Trump E.P.A. Chief ‘Endangered Public Safety’ by Ordering His Drivers to Speed

This article excerpt features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Kevin Chmielewski, and was originally published here.

“The names of the four whistle-blowers were not disclosed in the letter to Mr. Biden, and a spokeswoman for the E.P.A. said the agency, now under new leadership, had no comment on the matter. But Kevin Chmielewski, a former political aide to President Donald J. Trump and Mr. Pruitt, confirmed to The New York Times that he was among the whistle-blowers.

He is still suing the E.P.A. with the help of a nonprofit whistle-blower group, the Government Accountability Project, although the Justice Department, even under Mr. Biden, is trying to dismiss the matter. The department has argued that with the Trump administration over, the agency is not going to give him back his job as a political appointee.

Mr. Chmielewski said that he was glad to see these new details finally being made public, but that he was disappointed that Mr. Pruitt had paid no price, other than harm to his reputation.

‘It is almost a kick in the face,’ said Mr. Chmielewski, 43, who said he has been unable to get a new job with the federal government or national political campaigns since he first went public with the allegations in 2018. He now works as a general manager of a restaurant near Ocean City, Md., earning less than a third of his former federal government wages.”