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 [...]
By: Cliff Smith FME Law Counsel In the light of the impending decision of the Virginia Supreme Court in the case of American Tradition Institute v. The University of Virginia, over the emails of Climate Scientist Michael Mann of the (in)famous “Hockey Sticks” research, George Washington University Law School and the National Academy of Sciences’ [...]
by WNCN Staff WASHINGTON - An internal investigation issued Wednesday found that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to disclose long-term cancer risks and a small chance of death to 81 human test subjects who consented to breathe in diesel exhaust and other pollutants during experiments. The inspector general's report released said that at least some [...]
For Immediate Release: April 3, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org - MEDIA ADVISORY- Lead Attorney in Suit Against EPA's PM2.5 Human Testing, Which Exposed the Practice, Available to Discuss EPA's Recently Released IG's Report on the Subject What: E&E Legal General Counsel and attorney who spearheaded litigation that exposed EPA's PM 2.5 human experimentation, available [...]
by Susan Scutti Medical Daily An internal watchdog stated in a report on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not consistently disclose health risks to its human experimental subjects and neglected to include information about cancer risk. The EPA’s Office of Inspector General conducted an independent review and issued its report in response [...]
For Immediate Release: April 1, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal Sues EPA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records Related to the Agency’s Regulation of the Trace Element Selenium, Which EPA Has Used in its Ongoing “War On Coal” to Deny, and in One Case Retroactively Veto, Mining Permits Washington, D.C. – The [...]
For Immediate Release: March 26, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal Sues FERC to Compel Production Under FOIA of Emails Relating to Former Chairman’s Efforts to “Burrow” Political Appointee Norman Bay as Career Employee, Ensuring Continued Influence as He Prepared to Depart for Private Law Practice Washington, D.C. – The Energy & Environment Legal [...]
by Anthony Watts Watts Up With That? Get this: 17 news organizations, including NPR, WaPo, AP, now have grown a spine and filed an amicus brief (see download below) to OPPOSE in court Michael Mann’s effort to keep his UVa CLIMATEGATE-related e-mails secret. Basically, Mann’s attempt at hiding his emails of work done on public [...]
For Immediate Release: March 17, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org Washington, D.C. -- On April 1, 2014, the National Academy of Sciences and George Washington University Law School will focus a full day seminar on E&E Legal’s litigation against the University of Virginia, brought under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Entitled “The Tension Between Academic [...]
by Dr. David Schnare E&E Legal General Counsel The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), on behalf of its members, comments that EPA’s proposed rule to control greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s New Source Performance Standards is unconstitutional as a substantive due process violation of the Fifth Amendment because it constitutes a [...]
