A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million that the federal government gave to build a failed coal-fueled power plant.
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 [...]
Our Top 5 of 2022 2022 was a record year! At Government Accountability Project, we were hard at work protecting whistleblowers and helping bring their disclosures to light. As one year ends and the next begins, we want to look back and reflect upon our best work and most important cases of 2022. Meltdown: [...]
'All That Breathes,’ ‘Fire of Lice’ Erupt as IDA Documentary Awards Nominations AnnouncedThis article features Meltdown: Three Mile Island, and was originally published here.Fire of Love and All That Breathes further established themselves as solid Oscar contenders, leading all comers as the IDA Documentary Awards nominations were announced today.Fire of Love, about scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, a French couple [...]
The Inflation Reduction Act: A Mixed Bag By Adam Arnold, Environmental Counsel The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is undeniably the most substantial piece of climate legislation in US history. But is this a back-handed compliment, given the dearth of other substantial legislation on the world’s most pressing crisis? The bill is receiving praise and [...]
Grassroots Protest Targets Lack Of EPA Action To Prevent Cancer Clusters This article excerpt features an event sponsored by Government Accountability Project, and was originally published here. "Grassroots organizers are gearing up for a protest march on EPA headquarters next week to call attention to what they say is the failure of EPA and [...]
‘Meltdown’ revisits the nightmares of nuclear power This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rick Parks, and was originally published here. Near the beginning of Meltdown, the four-part Netflix documentary series about the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant disaster, a scared-looking, towheaded little boy not more than 8 years old is being [...]
Looking Back at the Past to Protect the Future: Lessons from Meltdown: Three Mile Island Temperatures in Waco, Texas hit 108 degrees Fahrenheit this year, shattering the previous record of 104 degrees reached in 1917, 1935 and 1978. This case is not an isolated event; in fact, 92 all-time U.S. record high temperatures were [...]
Nuclear Whistleblowers Protected the Public from Disaster. Now We Must Protect their Right to Speak Up. A new Netflix documentary released this spring, Meltdown: Three Mile Island, traced how brazen nuclear safety violations in the Three Mile Island (TMI) cleanup threatened a full meltdown that would’ve taken out the East Coast. It was prevented only [...]
Trump EPA head pushed agents to speed, run sirens This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Kevin Chmielewski, and was originally published here. Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt prodded his security agents to drive recklessly and turn on emergency lights and sirens to maneuver around traffic in the nation’s capital. Interviews with agents [...]