By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
Steve Milloy's recent Op-Ed ("Did Obama's EPA relaunch Tuskegee experiments?" Commentary, April 25) makes allegations about critical scientific research into how air pollution might contribute to abnormal heart rhythms.
When I saw Steve Milloy's attack on the bedrock clean-air laws that protect Americans from pollution, I could only think of the many children admitted to hospitals for asthma attacks on days when smog levels are sky-high and children who miss many days of school because of breathing problems they can't keep up with their classmates ("Show us the bodies, EPA," Commentary, July 21).
Gravitas, strategic adjectives, a good haircut: Mitt Romney will strike a polished presidential posture Thursday when he announces his run for the White House from a picturesque farm in New Hampshire. But Democrats are waiting to pounce, intent on convincing voters that the new candidate is both political flip-flopper and opportunist.
Who are Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP)?
Poor Al Gore. As if an im- pending divorce and allegations of sexual misconduct from an Oregon masseuse weren't bad enough (he has since been cleared of wrongdoing), the apparent collapse of "cap-and-trade" legislation in the U.S. Senate has driven the former vice president to despair.
There hasn't been this much hubbub since Smokey Bear became licensed property of the USDA Forest Service in 1952.
There hasn't been this much hubbub since Smokey Bear became licensed property of the USDA Forest Service in 1952.
"Buyer beware. The carbon offset calculator preys on people's conscience — particularly those who don't realize you can't stop climate change, because it changes no matter what we do," Mr. Milloy said.
"This is all nonsense. It's a racket, and it's sad to see a government agency involved in it," said Steven Milloy, editor of the online news watchdog Junkscience.com and an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
