Fox News’ Tucker Carlson recently went off on a Trump EPA change to the rules for the herbicide atrazine. Here’s why Carlson and others should dodge pitches and propaganda from green advocacy groups. My column at AmericanGreatness.com.
Jon Entine writes at Forbes.com:
It’s confirmed as harmful but the effects are unknown?
Contrary to enviro claims.
Wisconsin Ag Connection reports:
“The report baffled some environmentalists.”
We can understand why plaintiffs’ lawyers and allied advocates for the organic food industry would seek to demonize what they see as a deep-pocket defendant and a competitor. But why would Madison County judges ignore overwhelming science and favor the plaintiffs when so many of the county’s tax-paying residents earn their livelihoods in conventional agriculture?
“The atrazine hysteria doesn’t pass inspection — it reeks of ambulance chasers and lawsuit shoppers.”
“We can understand why plaintiffs’ lawyers and allied advocates for the organic food industry would seek to demonize what they see as a deep-pocket defendant and a competitor.”
Mother Jones profiles Berkeley junk scientist Tyrone Hayes.
“Maryland statehouse observers will be surprised if new bills, seeking to ban the use or sale of atrazine — the inveterate crop-protection chemical — do not appear in the 2012 legislative hopper in Annapolis. If they do, they will be a product of agricultural ignorance and environmental nonsense.”
“There is no good substitute for atrazine.”