Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, January 22, 2020. By Coral Davenport The Trump administration has finalized a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and groundwater, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and… Read More ›
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How Has This Pesticide Not Been Banned?
Editor’s Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, December 17, 2019. The pesticide known as chlorpyrifos is both clearly dangerous and in very wide use. It is known to pass easily from mother to fetus and has been linked… Read More ›
Blackmail as Modus Operandi
Latin phrases describing behavior are much in the news lately, especially quid pro quo (something for something). There is a certain elegance to such usages, removing the behavior from smarmy to acceptable in polite company. That is, until the realities… Read More ›
Regulation Rollback Rage
Under the current administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), created by President Richard Nixon, has proposed and/or completed the rollback of many federal regulations initiated to protect health. Under one such action, EPA noted that the revised regulation would cause… Read More ›
Experience Insanity in a Lump of Coal
We parody, of course, the famous line of William Blake [1757–1827], “see a world in a grain of sand.” VoxFairfax previously [08/26/18] reported about regulatory rollbacks from the Obama era now advocated by the Environmental Protection Agency that would result… Read More ›
Blackwhite Bellyfeel Duckspeak Causes Unpersons
Published in 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 depicted a world in perpetual war with authoritarian regimes seeking to normalize populations through thought control, especially via language called Newspeak. Occasionally, even in 2018, one may experience the syntax of Newspeak, which was… Read More ›