Foments worry nonetheless: “That’s not the same thing as saying that the potential isn’t there for novel proteins and other chemicals to generate unexpected problems.” Continue reading Admission: NYTimes Food Nanny says ‘little or no reliable evidence that food manufactured with ingredients from genetically engineered plants is directly harmful to humans’
FoodBabe fails to sway Kraft on yellow dye in Mac & Cheese
Kraft shrugs its shoulders to her baseless allegations that carcinogenic dyes are causing hyperactivity in children. Continue reading FoodBabe fails to sway Kraft on yellow dye in Mac & Cheese
Hair spray targeted by Utah air pollution regulators: ‘There will be a lot of angry women’
“This just wrecks the hair spray and it doesn’t help the inversion.” Continue reading Hair spray targeted by Utah air pollution regulators: ‘There will be a lot of angry women’
Irony: EPA fuel rules retarding the development of alternative-fuel vehicles
Required efficiency gains are actually ‘extending the viability of traditional automobile engines.” Continue reading Irony: EPA fuel rules retarding the development of alternative-fuel vehicles
Black Enviro: Climate movement racist — Cap-and-trade ‘meant white people get all the greater goods and we get the rest’
“Until they want to have real discussions around racism, they won’t have our support. That’s what happened last time with the climate bill. It did not move, because they did not have diversity in their voices.” Continue reading Black Enviro: Climate movement racist — Cap-and-trade ‘meant white people get all the greater goods and we get the rest’
Al Gore: US fossil fuel subsidies in 2011 — $502 billion
This is more of the “social cost of carbon” nonsense. The enviros now want folks to believe that not taxing carbon amounts to a fossil fuel subsidy. The social cost of carbon is an entirely fictional (and bogus) concept. In reality, fossil fuels have provided countless trillions of dollars of societal benefits. Continue reading Al Gore: US fossil fuel subsidies in 2011 — $502 billion
Potential bad news for EPA human researchers: Plenty of prison beds projected in North Carolina for next 5 years
The North Carolina Senate has completed the fiscal impacts analysis of Senate Bill 187, the bill to make EPA’s PM2.5 air pollution experiments on humans a felony (on par with assassinating the Governor). Continue reading Potential bad news for EPA human researchers: Plenty of prison beds projected in North Carolina for next 5 years
Study: Nuclear power prevented 1.84 million air pollution deaths
Myth: Nuclear power has prevented any deaths from air pollution. Continue reading Study: Nuclear power prevented 1.84 million air pollution deaths
EPA-funded study: Urban trees associated with increased childhood asthma; Says global warming may be more important than child health
Yum, this is among the best tasting irony we’ve ever had. Continue reading EPA-funded study: Urban trees associated with increased childhood asthma; Says global warming may be more important than child health
UPenn researcher: ‘Reports of health problems linked to fracking thus far are anecdotal’
No data showing anyone claiming an effect was exposed to fracking-related substances. Continue reading UPenn researcher: ‘Reports of health problems linked to fracking thus far are anecdotal’
New Enviro Bogusity: Not carbon taxing fossil fuels is a subsidy worth trillions annually
From the make-believe land of the “social cost of carbon.” Continue reading New Enviro Bogusity: Not carbon taxing fossil fuels is a subsidy worth trillions annually
Study: Bees ‘at risk’ from heavy metals in flowers; New effort to blame humans for alleged bee decline
But the study fails to report any adverse effects among the bees studied. Continue reading Study: Bees ‘at risk’ from heavy metals in flowers; New effort to blame humans for alleged bee decline