by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named Person of the Year by Time magazine, prompting praise and mockery over the pick. Thunberg, who is 16, won international attention earlier this year when she appeared at a United Nations conference and scolded the body for allowing the planet to die and, [...]
Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it a policy to “aggressively reduce” animal testing, completely eliminating them by 2035 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a memorandum directing the EPA to “aggressively reduce” animal testing, including reducing mammal study requests and cutting funding for studies using animals as [...]
by Joseph Vazquez MRC NewsBusters If the left’s ongoing conniptions on climate change haven’t proven hysterical enough, former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry decided to launch a bipartisan “World War Zero” coalition on climate change. Some of the big names headlining “World War Zero” are former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, former moderate [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing on Junkscience.com My oral testimony from today’s EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) meeting to finalize its letter trashing 25 years worth of EPA particulate matter junk science. Good morning. I am Steve Milloy. I publish JunkScience.com. I want to commend [...]
by Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency repealed a proposed regulatory reform to limit the agency’s use of studies for which the underlying data is not available for “independent validation to craft major new regulations. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew a regulatory reform it proposed in April 2018 to limit the [...]
by Jessica Towhey Herald and News The first attempt to turn Green New Deal proposals into legislation would overhaul 1 million public housing units to make them carbon neutral. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont introduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act that would use [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in The Daily Signal Some key House Republicans have chosen to support a Democratic bill called the Scientific Integrity Act. That nearly every House Democrat is a co-sponsor of the bill was apparently insufficient warning. Recently passed out of the House Science, [...]
by David Malakoff Science ...The draft document [of Trump's 'secret science plan], a version of which was leaked to The New York Times this week, supplements a 2018 data transparency proposal from EPA that was harshly criticized by scientific, environmental, and patient groups, prompting the agency to say it would issue a revision. Although EPA [...]
by Jack Dini Canada Free Press A study of the Sierra snow pack confirmed that more than a third of the air pollution affecting California originates in China “One of America’s great but untold environmental success stories is that we have made and continue to make great improvements in our air quality, thanks largely to [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com founder InsideSources.com President Trump is taking a well-deserved victory lap on his “energy dominance” policy. Speaking at the Shale Insight conference last week in Pittsburgh, Trump recounted a number of his energy policy accomplishments that have unleashed the American energy industry. Not only is America [...]
