Norman M. Powers v. Vista Chemical Company, Cross-Appellee

STEWART, Circuit Judge:

This ease presents the question of whether Vista Chemical Company violated Louisiana’s environmental whistleblower statute (La. R.S. 30:2027 (West Supp.1996)) by firing Norman M. Powers in retaliation for Powers’s disclosure of an environmental violation. Powers was terminated after he stormed out of a meeting in which he disclosed environmental violations to his supervisor at Vista. It was uncontradieted that approximately two weeks prior to the meeting with Powers, Vista had already reported the environmental violation to the United States Environmental Protection…