Steve Milloy testifies on EPA’s proposed tightening of emissions from bulk gasoline terminals

As Appearing on Junkscience.com

Good morning. I am Steve Milloy. I publish JunkScience.com.

Absent a showing of actual versus mere statistical or imaginary health effects, EPA should withdraw the proposed standards for bulk gasoline terminals.

For too long, EPA has gotten away with basing air quality regulation on imaginary health effects.

First, EPA has admitted in federal court with me that the epidemiology underlying claimed ozone and PM2.5 health effects is inadequate to prove anything.

Next, for years EPA conducted clinical research into the effects of extremely high exposures to ozone and PM2.5 on human guinea pigs, including asthmatics and the elderly.

Ozone exposures in these experiments could reach 300 to 400 parts per billion for two hours.

EPA never elicited as much as a cough or wheeze related to ozone or PM2.5 in its experiments.

Naturally EPA has suppressed these results and has failed to include them in the present cost-benefit analysis.

Finally, EPA has failed to show that emissions from gasoline terminals are causing or have caused any actual health effects to anyone.

That’s three strikes and EPA’s scientific rationale for the proposed standards is out.

Thanks for listening.