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Category Archives: Air pollution
Claim: Prenatal exposure to traffic is associated with respiratory infection in young children
This is junk science because… Continue reading
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Claim: Traffic soot increases risk of heart disease
This is junk science because… Continue reading
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Two-Decade-Old Harvard Health Data Confounds U.S. EPA Nomination
“Buried in the questions Senate Republicans want answered by the nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency is a stumper: data linking microscopic particles in the air to premature death.” Continue reading
Posted in 113th Congress, Air pollution, EPA
Claim: North Carolina coal plant emissions increase suicides
This certainly wouldn’t be a good factoid for the EPA and its illegal human testing program. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, Coal
Claim: Air pollution increases insulin resistance in children
This is junk science because… Continue reading
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North Carolina House to vote on ‘puppy mill’ bill — Meanwhile, bill to protect humans from illegal EPA diesel exhaust experiments put on hold
The puppy mill bill would accomplish little if anything. The EPA bill would protect people from rogue government. Guess which one advances… Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA, Human testing
Claim: California air pollution causes birth defects
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JunkScience instrumental in blocking vote on EPA nominee McCarthy
“What we’re simply requesting is access to the scientific data and reasoning behind the justification for expensive new rules…” Continue reading
Posted in 113th Congress, Air pollution, EPA
EPA fights human testing FOIA request: Demands exorbitant fees for recent, easily accessible docs
The agency continues to obstruct independent investigation of its illegal human testing activities. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA, Human testing
Claim: Pollution from China is killing Japanese island’s trees
“Some scientists questioned why the tree deaths slowed even as China’s pollution problems have grown.” Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, China
Hansen: Fossil fuel industry to blame for childhood asthma — Irony: Increase in asthma correlates with cleaner air
Warmist James Hansen, late of NASA, is now a pulmonologist. Continue reading
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Claim: Air pollution linked to atherosclerosis
It’s debatable whether smoking causes atherosclerosis, a condition that develops naturally and could be affected by myriad other factors. The notion of ambient air quality causing it is ridiculous. Continue reading
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EPA Acting Administrator pushes canard that new gasoline regs will produce $7 of benefits for every $1 of costs — RealityDrop: Rules are all cost, no benefit
No, EPA is not a golden goose whose rules magically create wealth. Continue reading
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NYU prof says cancer risk from soot begins at 8 micrograms/cubic meter — But EPA human tests go as high as 750
From the ongoing Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing. The more dangerous EPA says PM2.5 is, the bigger the hole it digs for itself. Continue reading
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GOP Congressman says you could subpoena all medical records from 60 miles around any coal plant and never find case of mercury poisoning
From the ongoing Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing. Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) gets the mercury con. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA, Mercury
Utility Lawyer: If there were a truth-in-advertising rule for EPA, agency would constantly be in front of the FTC
From the ongoing Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing. None of the benefits (or only very little, $500,000?) estimated for EPA’s “Mercury Air Toxics Standard” (costing $10 billion) came from mercury reduction. Continue reading
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NYU med prof claims bus exhaust caused 3-week hospitalization for asthma attack — RealityDrop: EPA exposes asthmatics to 10x more diesel with no harm
From the ongoing Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing. As it turns out, the “victim” had a pre-existing pulmonary condition but nevertheless stood at the bus exhaust pipe for 5 minutes or so. Continue reading
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Laugher: Montana enviro says exporting Montana coal would kill Chinese — RealityDrop: Chinese coal isn’t killing any Chinese
Montana could be contributing to the death and destruction of China’s people. Continue reading
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UN: Air pollution kills more than AIDS, malaria — RealityDrop: Enviros failed to produce a single body in the 2 years we’ve been asking
Hogwash. Show us a body… someone killed by ambient air pollution… even from China or India. So far the enviros have produced not a one. Continue reading
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