Feds unjustly firing Converse oilfield whistleblower, group contends

by WyoFile | March 17, 2021
“A watchdog group challenged the proposed firing of a federal environmental analyst Tuesday after he criticized plans to allow the Converse County Oil and Gas Project to degrade raptor nesting sites. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a national group that supports ...

Watchdog blames NOAA for lack of transparency on tsunami tracking system outage

“There are new allegations that the staff at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center was told to keep quiet about an outage of a key data system that had been down for days. Jeff Ruch is with the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Alleged ...

Whistleblower case tests BLM commitment to career officials

by E&E News | March 16, 2021
“A hearing today to decide the fate of a Trump-era whistleblower who claims he was punished for raising concerns about a proposed oil and gas project in Wyoming could be a “litmus test” for how the Biden administration treats career Bureau of Land Management employees. So ...

Group Says Biden Administration Is Firing a Whistleblower Using Revoked Trump Rules

“An employee advocacy group is accusing the Biden administration of failing to follow through on its promise to reverse a Trump-era initiative aimed at making it easier to fire federal workers, instead using the nullified policy to dismiss a whistleblower. Walter Loewen, a planning ...

PTWC: Key tsunami warning system offline for days, hindering ability to retrieve critical data

“The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center confirmed Tuesday that a system containing critical information on water levels has been down for several days. The Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis — also known as DART — system has been offline since March 9 due to a “ ...
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