Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response.
  • @[email protected]
    47•3 months ago

    The reports called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response to the findings. In one case, the inspector general noted that supervisors who violate the Whistleblower Protection Act should be suspended for at least three days.

    The reports focus only on the retaliation claims. The inspector general is expected to issue reports in the future about the whistleblowers’ scientific allegations.

    Under the orange asshole’s reign.

    Don’t ever forget what Trump did, because he will do worse if he’s elected again.

    • Verdant BananaEnglish
      -7•3 months ago

      and don’t forget what Biden and the Democrats do

      Their allegations, which detailed industry pressure that continued under the administration of President Joe Biden and pointed fingers at career officials who still worked for the EPA, were the subject of a 10-part series I published in The Intercept.

      “It’s been four years since we first started raising concerns about what was happening, and we haven’t seen a resolution yet,” Gallagher said. “We haven’t gotten assurance that the concerns we’ve been raising will be fixed.”

      both parties are already bought by corporations

        • @halcyoncmdrEnglish
          14•3 months ago

          It’s because on the surface it looks like the classic bullshit “both sides” claim. Where one side is clearly worse but they try to make it seem like both are similar.

          Not sure if this is different to be honest. The Rs have been trying to undermine the EPA for decades, there’s a long history there that shouldn’t be ignored even if recent D admins haven’t been great.

          I don’t have the time to do a deeper dive at the moment, likely others don’t want to even bother, so they just downvote since a good 90% of the time the both sides type responses are disingenuous.

          • Verdant BananaEnglish
            -7•3 months ago

            Harris supports oil and fracking

            it is both sides

            • @halcyoncmdrEnglish
              12•3 months ago

              Supporting oil and fracking isn’t even in the same ballpark as wanting to deregulate and eliminate the EPA entirely.

                • Maeve
                  -1•3 months ago

                  The news cycles manufacture* polarization so people think there is a huge difference between both parties, and there really isn’t. We’ve gone so far right, that right is considered left, and anyone alive who’s been paying attention and speaks on it is accused of being too old/bot/shill/foreign propagandists du jour.

      • Maeve
        3•3 months ago

        This has been going on for decades. It pops up every now and again in the news, cue public outrage, the next news cycle comes along and this is forgotten about until a media outlet covers it again, repeat.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•3 months ago

      The point of whisleblower laws is to make people feel like a lack of whistleblowers means a lack of things to blow whistles over. Then all they have to do is silence any whistles before they’re heard by the general population and boom, public trust in the system is strengthened without actually needing to do anything drastic like actually fixing the system.

    • enkers
      10•3 months ago

      Cynical take: Presumably to protect corporations from whistleblowers.