Bedbugs are back — thanks to anti-pesticide green policies. The Associated Press reported today that, Faced with rising numbers of complaints to city information lines and increasingly frustrated landlords, hotel chains and housing authorities, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever bedbug summit Tuesday. And why is this happening? One of the problems, according to … Continue reading Bedbugs are back — greens to blame
Though BP went green with its “Beyond Petroleum” campaign and helped push America to the precipice of global warming regulation, it’s getting no credit from the Obama Justice Department. From today’s Wall Street Journal: Seeking maximum penalties, the U.S. government filed a civil lawsuit against a BP PLC (BP) unit in Alaska for breaking federal … Continue reading US sues ‘Beyond Petroleum’ for oil spill
The Trumann Democrat (Trumann, AR) reports that Wal-Mart is going green, in part by eliminating plastic bags. Store manager Larry Rich explained, “Plastic bags are the No. 1 cause of marine deaths in the oceans.” Wrong, dude. Rich apparently missed this March 2008 report from The Times (UK) entitled, “Series of blunders turned the plastic … Continue reading Wal-Mart wrong on plastic bags
By Steve Milloy November 20, 2008, FoxNews.com Looking for the root of the impending car industry debacle? Look no further than the failure of the Big Three and the United Auto Workers to challenge the Green attack on cheap gasoline. Since the 1980s, the golden goose of the U.S. auto industry has been SUV and … Continue reading Detroit Needs Drilling, Not Bailouts
By Steven Milloy September 18, 2008, FoxNews.com Anti-chemical activists opened a new front in their jihad against the plastics chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) this week.
By Steven Milloy February 18, 2007, FoxNews.com Environmental activists use the term “sustainable development” to convey the notion that they’re not merely knee-jerk anti-business zealots and that they are all in favor of eco-friendly economic development.
By Steve Milloy February 22, 2005, FoxNews.com Feb. 16, 2005, is a day that may well live in scientific and economic infamy. That’s the day that the international global warming treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol (search) went into effect around the world — but, fortunately, not in the U.S. and Australia.
By Steven Milloy September 28, 2001, FoxNews.com Many special interests are encouraging fears of terrorism to advance their own dubious causes at public expense. We need to get a grip on our fears and not become victims of our domestic terrorists.
By Steven Milloy September 20, 2001, FoxNews.com Last week’s column, “Asbestos Could Have Saved WTC Lives,” produced tremendous and polarized reader response.
By Steve Milloy February 2, 2001, FoxNews.com If you’ve been shoveling down high-fiber cereals every morning in hopes of preventing colon cancer, you can stop. The 30-year-old notion that cereal fiber reduces colon cancer risk is turning out to be yet another government-sanctioned myth. It may be time for the Food and Drug Administration to … Continue reading The tail-end of the fiber myth
by J. Gordon Edwards and Steven Milloy July 26, 1999, JunkScience.com Recommended Reading by the New York Times