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Rand Paul: Environmental Extremists Run Government
by Sam Rolley Personal Liberty November 14, 2011 Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said that President Barack Obama’s Administration has allowed environmental extremists to take over political decisions and kill jobs. The Senator’s statements were made in regard to legislation he has proposed to roll back an Environmental Protection Agency regulation that penalizes States for allowing Read full article...
U.S. to Ban Epinephrine Inhalers to Sell more Prescription Drugs
by Mark Hemingway Weekly Standard September 23, 2011 Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer: Asthma Read full article...
Green Buildings Hazardous, says Institute of Medicine
Fox News June 8, 2011 The buildings commonly referred to as “green” could actually be hazardous to your health, according to a new report. That’s one of many warnings out of a new report from the Institute of Medicine, which tracked the potential impact of climate change on indoor environments. The report cautions that climate change Read full article...
Why Organic Food Is Genuinely Better For Your Health?
By Marianne B. Conway uPublish.info June 3, 2011 Organic food is certainly nothing new and has existed for thousands of years, however recently more people have been taking an interest in it and the word organic has turned into a big buzzword. Those individuals involved in the health food business are creating massive profits during Read full article...
Obama issues global warming rules in January, gives GE an exemption in February
washingtonexaminer.com Last month, the Obama EPA began enforcing new rules regulating the greenhouse gas emissions from any new or expanded power plants. This week, the EPA issued its first exemption, Environment & Energy News reports: The Obama administration will spare a stalled power plant project in California from the newest federal limits on greenhouse gases Read full article...
It’s Raining. It’s Pouring …and Snowing …Formaldehyde
By Andrea Silverthorne Part 4 Part 3 Part 2 Part 1 Scientist K.-U Goss, in his 2004 report, The Air/Surface Adsorption Equilibrium of Organic Compounds Under Ambient Conditions, observed the following: “The melting of snow pack also leads to a redistribution of compounds adsorbed to the snow surface which can cause a concentration peak in Read full article...
It’s Raining. It’s Pouring . . . and Snowing . . . Formaldehyde
By Andrea Silverthorne Part 3 Part 2 Part 1 Looking back in 2003, at increasing levels of formaldehyde, as measured in 1996, Kelly Chance and Thomas P. Kurosu, of the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge Massachusetts, wrote a report on the columns of formaldehyde gas observed by satellite. They found that the levels Read full article...
It’s Raining. It’s Pouring . . . and Snowing . . . Formaldehyde
By Andrea Silverthorne Part 2 Part 1 The first ‘Principle of Journalism’ listed on the CCJ web site is that of its obligation to the truth. The CCJ definition of the principle encircles the basic fact that the “journalist truth” entails: “the professional discipline of assembling and verify facts.” Elizabeth Kolbert has done an impressive Read full article...
It’s Raining. It’s Pouring . . . and Snowing . . . Formaldehyde
By Andrea Silverthorne Part 1 In 1997, a news journalist organization, the Committee of Concern Journalists (CCJ), commences a study to establish written principles for their profession. Before deciding on the principles, the industry reviews its own history, conducts public meetings, and surveys their own members in order to crystallize the importance of their professional Read full article...
