Anti-regulation
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Environmental Symbolism and Environmental Reality
A pragmatic, operational focus on outcomes is a better approach than an effort to achieve symbolic victories that appeal to ideologically oriented partisans.
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Environmental Protection and Infrastructure Investments Are Necessities, Not Luxuries
A clean and healthy environment and environmental justice are necessities and not luxuries.
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The Dangers of Deregulation
Deregulation reinforces a Wild West mindset that is inappropriate for the crowded planet that we all live on.
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The Continued Attack on Federal Civil Servants
It will take many years to rebuild America’s institutions and norms and if we are not careful the stable, creative, high energy and path-breaking nation we inherited will slowly fade into the sunset.
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