Campaigns

As the United States faces the growing threat of coronavirus, the unfortunate reality is that people will likely try to profit off this disaster with fraudulent misconduct. That’s why the National Whistleblower Center has launched a campaign to ensure accountability in federal coronavirus spending.

NWC is launching its Climate Corruption Campaign to enlist whistleblowers in the fight against crimes in the three industry sectors responsible for the vast majority of the world’s carbon pollution: oil and gas, coal and industrial logging.

A key element of NWC's Climate Corruption Campaign to enlist whistleblowers in the fight against crimes in industrial logging industry, one of the sectors responsible for the vast majority of the world’s carbon pollution.

NWC’s Global Wildlife Whistleblower Program is a secure worldwide web-based platform designed to educate and incentivize potential whistleblowers in order to dramatically increase the number of high-quality confidential reports essential to detect wildlife crimes and enforce the laws prohibiting illegal trafficking worldwide.

Illegal fishing threatens ecosystems and puts food security and regional stability at risk. Whistleblower reports are key to ending illegal fishing practices and allowing ecosystems and fish populations to recover from the strain of overfishing.

NWC launched its campaign to hold social media companies accountable for unchecked criminal activity on their websites. The initial phase of the campaign was aimed at curtailing illegal wildlife trafficking on Facebook and other social media websites, with four whistleblower petitions filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

NWC works to strengthen the whistleblower program administered by the Securities & Exchange Commission and to defeat efforts to weaken this program, such as proposals to place caps on rewards or to create unreasonable procedural hurdles for whistleblowers.

NWC works to defend those brave whistleblowers who expose fraud, corruption, and waste. NWC does this work through vigorously fighting against any retrenchment or minimization of existing whistleblower laws and protections, as well as through fighting for proactive additional laws and protections for whistleblowers.

Despite its success, there are still reforms needed for the IRS Whistleblower Program. NWC is working to clarify judicial standard of review and incentivize timely award disbursal for tax fraud whistleblowers.

On July 30th, 1778, our Founders unanimously passed America's first whistleblower protection law. This visionary action, taken during the height of the American Revolution, stands today as a testament to the importance of whistleblowing in our history. This is a day that should be remembered and celebrated.