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.
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Trump nominee Kavanaugh may not be a climate skeptic… but here’s why that’s okay!
Here is what Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has had to say about global warming in DC Circuit Court of Appeals decisions.
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Study: Cancer risk from chemicals, radiation not additive to background risk
The great Ed Calabrese is sweeping another default assumption of regulatory risk assessment into the ash bin of history.
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Get rid of the LNT model for low-dose radiation protection, says Public Health Service radiation safety expert
More than one thousand people died from low-dose radiation panic at Fukushima — thanks to the LNT hypothesis adopted via scientific misconduct.
Claim: Black lung returns to coal country
That’s NPR’s claim — but is it true? I asked a pulmonologist who has treated black lung.
WINNING!!! California climate lawsuit against Big Oil dismissed
Here’s the decision. Read it and weep climate bedwetters!
Congress asks EPA IG to investigate conspiracy between Volvo Trucks and Obama EPA staff to destroy glider truck industry
You mean there’s problem with a (foreign) company conspiring with the U.S. government to rig emissions tests to kill a (domestic) competitor?
Update: JunkScience struggles with NYTimes op-ed page — wins grudging correction, exposes flagrant hypocrisy
I went back and forth yesterday with NYTimes op-ed page staff over Swamp King Trent Lott’s failure to disclose his conflicts of interest in his NYTimes op-ed advocating for a carbon tax. What an experience.
Swamp king Trent Lott forgets to disclose clients in NYTimes op-ed advocating a CO2 tax
Will the New York Times fix Lott’s failure?
FLASHBACK: Fear of Margarine — The Trans Fat Myth
The FDA finally banned trans fats in processed foods yesterday. Here is my original 1999 takedown of the junk science behind the trans fat scare.
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Congress investigating whether China is paying NRDC to harm America
Backfire: Harvard math shows that trucks kill 35% more Americans than actually die
The corruption of Harvard’s Francesca Dominici and Journal of the American Medical Association editor Howard Bauchner are gifts that keep giving.
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