No association between air quality (PM2.5, ozone) and hospital admissions for asthma in University of California-Davis Health System during 2010-2012 (19,000+ cases).
Category: Air Quality
World Bank taking ‘aggressive action’ to ensure world’s poor have NO ACCESS to electricity
World Bank-required emissions standards will just put electricity more out of reach without providing any public health benefits. Poor people need power — especially the electric kind. That would improve public health more than anything. Continue reading World Bank taking ‘aggressive action’ to ensure world’s poor have NO ACCESS to electricity
House Science Chair to EPA: ‘Regulations based on secret data have no place in a democracy’
From Rep. Lamar Smith’s letter to the subpoena-defaulting, data-hiding EPA. Continue reading House Science Chair to EPA: ‘Regulations based on secret data have no place in a democracy’
House: EPA in default of ‘secret science’ subpoena
From the House Science Committee today: Continue reading House: EPA in default of ‘secret science’ subpoena
Claim: Car emissions kill 65% more than car accidents
But traffic fatalities are real whereas pollution fatalities are entirely imaginary. Show us a body! Continue reading Claim: Car emissions kill 65% more than car accidents
Fracking defended at coal’s expense with EPA air quality junk science
To fend off claims that fracking poses a risk to health from air emissions, an MIT economist/EPA advisor claims that the risks are offset by lives saved from using less coal. Continue reading Fracking defended at coal’s expense with EPA air quality junk science
EPA stonewalls records request re EPA-funded diesel exhaust tests on children
JunkScience.com has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with EPA for all records pertaining to EPA-funded research involving the exposure of CHILDREN to DIESEL EXHAUST, which occurred at the University of Southern California in the mid-2000s. Continue reading EPA stonewalls records request re EPA-funded diesel exhaust tests on children
Norway disputes Russian claims of wafting air pollution
Study: Coal power plants not to blame for Chinese air pollution problem
Traffic and home cooking with coal briquettes are responsible for almost 80% of Chinese soot problems, says a new study. Continue reading Study: Coal power plants not to blame for Chinese air pollution problem
New documents show EPA lying to public about air pollution dangers
JunkScience.com recently obtained through the Freedom of Information Act documents describing human clinical experiments involving high exposures to particulate matter conducted by the University of Rochester with EPA funding. Continue reading New documents show EPA lying to public about air pollution dangers
NO… the EPA-funded Health Effects Institute is not ‘independent’ — not a defense against EPA ‘secret science’
China anti-car rules push buyers into bigger, more gas-guzzling cars
The Wall Street Journal reports: Continue reading China anti-car rules push buyers into bigger, more gas-guzzling cars