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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Ban
A New York City ban on styrofoam for food service is a costly and wasteful way to soothe wealthy liberals' consciences.
July 17, 2018 • National Review
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Ban
Mayor Bill de Blasio says he's going to implement his styrofoam ban starting on January 1, 2019, now that a court has ruled that the diktat was not "arbitrary and capricious." Although the legal ruling was sound, the policy isn't. It's a job-killing, working-class-punishing, environmentally unnecessary scam. And it may be coming to your town next.
Remember when nanny-staters tried to mandate the recycling of almost everything, warning that if we didn't, we'd fill up landfills and destroy the oceans? Oh, how the tide has turned.
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USDA Moves to End Rent-Seeking in Poultry Industry
July 11, 2018 • American Greatness
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in December ruffled a few feathers by withdrawing a regulation published on the final full day of the Obama Administration that would have created new requirements for producers of "organic" eggs and poultry.
Called the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) rule, it would have, among other things, specified that to boast the coveted "USDA Organic" seal, animals would need to be raised with certain minimum amounts of space, light, and access to the outdoors.
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Jeff Stier: When environmentalists oppose science
July 10, 2018 • catallaxyfiles
Jeff Stier: When environmentalists oppose science
Posted on 11:21 am, July 11, 2018 by Guest Author
In the era of self-driving cars, big data and increasingly sophisticated bio-medical advances, the age-old question of how regulation can keep up with technology is more relevant than ever.
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Comments to FDA on Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Combusted Cigarettes
July 10, 2018 • Submission to FDA
The FDA's consideration of a product standard to set a maximum nicotine level for cigarettes is a dangerous experiment justified only by good intentions and faulty research. Further, even if the FDA's scant research were validated with the substantial research that is necessary to implement such a risky proposal, especially at a time when smoking rates continue to decline at an an unprecedented rate, implementation would not be appropriate until a robust array of satisfying lower-risk products were available to adult smokers who understood the differences in risk.Good intentions, Unintended Consequences:Continue to the full article | More articles
USDA Is Supposed to Regulate Animal Health, Not Animal Happiness
June 16, 2018 • Regulation
For the original, proper formatting, see: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2018/6/regulation-v41n2-7_3.pdf#page=9
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