA and [...]
Facing a merger and a pay cut, chicken farmers push back This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. In 2003, Rusty and Trina McClendon quit their jobs and put everything they owned up as collateral for a $1.4 million loan to build eight chicken houses, capable of raising a million [...]
Making an Impact While Supporting Whistleblowers: Five Tips for Public Interest Organizations On the surface, the goals of public interest organizations and whistleblowers seem to align. However, a deeper dive reveals that unless advocates understand the complexities of blowing the whistle, the combination is filled with ways to go wrong. That’s why it’s so [...]
By Anne Polansky and Michael Termini More than one full year into a Donald Trump presidency, we are taking stock of the new political landscape, already marked by turmoil and volatility. Never before in modern US history have we seen such instability and unreliability in basic governance at the federal level. Here in the nation’s [...]
Source: Our Children’s Trust Last year, on August 12, 2015, a group of courageous millennials filed suit against President Barack Obama and members of his cabinet for failing to adequately address the climate change problem commensurate with the threat, despite the fact that we have known for decades that human-caused global warming has [...]
Two years ago today, GAP’s Climate Science Watch founder and Bush Administration whistleblower, Rick Piltz, passed away. Rick lived a fascinating life of social change activism and truth-telling, and devoted much of his time during his final days to ensuring his friends and followers could carry on his mission of challenging both those who deny [...]
Disparaging legitimate scientific data and conclusions regarding global climate change and the role of fossil fuel combustion by dubbing it junk science has been a favorite tactic employed by the oil industry. This cartoon, penned in 2005, aptly captures the dynamic at play throughout President George W. Bushs first term in office. [Image source: [...]
A recently concluded criminal trial in Washington State drew national attention when five defendants became the first group of climate activists ever to be granted the right of using the necessity defense in a US court to justify their actions. Five ordinary citizens, drawn together by a common concern for public health and safety, had [...]