June 3, 2012

EPA's Unethical Air Pollution Experiments

By John Dale Dunn
See also: Obama Administration Combats Racist Air United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson testified before Congress in September of 2011 that small-particle (2.5 microns or less) air pollution is lethal.  "Particulate matter causes premature death. It's directly causal to dying sooner than you should."  At the hearing, Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) asked, "How would you compare [the benefits of reducing airborne PM2.5] to the fight against cancer?"  Ms. Jackson replied, "Yeah, I was briefed not long ago. If we could reduce particulate matter to healthy levels, it would have the same impact as finding a cure for cancer in our country."  Cancer kills a half-million Americans a year -- 25 percent of all deaths in the U.S. annually. That same month, September 2011, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a journal sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, reported an experiment that exposed a 58-year-old lady to...(Read Full Article)