Provides protections for employees against retaliation for reporting potential violations of environmental laws relating to asbestos in elementary and secondary schools. Coverage extends to all private sector, state and local government, certain Department of Defense Schools and certain Tribal Schools.
Provides protections for employees against retaliation for reporting potential violations relating to emissions from area, stationary, and mobile sources into the air and engaging in other protected activities. Coverage extends to private-sector, federal, state, and municipal employees.
Provides protections for employees against retaliation for reporting potential violations relating to clean-up of uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites as well as accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants and contaminants into the environment and engaging in other protected activities. Coverage extends to private sector, federal, state, and municipal employees.
Employees of the following employers are protected from retaliation for engaging in protected activities:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensees and applicants for licenses;
- NRC contractors and subcontractors;
- Contractors and subcontractors of NRC licensees and applicants for licenses;
- Agreement state licensees, applicants for agreement state licenses, and these entities’ contractors and subcontractors; and
- Certain Department of Energy (DOE) contractors and subcontractors.
Provides protections for employees against retaliation for reporting potential violations relating to discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and engaging in other protected activities. Coverage extends to private sector, state and municipal employees, and to employees of Indian tribes.
Provides protections for employees against retaliation for reporting potential violations relating to all waters actually and potentially designed for drinking use, whether from above ground or underground sources, and engaging in other protected activities. Coverage extends to private sector, federal, state and municipal employees, and to employees of Indian Tribes.
Provides protections for employees against retaliation for reporting potential violations relating to the disposal of solid and hazardous waste at active and future facilities and engaging in other protected activities. Coverage extends to private sector, federal, state and municipal employees, and to employees of Indian tribes.
Provides protections for private-sector employees against retaliation for reporting potential violations relating to industrial chemicals currently produced or imported into the U.S., or engaging in other protected activities.