Nicole Cantello is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lawyer, President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Union Local 704, and leader of AFGE Council 238– a nationwide union that represents over 8,000 EPA employees. As an EPA union leader, Nicole has pushed with AFGE Council 238 for the Declaration of a Climate Emergency and the passage of an EPA Workers Bill of Rights, in addition to winning protection of scientific integrity in the EPA’s work through their union contract. Recently, Nicole helped organize the Labor Network for Sustainability and AFGE Council 238 webinar “Fed Up: How EPA Workers are Fighting Back,” and has been working tirelessly to defend environmental protections and EPA workers.
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