Never waste a crisis. A new study from Harvard claims that 1 microgram per cubic meter increase in PM2.5 is associated with a 15% increase in deaths from COVID19. This is totally absurd.
So the Trump administration finally finished rolling back the pointlessly expensive and impossible-to-achieve 2012 Obama administration fuel economy standards. Great. But did EPA staff sabotage the rulemaking to favor certain legal challenge by environmentalists? You betcha.
I out-lawyered ExxonMobil’s high-priced, white-shoe law firm to ensure my shareholder proposal will be included in ExxonMobil’s 2020 proxy materials and will be voted on at its May shareholder meeting. My anti-greenwashing proposal asks the climate bedwetting, pro-CO2 tax oil giant to report to shareholders on the actual costs and benefits of its climate-related activities.
Make no mistake: ExxonMobil is the greatest company selling the greatest product in history. But its current greenwashing management, which is actively aiding and abetting climate communists, is dumber than a box of rocks.
EPA has responded to the squealing from the junk science crowd about the science transparency proposal issued in 2018. The good news is that the rulemaking is on track to be finalized soon. The media release is below. The supplemental proposal to appear in the Federal Register is here (Web | PDF).
A new study published in Science indicates that even if methane is released from these large natural stores in response to warming, very little actually reaches the atmosphere.