by Brian Garst | Jan 14, 2018 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Townhall.com on January 8, 2018. A debate has been raging for years over whether the world’s most widely used herbicide, glyphosate, is carcinogenic. Like so many other issues relating to the environment, the discussion has been marked not by...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 22, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Blaze on March 17, 2016. In the more than 25 years since nuclear waste dating back to the Manhattan Project was discovered at the West Lake landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri, the Environmental Protection Agency has been working to develop...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 13, 2015 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on The Blaze on August 13, 2015. If there is one form of corporate cronyism that both parties can agree to its the Renewable Fuel Standard – the government’s mandate requiring fuel sold in the U.S. to be mixed with a minimum volume of renewable...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 31, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Energy, Regulations
When writing about the burden of regulation, I often share big numbers about aggregate cost, job losses, time wasted, and foregone growth. But I sometimes wonder if such data is effective in the battle for good policy. Maybe it’s better, at least in some cases, to...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 29, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste
When I started writing about public policy, I never realized that …um…human waste would be a frequent topic. *But we examined (not too closely!) the story of a Postal Service employee who defecated in someone’s yard and got to keep his job. *We wondered why the Greek...
