Category: Air Quality

Government ‘science’: Smoking marijuana is okay, just don’t breathe the outdoor air

The New York Times reports that the government quietly concluded last August that smoking marijuana is not so bad after all.

Here is the 250-page government review of the science.

Keeping in mind that (1) EPA has concluded that no level of particulate matter (PM) in outdoor air (hardly any PM) is safe to breathe and that (2) Obama’s Surgeon General said that a single puff on a cigarette (massive amount of of PM) could be deadly, the government review of marijuana safety (4x as much PM as a cigarette) does not even contain the word “particulate.”

Media hysteria, not smoky air, sent elderly to hospitals for asthma this summer

The CDC has a new study claiming that smoky air from this summer’s wildfires increased elderly visits to the hospital for asthma. It’s pretty clear from the data that media hysteria rather than smoky air is the culprit. Below is a chart from the study, as annotated by me, that explains all. Note also there was no spike at all among children.

EPA retreats from ‘Cancer Alley’ environmental justice hoax

“The Biden administration has dropped an investigation into whether Louisiana officials put Black residents living in an industrial stretch of the state at increased cancer risk, despite finding initial evidence of racial discrimination, according to a federal court filing Tuesday.” EPA accused Louisiana of environmental racism nonsense last October. But it was all BS (Web | PDF).

Fail: Politifact’s fact check of my Ingraham Angle appearance during the New York City air scare

Politifact finally got around to “fact checking” my June 7, 2023 appearance on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle. It (Web | PDF) is pretty much what I expected — a premeditated hit job that: (1) ignored the substance of the response I provided at Politifact’s request (not even a link to any of my material); (2) just parroted EPA propaganda and then (3) ended with an ad hominem attack on me. In tossing away reality, it was a fact chuck, not a fact check. I will also note that the two people cited bolstering the EPA position — Thomas Kleinman and Duncan Thomas — have both been on the receiving end of millions of dollars in EPA grants. Kleinman is even currently serving on the EPA CASAC PM subcommittee. There is an ongoing lawsuit against EPA over the biased composition of CASAC. Politifact failed to disclose these conflicts of interest. My rating of Politifact: Simply dishonest.

Milloy sets off greens; Responds to PolitiFact inquiry on wildfire smoke

My appearance on Laura Ingraham’s show Wednesday amid the apocalyptic air in New York City has set of the greens, including: Salon, The Independent (UK), Newsweek, The Telegraph (UK), Rolling Stone, The New Republic, MSNBC, USA Today, Mediaite, Media Matters, the Washington Post and more. Only PolitiFact had the decency to ask me questions me. And so here’s is my response to Politifact. We’ll see what it writes.

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Milloy talks wildfire air quality and Antarctic melting with Laura Ingraham

From the June 7, 2023 episode of Fox News’ Ingraham Angle.

EPA brief filed in Young v. EPA

EPA’s brief is here. My quick summary of the agency’s argument on appeal is: 1) You can’t sue us; and 2) Even if you could, we can do whatever we want. While that is the standard government agency defense, I doubt that Congress intended for EPA to rig mandatory peer review.

2023.03.31 Young v. EPA Appellee Brief