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 [...]
For Immediate Release: January 20, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org EPA Illegally Used Children as Guinea Pigs in Diesel Exhaust Experiments, FOIA'd Documents Show Washington, DC (Jan. 20) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exposed children as young as 10 years old to dangerous levels of diesel exhaust in medical experiments, show documents obtained [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D Heartland Institute The Energy & Environment Legal Institute is challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s renewable energy standard. In November of 2004, Colorado voters passed a referendum imposing a renewable portfolio standard on the state. This was the first time a referendum had been used to pass a renewable power mandate, occurring [...]
By Samantha Caravello Harvard Environmental Law Review Acting as laboratories for energy policy, some states have been much more effective than the federal government in promoting renewable energy development, often through the enactment of Renewable Portfolio Standards (“RPS”). RPSs require electricity-selling companies to generate a minimum percentage of their electricity from renewable sources. These minimum targets [...]
by Open Virginia Law Earlier this month, the Daily Progress and other media reported that the Supreme Court of Virginia awarded $250 in damages to climate scientist Michael Mann and the University of Virginia in a prominent Virginia FOIA lawsuit that we wrote about in April. (See also petitioners’ case documents webpage.)... It borders on epic understatement to say that the Supreme Court [...]
by The Daily Progress What a letdown. And what an irony. The Virginia Supreme Court levied damages of just $250 against the nonprofit Energy & Environment Legal Institute in its bid to obtain climate researcher Michael Mann’s emails while he was a professor at the University of Virginia... The institute says that even though it [...]
by Ileana Najarro Washington Post [Note from E&E Legal General Counsel David Schnare, who explained this to the Washington Post reporter: "There is a lot of misunderstanding about the $250 'damages' assessed by the Court. Any appellant that loses their appeal in the Virginia Supreme Court has to make this payment to the opposing party. [...]
by Climate Change Dispatch In a clear slap in the face, the Virginia Supreme Court awarded Michael E. Mann and the University of Virginia a piddling $250 in damages in the email FOIA case. Showing the triviality of the manner, the court's order (shown here) didn't even specify the rationale for the derisory amount... Read more.
