by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) science advisory panel tasked with reviewing ozone regulations is stacked with experts who have collectively received millions in agency funding over the years. Of the 20 scientific advisers sitting on EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Panel, 17 have received a total of [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) met five times behind closed doors this past year to discuss the possibility of reviving Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) experiments exposing humans to harmful air pollutants. NAS is examining the findings of a 2014 EPA inspector general reporting, which found the agency had exposed [...]
For Immediate Release: May17, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 703-981-5553 E&E Legal Sues EPA for Stacking ‘Independent’ Science Panel with EPA Grant Recipients; Watchdog Groups Asks Court to Dissolve EPA Panel Washington, DC – Last Friday, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for illegal formation of [...]
Sean Reilly E&E reporter A conservative legal group has gone to court to block a U.S. EPA advisory panel from convening Monday on the grounds that its members aren't independent of the agency. In a federal lawsuit filed Friday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute seeks a stay to bar the Clean Air Scientific Advisory [...]
by John Dale Dunn MD JD The American Thinker The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) has been involved in a scandalous, unethical, and illegal human exposure experimental research program for two decades. The Agency has sponsored, encouraged and funded research that exposes children and adults to air pollution, which it has told the congress and [...]
Payton Guion The Independent In experiments conducted between 2003 and 2010 and funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, children as young as 10 years of age were exposed to diesel exhaust, despite well-established warnings against diesel exposure. An advocacy group called the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute obtained documentation of the experiments through the [...]
by Colleen Curry The Vice A conservative environmental law group with a history of criticizing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), launched a new attack on the agency this week, releasing a trove of documents showing that the EPA experimented on young children with diesel fuel... The experiments took place from 2003 to 2010 at [...]
Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A government watchdog group has obtained documents detailing how EPA-backed research exposed children as young as 10 to deadly air pollutants without disclosing the full risks of the substances. Government watchdogs say these EPA-backed studiescould violate California state and federal law, because children were exposed to diesel exhaust in experiments with [...]
by Ron Arnold Washington Examiner A man — we’ll call him “Subject No. 1” — had a clear plastic pipe stuck into his mouth with his lips sealed around it, while the diesel exhaust from a parked truck outside the gas chamber was mixed with particulate matter and pumped straight into his lungs. The pumped [...]
by Fox News Insider As seen on Fox and Friends Weekend A shocking new report says the Environmental Protection Agency tested deadly pollutants on humans without always informing them of the risks. The EPA inspector general report found that, overall, the EPA "followed applicable regulations" when it exposed 81 test subjects to "concentrated airborne particles or [...]
