Scare Pollution: A Review

americanthinker.com ^ | 1/14/2017 | Charles Battig

[rktman]

Steve Milloy is one persistent gentleman. Combining his legal and statistical education, he has spent most of his years ferreting out the false use of statistical techniques in the field of epidemiology. He continues the same quest in his latest book Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA (2016) Bench Press. This is his sixth such book since Science-Based Risk Assessment: A Piece of the Superfund Puzzle (1995).

.... EPA as an all-powerful federal agency lacking cabinet-level status continues to the present. It has developed itself into a self-perpetuating rogue agency which defies congressional oversight attempts, as Milloy documents. From its $1 billion annual budget and 4,000 employees in 1970, the EPA expanded into a $6 billion annual budget with 16,000 employees by 1991.

[rktman]

Familiar with Milloy's work and he is usually very accurate in his assessments. The epa has grown like a rampant cancer. Hopefully there is a cure about to be discovered. When they have the power (without it being a "law") to regulate what you do on your own property, time for them to go. The bad they do far exceeds the good anymore and they answer to who? Seems like nobody.

[ichabod1]

I guess this is why so many people (except the same usual suspects we have today) predicted EPA was going to turn out this way.

[khelus]

Among the EPA’s good deeds is mandating the replacement of dependable asthma inhalers. The new inhalers are costly, clog up easily, and make many asthmatics worse. But global pharma and chemical have benefited financially