EPA Whips Up Air Pollution Scare

United Pro Smoker's Newsletter ^ | March 09, 2006 | Steven Milloy

[SheLion]

What can I say!  We are all starting to find out these agency's are just full of it!!  I don't believe and/or trust anything they say today.  More lies and spin to help them line their own pockets!

ENOUGH!

[SheLion]

[Minuteman23]

The environmentalist whackos are continuing to succeed in regulating the air that we breathe and the ground that we walk on. Socialism has become a reality in modern America.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SheLion]

The environmentalist whackos are continuing to succeed in regulating the air that we breathe and the ground that we walk on. Socialism has become a reality in modern America.

Yep.  And it all started with the war on the smokers.  We all knew they would start working on others.  It was just a matter of time. 

[Gabz]

NANNY STATE/Junk Science Ping....

As it turns out, the study was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which conveniently just started a rulemaking process in January that would make outdoor air quality standards more stringent.

The study was released on March 7, in time for the March 8 newspapers – the same day that the EPA held a public hearing in Chicago on the need for new air pollution standards.

The need for more stringent air pollution regulation is certainly open to debate, if for no other reason than that current EPA air pollution rules were issued in 1997 and have not yet been fully implemented – much less, evaluated in terms of benefits and costs.

The EPA claims that hundreds of studies show that current air quality levels harm the public’s health. But virtually all of these studies, however, have been funded by the EPA -- an agency once famously accused by its own Science Advisory Board of “adjusting science to fit policy” – conducted by the same clique of EPA-funding-dependent researchers, and suffer from the exact same weaknesses as the study published this week.

Where have we heard all of this before.............Oh yes, the very same EPA that is known to take a stand and then cherry pick the science to justify said stand...........

[EGPWS]

The EPA claims that hundreds of studies show that current air quality levels harm the public’s health.

They should have done their job and prevented Christopher Reeves from riding a horse for his own protection and at the same time come up with a firm and convincing reason as to why his wife died of lung cancer at 42 when she never smoking a day in her life.

[EGPWS]

I meant "smoked"....

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I think The Hollies said it best:

"All I need is the air that I breathe and to love you..."

Just for that, I'm going to burn trash today. Think I'll take the broken fridge and a few dead car batteries down to the creek and toss them in too, for good measure. ;)

Thanks again for the EPA, President Nixon! You know, in hind-sight and with the aid of the www and Freepers willing to do the mouse-work, it sure is easy to see that we've had more than a few RINO Presidents over the years.

"Enough!" is right, SheLion.

[Smokin' Joe]

Amazing, when you consider that the Clinton 'let it burn' approach to fighting forest fires had us in North Dakota able to smell the woodsmoke--some days so thick it'd burn your eyes, from hundreds of miles downwind of the fires--for a whole summer. And to think it was the whackos who wouldn't let the areas be cut that added fuel to the fires.

[SheLion]

Where have we heard all of this before.............Oh yes, the very same EPA that is known to take a stand and then cherry pick the science to justify said stand...........

Oh yes.  The know all EPA.  I will never trust anything they say again.

[SheLion]

They should have done their job and prevented Christopher Reeves from riding a horse for his own protection and at the same time come up with a firm and convincing reason as to why his wife died of lung cancer at 42 when she never smoked a day in her life.

The trouble with this is:  now the anti's are shoving their fingers in the air saying that just because she sang in a nightclub for so many years and was around SHS, that is how she developed lung cancer.  What a crock!

[SheLion]

Thanks again for the EPA, President Nixon! You know, in hind-sight and with the aid of the www and Freepers willing to do the mouse-work, it sure is easy to see that we've had more than a few RINO Presidents over the years.

Remember this?

[RandallFlagg]

The trouble with this is: now the anti's are shoving their fingers in the air saying that just because she sang in a nightclub for so many years and was around SHS, that is how she developed lung cancer.

You've GOT to be kidding!
Of course, you're not. I know.
Dancing on graves.

[SheLion]

DON'T LET THE HEADLINES FOOL YOU
Court throws out challenge to EPA findings on secondhand smoke - (December 2002) - The ruling was based on the highly technical grounds that since the EPA didn't actually enact any new regulations (it merely declared ETS to be a carcinogen without actually adopting any new rules), the court had no jurisdiction to rule in the matter.  This court ruling on the EPA report is NOT a stamp of approval for that report. Judge Osteen's criticisms of the EPA report are still completely valid and is accompanied by other experts.

[Minuteman23]

BTTT

[Minuteman23]

The whackos have no genuine concern for the environment, as you can tell by incidents like the one you're talking about. I also remember a time when Al Gore was giving a speech somewhere (can't for the life of me remember where exactly) and they chopped down a bunch of beautiful old trees so that the backdrop for the video would look better.

It's all about power. The environment is just a tool towards that end.

[Lokibob]

The difference between a government worker and a private industry worker is amazing.

In private industry, the worker is paid to solve problems.

In Government, the worker is paid to discover problems.

This is a good example.

The EPA finds a supposed link between soot and hospital admissions. Regardless of how faulty the study is, the EPA has accomplished its task.
Now it will be up to private industry to solve the problem.

.....Bob

[EGPWS]

The trouble with this is: now the anti's are shoving their fingers in the air saying that just because she sang in a nightclub for so many years and was around SHS, that is how she developed lung cancer.

And all in all it boils down to following the money.

If the public in general is lackadaisical enough to fall for this promoted feces without promotion of personal intelligent understanding, then we as a whole as free individuals are destine to live life in servitude.

And again, as usual, the "no give a sh!ts" will drag down the concerning individuals.

Second hand smoke as a danger is only a trusted concern to those who don't understand the benefits and calamities that God has given humanity.

When it comes down to the human factor, money can be diverted to any peril that being blessed with living creates.

[TAdams8591]

I have NEVER taken the EPA's words as a final word on anything.