1) We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory is wrong, we will be doing the right thing anyway, in terms of economic and environmental policy." -- Retired Sen. Tim Wirth [CEI Update, see address below].
2) The EPA has mandated, but not tested in arctic temperatures, oxygenated fuels to cut down on CO emissions in winter. Two physicians from the government's Center for Disease Control have arrived in Alaska to investigate the apparently resulting rash of health complaints. [USA Today 11/24/92.]
3) A Colorado company, intent on preventing the depletion of the ozone layer, replaced the CFC propellant of a leather protecting spray with a more politically correct substance, and the ozone layer is in less peril now. But the new spray led to coughing, shortness of breath, headaches and fever in more than 60 reported cases; and in severe cases it could lead to pneumonia, according to the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center. [Rocky, Mntn. News, late Dec. 1992].
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Vol. 20, No. 6
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Volume 20 Issue/No.: Vol. 20, No. 6 Date: February 01, 1993 11:08 AM (For actual publication date see newsletter.) Title: The Ascendance of the Lie
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