Posted on 06/04/2015 12:18:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
But a closer look at these claims of independence raises serious doubts.
An online search of EPA’s web site revealed that Syracuse’s Driscoll has previously involved as a principal investigator in studies that received over $3.6 million in research grants from EPA. Co-author Dallas Burtraw, a researcher at the think tank Resources for the Future, had been involved in previous EPA grants totaling almost $2 million. Harvard co-author Jonathan I. Levy had been involved in over $9.5 million worth of grants. Co-author Joel Schwartz, also of Harvard, had been previously involved in over $31 million worth of grants from EPA.
Are we to believe that a group of researchers who had previously received some $45 million in grants from EPA, no doubt hoping for more in the future, could possibly not have any dog in this fight? It’s probably not necessary to ask how this slipped past the incurious mainstream media.
Intrigued by Bounocore’s odd assertion of absolutely no involvement with EPA, I submitted a request to EPA under the Freedom of Information Act for email between the study authors and EPA staff. Although subsequent wrangling with agency staff gave me doubt that I would ever get anything, I received, much to my surprise, 99 pages of emails after mere weeks.
The emails reveal that study co-authors Driscoll, Buonocore, Schwartz and Harvard’s Kathy Lambert were definitely in contact with key EPA staff regarding this research.
A July 8, 2014 email shows Lambert arranging a conference call with EPA staff to get EPA’s input on the study. One of the EPA staff involved was the contact person for agency’s Clean Power Plan cost-benefit analysis. A subsequent e-mail shows that the top EPA staffer on the Clean Power Plan cost-benefit analysis was added to the ca
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Leftists Lie.
It’s their default condition, their factory setting.
Always remember when in conversation with a Leftist: they are lying to you.
Ping.
An aardvark bit my sister.
Paleface Lizzy Warren say,
“Harvard people no speak with forked tongues!”
I still remember a discussion with a PHD in electrical engineers who responded to my evidence regarding global warming, “why would someone risk their career on something that wasn’t true?” as his only refute.
Ah good, now there will be prosecutions under RICO Act thanks the Sen. Whitehouse. What? You mean that’s not the corruption he was talking about??
Mind you, aardvark bites can be pretty nasty...
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