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TCEQ Scientists Tiffany Bredfeldt, Michael Honeycutt, and L’Oreal Stepney No Longer Employed by the Agency

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From left to right, former TCEQ officials Tiffany Bredfeldt, Michael Honeycutt, and L’Oreal Stepney

Something you learn about political players when you’ve been a pawn of government for years, as I’ve been, is that integrity is more often a posture they assume than a principle they honor.

I don’t know much about the character of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, but an article caught my attention last week that made me wonder if he might be among the exceptions. The piece was about administrative reshuffling.

This piqued my curiosity because I was persecuted through law enforcement and the courts for over 12 years by a woman who was a Texas state official for the majority of that time. The agency where she worked, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), banned me from its premises. How I know this, despite never having stepped foot in Texas in my life, is because one of the TCEQ’s directors, a man I had never met, testified against me in 2013 to have me unlawfully deprived of my First Amendment rights. That was two years after another of its directors gave a press conference firmly asserting that the TCEQ was opposed to censorship. It took the intervention of constitutional rockstar Eugene Volokh to conditionally recover my freedom to speak about these matters at all.

This is the kind of bureaucratic madness that will drive a person to eat his own hair, and I’ve written a lot about it since 2018:

Well, this is to report that senior TCEQ toxicologist Tiffany Bredfeldt, my accuser, is no longer on the Texas state payroll.

Her boss, TCEQ Toxicology Director Michael Honeycutt, the guy who testified against me from his office in Texas (where he may have had his feet propped on his desk), is also gone.

Documents conflict, but the agency executive I’ve criticized for making pat pronouncements that didn’t correspond with practice, L’Oreal Stepney, appears to have been removed from the agency, too.

Yeah.

I’m hardly vain enough to believe that I occasioned a purge, but it’s enough of a coincidence to encourage me to think someone in the upper echelons actually attended to something I’ve written and took it to heart.

All of what I’ve just mentioned is below the radar, of course. Tiffany Bredfeldt’s Researchgate profile still identifies her as an employee of the TCEQ. But The Texas Tribune, which reports state employees’ salaries, says otherwise.

Similarly, Mike Honeycutt’s LinkedIn profile says he’s still the TCEQ’s Tox Director, and there’s no agency tweet wishing him a fond farewell. But a TCEQ blog entry announcing his replacement, Sabine Lange, notes Honeycutt’s “retirement.” And The Texas Tribune reports that like Bredfeldt he’s no longer drawing a paycheck. More worthy of applause to me is that Mrs. Lange seems to be an honest-to-god human being and not an industry panderer, and a political appointee with a soul merits a nod.

The Tribune reports that L’Oreal Stepney is still the deputy executive director of the TCEQ but according to a TCEQ organization chart dated January 9, 2023, she has been replaced by Brent Wade.

A notice out of the governor’s office says Stepney, whom I’ve come to think of as Stoop-kneel, has been placed on some kind of water board…which is what I feel like I’ve been on for about a third of my life, thanks in no small part to derelictions from every person I turned to for help or understanding.

I don’t know Gregory Abbott but like him I was nearly killed in a fluke accident in my mid-20s. I wasn’t paralyzed as he was, but I have two reconstructed limbs and like him I know what recovery from extreme debility teaches, namely, that without a measure of security and freedom life loses a lot of its luster.

Greg Abbott was a lawyer and a judge, and I think he knows that laws aren’t always applied righteously and that courts’ investment in protecting litigants’ sacred entitlements to life and liberty can be indifferent at best.

I’d like to believe that these facts may have been influential in motivating a regime change at the TCEQ. I haven’t received a gubernatorial apology, however, so as far as Gov. Greg Abbott’s spirit animal goes…the jury’s still out.

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Michael Honeycutt, TCEQ Tox Director, Lies under Oath

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Michael Honeycutt, Ph.D., whom this post tersely exposes, is the director of toxicology of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). He is also the current chairman of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Boards but, amid some controversy concerning his ethics, reportedly will not be seeking reappointment when his term ends next month.

Readers may consult “What TCEQ Exec L’Oreal Stepney Would Ask Michael Honeycutt if She Cared Whether the Directors Her Agency Employed Were Unscrupulous Stooges” and its attendant links for specifics concerning this post.

