News & Views – October 12, 2011
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Apparently having solved all its real problems, Massachusetts has developed its first climate change adaptation report. After all, sea level is rising (or the land is sinking) by an inch per decade.
The enviros seem to be trying to push back on JunkScience.com’s “Show us the bodies” challenge. Here, Austin, TX physician Don Williams claims to have treated six children one Saturday in August for ozone-related asthma attacks.
Not only is Sen. Frank Lautenberg exploiting another asthmatic relative in opposing the TRAIN Act to rein in the EPA, but he likens ambient air to secondhand smoke.
Two syringes washed up on a New Jersey beach this summer — so we need a new federal law to test all beaches for “toxic contaminants”?
By Steve Milloy September 21, 2011, Washington Times Thursday is a D-Day of sorts for House Democrats. That day they will get to choose between jobs or job-killing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations.
Is Michelle Bachmann risking the lives of 22,750 Americans and the health of 118,111 asthmatic kids in Florida in return for $131,730 in contributions from “polluters”?
Below are some notable moments from today’s House hearing on EPA regulatory overreach, featuring EPA air chief Gina McCarthy:
House Republicans have a chance today to pull an emperor-has-no-clothes moment on the EPA.
Al Gore today slammed president Obama for “bowing to pressure from polluters” in pulling the plug last week on the EPA’s plans for tightening the ozone standard. As usual, Gore got his facts wrong.
Bacteria from dog fecal material may constitute the dominant source of airborne bacteria in Cleveland’s and Detroit’s wintertime air, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.
Give me ozone or give me a job.