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PEERMail: We Need a Radical Departure on Pesticides

by Susan Sargent | December 15, 2020
The federal law that provides for  regulation of pesticides has proven utterly inadequate and we need a radical depature from current policy ...

Academic Freedom & the First Amendment

by Susan Sargent | September 24, 2020
Thanks to a seminal Supreme Court ruling in 2006, public employees at all levels have no – as in zero – First Amendment free speech rights when in their role as public servants.  This because, the court reasons, government owns their speech.  Only by stepping outside that role and ...

Statement | Uplisting of North Atlantic Right Whales

by Susan Sargent | July 9, 2020
The IUCN has uplisted the North Atlantic right whales from endangered to critically endangered which means is it "facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild ...