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Chief Gas Stove Foe Has Chinese Ties
Collin Anderson and Joseph Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon highlight the group leading the charge against gas stoves. The green energy group behind a study cited in Consumer Product…
Asthma
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Panning Biden’s ‘War’ on Gas Stoves
Editors at National Review Online critique one of the Biden administration’s latest harmful ideas. The federal government is no longer sure whether it’s possible, after over 100 years of widespread…
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I Can’t Drive Eighty-Fiiiiive!
Whining continues about proposed legislation to end subsidized driver education at high schools. Training could be shifted to community colleges, or parents could be required to pay $65 for the…
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Happy, Happy Windmills
I thought I had asthma. It was horrible back in the days when Washington, DC was nothing but a swill of diesel fuel, and Hamilton, Ontario is practically a death…
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In spite of NC’s Clean Smokestacks Bill, fine particle pollution is still lower in SC and all but the DC area of VA
Making news across the state this day is a study out of UNC Chapel Hill that newspaper headlines are claiming shows that North Carolina’s 2002 Clean Smokestacks Bill (CSB) is…
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EPA delays announcing new ozone standards
View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well as items in the…
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Illegal Immigration of Smoke
The State of North Carolina’s lawsuit against the TVA for not complying with the state’s 2002 Clean Smokestacks Act is going to trial. The legislation granted the state the authority…
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Where the Bodies Are Buried: How experts for N.C.’s Attorney General mislead the public about TVA air pollution risks
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) operates 11 coal-fired power plants in the southeastern United States. These plants emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), which contribute to particulate matter…
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Cutting Your Highways to Spite Your Asthma
Highways have a statistically-verifiable reputation for diverting traffic from downtown areas onto safe lanes without carbon-wasting, stop-and-go, asthma-inducing congestion. Environmentalists therefore are rejoicing because plans for a highway loop in…
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Gasp!
Greensboro is among the worst cities for people with asthma, according to a report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Funny I should encounter such news when, instead…
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Worrying everyone sick
I certainly hope no 13-year-olds read Deborah Fields’ op-ed in today’s in N&R on Greensboro’s Cool Cities initiative: Ground-level ozone increases with rising temperatures. The American Academy of Pediatrics Policy…
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More Good Air After Bad
Ramping up the Air War 2006, here’s another attempt to set the record straight on air quality: “Activist groups like the American Lung Association don’t stay in business by telling…