This is not news but I wanted to capture this before the Trump EPA decommissions its online web archive. The EPA’s 1992 passive smoking/ environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) risk assessment served as precedent for the weak association (low relative risk) epidemiology used to justify the comparably weak PM2.5 epidemiology (and much else). Here is the document.
From the October 21, 2026 episode of The Big Money Show. Note the appearance of “Senator Outhouse.”
“Bank of America may not be selling communists the rope, but it seems to be facilitating their financial transactions toward the same end.” Media release
From the October 5, 2026 edition of The Bottom Line.
Just days after the National Center for Public Policy Research filed a shareholder proposal pressing Starbucks to disclose its exposure to forced labor in Chinese solar supply chains, the coffee giant opened its first stores in Xinjiang, the region at the center of longstanding allegations of forced labor and human rights abuses against the Uyghur population.
Now the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is demanding that Starbucks close the stores and explain to shareholders why company management chose to expand into Xinjiang.
“It is appalling that Starbucks is now selling coffee to Chinese Communist Party elites as they commit crimes against humanity and ethnic genocide,” said FEP Executive Director Steve Milloy in an October 2 letter to Starbucks. More…
