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Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA Kindle Edition

by Steve Milloy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims that outdoor air kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. EPA has used this claim to: wreck the coal industry; justify expensive and job-killing air quality and climate rules; and to scare Americans about the air they breathe. Milloy not only debunks the outrageous EPA's claims and exposes them as rank scientific fraud in no uncertain terms, but offers a roadmap for fixing the rogue and out-of-control EPA.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01NALP1HX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bench Press Inc (December 21, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 21, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Customers find the writing style interesting, informative, and well-written. They also say the main idea of the book is helpful and the book provides a lucid and cogent history of how the EPA operated as a regulatory body.

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Great Book !!! Exposes the Junk Science the EPA Is Using To Justify Their War On American Coal
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Great Book !!! Exposes the Junk Science the EPA Is Using To Justify Their War On American Coal
This book exposes the junk science the EPA is using to destroy the U.S. Coal Industry. Environmental "Save the Earth" fanatics and greedy crony renewable energy companies are in an unholy alliance to destroy America's most abundant, cheap and reliable source of energy: Coal. The fact is wind and solar are unreliable sources of energy that need a 100% fossil fuel backup which actually increases the amount of CO2 emissions. That is just plain crazy. Hope President Trump reads the book and fires all the EPA environmental fanatics who are trying to destroy America's Coal industry for no discernible impact on climate. The only impact will be to increase the cost of energy for poor, destroy American jobs and line the pockets of wind and solar crony capitalists.
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john dunn
5.0 out of 5 stars easy to read but comprehensive review of the scientific and ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017
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Steve Milloy providesin this book a lucid and cogent, easy to read but comprehensive review of the scientific and policy making misconduct of the US EPA, and his long time effort to expose that misconduct. He provides an in depth analysis of the epidemiological and toxicological scientific fraud that was the basis of the EPA regulations on small particles for more than 2 decades. The scandal of the phony science that was the basis of the EPA claims it was preventing hundreds of thousands of lives lost by its regs is played out in stark contrast to the EPA human experiments that subjected children and adults, some with medical problems, some not, to exposure in chambers with levels of air pollutants far higher than the EPA said were safe. In fact the EPA has told the congress that small particles kill but they are vague on how, kill hundreds of thousands, but at the same time they expose people to what they assert is air pollution that is toxic, lethal and causes cancer.

Milloy has been battling the EPA for decades and details the work he has done and the EPA's reponses and conduct in response to his efforts.

It is a scandal that will not go away, and, by the grace of somebody--Steve Milloy wrote this book before Trump was elected, but it is a handbook on what the problem is with the EPA and why it needs to, as the title says Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA.

I am impressed with the depth and breadth of this book and it sure the hell is timely because the EPA scientific and policy perfidy detailed in the book is about to be exposed for all to see. Bring on the investigators now that, for the first time there are serious scientists like Milloy ready to force the EPA to apply proper scientific rules when doing research on the implementation of Clean Air and Clean Water Laws, but also on the regulation of chemicals, pesticides and Herbicides, and the administration of toxic cleanups, for example. There is a new breeze blowing and it will clear away the fog of EPA lies and deception and stop the imposition of onerous and nonsensical regulations that, for no good reason are created and promulgated with the result being economic harm and hardships for the domestic economy and the economies of the world.
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Gordon Tomb
5.0 out of 5 stars A Pulitizer Worthy Expose of Corruption
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2024
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Steve Milloy should be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for exposing a breathtaking level of corruption in the EPA, which has done much damage to American businesses and working families. His presentation of technical information is digestible and entertaining. Milloy has provided the antidote to the ideological poisoning of EPA’s regulatory regime, but the agency has yet to take its medicine. In the meantime, readers are well served by the book’s explication of complex issues important to their daily lives.
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F. R Anscombe
5.0 out of 5 stars Ideas to improve science supporting eco-regulations
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018
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This book presents challenges for some readers. The author can be irreverent or hostile about environmental topics or about the Federal entity, the USEPA. Author Steve Milloy defines himself as a confrontational intervenor against unjustified scares.

Does tone or affiliation negate his criticisms? For many, values, causes, or affiliations can be given more heed than technical substance. There is a frequent human tendency to listen to someone of similar sympathies, whereas to distrust opponents. Should this happen, if the topics involve technical disciplines (like statistics, biology, or economics)? How to separate technical arguments from tribal sympathies? Can this be done?

Milloy discusses particulate matter (PM) 2.5. The USEPA issued air pollution regulations that required costly societal investments to reduce emissions of small airborne particulates. Lower levels of PM 2.5 would save thousands because PM 2.5 kills, at low doses, according to the USEPA. This was premised on extrapolations from two epidemiological studies that compared outcomes for high versus low exposures across several cities.

