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Energy Czar Carol Browner at EPA Discrimination Hearings

February 25th, 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.

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