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The EPA Is Set To Ignore Science and Risk Your Health on Particulate...
pxfuelThe Trump Administration is set to ignore science and risk your health on an air pollution rule that will affect millions of people in the US. EPA Administrator Wheeler is going against EPA...
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A Flawed Process and a Harmful Outcome: My Comments on the EPA Particulate...
PixnioOn Thursday, May 21, I will deliver the below oral comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency, speaking against Administrator Wheeler’s proposed rule to maintain the current National...
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How Safe Are Children’s Products? It Might Depend on Trump’s Next Nominee to...
Today the Senate holds a hearing on the nomination of Dr Nancy Beck to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). I doubt you spend much time thinking about the CPSC, but the little-known...
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Old Laws, New Science, and Protecting Public Health: The Trump...
Ron Reiring/FlickrIn June, the public comment period closed on the EPA’s draft rule on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter. Now we wait, as the agency reviews the more...
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Clean Air for All? What the EPA’s Ozone Rule Tells Us About Who Air Pollution...
haunted by Leonard Cohen/FlickrToday the nation enjoys far cleaner air than it did 50 years ago when the Clean Air Act was signed into law. But it isn’t clean everywhere. In fact, the quality of the...
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Uber and Lyft Are Harassing a Researcher, Pulling a Page from Climate...
Jesse Springer/UCSDon’t like the message that research findings bring? Attack the researcher. At least that’s the strategy that industries and ideologues have used for years to intimidate and silence...
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What I Told CNN: A Climate Denier Shouldn’t Be Leading at NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just appointed a climate denier to an agency leadership position. I went on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer yesterday to explain why the...
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Hysterectomies at an ICE Facility and the Complicity of Science in...
Charles Edward MillerThis month, news broke alleging that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Georgia is performing medically unnecessary hysterectomies in immigrant women. A...
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Science After Trump: What We Learned and How the Biden Administration Can...
John KlossnerI have studied science used and misused by US presidents for a decade, but the Trump era kicked that work to a new level. In less than four years, we have logged more than 160 attacks on...
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A New Day for Science: President Biden’s Big Plan for Scientific Integrity...
Today, the Biden Administration releases a presidential memo on scientific integrity and evidence-based policymaking, setting the stage for the administration’s efforts to build back from the Trump...
View ArticleNOAA Leadership Trades Scientific Integrity for Political Appeasement
Today is a dark day: dedicated public servants were thrown under the bus by NOAA leaders.
View ArticleA Timeline of Recent Attacks on the EPA’s Science-based Ambient Air Pollution...
Trump administration officials at the US Environmental Protection Agency have made several moves that undermine the longstanding process that the agency uses to ensure that independent science informs...
View ArticleThe EPA Cut Science Out of Air Pollution Standard-Setting. We’re Putting It...
EPA leaders have now irreparably damaged the agency’s process for setting health-based air pollution standards. That’s why scientists are taking matters into their own hands. To ensure that independent...
View ArticleWhat To Expect at the Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel Meeting
On the anniversary of being disbanded by the EPA, the 20-member Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel is set to reconvene to ensure that independent, robust science advice informs the EPA’s...
View ArticleDear Administrator Wheeler: This is What EPA Science Advice Looks Like
Last Thursday and Friday, a historic meeting took place. A 20-member panel of air pollution experts met in Washington DC, despite being disbanded by EPA leaders exactly one year before. The panel’s...
View ArticleThe Experts Have Spoken: Disbanded Particulate Pollution Panel Finds EPA...
A group of 20 independent experts on particulate matter air pollution, disbanded by EPA Administrator Wheeler last October and reconvened last week, has now made clear that the current particulate...
View ArticleSpookiest Halloween Costume – 2019 Edition: (Still) the Fossil Fuel Company...
This post is a revamp of a 2017 post here. It is (sadly) more applicable today. Halloween is here, and we have a lot to be spooked about when it comes to the future role of science in this country. In...
View ArticleEPA Science Advisors Fail to Reach Consensus on Particulate Pollution Standards
This week I’m at the EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) meeting in North Carolina and an expected but disappointing outcome has just occurred: The committee has failed to reach...
View ArticleA Chance for More Transparency on Oil and Gas Production on Public Lands: My...
Today I had the opportunity to testify to Congress on an important bill, The Transparency in Energy Production Act of 2020, that would require energy companies that lease federal land to disclose more...
View ArticleNew Emails Show Acting Administrator Neil Jacobs is Unfit to Lead NOAA
Late Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a batch of emails between high-level agency officials around Sharpiegate; BuzzFeed broke the news. Most of the emails...
View ArticleDark Rhymes for Dark Times: New Storybook Illustrates Threats to Children’s...
Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists releases a storybook for people who care about kids. With colorful illustrations and amusing rhymes, it illustrates how science keeps our children protected—and...
View ArticleThe Trump EPA Is Restricting EPA Science. It’s Somehow Worse than We Expected.
Yesterday the Trump administration issued a supplemental notice to a draft rule long feared by many in the public health and scientific communities as a major disruption to science-based policy as we...
View ArticleNew Harvard Study Links COVID Deaths and Air Pollution: An Interview with...
A ground-breaking new study finds that people living in counties in the US that have experienced a higher level of air pollution over the past 15-17 years have a substantially higher COVID-19 mortality...
View ArticleA National Academy of Sciences Conversation on Rebuilding Federal Science...
Last month, I had the honor of participating in the National Academy of Sciences’ 158th Annual Meeting in a session led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), entitled...
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