CASAC

7 11, 2017

The Hill: EPA, Pruitt may face lawsuits over advisory board changes

2017-11-14T16:02:09-05:00November 7th, 2017|Bad Science, CASAC, Conflict of Interest, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Timothy Cama The Hill Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt may face legal challenges over his decision to block grant recipients from serving on advisory committees. Environmentalists, Democrats and scientific societies have slammed Pruitt over the new policy, saying it unnecessarily blocks the best experts in their fields from giving the agency advice, [...]

17 10, 2017

Daily Caller: Trump’s EPA Will Crack Down On Using Science Advisers Who Benefit From Taxpayer Grants

2017-10-20T13:47:58-04:00October 17th, 2017|Bad Science, CASAC, Media Coverage, Milloy, Transparency|

by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will soon issue a directive to “ensure the independence and transparency and objectivity with respect to the scientific advice that we’re getting at the agency,” he said on Tuesday. Pruitt said he would issue a directive next week addressing potential conflicts of [...]

17 10, 2017

Bloomberg BNA: Scientists Getting EPA Grants Can’t Advise Agency, Pruitt Says

2017-10-20T13:30:33-04:00October 17th, 2017|CASAC, Media Coverage, Milloy, Transparency|

by Amena H. Saiyid Bloomberg BNA Scientists who have received EPA grants to the “tune of literally tens of millions of dollars” won’t be allowed to serve on the agency’s advisory boards, Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Oct. 17. The goal of this directive, which Pruitt will issue next week, is to ensure that the scientific [...]

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 [...]

7 08, 2016

Milloy: Corrupting an ‘independent’ science panel; The EPA illegally stacks a key science advisory board

2016-08-07T16:30:13-04:00August 7th, 2016|CASAC, Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Washington Times The Environmental Protection Agency has illegally stacked a key science advisory board with highly paid cronies — but nothing can be done about it. I have a comatose lawsuit to prove it. We sued the EPA in May because a panel [...]

7 08, 2016

Milloy: Corrupting an ‘independent’ science panel; The EPA illegally stacks a key science advisory board

2016-08-07T16:30:13-04:00August 7th, 2016|CASAC, Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Washington Times The Environmental Protection Agency has illegally stacked a key science advisory board with highly paid cronies — but nothing can be done about it. I have a comatose lawsuit to prove it. We sued the EPA in May because a panel [...]

4 07, 2016

Coal Age: EPA Stacks the Deck with ‘Independent’ Science Panel

2016-07-06T16:23:59-04:00July 4th, 2016|CASAC, Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Milloy, War on Coal|

by Steve Fiscor Coal Age Editor-in-Chief Last month, the E&E Legal sued the EPA for illegally forming a key science advisory committee — the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Particulate Matter Review Panel for 2015-2018 (CASAC PM Panel). “The EPA has stacked the panel, which is required by law to be independent and unbiased, [...]

27 06, 2016

FoxNews.com: EPA panel backs tough new ozone regs — after getting $200M in grants, lawsuit charges

2016-06-27T12:00:40-04:00June 27th, 2016|CASAC, EPA Collusion, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Milloy, War on Coal|

by Malia Zimmerman FoxNews.com Scientists on a key panel handpicked by the Environmental Protection Agency to green-light new environmental emissions regulations have received nearly $200 million in grants from the agency, according to a federal lawsuit which charges the past funding calls into question the objectivity of the process. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute, [...]

3 06, 2016

Greenwire: EPA nixes financial disclosure request for PM advisory panel

2016-12-11T17:07:20-05:00June 3rd, 2016|CASAC, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Sean Reilly E&E reporter U.S. EPA has rebuffed a request for the confidential financial disclosure reports of an air quality advisory panel, saying they are exempt from release under the Freedom of Information Act on personal privacy grounds. Steve Milloy, a Washington, D.C.-area attorney, had sought the records for all 26 members of the [...]

26 05, 2016

E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: E&E Legal Sues EPA for Stacking ‘Independent’ Science Panel

2016-05-26T09:47:12-04:00May 26th, 2016|CASAC, Conflict of Interest, E&E Legal Letters, Milloy|

by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow On May 13, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for illegal formation of a key science advisory committee. The committee at issue is the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Particulate Matter Review Panel for 2015-2018 (CASAC PM Panel). E&E [...]

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