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26 03, 2015

WSJ’s Strassel: The Campus Climate Crusade: Liberal groups are out to sully the names of conservative professors and shut down programs funded by the Koch foundation

2015-03-27T19:50:20-04:00March 26th, 2015|E&E Legal vs. UVA, Media Coverage, Transparency|

by Kimberly Strassel Wall Street Journal Conservative thought on campus these days is rare, though for some it’s still not rare enough. Witness the growing campaign by politicians, unions and environmentalists to intimidate into silence any academic or program that might challenge liberal ideology... Largely unnoticed is that the congressional climate crusaders didn’t come up [...]

23 03, 2015

Press Release: VA’s Freedom of Information Act Used to Determine Whether UVA Can Keep Scientific Bias Secret

2016-12-11T17:07:41-05:00March 23rd, 2015|Climategate, Conflict of Interest, Hardin, Hardin v. UVA, Press Releases, Schnare|

For Immediate Release: March 23, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson [email protected] 202-758-8301 Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act Used to Determine Whether UVA Can Keep Scientific Bias Secret Washington, D.C. — Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, the ranking Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, accuses university faculty of bias based on the source of their funding – arguing [...]

6 02, 2015

Greenwire: Scientists defend human testing program as critics lay siege

2015-02-06T15:54:28-05:00February 6th, 2015|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, EPA Gassing Kids, GHG Rule, Media Coverage|

by Robin Bravender and Amanda Peterka E&E Reporters Wanted: Nonsmoking, active adults to inhale nitrogen dioxide and ozone during a workout. Those people will help U.S. EPA study the physiological changes caused by the exposure to dirty air. Participants would breathe clean air laced with pollution; exercise on and off during exposures; and have their breathing, [...]

2 02, 2015

Chesser: EPA Diesel Exhaust Experiments on Children Discovered in California

2015-02-02T15:50:28-05:00February 2nd, 2015|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, EPA Gassing Kids, Media Coverage|

by Paul Chesser National Legal and Policy Center Another disturbing revelation of experiments on humans by the Environmental Protection Agency has been uncovered, after similar tests were exposed at EPA’s Human Studies Facility at the University of North Carolina 2 ½ years ago. This time the “research” was conducted at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles. The test subjects were [...]

29 01, 2015

Law Week Colorado: Renewable Energy Standard Under Fire

2015-01-30T17:51:04-05:00January 29th, 2015|E&E Legal v. CO, Media Coverage, Renewable Energy, Schnare|

by Tony Flesor Law Week Colorado Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard is facing challenges on two fronts: in the courts and in the legislature... Last year, the RES temporarily survived an attempt to remove it when a Colorado District Court judge ruled against the activist group, the Environment and Energy Legal Institute, which goes by the [...]

29 01, 2015

Washington Examiner: Documents contradict EPA claim that it stopped diesel fume tests on kids

2015-01-30T08:09:55-05:00January 29th, 2015|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, EPA Gassing Kids, Green Groups, Media Coverage, Schnare|

by Ethan Barton Washington Examiner Environmental Protection Agency officials said they stopped using kids for experiments in 2006, but subsequent reports from a health research project in which nearly two dozen children were exposed to diesel fumes contradict their claim. "After the 2006 ban went into effect, UCLA and USC used cells in their laboratories [...]

26 01, 2015

American Thinker: The EPA Uses Children (and Adults) as Guinea Pigs

2015-01-28T17:32:13-05:00January 26th, 2015|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, Media Coverage, PM2.5|

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 [...]

23 01, 2015

The Independent: US Environmental Protection Agency tested diesel fumes on children

2016-12-11T17:07:43-05:00January 23rd, 2015|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, Media Coverage, PM2.5, Schnare|

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 [...]

23 01, 2015

The Vice: The Environmental Protection Agency Funded Diesel Experiments on Children

2015-01-23T17:29:00-05:00January 23rd, 2015|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, Media Coverage, PM2.5|

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 [...]

20 01, 2015

The Daily Caller: Report: EPA Tested Deadly Air Pollutants On Children

2015-01-28T17:44:06-05:00January 20th, 2015|EPA 2.5 Human Experimentation Suit, Media Coverage, PM2.5|

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 [...]

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