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Media Room

Welcome to the CPR Media Room. For media inquiries or to be added to CPR's media list, please contact Matthew Freeman at CPRMedia@earthlink.net, or call (301) 762-8980.

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See a list of CPR's member scholars, with contact information.

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Visit the archive of CPR media materials, including news releases, news advisories, and editorial memoranda.

Read recent Opinion Articles by CPR member scholars.

• "U.S. pitches EU a hard ball," by Thomas O. McGarity, on the Administration’s “faith-based” approach to the regulation of genetically modified food crops. Published in the June 24, 2003 Sacramento Bee.
  
  
• "When Johnny Can’t Breathe," by Lisa Heinzerling on disturbing asthma findings in New York, and EPA’s discounting of the health impacts of pollution, May 2003.
  
  
• "U.S. seeks free pass on rocket fuel pollution," by Rena Steinzor, on rocket fuel from the West Virginia's Allegany Ballistics facility polluting local drinking water supplies. Published in the Cumberland (MD) Times-Herald, May 10, 2003. Reprinted by permission.
  
  
• "Secrecy and Winning the Peace," by Rena Steinzor, on excessive secrecy in the contracting process for rebuilding Iraq. Published in the Baltimore Sun on April 21, 2003, posted by permission of the Baltimore Sun.
  
  
• "Exemptions from Environmental Laws for the Military Are Unwarranted," by Robert L. Glicksman and Thomas McGarity, March 2003, on the Administration's proposal to exempt the military from key environmental laws.
  
  
• "Trouble Down on the Biopharm," by Thomas McGarity, March 2003, on USDA secrecy as it effects the prospects of genetically modified crops accidentally corrupting food crops.
  
  
• "Reckless Riders," by Thomas McGarity, February 2003, on a appropriations rider undercutting federal labeling of "organic" meat.
  
  
• "A Legislative Fix for Texas Polluters," Thomas McGarity, January 2003, on enforcement of the Clean Air Act, published in the January 18, 2003, Houston Chronicle.
  
  
• "Let Them Not Eat Tuna Fish," by Rena Steinzor, January 2002, on the likelihood that the Administration's pollution credit-trading scheme and "Clear Skies" initiative will create numerous mercury "hot spots" around the nation, published in the January 13, 2003 Daytona Beach News-Journal. By permission of the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
  
  
• "Democracy Dies Behind Closed Doors," by Rena Steinzor, November 2002, on secrecy provisions in the Homeland Security bill.
  
  
• "Coddling the Big Dirties," by Sidney Shapiro, November 2002, on OMB backtracking on enforcement of pollution regulations governing power plants.