The Environmental Protection Agency is under fire for
exposing children to pollution as part of an experiment at the University of
Southern California. This information is coming to light from the website junkscience.com
after an investigation from the EPA's Office of the Inspector General stated in
a recent report that the
EPA’s pollution experiments on older people, done at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, were more harmful to the
subjects than what the EPA presented.
The IG also said that while the experiment's subjects did
consent to exposure, the “risks were not always consistently represented.” “Further, the EPA did not include information on
long-term cancer risks in its diesel exhaust studies’ consent forms. An EPA
manager considered these long-term risks minimal for short-term study
exposures,” the IG report said. …..To Read More….
My Take - I followed Steve Milloy's posts regarding his efforts to expose these blatanly illegal actions by the EPA from the beginning. To see just how bad this was and how it was swept under the rug go the the junkscience link in the article.
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