Gordon Evans

Gordon Evans (BS, Meteorology; MS, Soil Science) ,retired Environmental Program Manager of the Texas A&M University System and environmental and earth-systems professional, has worked on a wide range of environmental issues for almost 50 years in private consulting for private clients, industry, and government, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy. He is a Senior Fellow of the Cornwall Alliance.

Glyphosate, Agricultural Productivity, and Food Security: A Risk Based Policy Assessment in the Context of Modern Food Systems 

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Executive Summary  Glyphosate is among the most consequential agricultural technologies introduced in the past halfcentury. Its widespread adoption has reshaped weed management, reduced tillage, stabilized yields, and lowered production costs across much of global agriculture. At the same time, glyphosate has become a focal point of public controversy, driven by hazardbased classifications, litigation, and advocacy campaigns that often […]

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In Their Pursuit of Climate Nirvana, Politicians Ignore the Consumer

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Amid the clamor over saving the planet from global warming and punishing companies for the “crime” of producing fossil fuels, who is looking after the consumer? Pondering that question feels like playing “Where’s Waldo?” Take North Carolina as an example: When the administration of Gov. Roy Cooper called for carbon neutrality by 2050, Duke Energy

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Rescuing Science from Itself: How to Restore Rationality to an Increasingly Irrational Endeavor

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“You can give respectability to mythology if you couch your myth in sufficiently academic language.” —Dr. R.C. Sproul Who in twenty-first century America would say that “science … our one source of objective knowledge, is in deep trouble” because “much of [the] supposed knowledge” it brings us “is turning out to be contestable, unreliable, unusable,

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