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28 02, 2019

New York Times: With Climate Science on the March, an Isolated Trump Hunkers Down

2019-03-01T10:43:14-05:00February 28th, 2019|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Coral Davenport New York Times WASHINGTON — New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, and scientific facts, government agencies, and some leading figures in the president’s own party on the other. [...]

27 02, 2019

One News Now: Climate alarmists – prophets they’re not

2019-03-06T17:00:38-05:00February 27th, 2019|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com A senior U.N. official says entire nations have ten years to act on global warming or be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels. It sounds like something in today's headlines, but that prediction was made for the year 2000 ... in 1989. The Associated Press covered [...]

25 02, 2019

One News Now: A ‘fringe figure’ who says plant food good for planet

2019-03-06T16:55:14-05:00February 25th, 2019|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com There are more cheers and jeers for the Trump administration, this time over climate change and national security. The Trump administration is exploring the idea of a special committee to examine climate change and security risks, with the effort being coordinated by 79-year-old physicist William Happer... "I would say that Will [...]

25 02, 2019

Milloy: Bad Science May Banish Paper Receipts

2019-03-05T08:29:35-05:00February 25th, 2019|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Media Coverage, Milloy, Socialism|

by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Steve Milloy As appearing in the Wall Street Journal California lawmakers seek a ban, based on a scare over BPA that was debunked two decades ago. Having vanquished plastic straws, the California Legislature is now considering a bill to ban paper cash-register receipts. One reason offered for the ban [...]

24 02, 2019

The County Press: Wind turbine opponents pack meeting

2019-02-25T13:18:17-05:00February 24th, 2019|Martis, Media Coverage, Windmills|

by Phil Foley The County Press NORTH BRANCH TWP. — More than 150 filled a meeting room at North Branch Wesleyan Church Tuesday (Feb. 19) night to hear the other side of the wind energy debate. Last month the North Branch Township Hall meeting room was standing room only for a presentation by three wind [...]

23 02, 2019

Fox News: Green New Deal rollout rattles both sides of climate change debate

2019-02-25T12:59:25-05:00February 23rd, 2019|"Scare Pollution", Conflict of Interest, Energy Poverty, Green New Deal, Media Coverage, Milloy|

On February 23, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow joined Fox News to discuss the Green New Deal.

22 02, 2019

Walcher: Ode to a butterfly

2019-02-27T14:36:28-05:00February 22nd, 2019|DOI, Media Coverage, Public Lands, Walcher|

by E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel Observing a monarch butterfly in the 1850s, Emily Dickinson wrote about its apparently aimless flitting, "Repairing everywhere, without design that I could trace, except to stray abroad on miscellaneous enterprise, the clovers understood." She knew butterflies were somewhat mysterious. They still are. Someone [...]

20 02, 2019

Bloomberg: ‘Climate Security’ Panel May Give White House Skeptics New Voice

2019-03-01T11:09:31-05:00February 20th, 2019|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Ari Natter , Christopher Flavelle , and Jennifer A Dlouhy Bloomberg The White House is considering establishing a presidential committee to assess the consensus of scientists and the Pentagon that climate change poses a national security threat, according to a person familiar with the plan. The move, being spearheaded by William Happer, a physicist [...]

19 02, 2019

Los Angeles Times: Scientist says some pollution is good for you — a disputed claim Trump’s EPA has embraced

2019-03-01T11:02:33-05:00February 19th, 2019|"Scare Pollution", Media Coverage, Milloy, Regulatory Reform|

by Susanne Rust Los Angeles Times In early 2018, a deputy assistant administrator in the EPA, Clint Woods, reached out to a Massachusetts toxicologist best known for pushing a public health standard suggesting that low levels of toxic chemicals and radiation are good for people. “I wanted to check to see if you might have [...]

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