{"id":92879,"date":"2017-12-22T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=92879"},"modified":"2017-12-22T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:05:40","slug":"epa-grant-grubber-activist-groups-sue-epa-for-barring-agency-grantees-from-science-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2017\/12\/epa-grant-grubber-activist-groups-sue-epa-for-barring-agency-grantees-from-science-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA grant-grubber, activist groups sue EPA for barring agency grantees from science boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens sue EPA to overturn the JunkScience.com initiative that ended their EPA advisory board scam.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92881\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ed-avol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92881\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USC prof and EPA grantee Ed Avol is suing EPA to reinstate the Trump admin-banned practice of EPA grantees serving on science advisory boards so they can rubberstamp EPA junk science.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>USC&#8217;s Ed Avol (<a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2016\/06\/epa-stacked-ozone-science-panel-with-192-million-worth-of-paid-cronies\/\">$67 million in EPA grants while rubberstamping bogus EPA science as a CASAC member<\/a>), Physicians for Social Responsibility and other expect federal courts will keep their old scam alive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PSR-lawsuit.pdf\">Read the grant-grubber complaint.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Background Reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2017\/10\/trump-epa-to-issue-conflict-of-interest-rules-for-epa-science-advisors\/\">Trump EPA to issue conflict of interest rules for EPA science advisors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2017\/07\/a-step-toward-scientific-integrity-at-the-epa\/\">A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens sue EPA to overturn the JunkScience.com initiative that ended their EPA advisory board scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality","category-epa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-oa3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92883,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92879\/revisions\/92883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}