The best “science” money can buy.

The EPA’s most recent regulations for ground-level ozone are reputed to be the most expensive EPA regulations ever, costing trillions of dollars.

The EPA’s rules were endorsed by a panel of scientists required by law to review them — called the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). Both the Clean Air Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act required that CASAC panels be independent and unbiased.

So was the panel independent and/or unbiased?

Below are listed the panel members at the amount of money they received in EPA grants, according to documents obtained from the EPA:

Dr. H. Christopher Frey, North Carolina State University — $3,136,162

Mr. George A. Allen, North east States for Coordinated Air Use Management — $3,907,111

Mt., Ed Avol, University of Southern California — $67,163,221

Dr. Michelle Bell, Yale University — $27,216,035

Dr. Joseph Brain, Harvard university — $15,641,225

Dr. David Chock, Independent Consultant — $0

Dr. Ana Diez-Roux, Drexel University — $33,575,181

Dr. David A Grantz, University of California, Riverside — $0

Dr. Jack Harkema, Michigan State University — $26,918,114

Dr. Daniel Jacob, Harvard University — $14,135,578

Dr. Steven Kleeberger, National Institutes of Health — $22,456,958

Dr. Frederick J. Miller, Independent Consultant — $0

Dr. Howard Neufeld, Appalachain State University — $0

Dr. Armistead (Ted) Russell, Georgia Institute of Technology — $22,310,139

Dr. Helen Suh, Northeastern University — $16,680,251

Dr. James Ultman, Pennsylvania State University — $18,750,000

Dr. Sverre Vedal, University of Washington — $8,000,000

Dr. Kathleen Weathers, Cary Institute — $0

Dr. Peter Woodbury, Cornell University — $308,120

Dr. Ron Wyzga, Electric Power Research Institute — $0



So of the 20 CASAC Ozone Panel members, 14 (70%) received grant money from the EPA.

The total amount of unique grants involved (some panel members shared grants) is $192,342,943, an average of $13,738,781.64 per grantee.

The EPA’s CASAC panels work on a consensus basis. So with 70% of panel members on the receiving end of $192 million in grants, a “consensus” supporting the EPA was not difficult to achieve.

We have sued EPA over the composition of agency’s current CASAC panel for particulate matter.

And no, ozone doesn’t trigger asthma; it triggers lying.

Read Daily Caller coverage of this report.

UPDATE:

Though listed as an “independent consultant” by EPA, Frederick J. Miller is a former EPA staffer.

Though not listed as a “principal investigator” on any EPA grants, Kathleen Weathers’ employer, the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies,” has received $3,570,926 worth of grants from EPA.

Though not listed as a recent “principal investigator” on any EPA grants, Howard Neufeld was a “principal investigator” on an ozone-related grant from the EPA as follows:

So 17 of the 20 CASAC Ozone Panel members have current/former, direct/indirect EPA financial ties.