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Going...going...Obama's "Clean Power Plan" Unlikely to See the Light of Day

In an unprecedented decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has sort-of overruled a lower Circuit Court's...

Rogue EPA Wants to Run Our Country

I couldn't help but laugh — one has to, or cry: the headline read, "EPA looks to build on 2015...

NYTimes Exposé Aims At Toxic Chemical, Hits OCD Lawyer Instead

The New York Times continues its grand tradition of always letting its ideology trump sound science...

America's Great Leap Forward: Watermelon Environmentalism

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Revise that outdated TSCA! (Boxer, 2010). Wait: do NOT revise that outdated TSCA! (Boxer, 2015)

Revise that outdated TSCA! (Boxer, 2010). Wait: do NOT revise that outdated TSCA! (Boxer, 2015)

Sep 30 2015 | comment(s)

Almost as soon as the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed in 1976, the environmental movement began to complain about its shortcomings.

Billion Dollar Green Campaigns Kill Poor Children

Billion Dollar Green Campaigns Kill Poor Children

Sep 28 2015 | comment(s)

In a recent lecture at Cornell University entitled "Check Your Green Privilege: It's not environmentally friendly to allow millions to die," British Member of Parliament, the Rt. Hon. Owen Paterson exposed the deadly facts behind the "green" charades perpetrated by activist groups, exemplified by Greenpeace.
Germany Versus Science, Round Two

Germany Versus Science, Round Two

Sep 01 2015 | comment(s)

AgBiotechAn editorial in the Wall Street Journal summarizes the European Union’s decades-long flight from science, common sense and consistency. These un- or even anti-science positions are driven by many idées fixes, baseless myths and superstitions, promulgated by “consumer groups” and by deep green “environmentalists,” who claim to be concerned about Mother Earth. 

The False Fear Of ‘Toxic Breast Milk’

The False Fear Of ‘Toxic Breast Milk’

Aug 25 2015 | comment(s)

BreastmilkAt the American Council on Science and Health, we have been keeping our eyes on Denmark's Dr. Phillipe Grandjean and the Harvard School of Public Health for quite some time now.

He has a long and well-deserved reputation of being in the forefront of "toxic terror" campaigns based on his cohort studies of pregnant women, newborns and pre-schoolers in the North Atlantic's Faroe Islands and their dietary intake of mercury-laden whale meat.
Don't Fear Nuclear Power, No Matter What The Lancet Wants To Believe

Don't Fear Nuclear Power, No Matter What The Lancet Wants To Believe

Aug 10 2015 | comment(s)

70 years ago saw the world's only wartime use of nuclear weapons, when the USA dropped the devastating weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading directly to the end of World War II. 
Junk Science Report Card

Junk Science Report Card

Aug 04 2015 | comment(s)

The American Council on Science and Health has been single-minded about promoting evidence-based decision-making since 1978.  The Council was formed in response to groups doing just the opposite of science, they instead perpetuated and sometimes even created the opposite of what would inform the public.

We call such tripe "junk science."