Note: The writer’s publication of satirical images like the one below is not meant to suggest to the reader who has been victimized by court process that people who lie in court or abet liars in court deserve to be lampooned merely. It is the writer’s conviction, rather, that they deserve to be harshly censured in court, like those who are lied about, threatened in court, like those who are lied about, and sent to jail, like those who are lied about too often are. The deplorable fact is that liars like Honeycutt are almost always rewarded for their misconduct with the court’s thanks. Criticism and satiric commentary are thus victims’ only lawful recourse.

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Michael Honeycutt, Ph.D., director of toxicology of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), represented as an even fatter big fat liar

WHAT MICHAEL HONEYCUTT DID:

Lied under oath in a lawsuit in which he phoned in an appearance to help a colleague who had lied under oath deprive the writer of his First Amendment liberty to report their lies.

WHAT MICHAEL HONEYCUTT COUNTED ON:

That his and his colleague’s testimony could never be published.

HOW MICHAEL HONEYCUTT DID IT:

By testifying that I had called his colleague a “fraudulent scientist” because I told him she was a liar.

Honeycutt also reported secondhand fictive tales of sexual harassment/aggression that he acknowledged under oath he had made no attempt to clarify let alone verify.

WHY MICHAEL HONEYCUTT DID IT:

Because he had an inappropriate relationship with his colleague, who was and continues to be his employee. Whether that inappropriate relationship went beyond willing service to her as an agent in an enterprise that was later deemed unlawful, the writer can’t say. (Honeycutt did, however, testify that he had provided his colleague with a private office with a door that locked, and the woman was nominated to a post at the EPA coincident with Honeycutt’s nomination.)

WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WERE:

An unconstitutional censorship order prohibiting the writer from reporting years of false testimony by Honeycutt’s colleague, a married woman who had indulged an infatuation at the writer’s home in 2005. The writer lived under the order for five years, sustaining himself by manual labor, before it was dissolved in 2018, when the woman’s accusations were dismissed, and a mutual order was entered by the court prohibiting her from ever revisiting them publicly (though the writer is certain they continue to circulate privately). While the writer lived hand-to-mouth, Honeycutt was paid a generous six-figure salary for performing in an air-conditioned facility what is reportedly held by many to be suspect science for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

The illegal order Honeycutt was instrumental in coercing from a since disgraced judge was only dissolved after a protracted two-year contest following his colleague’s seeking to have the writer imprisoned, which Honeycutt apparently supported, and her false allegations continue to be preserved as public documents that can only serve to impede the writer and that have galled and gnawed at him, to the diminishment of his and others’ lives, for nearly 15 years.

WHAT MICHAEL HONEYCUTT HAS DONE SINCE 2018:

Relished his moment in the spotlight as the EPA’s chief science advisor by all appearances.

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What TCEQ Exec L’Oreal Stepney Would Ask Michael Honeycutt if She Cared Whether the Directors Her Agency Employed Were Unscrupulous Stooges

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The author of this post, Todd Greene, was baselessly sued in 2013 (not for the first time) by a scientist in the employ of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) named Tiffany Bredfeldt, who called upon her boss, Michael Honeycutt, TCEQ director of toxicology and today head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Boards, to witness on her behalf.

Both of them are Ph.D.’s, which is the sort of fact judges are more apt to find compelling than, say, the truth.

Bredfeldt, a married woman, had targeted Greene at his home in 2005, indulged an infatuation, and then hoaxed the police and the courts to whitewash her conduct by claiming she was afraid and had been sexually accosted or assaulted (the details of her narrative and their specificity varied broadly with each retelling).

Greene would be in and out of court with Bredfeldt, based largely on allegations of hers stemming from their three-month acquaintance in 2005, for no less than a dozen years.

The upshot of Bredfeldt and Honeycutt’s tag-team effort was an unlawful injunction imposed upon Greene that forbid him from speaking about Bredfeldt’s conduct or his own travails in the “justice system,” even “by word of mouth.”

