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Gregory Wrightstone

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Articles by Gregory Wrightstone

  • Gregory Wrightstone:

    Cancel Earth Day, Celebrate Earth

    As a fourteen-year-old student in south-central Pennsylvania at the time of the first Earth Day in April 1970, I recognized the need for a real cleanup of what was a horribly abused environment. When I went off to study geology at college, I embraced the environmentalist movement as my own. In my early years at […]

  • Gregory Wrightstone:

    Gas Executive’s Attack on Coal Reveals Naïveté

    Coal was unwrapped as one of God’s gifts to mankind in England, ultimately leading to the Industrial Revolution and unprecedented prosperity. Its introduction as a dominant fuel resolved an environmental crisis of deforestation. A Scientific American article put it this way: “The earliest coal-burning economy the world has known was established first in England and […]

  • Gregory Wrightstone:

    Your honor, CO2 is not a pollutant

    Is carbon dioxide — two pounds of which each of us exhales daily — a pollutant? And are catastrophes increasing as a result of higher concentrations of the gas? Physics — along with a few other branches of science — says no. Nonetheless, in a landmark 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the EPA concluded that it […]