… at ambient exposure levels in the U.S. Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental over-Protection Agency proposed “the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants.” The EPA stated, Toxic air pollutants like mercury from coal- and oil-fired power plants have been shown to cause neurological damage, including lower IQ, in … Continue reading Mercury is NOT TOXIC to anyone…
By Steven Milloy October 16, 2008, FoxNews.com A squabble about “clean coal” has broken among the presidential candidates. Neither side has leveled with voters. Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden kicked off the controversy in September when he commented at an Ohio campaign stop that, “We’re not supporting clean coal.” He then had to back … Continue reading Candidates don't come clean on coal
By Steven Milloy February 21, 2003, FoxNews.com “Mercury threat to children rising,” blared a front-page Wall Street Journal article this week.
The Biden EPA plans to return to the good old pre-Trump days of regulating based on fake benefit-cost analysis. You can file your written comments with EPA here. The deadline is June 14,2021. The Federal Register announcement is here. Please support JunkScience.com in our fight against the bad guys! Please support JunkScience.com in our fight … Continue reading Milloy testifies at EPA hearing on Biden rollback of Trump benefit-cost rules
My latest in the Wall Street Journal.
My comments just delivered to the EPA Science Advisory Board about their draft review letters concerning the Trump EPA proposals for rolling back the Obama fuel economy standards, the science transparency rule, the Mercury Air Toxics Standards rule and the Waters of the United States rule (WOTUS).
This is the case about the EPA’s junk science-fueled Mercury Air Toxics Standard (MATS) — the rule that broke the back of the coal industry.
Career Summary Steve Milloy is a recognized leader in the fight against junk science with more than 33 years of experience, and is credited with popularizing the term “junk science.” He is the founder and publisher of JunkScience.com, and an environmental and public health consultant. Mr. Milloy is a biostatistician and securities lawyer who has … Continue reading Steve Milloy
The New York Times editorialized against EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s move to end secret science at the EPA. Here’s the line-by-line takedown of the Times‘ lies.
I guess all those promises Gina McCarthy made to Congress about producing the Harvard Six City and Pope/ACS study data were all lies.
As long as I’ve been involved in federal regulatory issues (since 1990), regulators have used junk epidemiology to justify overregulation. For the first time ever, we have an administration that is committed to stopping overregulation. So JunkScience.com petitioned the Trump administration today to stop the misuse and abuse of epidemiology by issuing epidemiologic standards for … Continue reading JunkScience petitions White House for epidemiology standards
I set a new standard for level of discourse in the DC Bar Bulletin: “I’m not crapping on the general notion of regulations, but the problem is overregulation.”