Comments of Alexandra Liddy Bourne, R.N., M.S.N, on EPA’s Proposed Endangerment Finding

Heartland Senior Fellow Alexandra Bourne, in comments submitted in her personal capacity as a nurse, took EPA to task for failing to identify any specific evidence of morbidity and other health risks linked to greenhouse gas emissions. “This is poor methodology and a dangerous precedent to use to protect public health in that it directs resources to potential threats and outliers in data as opposed to current environmental threats that are having a significant detrimental effect upon human health. There is no direct evidence that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have had a significant impact in respiratory diseases or cardiovascular diseases.”

Bourne submitted Chapter 9 of Climate Change Reconsidered, which references numerous studies EPA failed to take into account.