More federal whistleblowers come forward amid government layoffs
By 
Oscar Gonzalez2025-08-11T13:57:00
As the Trump administration continues to reduce the number of workers at multiple federal agencies, there has been a record number of whistleblowers coming forward.
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a group that defends whistleblowers who raise issues about the lack of environmental ethics by the federal government. The executive director of the group told E&E News last Thursday it has seen a “20-fold increase” in whistleblowers coming forward.
“Whistleblowing has traditionally been a nonpartisan thing,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director at PEER, told E&E News Thursday. ”We probably have easily a 20-fold increase in the number of people reaching out to us as previous years. It’s a very dire situation for public employees who are being terminated illegally and who are being subject to very coercive work environments that are designed to get them to quit.”
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