While he won’t win an awards from skeptics for courage, Mitt Romney made a baby step in the right direction on EPA greenhouse gas regulation. Continue reading Romney: EPA carbon regulation a 'mistake'
Day: July 18, 2011
Please don't smoke so loudly
So it wasn’t the floor seats at 1970s rock concerts that hurt my hearing; it was the guy next to me lighting up? Continue reading Please don't smoke so loudly
EDF attacks utility with fake asthma attack?
The Environmental Defense Fund, long-time EPA running dog and the group whose handiwork on DDT led to millions of dead Africans, is attacking utility giant AEP with a TV ad featuring what appears to be a faked asthma attack. Continue reading EDF attacks utility with fake asthma attack?
Made in China: POPs linked to birth defects?
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims to link placental levels of various “persistent organic pollutants” (POPs) with neural tube defects (NTDs) in a population of rural Chinese. Continue reading Made in China: POPs linked to birth defects?
New tobacco warning: Don't smoke around mice
Billions of people have been exposed to secondhand smoke during the past 400 or so years… so let’s ignore that and consider what happened to 32 mice over the course of two weeks. Continue reading New tobacco warning: Don't smoke around mice