Steve Milloy

Coin toss immunity: Glaxo’s malaria vaccine

GlaxoSmithKline’s malaria vaccine is possibly better than nothing — but even in the best light, it’s still dilly-dallying.

Enviros exploit children (again) in new attack ads

Ohio Congressman Steve Stivers voted to rein in the out-of-control EPA. The whack-jobs at Environment Ohio responded with this twisted TV ad which, to no one’s surprise, exploits children.

SEAL team in Afghanistan to go green

It’s apparently not enough that Navy SEALs have to hope that their equipment works and that their commanders are prudent; now they’ll have to pray for sunny days, too.

Global warming to bring back Black Death?

Nature reports that extant strains of Yersinia pestis are very similar to the Black Death bacterium that wiped out half of Europe in the 14th century — meaning that environment ought to be at the forefront of concern for the plague’s potential return.

WashPost: Activists wrong on Keystone XL

For the second time in the past five weeks, the Washington Post editorial page torches a green cause. About the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the Post editorializes:

Irony: Michael Mann to rant about skeptics being outside ‘scholarly venues’

Climategate’s Michael Mann plans to rant at next week’s Geological Society of America meeting about skeptics not being part of scholarly debate. But wait a minute, didn’t Mann conspire to bring about that very situation?

EPA pulls secondhand smoke trick on TCE

EPA says in a new assessment that the widely used solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) is carcinogenic to humans by all routes of exposure. But the EPA has simply pulled the same trick on TCE as it did on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) — a trick that got the EPA’s ETS cancer risk assessment trashed by a federal court.

Plants may store much more carbon

A new study in Nature says that the global uptake of carbon by land plants may be up to 45 per cent more than previously thought.

Big Wind vs. Big Green

Big Wind wants to minimize the consequences of knocking birds out of the sky. Big Green wants to use birds to knock Big Wind out of business. The “clean energy”-loving Obama is caught in the middle.

Food police: Not enough indignity in food stamp program

As if there’s not enough indignity in the federal food stamp program, the food police want soft drink purchases banned from the program because they are “arguably” unhealthy.

Congress asks EPA for secret health data — again

Are the days of secret science at the EPA numbered?

CDC bedbug advice: Avoid pesticides and freeze your bedroom

The government is here to help on bedbugs — avoid insecticides and cool your room to 3°F.

Kudos to Cain: Calls for EPA do over

At the GOP Presidential debate tonight, Herman Cain was asked, if he had to get rid of a federal agency, which would it be and why.

Texas says EPA official fibbed at Congressional hearing

You don’t often see a state essentially accuse the federal government of lying to Congress. In response to EPA air chief Gina McCarthy’s testimony before the House Science Committee yesterday, the Texas Council of Environmental Quality (which testified before EPA at the hearing) released the following post-hearing statement:

Al Gore: Tobacco Hypocrite

Al Gore has conveniently forgotten that his family used to be in the tobacco industry.

Fiasco: Obama spends $5 million+ per ‘green’ job

The Obama administration has spent more than $5 million for each “green” job created under the 2009 stimulus fiasco.

EPA lectures Luminant on how to manage a power plant in tough economic times

Apparently tipped off to Luminant’s lawsuit filed Sep. 11 against EPA concerning the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, the EPA sent this obnoxious and condescending letter informing Luminant that shutting down mines is not the way to go in tough economic times.

Perry blames EPA For 500 jobs losses; Other candidates say… ?

Gov. Rick Perry issued the following statement regarding Luminant’s announcement that 500 jobs will be lost due to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR):

EPA-American Lung Association: Axis of Junk Science

JunkScience.com broke the story that the EPA has paid the American Lung Association $20 million over the past 10 years and, in turn, the ALA has agitated on behalf of the agency.

Juliet Eilperin propagandizes on ozone rule withdrawal

Unbiased reporting seems still to be a mysterious concept to Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin.