Notes from Underground: The Pipeline Pipeline (Part 2) This series assesses the current state of the pipeline industry, with consideration of future prospects for pipeline development and the potential downsides they represent. Part 1 provided an overview of the role of public opinion in the development of infrastructure projects. Part 2 will look at the courts and whistleblowers as [...]
Notes from Underground: The Pipeline Pipeline (Part 1) While recent court decisions have stopped or slowed construction on major pipelines, the industry appears to have no intention of capitulating. In a collaborative four-part series between Government Accountability Project’s Environment, Energy & Climate Change (EE&CC) program and Food Integrity Campaign (FIC), we will look at the present and future of pipeline production in [...]
KEVIN CHMIELEWSKI Kevin Chmielewski was a high-level Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appointee in the Trump administration who took issue with former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s chronic abuse of taxpayer dollars. With legal representation and programmatic support from Government Accountability Project, Chmielewski took his grievances public, backed them up with solid evidence, and gave several [...]
WILLIAM SANJOUR William Sanjour was a hazardous waste specialist at the EPA for 24 years when he took legal action against the agency in 1994 in order to protect his First Amendment right to free speech. Sanjour frequently spoke out about his deep concerns regarding hazardous waste problems at the US Department of Energy’s [...]
JEFFREY MISSAL Jeffrey Missal is a federal employee with the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), charged with ensuring regulatory compliance by offshore oil exploration drilling companies operating in the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska. He has observed many instances of corruption in the BSEE, and is concerned that [...]
JOEL CLEMENT Joel Clement was a top advisor to the Secretary of the Interior on climate change and adverse impacts to native communities in Alaska when, soon into the new Trump administration, he was abruptly and arbitrarily transferred by then-Secretary Ryan Zinke to an obscure government office that collects oil and gas royalty payments. [...]
Rick Piltz Frederick Steven “Rick” Piltz (1943-2014) is best known for blowing the whistle on the George W. Bush White House over political interference in federal climate change science programs. As a senior associate in the coordination office for the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) for nearly a decade, he sought legal whistleblower [...]
