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The Polluter Pays Principle

March 4, 2009

Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution

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cleanair, cleanairact, SCAQMD, smog

 Do people in the fiberglass or printing industries expect to get raw materials and parts for free?  Do they expect their employees to work for free?  I doubt it.  But based on some public testimony at a workshop hosted by...continued

To Russia With Love

March 14, 2008

Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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EPA, lysenkoism, ozonestandard, smog

Trofim Lysenko, a Russian biologist from a non-scientific background who rejected Mendelian genetics, was a favorite of Stalin because his theories of agronomy -- based on the (now discredited) concept of environmentally acquired inheritable traits -- promised vastly higher crop...continued

David Pettit
David Pettit
Director, Southern California Air Program
Santa Monica, CA
I grew up in the L.A. area and am a die-hard Dodgers and UCLA Bruins...
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