Leaked Audio Shows Pressure to Overrule Scientists in “Hair-on-Fire” Cases
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Susan Sargent | August 4, 2021
“Through documents, interviews, and a written disclosure that they provided exclusively to The Intercept, the EPA inspector general, and select members of Congress, these government scientists have detailed some extreme examples of interference with the scientific evaluation of ...
Whistleblowers Expose Corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office
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Elizabeth Duan | July 2, 2021
“Managers and career staff in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention tampered with the assessments of dozens of chemicals to make them appear safer, according to four scientists who work at the agency. The whistleblowers, whose jobs ...
The Department of Yes
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Elizabeth Duan | June 30, 2021
“After trying, and failing, to protect human health by calling attention to the tumors caused by bifenthrin, the EPA pesticide assessor had several requests to be appointed to relevant committees denied, a development they felt was retaliation for raising concerns about the pesticide ...
The Fight to Clean Up the EPA
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Elizabeth Duan | April 26, 2021
“The Environmental Protection Agency recently acknowledged what was plain to most outside observers throughout the Trump era. “Over the past few years, I am aware that political interference sometimes compromised the integrity of our science,” Michal Freedhoff, acting assistant ...
Environmental Group Charges EPA With Ignoring Evidence of Cancer
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Elizabeth Duan | February 25, 2021
“An assessment of a pesticide that the Environmental Protection Agency issued last year is fraudulent, according to a complaint the environmental group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility submitted to the EPA’s Office of Inspector General today. The complaint accuses ...