EPA tells the federal court hearing the illegal human testing suit that the agency answers to nothing and no one — i.e., no law and no judge. Continue reading Divine Right of EPA: Agency says it's above the law on human testing
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EPA asks court to dismiss human testing lawsuit
The EPA has asked a federal court to dismiss our lawsuit asking for an injunction against EPA’s illegal human testing. Continue reading EPA asks court to dismiss human testing lawsuit
IBD: Is The Obama EPA Running Its Own Black-Ops Program?
“Chris Horner, the CEI senior fellow who learned about the secret emails while researching his book ‘The Liberal War on Transparency,’ calls the Obama White House “one of the most secretive administrations ever.” [Investors Business Daily]
NBC-17 Investigates: Inspector General investigating EPA testing in Chapel Hill
“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]
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]
Jackson may leave EPA
Greenhouse gases regulated, air quality standards needlessly tightened, coal industry crippled, frackers scared, Army Corps of Engineers usurped, science/cost-benefit analysis mocked, humans turned into guinea pigs, Congress ignored — mission accomplished. [Washington Post blog]
Horner: Who is ‘Richard Windsor’?
Chris Horner exposes EPA chief Lisa Jackson’s ploy to avoid FOIA requests for her e-mail. [Planet Gore]
EPA Charged With Lethal Experiments On Hundreds Of Unsuspecting Subjects
Driessen: The coming environmental battlegrounds
“When American voters re-elected President Obama, they also returned his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior and Energy departments and wide-ranging agenda for “fundamentally transforming” our nation.” [Washington Times]
Coal CEO prays for America; Outlines hardships to come for energy
“Robert E. Murray, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Murray Energy Corp., delivered this prayer and message to approximately 50 staff members on Wednesday afternoon.” [Wheeling Intelligencer]
Trzupek: EPA witch hunts on taxpayer dime
“Indeed, as we’ve seen in case after case, this is the EPA’s new approach: Forget about risk evaluation because there is no risk so small that it’s not worth spending huge amounts of public and private dollars to lessen just a little more. That’s not science, folks, nor is it sound public policy. It’s simply a witch hunt, and now that the president has been re-elected, we’re going to have so many more of them that it would make 17th-century Puritans living in Salem blush.” [Rich Trzupek, Washington Times]
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.