Episode 2: The Billionaire Every prohibitionist movement needs its funders. Its moneymen. Usually, there are powerful industrialists who’ve made it big and are “giving back” by restricting choices of the little people. For popular movements against alcohol in the 1900s, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford were the principal philanthropists. Neoprohibitionists now rely […]
In a stunning upset, the European Parliament voted down the “Sustainable Use of Pesticides” bill, which marked the cornerstone of the European Green Deal and the so-called “Farm to Fork” strategy. In 2020, the European Union planned a fundamental reform of the bloc’s agricultural sector, slashing pesticide use, cutting down fertilizer use, and boosting organic […]
Nearly 300 votes against, only 207 in favor: Those were the final results of a vote in the European Parliament on the “Sustainable Use of Pesticides” directive, the landmark legislation of the European Union’s agriculture reforms. The plans would have cut back on pesticide and fertilizer use, as well as shifted a major part of Europe’s farmland use to […]
I was a guest on the Wednesday Night Live show and podcast, promoting the FUN POLICE podcast series. Find the FUN POLICE wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1714265675
Les décideurs politiques de tous bords devraient adopter une approche basée sur les risques pour la réglementation des PFAS. La Commission européenne s’est engagée à éliminer progressivement les substances chimiques artificielles appelées substances per- et polyfluoroalkyles, également connues sous le nom de PFAS. De l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, le Congrès américain et des législateurs au […]
Note: Whoops this episode went up too early (but lucky you in that case!) In this week’s episode: ⏲️ Is the time up for gas stoves ? (w/ Stephen Kent) 🛩️ New flight rules impact European consumers (w/ Gary Leff) Follow Stephen Kent on X: https://twitter.com/Stephen_Kent89 Follow Gary Leff on X: https://twitter.com/garyleff Start following the Fun […]
This week we are talking to Donald Kimball, Communications Manager at the Washington Policy Center and contributor at Young Voices. We talked about net neutrality (what is that anyway?) and why is it so popular with some policy-makers in the United States and in Europe. Follow Donald Kimball on X: https://twitter.com/KimballDonald Start following the Fun […]
Back in June, the French president celebrated the victory in the changing room of the winning team of the domestic league rugby final by downing a bottle of beer in one go. Seventeen seconds is what it took Emmanuel Macron to empty the bottle, as the players cheered him on. The controversy it sparked wasn’t […]
I was a guest on the Steve Gruber Show, a talk radio station on 1240 WJIM AM in Michigan. I talked about my recent op-ed in The Hill, responding to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements about the EPA’s independence. You can listen to it here:
In a recent op-ed for The Hill, (now) independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid out the case for his candidacy. Among his grievances, he lists the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the victims of corporate capture by business interests. As a tort lawyer and environmental activist, Kennedy has long considered the EPA […]
Bill Wirtz 