Fulks: Environmental Issues: What’s Real?

The story of environmentalism is generally portrayed as one of citizens triumphing over evil corporate polluters, of public awareness, science, and affluence working together to solve pressing problems. Continue reading Fulks: Environmental Issues: What’s Real?

Democrats use popguns on the EPA

by Steve Milloy
Charleston Daily Mail, February 24, 2011

Candidate Joe Manchin famously took “dead aim” at the cap-and-trade bill last year with a high-powered rifle. But now, Sen. Manchin is infamously going after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s backdoor cap-and-trade with a popgun. Continue reading Democrats use popguns on the EPA

Air pollution worse than cocaine for MIs?

A new study in the Lancet reports that while cocaine use is much more likely to trigger a non-fatal heart attack than air pollution (i.e., coarse particulate matter or PM10), air pollution is the more deadly trigger because more people are exposed to it. Continue reading Air pollution worse than cocaine for MIs?