EHP refuses to investigate EPA researcher misconduct

Environmental Health Perspectives editor Hugh Tilson today refused to investigate EPA researchers for scientific misconduct, offering instead to handle the matter as a mere “letter to the editor.”

Last week we transmitted to Tilson prima facie evidence that EPA researchers Andrew Ghio, Wayne Cascio and Martha Sue Carraway committed researcher misconduct by omitting material information from a September 2011 study.

There so far is no “good faith” dispute of the facts we presented. Allowing Ghio/Cascio/Carraway to escape investigation/prosecution by simply responding to a letter (likely in an obfuscatory manner) is unacceptable.

Obama halted EPA regs for political split second to plan massive 2013 environmental regs

“Obama was not kidding when he said that ‘voting is the best revenge’ because he may have the last laugh whether he gets re-elected or not.” [Kerry Picket, Washington Times]

November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation

“More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants.” [Washington Examiner]

Gore gets $257,000 for climate speech in Gibraltar

Flashback from Gore’s 2009 Congressional testimony: “And, Congresswoman, if you’re — if you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don’t know me.” Continue reading Gore gets $257,000 for climate speech in Gibraltar

Bloomberg endorses Obama because of global warming

As Bugs Bunny might say, “What an ultramaroon.” [Bloomberg]

Ralph Hall: Time to rein in the EPA

The scientific enterprise at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is broken, contrary to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s assertions that “science is the backbone of everything we do at EPA,” or that major regulations are based on the recommendations of EPA’s “independent” science advisors. As Americans face a fragile economy and skyrocketing energy prices fueled by President Obama’s agenda, it is important to pull back the curtain on the ideologically-driven processes EPA is using to justify an avalanche of costly rules. Continue reading Ralph Hall: Time to rein in the EPA

Enviros try using Sandy as an excuse to block re-development in Jersey

Never let a crisis go to waste. Continue reading Enviros try using Sandy as an excuse to block re-development in Jersey

TV Alert: Milloy on Cavuto About Sandy — Tonight!

Steve Milloy is scheduled to debunk the notion that global warming caused Hurricane Sandy on Cavuto tonight (Fox Business Channel at 8pm ET).

Gary Taubes' anti-sugar screed

Gary Taubes pens a screed against sugar in Mother Jones. But in the end, low-carb crusader Taubes is forced to admit “the sugar industry may be facing the inexorable exposure of its product as a killer — science will ultimately settle the matter one way or the other.” [Emphasis added]

So Gary, if science isn’t settled as you plainly admit, how did the sugar industry err in defending itself?

Coal Company: Obama EPA killing 145 jobs by holding up permit

“Consol Energy Inc. told 145 workers in southern West Virginia on Tuesday that it will start laying them off in late December because of a dispute over permits for surface mining related to the King Coal Highway project.” [CBS News]

Chris Matthews Calls Climate Change Deniers 'Pigs'

“Well Professor Oppenheimer, back in the 60s, we called such people pigs. Pigs. No, really. They don’t care about the planet, they don’t care about the destruction of war. All they want is what they got, their stuff, and they want more of it.” [Video at Huffington Post]

New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request

JunkScience.com has uncovered new documents conclusively proving that EPA researchers materially falsified a September 2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Continue reading New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request