U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials ignored safety concerns raised by their own experts and hid evidence of clinical trial fraud when they approved the antibiotic Ketek(telithromycin) for streptococcus pneumonia in 2004.

In an extraordinary move, a top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official approved a medical device against the unanimous opinion of his scientific staff in February 2006.

A U.S. Navy proposal to build an Atlantic sonar training range off the coast of North Carolina has used flawed science to downplay sonar’s often-fatal danger to whales, according to NOAA.

Disregarding and misrepresenting recommendations from their own scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized new air pollution emissions standards that do not sufficiently protect public health.

White House officials heavily censored the Congressional testimony of Julie Gerberding, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, describing the hazardous effects of climate change on public health.

The Office of Surface Mining (OSM) proposed to eliminate a key rule that protects Appalachian streams and communities from a coal-mining technique known as mountaintop removal mining.

Fish and Wildlife Service officials and the other federal land agencies intervened in the recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, compromising the science-based protections in order to reduce barriers to logging in old-growth forests.

The GW Bush White House overruled unanimous advice of its scientific advisors to weaken the EPA’s proposed National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone—an air pollutant associated with respiratory ailments and premature death.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) threatened an agency scientist with suspension after he refused to include industry-funded science downplaying the dangers of asbestos in a safety warning for auto mechanics.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission twice altered their scientific testing procedure before concluding that children’s lunch boxes containing levels of lead that exceeded Federal recommendations were in fact safe.