The illegal injunction, which violated Greene’s First Amendment rights (and concealed lies), was dissolved in 2018 (five years later) after Bredfeldt sued to have Greene wrongly imprisoned for allegedly violating the censorship order.

Recent posts on this blog have criticized administrators at the TCEQ for their claims and conduct and provided a brief series of statements culled from the hours and reams of “evidence” that show so plainly that Bredfeldt is a liar that even a bureaucrat or a judge couldn’t fail to discern the fact.

Following in the tracks of the most recent post of this kind, “What L’Oreal Stepney, Newly Named TCEQ Exec, Would Ask Tiffany Bredfeldt if She Cared Whether the Scientists Her Agency Employed Were Fucking Liars,” this post imagines questions that TCEQ executive administrators might pose to Dr. Honeycutt to clarify conclusively whether he carelessly involved their agency in a vicious hoax that would lead to a wronged man’s nearly being imprisoned.

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Michael Honeycutt, Ph.D., the EPA’s “top scientist” and toxicology director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

In a letter sent to you at the TCEQ in 2011, Mr. Greene informed you that one of your married employees, Tiffany Bredfeldt, had falsely testified against him and continued to make defamatory claims about his character and behavior despite, apparently, having been offered a chance to simply and quietly recant years before.

Discounting any ethical obligation a government scientist who’s called upon to give expert witness testimony might have to represent facts accurately, one would expect you to feel some burden to ascertain the truth of these allegations prior to participating in a lawsuit in another state that you must have known was intended to have Mr. Greene judicially censored on pain of incarceration.

When asked by Mr. Greene what your familiarity was with the underlying matter that led you to witness for Dr. Bredfeldt, you testified that you “didn’t ask for details” or “clarify” them because as her employer “it would not be appropriate.”

QUESTION: How do you justify your involvement in a matter that by your own admission you hadn’t made any effort to fathom?

You testified that Dr. Bredfeldt had told you Mr. Greene “propositioned her,” and opined that this meant Mr. Greene had sought to have sex with her. This obviously contrasted with what Mr. Greene had told you.

QUESTIONS: What was the basis for your giving preferential treatment to Dr. Bredfeldt’s account, one that you admitted you had accepted at face value and made no attempt to clarify? Do you consider this choice ethically conscionable?

You also testified that Mr. Greene accused her of being a “fraudulent scientist.”

QUESTION: Was this what Mr. Greene said to you, or were you urged to make a false statement to satisfy the expectation of your employee’s attorney?

You said that Mr. Greene told you Dr. Bredfeldt was a liar who lacked “good morals,” and you acknowledged under oath that these were “pretty significant allegations,” the implication being that they were allegations that diminished her trustworthiness and value as a scientist.

You also said that Dr. Bredfeldt told you Mr. Greene “wouldn’t take no for an answer.” Yet she told the police that Mr. Greene had taken no for an answer, and she told Mr. Greene himself that he had been “nice” to her and that she had “never felt the need” to tell him she was married.

Dr. Bredfeldt’s account to you is plainly contradicted by her own statements, ones she entered into evidence voluntarily.

QUESTION: If you considered the allegation of lying significant, what if any actions have you taken since Dr. Bredfeldt’s allegations were dismissed in 2018?

Not long prior to the 2013 lawsuit, TCEQ Director L’Oreal Stepney had answered charges of censorship leveled at this agency by declaring that it is “wrong” and not representative of TCEQ policy.

QUESTION: Did this public repudiation of censorship cause you any misgivings about assisting Dr. Bredfeldt to obtain a censorship order against Mr. Greene, one that was notably thrown out five years later for being wrong?

Finally, Mr. Greene has alleged that in 2016 Dr. Bredfeldt said in court that you considered her latest lawsuit “good experience” for occasions when she might be called upon to give expert witness testimony as a TCEQ scientist.

QUESTION: Did you wish Dr. Bredfeldt success at having Mr. Greene jailed?

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*Readers may wonder why questions like those in this post and the post “What L’Oreal Stepney, Newly Named TCEQ Exec, Would Ask Tiffany Bredfeldt if She Cared Whether the Scientists Her Agency Employed Were Fucking Liars” couldn’t have been raised in court. The simple answer is that judges will flatly deny defendants the opportunity to ask questions whose answers aren’t likely to support the conclusions the judges have already formed.

