No Fear : A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA Hardback
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
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As a young, black, MIT-educated social scientist, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo landed her dream job at the EPA, working with Al Gore’s special commission to assist postapartheid South Africa.
But when she tried to get the government to investigate allegations that a multinational corporation was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of South Africans mining vanadium—a vital strategic mineral—the agency stonewalled.
Coleman-Adebayo blew the whistle. How could she know that the liberal agency would use every racist and sexist trick in their playbook in retaliation?
The EPA endangered her family and sacrificed more lives in the vanadium mines of South Africa—but her fight against this injustice also brought about an upwelling of support from others in the federal bureaucracy who were fed up with its crushing repression. Upon prevailing in court, Coleman-Adebayo organized a grassroots struggle to bring protection to all federal employees facing discrimination and retribution from the government.
The No FEAR Coalition that she organized waged a two-year-long battle with Congress over the need to protect whistleblowers—culminating in the passage of the first civil rights and whistleblower law of the 21st century.
This book is her harrowing and inspiring story.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Chicago Review Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781556528187
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Chicago Review Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2011
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- ISBN:9781556528187