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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Last month we told you about the prime speaking spot that the EPA was
affording to Ann Maest of Stratus Consulting at this week’s EPA Hard Rock
Mining Conference. Dr. Maest and Stratus are being sued by Chevron, under
federal racketeering laws, after Maest was caught on video appearing to
agree to doctor data in a way that would exaggerate environmental damage and
inflate multi-billion dollar damage claims in a long running environmental
case in Equador. After Wizbang and others publicized Maest’s participation
in the conference she abruptly dropped off the program. The EPA has
confirmed that Maest dropped out of the conference.
The Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity is protesting the
conference this week as they (rightly) believe that the taint of biased
science remains as long as Stratus is still on the program. The group
believes EPA’s original attempt to showcase Maest, and any continued
involvement of Stratus, highlights the agency’s willingness to use and
embrace biased, agenda-driven science in order to justify its overregulation
of America’s resource industries, energy sector and economy at large.
“Ann Maest and Stratus Consulting are poster children for the kind of
questionable, agenda-driven ‘science’ that federal regulators and their
green allies outside government use to block energy production, increase
consumer costs, kill jobs and smother the American economy in unnecessary
red tape,” said AFP-CO State Director Jeff Crank. “We hope this Give Red
Tape a Rest Rally will remind the rogue regulators at EPA, and their masters
in the White House, that the American people are losing patience with, and
just can’t afford, this regulate-everything, costs-be-damned attitude at
EPA.”
Kudos to AFP and Resourceful Earth for organizing the campaign against Maest
and Stratus; to Wizbang readers who wrote to the EPA; and other blogs who
re-publicized the original Wizbang story on Maest. |
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