HARVARD, SYRACUSE RESEARCHERS CAUGHT LYING TO BOOST OBAMA CLIMATE RULES

According to e-mails obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency, Harvard University, Syracuse University and two of their researchers seem to have falsely claimed a study supporting EPA's upcoming global warming rules was conducted "independent(ly)" of the agency.

Also, an online search of EPA's web site disclosed that Syracuse's Driscoll has previously been involved as a principal investigator in studies that received over $3.6 million in research grants from EPA. In addition, 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.

Now, are we supposed to actually 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 anything to gain in this fight?

While EPA values each life "saved" at about $10 million, the claim that the rules will save 6,600 lives per year puts the rules' alleged benefits on the order of $66 billion per year, far in excess of industry projections of the rules' costs.

However, these EPA claims are extremely controversial (to say the least). A compelling alternate view is that no lives will be saved because, for one reason, EPA's own extensive clinical research shows that particulate matter and ozone in outdoor air do not kill anyone.

So, can we trust in the independence of EPA-funded researchers?

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