Tag: White Hat Bias
PAHs in the Real World: A Brief History of PAHs in the Environment & Regulation Based on Advocacy Research
Want to learn more about PAHs? Here's a place to start.
One Face of the Regulatory State
Recent talk about “over regulation” includes discussion of the "fourth branch" of government - the unaccountable and faceless bureaucracy....
EPA Finds Quality of Unreliable USGS Studies Of Refined Coal Tar “Sufficient for their Intended Uses”
Agency declines to cite studies that “question the validity” of problematic findings ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Feb. 10, 2016...
Post Publication Review: Did Austin’s RTS Ban Result in a Decline in PAH Concentrations in Lady Bird Lake Sediments?
In 2014, Van Metre & Mahler published a paper in the journal Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) claiming...
PCTC Documents Flawed Methodology of USGS Austin Study, Asks Journal for Retraction
After years of waiting for the USGS to "do the right thing" by addressing its flawed science, which...
White Hat Bias in the Environmental Sciences (SETAC 2015)
At the 2015 annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Salt Lake City,...
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Suppressed Report by its Environmental Science Contractor
As supporting information for a presentation at SETAC 2015 on White Hat Bias, this post includes a link...
The email I didn’t send to the USGS
On October 10, 2015 blogger and occasional USGS collaborator, Tom Ennis, revealed that USGS scientist, Dr. Barbara Mahler,...
Post Publication Peer Reviews of USGS Volatilization Studies
The USGS has been seeking to conduct "policy relevant science" (for example, here), and must have thought they'd hit the...
PCTC’s Data Quality Act Submissions – Where are They Now?
September 12, 2015 – In May, 2013, PCTC submitted its first Data Quality Act (DQA, also known as...