For more than six years, Hugh Kaufman has been battling the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), his employer for 37 years, with a whistleblower lawsuit. He has been aided by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a D.C.-based group that represents workers who expose corruption [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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As far as Christie Whitman is concerned, this is standard procedure. When she was governor of New Jersey, one of the first things she did was to dismantle the Office of th Public Advocate. Ms. Whitman is allergic to investigations.
She is looking very angry in that pic I think.
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