Category: Air Quality

In the spirit of our 1999 debunking of the dioxin scare via original research, we now turn our sights on EPA’s air pollution hysteria. Continue reading Ozone not correlated with asthma hospitalizations, reports new JunkScience.com study

You would think some adult at the White House would take notice when 30 lawsuits, including many by states, have been filed against the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. Click to read New York Times coverage.

Does this mark the end of the Big Green-Big Labor marriage? Who gets stuck with their kids (i.e., the anti-jobs regulations)? Continue reading Shocker: Labor calls on EPA to delay air rule

Enviro groups have filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue EPA over the ozone standard withdrawn by Obama. If they win, there’s a good chance that taxpayers may have to pay their legal costs. Click for the NOINOI. Click for a law review article about enviros recovering Clean Air Act legal costs.

“The Environmental Protection Agency, under pressure from some states, industry and Congress, is expected to ease an air quality rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions,” reports the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading EPA to ease off on Cross-State Pollution Rule?

The National Mining Association last week asked the Obama EPA to reconsider its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) citing the agency’s failure to adequately consider electric reliability. While this may sound boring, if you like electricity and don’t want to be without air conditioning in future heat waves, you ought to read it. Continue reading EPAcalypse Now: Lights Out in 2012?