“Congressional Republicans are already pressing Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s pick for the agency’s new administrator, on the EPA’s use of secret data to formulate air quality rules.” Continue reading Republicans press Obama EPA nominee on transparency issues
Category: EPA
House, Senate ask EPA to declassify air pollution ‘secret science’
JunkScience has been after EPA to do this for 16 years. Continue reading House, Senate ask EPA to declassify air pollution ‘secret science’
WaPo: Gina McCarthy for EPA could be Obama’s most significant nominee
Make no mistake: the war against fossil fuels will be intensifying. Continue reading WaPo: Gina McCarthy for EPA could be Obama’s most significant nominee
EPA Funding Reductions Have Kneecapped Environmental Enforcement
EPA Enforcement = Green Jackboots. Continue reading EPA Funding Reductions Have Kneecapped Environmental Enforcement
EPA helps friends’ FOIAs, while foes’ are delayed or blocked
Chris Horner bangs away at the EPA. Continue reading EPA helps friends’ FOIAs, while foes’ are delayed or blocked
Chamber study debunks EPA figures on job-creating regulations
In some cases, the study concluded, there was no evidence that the agency even attempted to analyze the effect of regulations on employment. Continue reading Chamber study debunks EPA figures on job-creating regulations
EPA names 2013 Climate Leadership Award Winners
JunkScience.com missed out again. Maybe we’re in the running for a 2013 FOIA Leadership Award. Continue reading EPA names 2013 Climate Leadership Award Winners
Government-Rentseeker Complex: Exelon offers to help EPA with major anti-coal regulation
Courtesy of Chris Horner, an e-mail from nuclear utility Exelon offering to help EPA with its anti-coal utility MACT regulation. Continue reading Government-Rentseeker Complex: Exelon offers to help EPA with major anti-coal regulation
Eugene Robinson: EPA has ‘a duty’ to block coal power plants
What about its duties to follow the laws against illegal human experiments and to submit to the Freedom of Information Act? Legitimate government is more important that climate change — real or imaginary. Continue reading Eugene Robinson: EPA has ‘a duty’ to block coal power plants
EPA scrubs database of air pollution experiment on children?
EPA Stalin-izes an experiment exposing children to diesel exhaust. Continue reading EPA scrubs database of air pollution experiment on children?
EPA: We didn’t know there would be renewable credit fraud
“The first fraud case came to light in the fall of 2011. EPA put 24 companies on notice that more than 32 million RINs they had tried to use for compliance were bogus.” Continue reading EPA: We didn’t know there would be renewable credit fraud
The EPA’s Secret Email Accounts
“The Washington Free Beacon is one of the few media outlets plowing through the 12,000 emails the Justice Department has released related to Jackson’s illegal conduct. We suspect that more revelations will be forthcoming. However, the Beacon has so far revealed that the EPA is about as contemptuous of American industry as you always expected.” Continue reading The EPA’s Secret Email Accounts