Thread: EPA: Maricopa County Az insufficiently reducing farm dust

EPA claims that Maricopa County [Arizona] is insufficiently reducing dust emissions from agricultural sources

EPA’s Lisa Jackson misinforms (lies to?) Politico on farm dust

- Steve Milloy
Friday, August 19, 2011

Does EPA administrator Lisa Jackson not know what her agency is doing or did she just lie to Politico about EPA regulating farm dust?

Politico’s follow-up article (subscription required) to “Obama’s Unhelpful Adviceâ€

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Extraordinarily expensive and ever-tightening air-quality regulations

Air-pollution scare debunked

- Steve Milloy By Dr. John Dale Dunn
Friday, August 19, 2011

August 19, 2011, Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... -debunked/

What if today’s levels of air pollution didn’t kill anybody?

That certainly would be bad news for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has spent the past 15 years stubbornly defending its extraordinarily expensive and ever-tightening air-quality regulations.

The EPA claims airborne fine particulate matter kills tens of thousands annually and that the prevention of those deaths will provide society $2 trillion annually in monetized health benefits by 2020.

But we can debunk those claims with more than mere criticisms of EPA’s statistical malpractice and secret data. We have actual data that simply discredit the EPA’s claims.

Everyone (including environmental zealots) agrees that the worst air-pollution episode ever to occur in the United States occurred in Donora, Pa., in October 1948.

For three days, an unusual and stifling temperature inversion trapped noxious fumes from local industry in Donora’s valley. By the time rain finally came to clear away the smog, thousands had been affected, hundreds had been sickened, and 20 elderly persons were dead. The Donora tragedy was a sentinel event on the path to the federal Clean Air Act that finally was enacted in 1963.

Ironically, though, when the Donora episode is studied rather than simply exploited as a rhetorical device, that debunks the EPA’s assertion that present-day air quality is a killer.

The U.S. Public Health Service investigated the Donora tragedy and in 1949 issued a report titled “Air Pollution in Donora, Pa.: Epidemiology of the Smog Episode of October 1948.â€