by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in the Washington Times The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is trying to use the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to cover-up the agency’s illegal science experiments on humans. Four years ago I broke the story in this paper that the EPA was conducting [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XI: Spring 2016. Click on headlines for the full article. Vermont Records Request Blows AGs Scandal Wide Open by Craig Richardson, Executive Director On April 15, E&E Legal publicly released e-mails obtained through a public records request to the Attorney General of Vermont. The [...]
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 [...]
For Immediate Release: May17, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 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 [...]
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 [...]
