Category Archives: Environment

Who Wants to Regulate and Shut Down CAFOs?

Utilizing a section of the Clean Air Act, the United States Humane Society and other environmental organizations filed a petition with the United States Environmental Protection Agency to govern air pollution emissions from Confined Animal Feeding Operations . Continue reading

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Criticisms of Chesapeake Bay Models Are Off Base

In his October 22nd essay entitled Logic and Passion and the Chesapeake Bay, Dr. Schnare does a disservice to readers by ignoring the world-renowned science and extensive monitoring behind models used in Chesapeake Bay restoration decision making. Continue reading

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Logic and Passion and the Chesapeake Bay

Molly Pugh, Executive Director of the Virginia Grain Producers Association, laid out facts and principles that, had they been the keystone of prior decades of Chesapeake Bay policy, would have resulted in a Bay much further along in its recovery. Continue reading

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I Don’t Trust You

The public sense is that money and political power have corrupted science. To combat this feeling we need to establish a science court – a real one that is paid to be neutral and is staffed by scientists and analysts that come with absolutely no strings attached. Continue reading

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The Green Revolution Is Here

Green innovation has been off the charts recently. But what is a green industry? Continue reading

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