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by Patrick J. Michaels & Benjamin Zycher  | May 12, 2021 12:00 AM Print this article Washington Examiner, Josh Siegel and Abby Smith reported: “This morning, the EPA unveiled a proposal to begin limiting potent greenhouse gas coolants known as hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. It’s a significant step to curb climate change, as phasing down HFCs could help avoid roughly 0.5 degrees Celsius of warming.” The claim that a phaseout of HFCs would reduce future warming by 0.5 ...

How to market vaccination Marketing expert Stacy Wood has studied how people respond to everything from online shopping to reality TV. Now, the professor at North Carolina State Universitys business school has turned to COVID-19, co-authoring a 6 January paper in The New England Journal of Medicine that uses marketing theory to explain how to persuade people to get vaccinated. The interview was edited for length and clarity. — Warren Cornwall When you look at how vaccination is being markete...

Q: When you look at how vaccination is being marketed now, what do you see? A: I see public health officials approaching it in a very straightforward way that says, “All we need to do is educate people about why this is a good idea.” [But] there’s more nuance to hesitancy than we realize. Someone says, “Hey, I know how pharmaceutical products are developed and tested, this went way too fast.” Another person says, “You know, science is not the answer, we trust too much in science.”...

Share Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler has said a new rule will improve scientific transparency, but critics disagree. Al Drago/Pool via AP Trump’s new rule restricting EPA’s use of certain science could have short life Jan. 6, 2021 , 12:45 PM President Donald Trump’s administration yesterday finalized a controversial rule that would make it more difficult for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use major health studies to guide pollution ...

Share Scientists fear a planned hunt for oil on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this winter could harm female polar bears and their newborn cubs that live along the southern edge of the Beaufort Sea. Steven Kazlowski/Minden Pictures Plan to map oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge ignores environmental risks, critics say Dec. 21, 2020 , 11:35 AM A plan to crisscross parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with earth-shaking machines that help map underground oil formations is drawin...