Category: EPA

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:

1. EPA says epidemiologic studies are the primary evidence against PM2.5.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. In its CAPTAIN line of studies, for example, EPA paid 297 human volunteers to inhale extreme levels of PM2.5.
5. Despite the extreme exposures, no study subject was harmed by PM2.5 in any way.
6. The human experiments did not validate the correlations reported in epidemiological studies.
7. The EPA ignored the results of the human experiments and regulations and regulated PM2.5 anyway.

“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).

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.

Continue reading Politifact fails to fact check itself

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.

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

My PM2.5 webinar from today courtesy of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The slide show is here. The webinar (with Q&A) is below.