Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Today, I released a new report on the need for scientific journals to enforce strict and effective conflict disclosure policies for authors, peer reviewers, and even journal editors. The report, titled, Effective and Practical Disclosure Policies: NRDC Paper on Workshop to...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
When President Obama issued a call for public comments on how to fix the dismal state of scientific distortion, manipulation, and suppression that had marked the Bush Administration, NRDC answered the call. So did many other public interest groups and...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
A report released today by the NRDC Health Program documents many examples of Bush Administration budget cuts to key data collection programs that monitor hazardous pollutants in our air, water, food, and even our bodies. The loss of these monitoring programs will...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Today, I provided testimony before the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, at hearings entitled: Science under Siege: Scientific Integrity at the U.S. EPA about political interference with Agency scientists, in their efforts to assess and regulate...continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in EXXON SHIPPING CO. ET AL. v. BAKER ET AL., regarding Exxon's 1989 Valdez oil spill off coastal Alaska, which spilled millions of gallons of crude oil into the surrounding environment....continued→
Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment
Today, NRDC and a coalition of public interest science organizations sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protesting the removal of Dr. Deborah Rice as Chair of the scientific panel reviewing safe exposure limits for the toxic...continued→
