Reading Room Document
Waiver of Sovereign Immunity With Respect to Whistleblower Provisions of Environmental Statutes
The federal government's sovereign immunity has been waived with respect to the whistleblower provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act and the Clean Air Act, but not with respect to the whistleblower provision of the Clean Water Act. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/450921/download.
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit