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How Tort Law Firms Take Over State Attorney Generals
Should American State Attorney Generals (AGs) be subcontracting their responsibilities to self-interested tort law firms?
No, Meat Isn’t Causing a Climate Catastrophe
Environmental Working Group claims that meat "is exacerbating the climate crisis." EWG isn't wrong to point out the environmental impacts of animal agriculture, though the activist group has oversimplified the problem—and its promising solutions.
The Long, Slow Death of Mainstream Media
When I studied journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in the early 1980s, our faculty was slow to adapt. The second class I attended that first week was the compulsory course on shorthand writing. I trusted my tape recorder more and PCs were just coming onto the market, but journalists then were proud of their traditions, so I learnt just e…
Mike Bloomberg’s Army of Mercenary Journalists
Imagine if the reporters covering the Watergate break-in for the Washington Post were themselves kleptomaniacs. Or if the Post sportswriter on the Washington Nationals beat was also a starting pitcher for the team. Or if a newspaper printed on single-use newsprint ran editorials attacking the forest products industry (w…
Are There Too Many Scientists?
We often hear NGO activists telling us that we need to listen to “the” science or respect the evidence in highly-charged policy debate from pesticides to processed foods to climate to vaping. The Firebreak recently saw how groups like the Environmental Working Group
No, Pollution Is Not Making Us Fat
Struggling to lose weight? Exposure to air pollution might be partially to blame. That's what recent headlines would have you believe, anyway. “A recent study reopens the conversation about obesity — and how to address it,” Desert News reported on October 27
NRDC’s Kabuki Lawsuit Against EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency maintains a cozy relationship with environmental groups - it has been caught releasing proposals for early commentary to them and even republished Sierra Club talking points about Keystone XL as being officially from the Obama administration