“The EPA’s regulatory agenda is a perilous pipe-dream precluded by the laws of math and physics—relying instead on implausible assumptions about health risks from exposure to trace background levels of the single pollutant known as particulate matter.” Continue reading EPA's Pretense of Science: Regulating Phantom Risks
Category: Air Quality
EPA Inspector General Asked to Investigate Illegal Human Experimentation
JunkScience.com today asked the EPA Inspector General to investigate the EPA’s illegal human experimentation. Continue reading EPA Inspector General Asked to Investigate Illegal Human Experimentation
Journal editor rejects Milloy request to retract false case report of EPA human experiment
The whitewash of the EPA’s unethical, if not illegal, human experiments has gone interagency. Continue reading Journal editor rejects Milloy request to retract false case report of EPA human experiment
EPA denies Milloy charge of conducting unethical human experiments; Facts show otherwise
Wayne Cascio, director of EPA’s Environmental Public Health Division, responds to Steve Milloy’s Washington Times commentary accusing EPA of conducting unethical human experiments or, in the alternative, exaggerating the dangers of airborne fine particulate matter. Continue reading EPA denies Milloy charge of conducting unethical human experiments; Facts show otherwise
Did Obama’s EPA relaunch Tuskegee experiments?
By Steve Milloy
April 24, 2012, The Washington Times
Which do you find more shocking: that the Environmental Protection Agency conducts experiments on humans that its own risk assessments would deem potentially lethal, or that it hides the results of those experiments from Congress and the public because they debunk those very same risk assessments? Continue reading Did Obama’s EPA relaunch Tuskegee experiments?
EPA human experiments debunk notion of 'killer' air pollution: Agency hides exculpatory results
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has conducted air pollution experiments on live human subjects that discredit its claims that fine particulate matter kills people.
JunkScience.com obtained the explosive and heretofore undisclosed results through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and reveal them here for the first time. Continue reading EPA human experiments debunk notion of 'killer' air pollution: Agency hides exculpatory results
Study finds air clean-up link to US hurricanes
The Financial Times reports: Continue reading Study finds air clean-up link to US hurricanes
Arnett: Shades of EPA: The Flawed Human Health Effects Epidemiology in the California Air Resources Board’s Diesel Truck Emission Rules
“The CARB’s diesel exhaust regulation is based on flawed science and will produce little or no reduction in premature death.” Continue reading Arnett: Shades of EPA: The Flawed Human Health Effects Epidemiology in the California Air Resources Board’s Diesel Truck Emission Rules
Ozone, Asthma Hospitalizations Not Linked in Los Angeles 2009-2011
Summary
Average and maximum ground-level ozone measurements were not correlated with emergency admissions for asthma at a large Los Angeles hospital during 2009-2011. Continue reading Ozone, Asthma Hospitalizations Not Linked in Los Angeles 2009-2011
EPA regulations eliminate more than 1,850 jobs
“EPA’s Gina McCarthy once predicted that the MATS rule would generate 8,000 to 46,000 jobs. Rather than undertake expensive retrofits, more than two dozen plants simply closed.” Continue reading EPA regulations eliminate more than 1,850 jobs
'Rebranding' global warming is political hot potato
“But is it really true that environmental groups are focusing on asthma and other health issues rather than talking about climate change?” Continue reading 'Rebranding' global warming is political hot potato
Boxer: Premature deaths from air pollution are ‘documented’
But Sen. Sessions cites the Junkman in questioning that assertion. Continue reading Boxer: Premature deaths from air pollution are ‘documented’