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 [...]
Yesterday, an investigative report by WNCN revealed that a Durham, NC man, Matthew Cipparone, has filed a complaint against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). According to the WNCN report, Cipparone is "seeking more than $2 million in the case" from when he "participated in EPA experiments in 2011 at the agency's labs at UNC's School of Medicine [...]
For Immediate Release – March 7, 2013 Contact: Dr. David Schnare, Director, ATI Environmental Law Center david.s@atinstitute.org 571-243-7975 WASHINGTON – Today, the public interest group American Tradition Institute (ATI) expressed strong support for a recently introduced North Carolina bill (S.B. 187) aimed at halting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unethical practice of using humans subjects [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow Washington Times It’s a good thing the U.S Public Health Service called off the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments in 1972. Had someone sued to stop the horror, a federal judge like Anthony Trenga might have stopped the suit — not the experiments. That’s precisely what Judge Trenga did on Jan. 31 in the case of [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow & John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Winter 2012 “First,donoharm”is a fundamental precept of medical ethics.So how do U.S. Environmental Protection Agency physicians explain their non-therapeutic experiments in which they exposed health-impaired people to high levels of concentrated diesel exhaustandother air pollutants? A federal court may [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow Washington Times The Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says no law empowers any judge to stop it from conducting illegal scientific experiments on seniors, children and the sick. That astounding assertion will be tested Friday, when a federal district court in Alexandria decides whether it has jurisdiction to hear [...]
