By Tribune-Review

Published: Friday, November 23, 2012, 8:57 p.m.
Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2013

A federal lawsuit and a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inspector general's investigation must get to the bottom of allegations about illegal, unethical, potentially lethal experiments on humans that beg comparisons with the World War II era's infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies and barbaric Nazi practices.

Steve Milloy, publisher of JunkScience.com, which discovered this scandal, is a plaintiff in the American Tradition Institute lawsuit against the EPA. It alleges that, beginning in 2004 and continuing into the Obama administration, hundreds of needy people paid $12 an hour, many of them elderly and in poor health, were exposed to high concentrations of diesel exhaust or particulates that the EPA says cause premature death — without being told fully about the risks, making their “informed consent” impossible, writes Forbes.com contributor Larry Bell.

Doctors who ran the experiments at the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine are being investigated by the university and that state's medical board.

Now, questions by Sen. James Inhofe, top Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, have prompted a probe by the EPA's inspector general, too.

As Mr. Bell says, the EPA has either exaggerated these toxins' lethality or engaged in horrific scientific misconduct. Either way, it's another example of the Obama EPA and its extreme agenda out of control — this time, in manifestly reprehensible ways.

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