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21 02, 2018

E&E Legal’s Steve Milloy Petitions President Trump for Federal Standards to Stop Overregulation Based on Junk Epidemiology

2018-12-19T13:52:12-05:00February 21st, 2018|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Milloy, Policy, Regulatory Reform|

 E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow Steven J. Milloy today petitioned President Trump seeking federal standards to end the misuse and abuse of epidemiology by regulatory agencies that results in costly and pointless overregulation.  Milloy petitioned the President for an Executive branch-wide set of "standards for the use of epidemiology studies by regulatory agencies.” In the letter, Milloy [...]

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31 01, 2018

Burnett: California, New York City Target Oil Giants With Climate Lawsuits

2018-01-31T15:45:52-05:00January 31st, 2018|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Conflict of Interest, Manipulation, Media Coverage, Milloy, Suits|

by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland New York City, San Francisco, and Oakland have filed lawsuits against the five largest private oil companies—BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell—claiming they are contributing to destructive climate change...New York City’s lawsuit comes just a few months after several cities in California, including San Francisco and Oakland, filed [...]

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25 01, 2018

Burnett: Endangerment Finding Resolution Withdrawn During ALEC Meeting

2018-01-31T16:02:43-05:00January 25th, 2018|"Scare Pollution", Endangerment Finding, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland The co-sponsors of a resolution calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reopen and review its finding that carbon dioxide poses a danger to human health and the environment withdrew the resolution from consideration. A resolution calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reopen and review its finding [...]

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26 12, 2017

Fox News: ‘Junk science’? Studies behind Obama regulations under fire

2018-01-08T18:46:12-05:00December 26th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Fred Lucas Fox News Scientific studies used by the Obama administration to help justify tough environmental regulations are coming under intensifying scrutiny, with critics questioning their merit as the Trump EPA reverses or delays some of those rules. In one case, agencies determined the research used to prop up a ban on a pesticide [...]

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6 12, 2017

Axios: The right’s civil war over science goes to Tennessee

2017-12-07T14:39:02-05:00December 6th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Media Coverage, Milloy, Scandal|

by Amy Harder Axios America's right flank is at war with itself over climate-change science, and the latest battle is this week in Nashville. Driving the news: The American Legislative Exchange Council, a policy group of conservative state lawmakers and companies, holds a meeting Thursday in Nashville, Tenn. Members of one of its task forces [...]

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16 11, 2017

CNBC: Climate skeptics and coal boosters gather to cheer Trump’s energy agenda — and hold his feet to the fire

2018-01-08T19:03:43-05:00November 16th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Endangerment Finding, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Tom DiChristopher CNBC HOUSTON — Clips of President Donald Trump extolling the virtues of fossil fuels played over a bed of soaring music, in the well-appointed hotel ballroom, as images of coal miners and the Statue of Liberty flashed across the screen. When the video came to a close, the audience erupted in applause [...]

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13 11, 2017

Courthouse News: EPA’s Pruitt Praised by Right-Wing Groups for Getting Agency “Out of Science”

2017-11-14T15:45:16-05:00November 13th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Cameron Langford Courthouse News HOUSTON (CN) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s director Scott Pruitt and speakers at a fossil fuels conference in Houston sponsored by right-wing groups had a mutual lovefest, with Pruitt praising the groups for their commitment to oil and gas and the groups lauding Pruitt for getting the EPA “out [...]

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15 10, 2017

Milloy: The Clean Power Plan’s Counterfeit Benefits

2017-10-18T13:58:39-04:00October 15th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Clean Power Plan, Media Coverage, Milloy, War on Coal|

by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Obama EPA claimed its regulation would have a $55 billion payoff. You’ll never believe how. The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed repeal of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan is a milestone. No Republican administration has ever mustered the courage [...]

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14 09, 2017

ClimateWire: Climate Skeptics Could Snag EPA Science Adviser Slots

2017-09-15T09:04:13-04:00September 14th, 2017|"Climate Change", "Scare Pollution", Bad Science, EPA, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Scott Waldman ClimateWire Climate skeptics may soon join a key science advisory panel at U.S. EPA. A number of people who reject the findings of mainstream climate science are being considered by the Trump administration for spots on EPA's Science Advisory Board, a voluntary but influential panel that reviews science used in environmental regulations... [...]

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12 09, 2017

Daily Caller: EPA Accused Of Burying Scientific Evidence From Human Testing That Contradicted Obama’s Agenda

2017-09-14T15:27:22-04:00September 12th, 2017|"Scare Pollution", Bad Science, Conflict of Interest, EPA Collusion, Media Coverage, Milloy|

by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hid the results of experimental data that contradicted the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda, according to the publisher of an anti-junk science blog. JunkScience.com publisher Steve Milloy claims to have uncovered data buried by the EPA “that directly contradicts the Obama EPA’s 2015 decision to [...]

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