The Trump administration has launched an internal investigation into FEMA employees who signed a public letter to Congress warning that the administration’s overhaul of the disaster relief agency is undermining emergency response and endangering the public.
Legal and whistleblower experts say the Department of Homeland Security violated federal law when it put more than 30 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees on leave last week after they signed an open letter of dissent about agency leadership. In a new letter obtained by The Washington Post, the Government Accountability Project is calling on federal lawmakers and oversight agencies to investigate what it calls “illegal retaliation.”
We are living in an era where we must prepare for another dramatic pendulum swing in public policy. For those of you in federal government this is a known anxiety-provoker. I recall experiencing that jarring shift eight years ago. What’s best for you is a very individual decision, but here are seven lessons I learned over the years as a federal employee.
Virginia Burkett has filed a whistleblower complaint, asking for an investigation and better policies to protect scientists against political interference.
Corexit was a public relations triumph because it falsely made it look like the oil disappeared. But it didn’t. Rather the so-called dispersant fused with the oil to create a new, far more toxic compound that sank to the sea floor, creating an underwater Death Valley. Even worse, the price was grotesque human tragedy.
“He suffered for 30 years and unfortunately didn’t live long enough to see the other side of the 30 years - and maybe this is the way we do that,” she said.
April 18, 2024 Fourth Installment of BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Report Reveals Terrifying Consequences of Cleanup Chemical Corexit WASHINGTON – Today, Legal Director Tom Devine and Environmental Investigator Lesley Pacey released a report on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill entitled, “Deep Impact: Ongoing Vulnerability in Oil Spills from the Deadly Dispersant Corexit.” The [...]
Notes from Underground On the Future of Democracy and the Environment: The Mountain Valley Pipeline by Adam Arnold Democracy and environmental protection in the United States face common challenges, namely the influence of money on politics and the tendency of industry to concern itself with short-term profit rather than long-term sustainability and public [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 13, 2023 Government Accountability Project Calls for Strengthening OSTP's Framework on Scientific Integrity Policies and Practices A Dozen Organizations Join Together in Support of Major Changes to Keep Politics Out of Scientific Reporting WASHINGTON – Today, Government Accountability Project joined a dozen leading environmental, public health, watchdog, reproductive health, and [...]
This press release was led and written by The ALERT Project, a close partner of Government Accountability Project. For Immediate Release Contact: Riki Ott, ALERT Project, 206-853-285, [email protected] Labor and Health Advocates and Tribal Emergency Management Councils Call for OSHA to Protect Oil Spill Workers OSHA’s reporting standards keep symptoms of toxic exposure from [...]
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