WXXI staff (2010-02-03)
ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) - President Obama’s 3.8-trillion dollar budget proposal has raised objections from both sides of the aisle.
Republicans generally contend it doesn’t go far enough to trim deficits while increasing taxes …

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its nod to a drug meant for patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) and those who experience difficulties in walking.

Ampyra (generic name dalfampridine, formerly known as fampridine), the …

 
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Gun owners worried that a bad economy could lead to increased violence and suspicious that new stricter gun laws are on the horizon are rushing in record numbers to get concealed weapons permits.
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THE health bills coming out of Congress would put the decisions about your care in the hands of presidential appointees. They’d decide what plans cover, how much leeway your doctor will have and what seniors get under Medicare. Emanuel, however, believes that “communitarianism” should guide decisions on who gets care. Translation: Don’t give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson’s or a child with cerebral palsy.

 WEDNESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) — Health experts say they can’t predict at this point how widely a new strain of swine flu resistant to the drug Tamiflu will spread, or how dangerous it might …

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a surprise announcement Friday that she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down, raising speculation …

“He came out with the truth. They don’t want the truth at the EPA,” Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla…

Despite the EPA official’s remarks, Carlin told FOXNews.com on Monday that his boss, National Center for Environmental Economics Director Al McGartland, appeared to be pressured into reassigning him.

“It was reassigning you or losing my job, and I didn’t want to lose my job,” Carlin said, paraphrasing what he claimed were McGartland’s comments to him. “My inference (was) that he was receiving some sort of higher-level pressure.”

Carlin said he personally does not think there is a need to regulate carbon dioxide, since “global temperatures are going down.” He said his report expressed a “good bit of doubt” on the connection between the two.

Specifically, the report noted that global temperatures were on a downward trend over the past 11 years, that scientists do not necessarily believe that storms will become more frequent or more intense due to global warming, and that the theory that temperatures will cause Greenland ice to rapidly melt has been “greatly diminished.”

“The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision,” he wrote, according to the e-mails released by CEI. “I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.”

Carlin’s report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.

Carlin said he personally does not think there is a need to regulate carbon dioxide, since “global temperatures are going down.” He said his report expressed a “good bit of doubt” on the connection between the two.

“I don’t want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research, etc., at least until we see what EPA is going to do with climate,” McGartland wrote.

Carlin said he’s concerned that he’s seeing “science being decided at the presidential level.”

In a written statement, Issa said the administration is “actively seeking to withhold new data in order to justify a political conclusion.”

Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.
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We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson …