US Air Quality Isn’t Slipping: Taking a Closer Look at the Data

JunkScience.com friend and air quality expert Rich Trzupek sets the record straight concerning the recent erroneous Associated Press report that US air quality has deteriorated under the Trump administration. BTW, I had requested a couple weeks ago a copy of the research report the AP claimed to have done, but AP reporter Seth Borenstein has so far failed to produce it.

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Has Himalayan glacier melting doubled?

“A newly comprehensive study shows that melting of Himalayan glaciers caused by rising temperatures has accelerated dramatically since the start of the 21st century,” claims a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Willis Eschenbach shares his thoughts.

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JunkScience radiation work spotlighted in New York Times best-seller on Chernobyl disaster

Reading “Midnight in Chernobyl,” I came across this…

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Pedal to the Metal: Why California can’t ban gasoline-powered cars

Unhappy with the imminent rollback of the Obama fuel economy standards and the so-called “California waver” by the Trump administration, California environment chief Mary Nichols is threatening to ban gasoline-powered cars. Is this possible?

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WINNING: EPA official involved in rigged glider truck testing reassigned

You can’t fire federal employees very easily. But you can reassign them. Christopher Grundler, the EPA official in charge of the office involved in the rigged testing of glider trucks is being reassigned to other duty.

Chris Grundler will no longer be the director of the EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality. His reassignment comes a year after JunkScience.com exposed OTAG’s rigging of glider truck emissions tests.

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