The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long had rules regulating particular matter (PM2.5) emissions claiming that such emissions harm human health. However, there is no science to back up that claim.
A recent ADI article, “New EPA Proposal is a Threat to Arizona’s Growth” Lea Márquez Peterson, writes that “The EPA recently proposed a rule that would significantly tighten the limits for small particulates (PM2.5) commonly found in construction projects, manufacturing processes, and electricity generation. Despite concentrations of PM2.5 plummeting over 40% since 2000, due in large part to efficiencies championed by private industry, the Biden administration is barreling ahead with regulations that threaten 1,300 jobs and $500 million in manufacturing activity in Arizona alone, according to a recent study from the National Association of Manufacturers.”
I agree that the new (and the old) EPA rules will have a detrimental effect.
Steve Milloy, an environmental and public health consultant, writes a blog called Junk Science. A recent post on that blog is titled: “PM2.5: Mass Killer or Mass Fraud?” His conclusion is “Mass Fraud.”
The post is very long so here is the main point as written by Milloy:
“PM2.5 is fine airborne soot and dust. A PM2.5 particle is about one-twentieth the width of a human hair. The soot form of PM2.5 is emitted by all forms of manmade and natural combustion: from fossil fuel plant smokestacks; truck and automobile exhaust pipes; and furnaces, fireplaces and barbeques to wildfires and volcanoes The dust form of PM2.5 exists as pollen, pet dander, dust and mold. Smokers of all sorts inhale PM2.5 in massive amounts, especially compared to PM2.5 levels in outdoor air. You may think that last point condemns PM2.5 as a killer. But it actually is the among the best evidence that PM2.5 doesn’t kill anyone.
The EPA invented PM2.5 as the most toxic substance known to man, that is, any inhalation can result in death as soon as hours. Or, alternatively, PM2.5 may kill you after a lifetime of (unavoidably) inhaling it. No other substance known to man works this way and there is no body of science to support these claims. The EPA’s own courtroom admission undercuts its claims about the epidemiology and its own human experiments fail to provide any support to the motion that PM2.5 causes adverse health impact, let alone kills.”
This recent EPA ploy is just another government regulation designed to gain more power over us. Regulations such as this have detrimental economic effects, not only in Arizona, but all over the nation.
See my previous post (2015) on this issue: EPA claims on dangers of particulate matter are false
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