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The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.

Science Decider in Chief

The Clean Air Act reserves to "the judgment of the [EPA] Administrator" alone, as a matter of law, the revision of the secondary “public welfare” standard for...

March 18, 2008

To Russia With Love

Trofim Lysenko , a Russian biologist from a non-scientific background who rejected Mendelian genetics , was a favorite of Stalin because his theories of...

March 14, 2008

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