By Steve Milloy
December 3, 2012, Washington Times
Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans has any use for cigarettes nowadays, but here’s why the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made smoking important to us all. Continue reading What's EPA Smoking?
“AAA, the nation’s largest travel organization, on Friday urged the Obama administration to halt the sale of E15 — a new fuel with a higher blend of ethanol — because of possible engine damage to most vehicles on the nation’s roads.” [Detroit News]
So it’s not okay for school buses to idle, but EPA can idle a truck and pump its diesel exhaust into the lungs of elderly people?
From the Danbury Daily Voice:
Idling diesel engines emit pollutants, which can cause or aggravate a variety of health problems, including asthma and other respiratory diseases, and the fine particles in diesel exhaust are a likely human carcinogen,” the EPA said in the statement. “Diesel exhaust not only contributes to areawide air quality problems, but more direct exposure can cause lightheadedness, nausea, sore throat, coughing and other symptoms.
Click for EPA’s illegal human experiments.
Apparently like Steven Seagal, EPA is above the law. [Washington Examiner]
EPA tells the federal court hearing the illegal human testing suit that the agency answers to nothing and no one — i.e., no law and no judge. Continue reading Divine Right of EPA: Agency says it's above the law on human testing
The EPA has asked a federal court to dismiss our lawsuit asking for an injunction against EPA’s illegal human testing. Continue reading EPA asks court to dismiss human testing lawsuit
“Chris Horner, the CEI senior fellow who learned about the secret emails while researching his book ‘The Liberal War on Transparency,’ calls the Obama White House “one of the most secretive administrations ever.” [Investors Business Daily]
“The EPA declined to offer a comment Monday about the Inspector General’s announcement and continues to maintain that all studies conducted by EPA are independently evaluated for safety and ethics.” [NBC-17, Raleigh]
The EPA Office of the Inspector General just announced it will be investigating the JunkScience.com-discovered illegal human testing by EPA scientists. [Click for the EPA OIG’s announcement]
Greenhouse gases regulated, air quality standards needlessly tightened, coal industry crippled, frackers scared, Army Corps of Engineers usurped, science/cost-benefit analysis mocked, humans turned into guinea pigs, Congress ignored — mission accomplished. [Washington Post blog]
Chris Horner exposes EPA chief Lisa Jackson’s ploy to avoid FOIA requests for her e-mail. [Planet Gore]