**TCEQ administrators have seemed to respond to this writer’s posts by using search engine manipulation to suppress the posts and images associated with them in Google’s returns. Readers who are curious to see verification of this need only Google the name Michael Honeycutt, for example. He’s a prominent political figure these days. Yet Google’s image strip for him will rarely appear on the first page of its returns for his name, and when it does, it’s at the bottom.

Michael Honeycutt, Hack Ph.D., Grooms Chronic Liar to Give Expert Witness Testimony as TCEQ Rep; Both Named to Trump EPA

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“Almost every time there’s a public concern about pollution, [Michael Honeycutt] says there’s nothing to worry about. Almost every time industry takes a position against stronger health protections, he takes their side and contorts the science to advocate for doing nothing. He just doesn’t have any credibility anymore.”

—Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas

The subject of this post, Michael Honeycutt, Ph.D., is the toxicology director for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the Pruitt-appointed chairman of the EPA’s Science Advisory Boards.

I can corroborate that he has a knack for pollution, a knack, that is, for producing it.

Here is a bio possibly written by Michael Honeycutt about himself, in which either he or one of his TCEQ subordinates identifies Dr. Michael E. Honeycutt as a “dedicated, distinguished scientist.” That alone would be a sufficient commentary on the man’s ethics, besides a testament to his vanity, arrogance, and professional ridiculousness. But I have more.

Michael Honeycutt indiscriminately helped further tatter my life at a time when I might still have been able to patch the rents, and he did that by supporting a hoax, which is something that apparently comes naturally to him.

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Governor Greg Abbott, who says he supports “faith, family, and freedom,” but whose agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, has been repeatedly implicated in censorship, including censorship of the author of this post to cover up public mischief

A guy I had never met and still haven’t, Honeycutt “witnessed” against me in 2013 before the Arizona Superior Court—by phone from the comfort of his office in Texas, where I can’t help but imagine he was talking around a jelly donut and taking care not to dribble its contents on his shirt.

Some of his testimony appears below, along with that of the person on whose behalf he testified, a liar in his employ. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and TCEQ directors Toby Baker, Stephanie Bergeron Perdue, L’Oreal Stepney, and Beth West should be ashamed. Both my best friend and my father died while this mischief was ongoing. And its residue doesn’t simply evaporate as the TCEQ seems to believe chemical pollutants do. The only one who can undo lies is the liar.

Thanks in no small part, I’m certain, to Honeycutt’s flash credentials and suave delivery, which I have no doubt was coached, I would be denied my constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment freedoms for the next five years by an unlawful speech injunction that was imposed without a trial (which is, of course, also illegal). The TCEQ has been repeatedly implicated in censorship and information suppression, so in that regard there’s nothing exceptional about this instance.

During the five years I was silenced, I might have racked up a couple of Ph.D.’s of my own or published a book or two, as I had intended, had a case initiated by a protégée of Honeycutt’s at the TCEQ, senior toxicologist Tiffany Bredfeldt, been settled instead of unlawfully hushed.

Tiffany Bredfeldt, who represented the TCEQ on the news while seeking the writer’s imprisonment, was apparently dumped by her husband around the time the case concluded against her. That case stemmed from a 2013 censorship order validated by Michael Honeycutt, who might have averted manifold damages to all parties concerned had he demonstrated a molecule of discernment.

Tiffany Bredfeldt is a developmentally arrested, chronic, documented liar. She’s also a liar who has ridden her mentor’s coattails straight into the federal government—which, I grant, is where many of society’s least scrupulous succeed in turning their ethical disinhibition to profit.

I imagine Mike and Tiffany are flourishing there. I’d be surprised, really, if they weren’t already conspiring to occupy the office of EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.

