Watchdog report: EPA didn’t properly disclose noxious pollutant risks to study participants

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[Red in Blue PA]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not consistently disclose health risks to human test subjects it used to study the risks of pollutants, sometimes keeping information about cancer possibilities from participants, the agency’s internal watchdog said Wednesday.

The EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that the agency obtained the proper approvals from participants before exposing them to airborne exhaust and diesel pollutants, including particulate matter, in 2010 and 2011. However, the consent forms were inconsistent in their disclosures and did not warn of potential long-term risks of exposure to the gases.

“This was because they only planned to perform short-term exposures and the risk of getting cancer from a single two-hour exposure was minimal,” the OIG said, citing information from an EPA manager who said health risks are calculated for 40 years of exposure. The OIG found that the agency’s research estimated a three in one billion chance of cancer from exposure.

[Red in Blue PA]

Tuskegee Redux......yet where oh where are the liberal?

[molson209]

Why ? They are only the Little people

[Red in Blue PA]

If a private hospital did this, they would shut them down in a heartbeat.

[hal ogen]

The “researchers” are anti-science criminals and should be prosecuted. Dr Megele, anyone?

[Paladin2]

Pure Gov't funded torture; worse than waterboarding or wearing Dog Collars.

I've seen NO names associated with this, either from the university nor the EPA. Some peeps need to be incarcerated after being tried in Nuremberg.

[Paladin2]

Pure Gov't funded torture; worse than waterboarding or wearing Dog Collars.

I've seen NO names associated with this, neither from the university nor the EPA. Some peeps need to be incarcerated after being tried in Nuremberg.

[TurboZamboni]

They’ll all just plead the fifth any way and then go on their merry way.

[Paladin2]

You should see the sophistication of their "rooms" and the atmospheric input preparation machinery.

I'll have to round up some pics.

The gov't has funded some gas chambers for the EPA. It's amazing.

[SoFloFreeper]

Team Obama: poisoning Americans one by one.

[logi_cal869]

I’ve been following this since it was a ‘fringe/tin hat’ issue 5 years ago.

The IG report is a whitewash...nothing short of it.

Expecting anything else of this administration that destroyed the IG system is fantasy.

I’ll vapor-lock with shock if they actually hold Lerner in contempt on the other of dozens of issues that should have brought this administration down many, many months ago...