Suppose a local city council was considering dropping vaccination requirements for city elementary schools. What if the council provided a long forum for an anti-vax group to testify and then ignored advice from state health agencies and a federal agency (both subject to “best available science” mandates)? My response would probably range from unease to…
In September 2024 the city council capitulated to anti-nuclear pressure by withdrawing financial support for the Rocky Mountain Greenway and the bridge across Indiana Street joining Westminster open space with the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Council members opposing the Greenway were left having “come too late to the party” and the bridge has been…
This is the title of a John Naughton article in today’s Guardian. He notes, “US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary… these academics have a finger on the pulse of Trump’s America, and are concerned about what might happen when they return home.”…
New York Times, 27 Feb 2025: Three former EPA leaders: you’ll miss it when it’s gone. Nature is one of the preeminent cross-science publications in the world. Nature Briefing, its newsletter, notes today that at the Environmental Protection Agency “More than 1,000 employees tasked with regulating air pollution, researching the health effects of toxic chemicals…
To my surprise, even now the details have not been published in local news media, so I’m making more info available here. A redacted PDF including small photographs is here.
There’s more at the December 21 posting to Rocky Flats Neighbors Facebook page. A glimpse of the experts is here. The talking points are probably already discussed in the 4-page document here. Page 4 introduces all of the speakers!
…to me, who tried to provide reliable strictly science-based data about Rocky Flats to local governments on the Jefferson Parkway and then the Rocky Mountain Greenway. Happy Halloween! Beth Mole’s [a Ph.D writer for arstechnica] article Idaho health district abandons COVID shots amid flood of anti-vaccine nonsense is a warning about what can happen “during…
(The contents were posted to Nextdoor, but taken down, labeled as Misinfo.). For grins: Google misinfo “Rocky Flats” More than 6800 people read my post about the Westminster vote on the Greenway. Some people appear fuzzy about the two sides of the Rocky Mountain Greenway issue. One side, willing to believe the DOE, the EPA,…
Story by Monte Whaley, September 24, from Westminster Window “A majority of councilors said they no longer wanted the city to be part of the project over concerns that any foot traffic along the trail into Westminster will stir up deadly plutonium linked to the shuttered Rocky Flats facility.” This vote has been expected since…
[Follow-up to the blog entry Doomed new lawsuit will waste tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars of January 25, 2024] (Thanks to Kim Griffiths for passing on the document distributed by David Abelson to the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council! Original here.) In a ruling on September 8 Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the U.S. District…