With a focus on food, RFK Jr. can actually make America healthier

View Media Article   How ironic. As a dyed-in-the-wool progressive who for decades led the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s campaign for healthier diets, I was disappointed when administration after administration failed to fight for effective policies. But now in comes anti-regulatory, pro-industry, junk-food-devouring President Donald J. Trump, who vows to let his […]

Consumers to Determine the Future of the Industry

Download Media Article   The Sitzer-Moehrl lawsuit settlement and new NAR rules have created confusion, controversy, and conflict within both the residential real estate industry and among its critics.  All this is not surprising because no-one is completely satisfied with the terms of the settlement and because the class action litigation ended up opening a […]

Electric Cars and Election Consequences

View Original Article   America’s response to climate change has many moving parts. But how people travel from point A to point B in an environmentally sustainable manner stands atop the challenges of slowing the human alteration of our earth’s atmosphere. Indeed, reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from transportation has moved more sluggishly than other […]

Reflections of an Unapologetic Safety Regulator

I have been a proud, unapologetic regulator. I say this after completing a career that spanned almost 50 years in the world of regulation, spent variously as a regulatory agency commissioner, a congressional staff attorney overseeing several regulatory agencies, and a professor researching and teaching the subject. Much of my experience comes from years of […]