by Henry Oliner | Jun 1, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
A non political professional administrative state was the most lasting legacy of the progressives in the first progressive era, but it was based on two assumptions that proved false and one constitutional issue that the courts are adjusting to. The first assumption...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 18, 2017 | Science
from Steve Milloy at the WSJ, A Step Toward Scientific Integrity at the EPA: The most prominent of the EPA’s myriad boards of outside advisers are the Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, or CASAC. Mostly made up of university...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 11, 2016 | Global Warming
Old MacDonald Had a . . . Climate Offender, from Bruce Dale at The Wall Street Journal A basic fact about agricultural products such as grains and oilseeds is that the carbon in them, called biogenic carbon, came from the atmosphere. Biogenic carbon will return to the...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 25, 2009 | Environmental, Health Care
In 1991 our company received a letter from the EPA that we were a ‘PRP’ which stands for a ‘Potentially Responsible Party’ for an environmental cleanup near Tampa, Florida. In 1980 Congress passed the act which created the Superfund, which was...