Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow & Junkscience.com Founder As appearing on Junkscience.com Good morning. I’m Steve Milloy. I publish JunkScience.com. I’ve worked on EPA science and risk issues for almost 30 years now — probably on more EPA issues in more EPA programs than any one of you. The one thing I can [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com founder InsideSources.com A unique event in regulatory science just happened. One that could only have occurred in the rock ’em, sock ’em Trump era. An Environmental Protection Agency science advisory panel informed the EPA administrator that 25 years and $600 million worth of the science [...]
by Duggan Flanakin Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee determined air quality standards for fine particulate matter are sufficiently protective of the public health and do not need to be tightened further. The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined air quality [...]
by Chris White Daily Caller Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy joined an environmental group that was one of the chief lobbyists for former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan. McCarthy announced her decision to lead the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Monday on Twitter, notifying her followers of the new gig. Reports show [...]
by Brian Anderson Washington Examiner Congratulations are in order for former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy. As of this week, she has been tasked with running an environmental group that, for many years, appeared to be running her federal agency. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a behemoth among environmental nonprofit organizations, has named McCarthy [...]
by Kelsey Brugger E&E News reporter In the first half of 2020, Trump officials are hurrying to fundamentally change the way environmental rules are crafted. The administration plans to finalize regulations that could hamstring future presidents from making rules that rely on public health studies or fail to fully consider the benefits to Americans. Trump's [...]
Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it a policy to “aggressively reduce” animal testing, completely eliminating them by 2035 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a memorandum directing the EPA to “aggressively reduce” animal testing, including reducing mammal study requests and cutting funding for studies using animals as [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing on Junkscience.com My oral testimony from today’s EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) meeting to finalize its letter trashing 25 years worth of EPA particulate matter junk science. Good morning. I am Steve Milloy. I publish JunkScience.com. I want to commend [...]
by Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency repealed a proposed regulatory reform to limit the agency’s use of studies for which the underlying data is not available for “independent validation to craft major new regulations. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew a regulatory reform it proposed in April 2018 to limit the [...]
by David Malakoff Science ...The draft document [of Trump's 'secret science plan], a version of which was leaked to The New York Times this week, supplements a 2018 data transparency proposal from EPA that was harshly criticized by scientific, environmental, and patient groups, prompting the agency to say it would issue a revision. Although EPA [...]