Reported correlations between PM 2.5 and deaths were modest, 0.26 and 0.17. A principle of statistics is correlations do not establish causality, they may instead owe to co-incidence or unknown causative factors. The detailed data underpinning the two studies was not disclosed by study investigators to enable independent review.

Milloy disagrees that fine particulate matter causes mortality at concentrations commonly inhaled, offering counter-evidence:
-- one cigarette supplies 10,000 times the prevailing dose of 2.5 PM in air, yet smokers do not die owing just to a single cigarette.
• States are legalizing marijuana, providing a four-fold higher dose of 2.5 PM, because joints do not have filters as do cigarettes. Abundant evidence about smoking does not support inhalation of PM 2.5 as a mortal threat. (Set aside Milloy as an annoying satirist of Big Government, do governments allow smokers to kill themselves? Clearly governments authorizing smoking do not regard 2.5 as a threat to the same degree as EPA.)
• Occupational health data about underground miners does not support PM 2.5 as a threat.
• Death data from California showed no correlation with PM2.5 levels in ambient air.
• Surprisingly, EPA funded experiments of people inhaling high doses of PM 2.5 that EPA considered fatal. EPA attorneys argued high doses were safe in the context of individuals undergoing tests, however harmful when lower doses are experienced across large populations.

To suggest low doses (of any substance) are more dangerous than high flunks pharmacology.

The doubletalk idea that individuals are invulnerable to effects only experienced within groups might tickle George Orwell.

Educated in biostatistics, Milloy recognizes unpersuasive reasoning. Unless educated and motivated people like Milloy have the self-assurance to ask annoying questions, weakly justified regulations can go unchallenged. This can in turn injure productive sectors of the economy and degrade the framing of public policy choices.

On the other hand, to consider the possibility of extenuating benefits, even if the evidence justifying PM 2.5 regulations was uncertain, it is still possible air quality may have improved in other ways owing to these regulations. There might be supplementary health benefits provided by cleaner air that are not captured by the PM 2.5 metric? Americans would generally not like to breathe the highly polluted air of China (containing higher levels of PM 2.5 and other airborne substances), even if residents of Beijing are reported to have longer life expectancy.

Nonetheless, regulatory choices are well served to be based on fuller information, incorporating discordant evidence, such as presented by Milloy. This is a nicely readable, concise book. Milloy uses the example of PM 2.5 to offer ideas about how to improve environmental regulations in future. Recommendations include ending the practice of withholding raw data from public scrutiny and accountability.
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James McMurrin
5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting and readable
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2016
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Bought and read the whole book in a single evening. A great narrative, with the logic and issues laid out clearly and simply. Using his own experiences with the EPA and its regulations regarding small airborne particles ("PM 2.5"), Steve Milloy demonstrates the intellectual bankruptcy and lack of actual science underlying this particular "pollutant", one used extensively for the past 15-20 years to give the EPA the regulatory power to shut down much of the coal industry.

In the end, he draws a clear picture of the actual real life procedures the EPA uses to make sure it gets what it wants, and its ability to defy any attempts at oversight by any other entity, along with a list of recommended changes to return the EPA to its original goal-- making sure we have a clean environment that does not harm American citizens.
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Mikofox
5.0 out of 5 stars Steve Milloy's investigative research into fraud EPA regulation needs to ...
Reviewed in Canada on March 11, 2017
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Steve Milloy's investigative research into fraud EPA regulation needs to be read by policymakers and everyone concerned with real environmental protection. Just the Preface and Introduction are worth the read. Considering the impact/influence the EPA has had on the economy including senseless regulation of citizens not only in North America but also in Europe, this book should change the way we look at these overbearing, non-accountable agencies.
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O. G. M. Morgan
5.0 out of 5 stars What "Environmental Protection" really means.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2017
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This is an astounding exposure of the corrupt behaviour of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and associated agencies in the United States. It is about regulatory overreach by an agency which has, in essence, been granted the power to invent its own laws. The EPA is founded on a myth and sustains itself on pseudo-science. It pays its own fake scientists to produce fake science and they reliably oblige. The myth was that the atmosphere in the United States was so toxic, circa 1970, that only a federal agency could remedy the situation.

In reality, massive bureaucracies do nothing to improve the environment. A pretty good example would be the Baltic States, far cleaner countries today than when provinces of the Soviet empire. For all its many evils, I don't imagine many apparatchiks in the USSR went out of their way to poison Latvia, but they managed it, regardless. In the United States, as elsewhere in the West, cleaning up the environment didn't need an "agency". It was something the public wanted and to which the public was prepared to contribute money and effort. Businesses, too, embraced the Zeitgeist.

