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20 09, 2017

Press Release: E&E Legal Yet Again Forced to Sue HHS for Failure to Release Public Records Related to its Work With Activists

2017-09-20T15:48:33-04:00September 20th, 2017|Bad Science, Glyphosate, HHS, Press Releases, Richardson, Suits|

Washington, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed suit today against the Department of Health and Human Services. This is the latest in a series of E&E Legal actions centering on the complex questions surrounding the agricultural chemical glyphosate, a recent target of environmentalist activists and, it seems, friends in government and academia. [...]

14 09, 2017

ClimateWire: Climate Skeptics Could Snag EPA Science Adviser Slots

2017-09-15T09:04:13-04:00September 14th, 2017|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Bad Science, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Scott Waldman ClimateWire Climate skeptics may soon join a key science advisory panel at U.S. EPA. A number of people who reject the findings of mainstream climate science are being considered by the Trump administration for spots on EPA's Science Advisory Board, a voluntary but influential panel that reviews science used in environmental regulations... [...]

12 09, 2017

Daily Caller: EPA Accused Of Burying Scientific Evidence From Human Testing That Contradicted Obama’s Agenda

2017-09-14T15:27:22-04:00September 12th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hid the results of experimental data that contradicted the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda, according to the publisher of an anti-junk science blog. JunkScience.com publisher Steve Milloy claims to have uncovered data buried by the EPA “that directly contradicts the Obama EPA’s 2015 decision to [...]

31 08, 2017

WSJ Opinion Journal: Steve Milloy Discusses Hurricanes and Junk Science

2017-09-05T17:57:23-04:00August 31st, 2017|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Media Coverage, Milloy|

On Friday, August 31, E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow Steve Milloy appeared on the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal to debunk any connection between Hurricane Harvey and 'climate change.'  Watch here.

14 08, 2017

Horner: Don’t hype draft climate studies

2017-08-15T11:47:59-04:00August 14th, 2017|"Climate Change", Bad Science, Conflict of Interest, Horner, Media Coverage|

by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in USA Today Another week of the Trump presidency, another bout of fevered reporting on claims promoted by the career (and holdover) federal employee “resistance.” But particularly when it comes to climate change, it seems the ordinary way of doing things is simply too much [...]

9 08, 2017

Heartland Institute Experts React To Leaked Climate Science Special Report

2017-08-14T13:52:24-04:00August 9th, 2017|"Climate Change", Bad Science, Conflict of Interest, Media Coverage, Tanton, War on Coal|

Heartland Institute Press Release The New York Times this week posted a draft of a climate science report by the federal government’s U.S. Global Change Research Program. The Timesclaimed it was leaking a confidential document, but apparently the draft was available for public comment for months. The report, which you can read here, was written by Obama-era staffers [...]

19 07, 2017

Daily Caller: Profs Try To Hide Climate Change Research From Public Scrutiny

2017-07-20T18:08:33-04:00July 19th, 2017|"Climate Change", Bad Science, Conflict of Interest, Media Coverage, Suits, Transparency, University of Arizona|

by David Krayden The Daily Caller The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) doesn’t want its unpublished climate change research seen by the public. The association is trying to block requests from a conservative think tank that wants to see what kind of research is being withheld from publication. The College Fix reports that the [...]

18 07, 2017

The College Fix: Professors group wants taxpayer-funded climate change research blocked from public scrutiny

2017-07-20T18:02:34-04:00July 18th, 2017|"Climate Change", Bad Science, Conflict of Interest, Media Coverage, Transparency, University of Arizona|

by Toni Airaksinen The College Fix The American Association of University Professors has filed an amicus brief arguing professors at a public university should be exempt from public records act requests from a conservative think tank seeking to review the scholars’ unpublished climate change research. The brief, filed with the Arizona Court of Appeals in [...]

17 07, 2017

Milloy: A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA; Scott Pruitt sweeps out Obama-era science advisers. The agency needs truly independent ones.

2017-07-18T10:05:45-04:00July 17th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, CASAC, Conflict of Interest, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy, War on Coal|

by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Trump administration in May began the process of replacing the small army of outside science advisers at the Environmental Protection Agency. In June, 38 additional EPA advisers were notified that their appointments would not be renewed in August. To [...]

13 07, 2017

Cooler Heads Briefing Featuring E&E Legal’s Steve Milloy – Monday, July 17

2017-07-13T14:49:19-04:00July 13th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Events, Milloy|

Scare Pollution: Why and How To Fix the EPA Join The Cooler Heads Coalition for a congressional staff and media briefing featuring Steve Milloy, author of Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA. The Environmental Protection Agency’s flagship scientific research and regulatory programs revolve around the claim that air pollution kills hundreds of thousands [...]

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