“The EPA declined to offer a comment Monday about the Inspector General’s announcement and continues to maintain that all studies conducted by EPA are independently evaluated for safety and ethics.” [NBC-17, Raleigh]
Category: Air Quality
EPA Inspector General Announces Investigation of Illegal Human Testing
The EPA Office of the Inspector General just announced it will be investigating the JunkScience.com-discovered illegal human testing by EPA scientists. [Click for the EPA OIG’s announcement]
EPA Charged With Lethal Experiments On Hundreds Of Unsuspecting Subjects
EHP refuses to investigate EPA researcher misconduct
Environmental Health Perspectives editor Hugh Tilson today refused to investigate EPA researchers for scientific misconduct, offering instead to handle the matter as a mere “letter to the editor.”
Last week we transmitted to Tilson prima facie evidence that EPA researchers Andrew Ghio, Wayne Cascio and Martha Sue Carraway committed researcher misconduct by omitting material information from a September 2011 study.
There so far is no “good faith” dispute of the facts we presented. Allowing Ghio/Cascio/Carraway to escape investigation/prosecution by simply responding to a letter (likely in an obfuscatory manner) is unacceptable.
Obama halted EPA regs for political split second to plan massive 2013 environmental regs
“Obama was not kidding when he said that ‘voting is the best revenge’ because he may have the last laugh whether he gets re-elected or not.” [Kerry Picket, Washington Times]
New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request
JunkScience.com has uncovered new documents conclusively proving that EPA researchers materially falsified a September 2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Continue reading New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request
Driessen: EPA anti-energy regulations killing jobs
“More and more, daily decisions are made less by responsible citizens than by nanny-state government, especially powerful, unelected, unaccountable executive branch agencies in Washington. Among the worst is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).” [Washington Times]
EPA's Dirty, Dark Secret
By STEVE MILLOY
October 23, 2012, Investor’s Business Daily | Print Version
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued in federal court for conducting illegal experiments on human beings. A federal judge will now determine whether the EPA has violated federal law and the most sacrosanct moral standards of scientific research or whether the EPA has been lying to Congress and the public about the dangers of air pollution. Continue reading EPA's Dirty, Dark Secret
NBC-17: Congress wants probe of human testing claims at UNC-CH
“Congress is acting against an EPA study in Chapel Hill that involved human test subjects breathing Diesel fumes.” [WNCN, NBC-17 (Raleigh)]
House Committee requests investigation into illegal EPA human testing
“In a letter sent yesterday to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG), Investigations and Oversight Chairman Paul Broun (R-GA) requested that the Inspector General (IG) review EPA’s human research studies involving concentrated airborne particles.” [House Media Release | Letter to EPA IG]
EPA’s illegal human experiments: Agency failed to warn tests potentially lethal
By Steve Milloy
October 18, 2012, 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. Continue reading EPA’s illegal human experiments: Agency failed to warn tests potentially lethal
Is Duke's Green Dean Okay with Duke Prof's Involvement in Illegal EPA Human Testing?
Duke University’s dean of green says particulate matter kills — so why does he give a pass to a Duke physician exposing elderly asthmatics to high concentrations of such pollutants? Continue reading Is Duke's Green Dean Okay with Duke Prof's Involvement in Illegal EPA Human Testing?