After reviewing the emails, Joanna Citron Day, general counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Fugh was “right that there’s no ethics issue.”
“This was a bunch of employees expressing their protected First Amendment right to dissent by signing a letter in their personal capacity on a matter of public concern. Period,” Citron Day said.
PEER is part of the legal team for six former EPA employees fired after they signed the dissent letter. They have filed an appeal with the Merit Systems Protection Board to challenge those terminations.
