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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.Obama's Green Team 2.0
President Obama's second term choices for Secretary of State, Secretary of the Interior, Administrator of the EPA, and Secretary of Energy carry significant implications for Canada, where the federal and several provincial governments are currently promoting Canada's energy export goals. With the United States consuming virtually all of Canada's energy exports, changes to US policy could either facilitate or hinder Canada's energy export ambitions.
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Kenneth P. Green
Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute
Kenneth P. Green is a Fraser Institute senior fellow and author of over 800 essays and articles on public policy,published by think tanks, major newspapers, and technical and trade journals in North America. Mr. Green holds a doctoral degree in environmental science and engineering from UCLA, a master’s degree in molecular genetics from San Diego State University, and a bachelors degree in general biology from UCLA.Mr. Green’s policy analysis has centered on evaluating the pros and cons of government management of environmental, health, and safety risk. More often than not, his research has shown that governments are poor managers of risk, promulgating policies that often do more harm than good both socially and individually, are wasteful of limited regulatory resources, often benefit special interests (in government and industry) at the expense of the general public, and are almost universally violative of individual rights and personal autonomy. Mr. Green has also focused on government’s misuse of probabilistic risk models in the defining and regulating of EHS risks, ranging from air pollution to chemical exposure, to climate change, and most recently, to biological threats such as COVID-19.Mr. Green's longer publications include two supplementary text books on environmental science issues, numerous studies of environment, health, and safety policies and regulations across North America, as well as a broad range of derivative articles and opinion columns. Mr. Green has appeared frequently in major media and has testified before legislative bodies in both the United States and Canada.… Read more Read Less… -
Elizabeth DeMeo
Elizabeth DeMeo is the Research Assistant to Kenneth P. Green at the American Enterprise Institute. She holds a degree fromJohns Hopkins University in international studies and political science. DeMeo also does research for scholars Michael Greve, Roger Scruton, and Sally Satel of AEI.… Read more Read Less…
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