Articles By Author Jay Lehr
Articles by Jay Lehr
02/01/2010 12:00 AM
Review of The Phantom Fallout-Induced Cancer Epidemic in Southwestern Utah, by Daniel Miles (BookSurge Publishing, 2009), 142 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1439206478If ...(read more)
02/01/2010 12:00 AM
Review of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, by Robert Glennon (Island Press, 2009), 432 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1597264365A ...(read more)
02/01/2010 12:00 AM
While groups in favor of using more nuclear power are waging a strong battle of common sense and the opposition is weaker than a decade ago, a national ...(read more)
01/13/2010 12:00 AM
Nick Gillespie's essay "Reasons to Be Cheerful in the 2010s" (Weekend Journal, Jan. 2) should be required reading for our nation's Nervous Nellies. ...(read more)
12/01/2009 12:00 AM
Unlike some applications of nuclear technology, the process of generating electricity in a nuclear power plant is not rocket science.Uranium-235, a naturally ...(read more)
11/01/2009 12:00 AM
Each month, Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr presents evidence showing mankind has no significant impact on the Earth’s climate and carbon-reduction ...(read more)
10/01/2009 12:00 AM
[This month’s column on nuclear energy by Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. is the third part of a review of the book Terrestrial ...(read more)
10/01/2009 12:00 AM
[Each month, Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr, Ph.D. presents evidence that mankind has no significant impact on the Earth’s climate.—Ed.]The ...(read more)
09/01/2009 12:00 AM
Someday the world will wake up and laugh when we finally realize that the entire pursuit of economic ruin in the name of saving the planet from increasing ...(read more)
08/01/2007 12:00 AM
Never read this book. I implore you, however, to read this review in order to better understand those on the left who attack conservative positions through ...(read more)
05/01/2007 12:00 AM
This article is the eleventh in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam? A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory, and Food Safety Concerns, ...(read more)
01/10/2007 12:00 AM
Dear Editor,
The article in your January 4 edition by Mary Schoonmaker regarding the removal of meat from the American diet criticized my review of Eric ...(read more)
11/15/2006 12:00 AM
On November 9, The New England Journal of Medicine published the latest installment of the now-famous Nurses Health Study, which has followed closely the ...(read more)
07/01/2006 12:00 AM
Let me begin my defense of biofuels grown on the farm by noting that I have spent half a century promoting nuclear energy, while simultaneously explaining ...(read more)
01/01/2006 12:00 AM
The scare of the day--if not the entire coming year--is the avian flu virus.
Is the fear exaggerated? Yes.
Should we be cautiously concerned? Yes.
Are ...(read more)
04/01/2005 12:00 AM
Today's nuclear power technology, by any and every measure, provides the best safety performance and lowest risk of workplace accidents among all commonly ...(read more)
04/01/2005 12:00 AM
State of the World 2005
the Worldwatch Institute
$18.95 paper, 237 pages; W.W. Norton & Company, January 2005
ISBN 0393326667
You will not want ...(read more)
03/24/2005 12:00 AM
Your article by Jim Carlton ("Study Reveals Toxic Chemicals in Household Dust," March 23) was extremely disappointing in its lack of specificity.
Carlton ...(read more)
03/21/2005 12:00 AM
Dear Editor:
In his op-ed on March 12, Mr. Kristof attempted to cleverly discredit environmental fear mongers only to become one by clinging to junk ...(read more)
12/10/2004 12:00 AM
Dear Editor:
As he leaves office, Tommy Thompson has told America that while he has done a great job in human health areas, the Department of Agriculture ...(read more)
06/17/2004 12:00 AM
CHICAGO–June 17, 2004: A study released yesterday by the Health Effects Institute aims to improve our understanding of the relationship between very small ...(read more)
01/01/2004 12:00 AM
A December 1 memorandum from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to a renowned policy analyst marked the first time SSA has officially admitted private ...(read more)
11/21/2003 12:00 AM
Environmental terrorists, already designated by the FBI as the nation’s No. 1 domestic terrorism threat, ran rampant across America during summer and fall ...(read more)
06/01/2001 12:00 AM
Dr. Bernard Cohen is professor emeritus of physics and of environmental and occupational health at the University of Pittsburgh.
Cohen's best-known ...(read more)
06/01/2001 12:00 AM
The National Park Service's proposal to close Rocky Mountain National Park to snowmobiles except for a two-mile stretch of the North Supply Creek Access ...(read more)
