Rational Readings on Environment Concerns: Environmental Series

Rational Readings on Environment Concerns (Environmental Series)


by Jay H. LehrPublisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992
ISBN is 9780442011468 / 0442011466Hardcover
6.25 x 9.25 inches, 841 pages

Fifty of today's best-known scientific, medical, and political minds discuss environmental issues ranging from global warming to forest reduction. 50 illustrations.-------------------------
Jay H. LehrBorn: September 11, 1936 (age 85 years)
Credentials Ph.D., Ground Water Hydrology. University of Arizona (1962).
Degree in Geological Engineering from Princeton University.Background
Jay H. Lehr is a Senior Fellow and "Science Director" of the Heartland Institute. He is also a "motivational speaker" and prolific writer. He was editor of "Rational Readings of Environmental Concerns," which labels environmentalists as "extremists" and "alarmists" among other things. He has testified before Congress numerous times on environmental issues.Dr. Lehr's experience is in groundwater hydrology. He received the nation's first Ph.D. in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Arizona and later became the executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers.
Jay Lehr, who has called the EPA "Fraudulent" in its estimates of how pollution poses hazards to human health, was himself convicted and sentenced to six months in prison for defrauding the EPA, reports Connor Gibson of Polluterwatch.According to archived tobacco industry documents, Jay Lehr was among "TASSC member scientists" who helped The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) draft its "Five Guiding Scientific Principles" document. TASSC began as an astroturf group for Philip Morris Tobacco, working as a "national coalition intended to educate the media, public officials and the public about the dangers of 'junk science'" and to "link the tobacco issue with other more 'politically correct' products"; and to associate scientific studies that cast smoking in a bad light with "broader questions about government research and regulations" – such as "global warming", "nuclear waste disposal" and "biotechnology, according to memos from the PR firm APCO to Philip Morris in 1993.