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This is now being challenged, at least before the Merit Systems Protection Board, the group of EPA employees who were fired after they signed the letter, ended up taking their case — they’re being represented by a few law firms, as well as Public Employees for Environmental ...

The revised lawsuit expands on previous legal actions from the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, along with the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the American Federation of Labor and ...

The six former EPA employees, who were among roughly 140 workers who signed a “declaration of dissent” in June, argued their firings were not only an illegal response to exercising their First Amendment rights, but also a form of retaliation for “perceived political affiliation,” ...

According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Forest Service employees have been told that they are “not authorized to use administrative leave to vote or participate in voting-related activities” without exception, although a similar policy has not been announced at ...

“In the past, government agencies have worked hard to keep that information safe and secure, both to protect the American people’s private data and to ensure that government agencies don’t use it for the wrong purposes,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for ...