WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in reintroducing bipartisan legislation to provide U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) civil servants with the same due process rights as are available to corporate employees who experience retaliation for blowing the whistle on nuclear safety violations. The Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Whistleblower Protection Act would ensure DOE and NRC employees have a fair opportunity to enforce whistleblower protection rights under Section 211 of the Energy Reorganization Act (ERA)—precisely as Congress intended more than 15 years ago when it passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and added DOE and NRC as covered employers under Section 211 of the ERA.
“Whistleblowers play a key role in bringing mismanagement and wrongdoing to light,” Grassley said. “This bill provides a necessary and long-overdue update to the Energy Policy Act to make it clear that whistleblowers at the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission can come forward and report nuclear safety violations without fear of retaliation. Waste, fraud and abuse in the government is never acceptable, and we should be doing all we can to empower these brave whistleblowers and ensure they are protected from retaliation.”
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