Environmental Group Backs Alaska Prof in Fight With University
Source: peer.org Posted By: brad S...5305 days ago
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group, has issued a report strongly backing Rick Steiner, who has accused federal officials of getting him removed from receiving funds from the National Sea Grant Program and his administrators at the University of Alaska of going along with the decision and failing to stand behind his academic freedom. Steiner says that he has been punished for championing environmental causes that offend the oil industry and the public employee group....