Flint’s Water Crisis Started 5 Years Ago. It’s Not Over.

Thought Piece The Credibility of One-Eyed Environmental Sources In terms of credibility, NTY does not even refer to the former EPA’s (under Gina McCarthy) involvement in the Flint Water Crisis. In fact, there were Office of Inspector General 2016 & 2018 Reports detailing the flaws and “cover-up” of the EPA’s response to the Flint Water Crisis [...]

By |2019-05-20T13:40:50-05:00April 26th, 2019|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Flint’s Water Crisis Started 5 Years Ago. It’s Not Over.

Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.

Thought Piece The McCarthy/McCabe Op-Ed piece seems just too political, too silo-thinking, too simplistic, too parochial, and too eco-religious for an adult audience. Where is the discussion about national and international economic development, the effects of the Shale Revolution, the importance of energy efficiency, the state of emission reduction strategies, the growing benefits of the Internet [...]

By |2018-03-28T22:36:56-05:00March 27th, 2018|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , |Comments Off on Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Science Would Paralyze the E.P.A.

Time to get off the gravy train

Thought Piece Greg Walcher discusses the longstanding practice of suing and settling with the EPA. One could say it was a downright anti-transparency way of extracting large amounts of federal dollars without full disclosure. It would be interesting if a FOIA could be filed on all such “sue and settle” activities over the last decade. I [...]

By |2018-01-04T23:00:12-05:00December 22nd, 2017|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: |Comments Off on Time to get off the gravy train

Don’t despair, get to work, says former EPA chief Gina McCarthy

Thought Piece “Climate change is happening,” Gina McCarthy said, “We have to stop debating the science.” While Gina sees black and white, I see red. The McCarthy lecture seems just too silo-thinking, too simplistic, too parochial, and too eco-religious for an adult audience. Where is the discussion about national and international economic development, the importance of [...]

By |2017-12-14T22:10:28-05:00December 10th, 2017|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , , |14 Comments

Scott Pruitt Plans to Dismiss EPA’s Expert Scientific Advisors

Thought Piece See Video The lop-sided appointments by the previous EPA for its Clean Air Committees: The Scientific Advisory Committee Particulate Matter Review Panel where 24 of the 26 members received over $190 million in direct or indirect grants and the the Scientific Advisory Committee Ozone Panel 17 of the 20 members received over $192 million. [...]

By |2017-11-06T23:21:12-05:00November 3rd, 2017|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , |3 Comments

Liberal Commentator: Death Threats Against EPA Director Make Sense

Thought Piece For the record, the Clean Power Plan is a great example of undemocratic regulation, environmental extremism, faulty constitutional thinking, media manipulation, extensive use of executive orders, moral rectitude, name-calling, populist rhetoric, ideological purity, demonization of the opposition, total inability to  negotiate with the loyal opposition, and poor understanding of basic global economic development. Steve [...]

By |2017-10-29T09:30:02-05:00October 28th, 2017|Categories: Energy, Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Liberal Commentator: Death Threats Against EPA Director Make Sense

EPA Chief Set to Bar Government-Funded Experts From Agency’s Science Panels

Thought Piece It surely is time to end the inherent conflict of interest between appointed experts and government grants. One would hope that the funding-bias, so visible in many recent environmental studies, will stop. Full disclosure of participants and material facts should be a part of the vetting of all scientists being considered for government science [...]

By |2017-10-23T22:02:56-05:00October 22nd, 2017|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: |Comments Off on EPA Chief Set to Bar Government-Funded Experts From Agency’s Science Panels

Pollution kills 9 million people each year, new study finds

Thought Piece I am not shocked about the information provided by the recent pollution study, but I am bothered that Ex-EPA’s Gina McCarthy reveals her prejudices and anti-intellectualism in her interpretation of the study. Steve P.S. “Often creativity is ruined by throwing more and more money at premature ideas." Rob Asghur Pollution kills 9 million people [...]

By |2017-10-23T22:00:12-05:00October 20th, 2017|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , |Comments Off on Pollution kills 9 million people each year, new study finds

WINNING: EPA to reform its science advisory boards

Thought Piece A humble scientist is a wise scientist. Anyone making predictions should heed the words of the great philosopher Casey Stengel: "Don't make prediction especially about the future." This might be a great time to have a thorough discussion on climate change, without rancor or name-calling. Let's admit that there are many, many people in [...]

By |2017-10-23T21:56:03-05:00October 19th, 2017|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , |Comments Off on WINNING: EPA to reform its science advisory boards

A CNN Smear

Thought Piece CNN and PBS pretend to do environmental exposes, recently. The quality of their reporting and one-sidedness of environmental dogma has become intellectually embarrassing, with almost no real science. A CNN Smear John Stossel|Posted: Oct 18, 2017 12:01 AM Did you happen to catch CNN's latest smear? Anderson Cooper's show recently featured a "two-part exclusive" [...]

By |2017-10-23T22:04:45-05:00October 18th, 2017|Categories: Environment, Thought Piece|Tags: , |Comments Off on A CNN Smear