by Ben Geman The Hill Two conservative groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to compel disclosure of instant-message chats involving former Administrator Lisa Jackson, Gina McCarthy, the senior regulator nominated by President Obama to lead the EPA, and others. The new lawsuit, filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Tradition Institute, alleges that [...]
by Thomas Lifson American Thinker Something is rotten in the EPA, and Christopher Horner is the man exposing it. For reasons undisclosed, the agency with vast discretionary power over the minutiae of operating a business in the United States has chosen to violate the law and engage in undisclosed secret communications, in utter violation of [...]
by Stephan Dinan Washington Times Top Environmental Protection Agency officials used computer instant messages to try to circumvent open-records laws, according to a lawsuit filed by a researcher who has been hounding the agency to comply with the law. Christopher C. Horner, the researcher who earlier uncovered that EPA officials were using private email addresses [...]
Dr. David Schnare, Director of ATI's Environmental Law Center, appeared on The Amy Oliver Show to provide an update on ATI's federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standards. Schnare had just been in Court in Colorado two days as the judge ruled on a series of motions, primarily involving discovery in the case. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Larry Bell Forbes A suit filed in federal court charges the Environmental Protection Agency with conducting illegal and potentially lethal experiments on hundreds of financially needy people who were paid $12/hour without even informing them of risks. Based upon thousands of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, procedures undertaken since 2004 and [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow Washington Times The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued in federal court for allegedly conducting illegal experiments on human beings. The case tests whether a government agency can violate the law and the most sacrosanct ethics of scientific research — and get away scot-free. Based on thousands of pages [...]
