Government Accountability Project
Description
Government Accountability Project (GAP) supports whistleblowers who report wrongdoing inside government and corporations. It is based in Washington, DC. GAP also works closely with journalists so that whistleblowers and their disclosures reach the public.
One of GAP’s projects is Climate Science and Policy Watch, or CSPW. It grew out of Climate Science Watch, founded in 2005 by federal whistleblower Rick Piltz. Piltz resigned from the US Global Change Research Program in protest of political interference in government climate science.
The New York Times reported Piltz’s disclosure of politically motivated editing of scientific documents. He then ran Climate Science Watch until his death in 2014, publishing blog posts, testifying before Congress and appearing widely in the media.
In 2015 his associates at GAP reconstituted the project as Climate Science and Policy Watch. This broadened its original mission of holding government accountable for the integrity of climate research to include a focus on public policy responses to climate change.
CSPW works with partner organizations such as Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Center for Biological Diversity. It champions scientists and officials who speak out against climate denial and political interference in federal climate science and policymaking.
Latest news
WFMJ: Former scientist alleges pressure to downplay East Palestine chemical testing
“The Government Accountability Project has filed a complaint with the EPA’s Office of Inspector General after a former scientist with the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, now known as Onterris, blew the whistle on chemical testing their company was contracted to do by Norfolk...
25 Sep 2026NewsNation: Whistleblower: EPA and railroad contractor hid East Palestine contamination
“Peggy Dixon is a former environmental tester turned whistleblower with the Government Accountability Project. She worked on the cleanup of the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train wreck. Twenty of the affected train cars contained materials the Environmental Protection Agency deemed hazardous...
25 Sep 2026
Today, Government Accountability Project filed a hotline complaint to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on behalf of whistleblower and former Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH) scientist, Peggy Dixon. This complaint alleges that CTEH...
23 Sep 2026“A former environmental scientist who responded to Norfolk Southern’s 2023 Ohio derailment said the contractor she worked for took numerous steps to conceal contamination, from pressuring her to dismiss test results and report ‘zeros’ to concealing animal deaths. ‘They emphasized that we wanted...
23 Sep 2026
Inspector General Substantiates Whistleblower Disclosures
Two nuclear whistleblowers, Jacqueline Downard and Steven Christopher, received favorable findings from the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General (DOE OIG) after disclosing a federal contractor’s lack of compliance with proper preservation, management, and storage of sensitive...
22 Sep 2026
“As mentioned, Linnekin, deputy director of the Food Integrity Campaign at the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and author of Biting the Hand that Feeds Them: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable (Princeton University Press, 2016), also spoke to me about...
21 Sep 2026
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