RULING COULD BACK WHISTLEBLOWERS' BID TO FIGHT ADMINISTRATION LIMITS

A federal appellate ruling upholding a federal employee's claim that he was unlawfully retaliated against under the Clean Air Act could back whistleblowers' efforts to fight what they say are broad Bush administration attempts to limit protections afforded to whistleblowers under environmental and other laws. The Jan. 17 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Knox v. U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) finds that the DOL's Administrative Review Board (ARB) -- the executive branch body...