Which meant that, from the start, the EPA was chasing shadows. Far from being responsible for bringing down pollution, as it constantly claims, it simply happened to be around when pollution was being eradicated by capitalists and ordinary individuals. Well, the EPA is chock-full of collectivist activists, who hate both capitalism and the very concept of the "individual". Accordingly, with the supine acquiescence of the Bush administration, but then with overt cheer-leading from Obama's grotesque parody of government, the EPA went on a crusade against fossil-fuel producers and users.

Steve Milloy's very lucidly written book concerns the EPA's sudden decision to change the standard for controlling particulate matter ("PM") to PM 2.5, which is basically the same as banning dust, i.e. not just pointless and unnecessary, but completely impossible. The EPA activists were trying to put whole swathes of American industry out of business. To this end, the then administrator of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, testified to Congress that exposure to PM 2.5 was not just bad for one, but would ("would", not "could") be lethal within hours. This, about the kind of stuff everyone, everywhere in the world, breathes in, all of the time.

Steve Milloy smelled a rat. At a time when the state of the environment was constantly improving and the bloated EPA could claim no legitimate credit, the EPA was trying to crush unfashionable industries. President Obama had actually promised to put up the cost of motoring and to put the coal industry out of business (as Hillary Clinton also did, in her doomed 2016 election campaign). What was so dangerous about PM 2.5?

Well, Administrator Jackson (who went by the name "Richard Windsor", when she wanted her e-mails to remain secret) claimed PM 2.5 would kill within hours, that it was America's biggest killer, worse than cancer. Pretty big claims. Armed with this explosive information, what did the EPA do? It conducted tests on forty-one people, exposing them to high levels of PM 2.5, which Lisa Jackson had already declared to be capable of ending life.

Milloy took the bait. He doesn't believe PM 2.5 is remotely lethal and provides umpteen reasons to support his thinking, but he played along with the EPA: why, after the EPA had already declared minimal levels of PM 2.5 lethal, were pseudo-scientists, sponsored by the EPA, deliberately exposing people to levels of PM 2.5 far higher than those supposedly already confirmed as deadly? Not surprisingly, an entity whose chief wrote her e-mails under a false name wasn't in a big hurry to cooperate. Much of Milloy's story is about the circling of wagons by the EPA and other DC agencies. Every time Steve Milloy tried to draw attention to the nefarious practices of the EPA, other agencies refused to see anything wrong.

In a sense, Milloy's book, completed very recently, recounts his failure. He presented his case, immaculately, and the eco-establishment laughed it off. They reckoned they were untouchable. Then they lost the election. There is a chance for the EPA to be overthrown.

While Milloy's text could benefit from a bit of editing, he is always lucid, always supports his claims with footnotes. He's not the first writer to expose the EPA's outrageous, politically motivated assaults on liberty, but I think he is the best informed and the most articulate.
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John D Stewart
5.0 out of 5 stars Please fix the EPA or end it!
Reviewed in Canada on April 22, 2017
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An amazing book! How did the EPA get to be this monster?
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R. Schneider
5.0 out of 5 stars Critical Thinking at its Best on a Hugely Important Issue for the world.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2017
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This is an important book. It demonstrates, yet again, the value of critical thinking and followup. Sadly, it seems to be increasingly important to ask more questions of those who "govern" us; while at the same time critical thinking seems to be a lost art, no longer taught in schools, nor valued when executed.

Mr. Milloy's book first focuses on the science and statistics purportedly to be used by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to support their declaration of compliance standards for particulate matter in the atmosphere. He found none. Their stated goal is to reduce/eliminate "air pollution". Millie demonstrates how there is no science behind these standards and from his numerous interactions with the EPA via the media, via Freedom of Information requests, and court cases, the EPA's motives and reasons for these standards are matters of speculation. The cost of compliance is high, imposes great risks on our society, with no clear purpose. Perhaps the purpose is wealth transfer and turning societal risks into real issues--not just risks. Time will tell. Meantime, it's clear the world standards for particular matter in the atmosphere have no real basis.

Mr. Milloy tells his story pursing all this with engaging and thoughtful writing. His thinking and analysis processes, including critical thinking, is explained and visible. He has proven is point succinctly stated in the title to show how this is is "scare pollution" (not real pollution) and why and how to fix the EPA. Given that the entire world follows the EPA lead (erroneously, perhaps), the entire world must read this book.
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M. Pawelek
5.0 out of 5 stars Only book to expose close collusion between regulators and scientists to ban the world
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2020
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This describes the half billion dollar waste by the US EPA who funded research to prove particulate matter is a killer. They failed. Despite funding study after study, the EPA weren't able to show particulate matter (AKA PM10, PM2.5) is a pollutant or a killer.
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