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April 8th, 2009

This is CBS’s coverage of the House Science Committee’s oversight hearing of the Environmental Protection Agency in 2001, after the Agency and then-Administrator, Carol M. Browner, were found guilty of racial, sexual, and color-based discrimination by a jury in the landmark case Coleman-Adebayo v Carol Browner. The case led to the unanimous passage in both houses of Congress of the NoFEAR Act (Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation) in 2001, mandating that all Federal new hires receive training in Coleman-Adebayo v Carol Browner and that all Federal employees receive the same training every 2 years. Ms. Browner sustained no lasting damage to her career from the devastating findings of the jury and the resulting outrage in Congress, as witnessed by her recent appointment by President Obama to the position of Energy Czar—a appointment that had no Congressional oversight. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo, however, despite being widely haled as “the Rosa Parks of the 21st Century,” and being honored by the NAACP for her furtherance of the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was fired after the November election by a holdover of the Carol Browner administration as further retaliation against Dr. Coleman-Adebayo who blew the whistle on an American multi-national corporation for its role in poisoning impoverished communities in South Africa in the process of Vanadium mining. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo was the EPA liaison to the Gore-Mbeki Commission. The EPA was the agency responsible for overseeing American corporations’ compliance with safety standards.

EPA employee Anita Nikens describes the circumstances of being given orders to clean Administrator Carol Browner’s toilet, of being the brunt of subsequent jokes about it, and of having her pleas for redress of her grievance ignored at the US Environmental Agency during Ms. Browner’s tenure.

Statements from EPA senior analyst, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, and NAACP Montgomery County President, Linda Plumber, on the victory of Dr. Coleman-Adebayo in court after a jury upheld her charges that the US Environmental Protection Agency had discriminated against her on the basis of race, color, and gender, and that then-Administrator Carol Browner tolerated a hostile work environment.

As a member of the minority of the House Science Committee, convened to investigate the Environmental Protection Agency’s discrimination and retaliation against whistleblowers, Rep. Jackson Lee (D-Tx) speaks passionately about the need to protect Federal workers from systemic racism and retaliation.

Mr. Leroy Warren, Chairman of the Federal Sector Task Force of the NAACP testifies in 2000 before the House Science Committee on then-Administrator Carol Browner’s history of discrimination and retaliation at EPA. Ms. Browner is now the Energy Czar, an appointment made by President, Barack Obama, bypassing Congressional oversight that would at least have proved embarrassing, if not insurmountable, given the facts of Browner’s tenure at EPA during the Clinton administration.

In 2000, a jury found that the EPA, under then-administrator Carol Browner, was guilty of Read more »

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