{"id":4148,"date":"2015-05-12T04:55:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T04:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2015-05-12T04:55:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T04:55:24","slug":"stolyarov-heartland-institute-environmental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2015\/05\/stolyarov-heartland-institute-environmental\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Stolyarov Cited in The Heartland Institute&#8217;s Articles on Water-Usage Monitoring and Lawn-Care Pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rationalbusinessjournal.rationalargumentator.com\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" alt=\"The New Renaissance Hat\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><big><big>G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><big><span style=\"color: #000080;\">May 11, 2015<\/span><br \/>\n<\/big><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************<\/div>\n<p>I am pleased to announce that The Heartland Institute has cited me in two of its recent articles on environmental policy issues.<\/p>\n<p>* \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.heartland.org\/newspaper-article\/2015\/05\/01\/epa-may-force-hotels-monitor-shower-use\">EPA May Force Hotels to Monitor Shower Use<\/a><\/strong>\u201d: This article by Kenneth Artz includes my comments regarding how granular water-usage monitoring in hotels (encouraged by the Environmental Protection Agency) may diminish guests\u2019 experience and how attempts by the EPA and certain environmentalist activists to pressure businesses and individuals to use \u201clow-flow\u201d toilets and shower heads constitute a regression in the level of civilization in many places.<\/p>\n<p>* \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.heartland.org\/newspaper-article\/2015\/04\/29\/turf-war-maryland-county-activists-push-ban-lawn-chemicals\">\u2019Turf\u2019 War in Maryland County: Activists Push to Ban Lawn Chemicals<\/a><\/strong>\u201d: This article by Kenneth Artz cites my objections to what appears to be a blanket, reflexive ban on all pesticides deemed \u201cnonessential\u201d \u2013 instead of a careful, objective, scientific investigation of whether various specific substances might pose health risks to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Stolyarov II May 11, 2015 ****************************** I am pleased to announce that The Heartland Institute has cited me in two of its recent articles on environmental policy issues. * \u201cEPA May Force Hotels to Monitor Shower Use\u201d: This article by Kenneth Artz includes my comments regarding how granular water-usage monitoring in hotels (encouraged by the Environmental Protection Agency) may diminish guests\u2019 experience and how attempts by the EPA and certain environmentalist activists to pressure businesses and individuals to use&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2015\/05\/stolyarov-heartland-institute-environmental\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,662],"tags":[509,4092,1487,40,596,584,4093,1410],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-2","tag-environment","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-epa","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-heartland-institute","tag-kenneth-artz","tag-maryland","tag-pesticides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}