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Constitutional scholar Eugene Volokh, who blogs on Reason.com, among other things about faith, family, and freedom, addressing the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

I was first in court with Bredfeldt in 2006, when I was granted a 20-minute self-defense against cooked allegations, and I was last in court with her in 2016, accused of having violated the illegal speech injunction Honeycutt had helped her illegally secure three years prior. Discounting many pretrial conferences, the entire 2016 “trial” again amounted to a single hearing, during which the proceedings were indefinitely suspended. Then they were dismissed…two years later. That’s 12 years of lying and legal abuse, including lawbreaking. What made the difference in 2016 was that I had public defenders and the support of UCLA professor of law and eminent First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh; it wasn’t just a backroom lynching as it had been in 2013 when Honeycutt glibly voiced an appearance.

At the end of the 2016 hearing, after the mics had been turned off, Honeycutt’s apprentice could be heard exclaiming, “God damn it!” She then remarked for her courtroom entourage that Honeycutt had joked that her prosecution would be “good experience” for when she gave expert witness testimony as a TCEQ rep. That was Honeycutt’s alleged commentary on a prosecution meant to have a man wrongfully imprisoned. And Honeycutt’s a guy who identifies himself as a stalwart Christian and a devotee of the Boy Scouts.

Here’s a synopsis of statements Texas state official and EPA adviser Tiffany Bredfeldt gave in evidence to the court or, in one instance, to the police only between the years 2006 and 2017. The story they tell isn’t the half of it, but it’s succinct, and its contradictions are palpable. The statements provide all the background the reader will require. Honeycutt’s contribution to this list is the third from the top. His apprentice, a stranger who had routinely hung around outside of my house at night, alone, has lied impulsively and randomly to whitewash what might be called an extramarital infatuation, and she has lied without qualm and to anyone who would listen. Like her mentor Honeycutt, she’s fond of attention.

The crackpot who made the preceding statements was, the last I knew, entrusted with a role in determining U.S. public health policy besides that of Texas.

And she’s a virtual phantom. Anyone with a grievance toward the TCEQ who’s curious to learn if a Tiffany Bredfeldt is employed there will be disappointed. Thanks to Mike Honeycutt, she hasn’t appeared on its employee roster since 2011 or 12, though she represented the TCEQ on the TV news less than three years ago (see the image above) and still draws an agency paycheck (annual salary: $73,608).

Here’s Mike’s 2013 explanation to the court:

Even the reader with no courtroom experience can appreciate how steered testimony like that could drive some coffin nails home.

I encountered Honeycutt’s protégée in 2005, a few feet from my house, which is the only place I’ve ever seen her outside of a courtroom, and I’ve never been to Texas.

A woman who was scheduled to testify in the 2016 lawsuit that was meant to have me jailed had characterized Bredfeldt’s behavior toward me this way:

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The email containing the woman’s remarks has been online for two years and is presumably known to Honeycutt, who, as far I can tell, has only sought to keep the matter from interfering with his moment in the limelight and his activities in church and with the Boy Scouts.

The exclusive basis for Michael Honeycutt’s involvement in the case at all was that I had contacted him in 2011 to tell him he was employing a scientist who had no compunction about lying.

It wouldn’t have occurred to me then that a willingness to lie, including under oath, might be a qualification the TCEQ prized.

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*Michael Honeycutt told the court in 2013 that I had accused his apprentice Bredfeldt of engaging in scientific fraud, which is something I’ve never done. In fact I was careful to clarify that I knew nothing about her professional conduct. Honeycutt’s testimony, given under oath, was false. It was, however, effective, and I’m convinced that effectiveness was his priority, not accuracy. Misrepresenting a material fact in a sworn court proceeding, that is, stating a fact under oath that is likely to influence the judge but is untrue, is called perjury, and it’s a felony crime.

**Liberal detractors of Michael Honeycutt’s favor PC characterizations like this one by Honeycutt’s peer Elena Craft, Ph.D., senior health scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund in Texas: “[Honeycutt’s] positions generally are totally inconsistent with mainstream thinking.” To someone who distrusts conventional perspectives, as I do, this sounds like a compliment. Moreover, the conduct this post criticizes accords with mainstream thinking, which is something people like Ms. Craft might broaden themselves by considering. Archly feminist views, I’ve noted, are endemic in the hard sciences (and in a good many of the soft ones). A scientist is someone who confronts the truth in whatever unsettling form it comes. Otherwise, s/he’s misappropriating the title.