My latest at the Daily Caller.
Category: Air Quality
HUGE WIN: EPA to Stop Considering Imaginary Deaths for Air Quality Rules
I first began work on this issue in 1997.
Here is the EPA language (click image to get the doc):
EPA could never meet my “Show Us the Bodies” challenge from 14 years ago.
The details are available in Scare Pollution.
UPDATE: EPA chief Lee Zeldin has responded to the NYTimes articles that EPA still cares about deaths. What’s lost is that, per the document, EPA will no longer monetize premature deaths — which was the practical problem with the practice.
Justice Department court filings reveal EPA’s PM2.5 fraud
In 2012, the American Tradition Institute sued EPA for conducting illegal human experiments involving PM2.5. The Department of Justice filed this memo in response to the ATI’s motion for a temporary restraining order against EPA. Two pages, excerpted below, expose the EPA’s PM2.5 con as follows:
- EPA says epidemiologic studies are the primary evidence against PM2.5.
- EPA admits epidemiologic studies provide only evidence of statistical correlation not causation-in-fact, in this case between inhaling PM2.5 and adverse health effects, including death.
- To determine biological plausibility for the notion that PM2.5 harms health,EPA conducted experiments in which humans were made to inhale extreme levels of PM2.5.
- In its CAPTAIN line of studies, for example, EPA paid 297 human volunteers to inhale extreme levels of PM2.5.
- Despite the extreme exposures, no study subject was harmed by PM2.5 in any way.
- The human experiments did not validate the correlations reported in epidemiological studies.
- The EPA ignored the results of the human experiments and regulations and regulated PM2.5 anyway.
Winning: Trump fires EPA science advisers
And we now have DC Circuit precedent to back up this move in ensuing litigation. See Young v. EPA.
Debunked: Childhood ‘air pollution’ exposure reduces income as an adult?
Related links: PNAS study
1-Minute Junking: Fireworks make outdoor air ‘very unhealthy’?
Related links: WaPo Capital Weather Gang X post | Chicago AQ | Scare Pollution
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).
Politifact fails to fact check itself
I followed up with Politifact and its fake fact check as follows:
I don’t know what facts Politifact checked with respect to Kleinman and Thomas, but here is the reality.
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.
