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
“… Gasland is, by turns, eloquent, congenial and emotional. But then so is Sesame Street…” Gasland’s Fracking Nonsense, Energy Tribune
“This white paper will serve to provide factual information concerning the Marcellus Shale.” Marcellus Shale Facts, Energy Tribune
Politically correct green power projects could kill multi-billion dollar mining development. Northern Ontario’s gain may come at Southern Ontario’s pain.
Now we know what the PCBs-in-New-York-City-schools hysteria was all about. Continue reading PCBs in NYC Schools: Mystery Solved
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?
Check out this Politico report about environmentalists threatening the permitting process for wind and solar projects: Continue reading Greens threaten wind, solar permitting
Check out the Placebo Effect on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision concerning vaccines. It seems that Sotomayor hasn’t read the newspapers about the vaccine-autism fraud. Continue reading Sotomayor endorses vaccine-autism link?
Despite all the media coverage of yesterday’s report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that 50 minutes of cell phone use increases brain glucose metabolism in the region closest to the antenna, there is no cause for alarm. Continue reading Cell phones and brain glucose
Below is a recent commentary by Union of Concerned Scientists president Kevin Knobloch. A reader requested a review of the piece, so here’s a quick one. My comments in [[bracketed bold]]. Continue reading Response to UCS’ Kevin Knobloch-head…
Maine Gov. Paul Lepage was correct about the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) when he recently stated that, Continue reading Maine guv right on BPA science; wrong on joke
The federal government is taking steps to remove mercury thermometers from use, reports the Baltimore Sun. Continue reading EPA discovers new mercury isotope?