What You Know about Trump’s Assault on Science Was Just the Tip of the Iceberg This op-ed was written by our Senior Counsel and Director of Education and Partnerships Dana Gold and was originally published here. From political manipulation of COVID-19 research to censorship of weather forecasters who tried to contradict President Trump’s false claims [...]
Women Whistleblowers in the Trump Era: A Celebration of Women Who Refused to Be Silenced (Part 1) By Sarah Hubbard In celebration of Women’s History Month every March, our nation honors women who have made great contributions to American history. Government Accountability Project celebrates a sometimes overlooked group of women who have served our nation [...]
Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project, was originally published here. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was a Cover-Up, Not a Cleanup Deepwater Horizon, called “the worst environmental disaster in American history,” was one of the environmental stories I covered at HuffPost a decade ago. “On April 20, 2010, a fiery explosion on the [...]
Note: this article, featuring our client Jeffrey Missal, was originally published here. DOI Employee Returned to His Job in Whistleblower Retaliation Case The Office of Special Counsel announced that an employee at the Department of Interior has been returned to his position after being retaliated against by the agency for being a whistleblower. The [...]
Note: this article, featuring our client Jeffrey Missal, was originally published here. Fired Whistleblower Gets His Job Back An Obama-era whistleblower, investigated and fired after raising red flags about violations for offshore drilling plans in the Arctic, has been granted his job back, the Office of Special Counsel disclosed yesterday. A settlement with the [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2019 Government Accountability Project Submits Letter to OSC in Support of Climate Science Whistleblower WASHINGTON — On December 17, Government Accountability Project submitted a letter to the Office of Special Counsel in support of climate scientist and federal whistleblower Dr. George Luber, whose employer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has retaliated against [...]
By Nicky Sundt A final draft of a key federal report on the science behind climate change has been leaked to the New York Times and made public. The “Climate Science Special Report” (CSSR), produced by the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), is a cornerstone of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), a periodic study of [...]