By Drew Friedman
Environmental Protection Agency employees who were suspended last year after signing a letter criticizing Trump administration leadership at EPA are continuing to push forward with more than a dozen allegations of unlawful agency retaliation.
The EPA employees, who are now represented by attorneys at the Government Accountability Project and Lawyers for Good Government, have already filed 15 separate complaints with the Office of Special Counsel. Attorneys said they plan to file “many more” OSC complaints on behalf of EPA employees “promptly.”
The complaints argue that EPA’s decision to put some employees on two-week suspensions following their endorsement of a “declaration of dissent” last summer, violated the employees’ First Amendment rights as well as federal whistleblower protection laws.
“These employees do have constitutional rights, statutory rights, whistleblower rights,” said David Seide, of counsel at the Government Accountability Project. “We’re zealously representing them because they’ve been wronged and we think they should be vindicated — that’s what the law and the Constitution expect.”
An EPA spokesperson declined to comment, referring to the agency’s longstanding practice of not commenting on pending litigation.
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