The Issues

Energy Freedom

More Regulations for Livestock Farms?

EPA is continuing its effort to regulate as many aspects of production agriculture as possible. This latest effort is merely a precursor to more lawsuits against livestock production in the...
Jefferson Forum
June 9, 2010

Science Policy Needs a “Team B” – Part II

In Part I of this commentary, we explained that the key to honest science is independent replication of the analysis and evaluation of important assumptions....
Jefferson Forum
June 9, 2010

So, You Want to Build More Affordable Housing? Here's How….

Everyone wants to feel like they are "pro-housing." But, just what does that mean? Here's an answer....
Jefferson Forum
June 9, 2010

Global Warming: The Truth is Out There

Agriculture has a lot at stake in the climate change or global warming debate. Troubling questions have been raised recently over the science supporting global warming....
Jefferson Forum
May 26, 2010

Science Policy Needs a “Team B” – Part I

The wonderful “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money” statement attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen may be apocryphal, but it remains a prescient warning...
Jefferson Forum
May 26, 2010

A Tea Party Environmental Platform

The Tea Party folks aren’t going away anytime soon, and their concerns about government spending, government regulations and government arrogance have caught the imagination of a large plurality of voters....

David Schnare
May 13, 2010

A Tea Party Environmental Platform

Middle America seems to have awakened with the Tea Party. So, what is the Tea Party about and what does that really mean with regard to environmentalism?...
Jefferson Forum
May 12, 2010

Where Will the Ethanol Come From?

EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) will require 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel for our cars and trucks by 2022. Where is it going to come from?...
Jefferson Forum
April 1, 2010

Closer look at EPA's Latest Renewable Fuel Standard

The impact of new EPA rules on fuel and fuel additives...
Jefferson Forum
March 17, 2010

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