If The Obama Administration Were A Basketball Team…

…then I would say it’s time to replace the coach.

I mean really, c’mon. Their playbook is pretty atrocious, their defense is non-existent, and we all know they’re going to crumble in the post-season without a shake-up.

How to Solve Everything: Wave the Magical Wand of Agricultural Reform

If you want to learn more about why it’s time to think twice about what you eat, keep reading. I’m going to try and pique your interest in this, the first of a series of columns on why our agricultural policy is failing and what we can do. You’ll also see that if we tackle this problem, many other dilemma’s become a bit more palatable.

The Toxic Gaps

The strikingly ineffective chemical regulatory framework of the status quo has no doubt given rise to some larger systemic issues. Most problematic are “the three gaps”: the chemical data gap, the safety gap and the technology gap.

The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976

In a sense, the TSCA was always a bit behind the game – it was constructed as an inherently reactive rather than proactive policy. The primary reason for this is obvious: tens of thousands of environmental chemicals had already been on the market, in their various forms, prior to it even entering its nascent stages. Largely as a result, members of Congress only found it feasible to establish some sort of general public oversight over the daunting number of chemicals in commerce.

Stopping Florida’s Next Environmental Disaster

In what was seemingly his former life, Florida Governor Charlie Crist instructively warned that “the conditions of weather and rising water levels will have the most profound impact on [his] state than any other.” Being a low-elevation peninsula, surrounded by both the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the west, sea level rise undoubtedly represents the state’s biggest threat.