Category: EPA

EPA Hid Information Behind False Identities

“A personal memo sent out by EPA staff refers to the existence of secondary email accounts for top staffers, according to a new release of agency documents. These secret email accounts were allegedly only known to high-level senior staff, and their contents are not available to the public. Since the EPA is a government agency, its emails are supposed to be available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).” Continue reading EPA Hid Information Behind False Identities

EPA Inspector General: Agency Needs to Improve Air Emissions Data for the Oil and Natural Gas Production Sector

We’re still waiting for the EPA IG reports on the agency’s illegal human testing and the financial conflicts of interest among the agency science advisors. Continue reading EPA Inspector General: Agency Needs to Improve Air Emissions Data for the Oil and Natural Gas Production Sector

EPA Succession: Like when Fidel Castro ‘passed the hammer and sickle to his little brother Raul’

From the American Energy Alliance: Continue reading EPA Succession: Like when Fidel Castro ‘passed the hammer and sickle to his little brother Raul’

Obama Settles on EPA, Energy Department Nominees

“President Barack Obama intends to nominate air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the process.” Continue reading Obama Settles on EPA, Energy Department Nominees

Study: Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased deaths after heart attacks

Quite a claim considering that the researchers have no idea how much PM2.5 any subject was exposed to and no medical evidence anyone was killed by PM2.5. Also of note, the EPA-funded University of Rochester tested PM<sub<2.5 on heart attack victims circa 2007-2008. Continue reading Study: Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased deaths after heart attacks

EPA official falls ill while inspecting Fall River water treatment plant

“An inspector for the federal Environmental Protection Agency was taken to the hospital after complaining of difficulty breathing while going through the city’s water treatment plant on Tuesday.” Continue reading EPA official falls ill while inspecting Fall River water treatment plant