Dr. Porter is a frequent author of op-ed pieces for major regional and national newspapers on issues such as municipal and hazardous wastes, recycling, agricultural biotechnology, global climate change, and other environmental topics. Listed below are a number of his most recent op-eds.

	"Uranium mining has to be an option" Daily Press, Newport News, Va.	3/30/08
	"We need more oil refineries" Daily Press, Newport News, Va.	11/25/05
	"Kerry's Convoluted Approach to the Environment" Minneapolis Star-Tribune	10/21/04
	"A Common Sense Approach to Power Plant Emissions" The Virginian-Pilot	5/13/04
	"Wrong Way to Make Polluters Pay" The Washington Post	10/7/03
	"Polluter Tax an Unfair Way to Fund Cleanup" The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	7/2/02
	"Who Pays At Issue In Superfund Cleanup" Indianapolis Star	6/2/02
	"Megatons to Megawatts a Good Deal" The Newport News Daily Press	11/22/01
	"Ethanol is the fuel of a clean-air future" Rockford Register Star	8/26/01
	"The use of ethanol right move" Albany Times-Union	8/16/01
	"Growing our way out of an energy crunch" The Indianapolis Star	6/24/01
	"Gore dodges specifics on polluters" The Atlanta Journal	10/23/00
	"Special and Other Interests" Austin American-Statesman	5/22/00
	"Gore renews unbalanced views" The Atlanta Journal	5/19/00
	"EPA report card on industrial emissions is a failure" Roanoke Times & World-News (also appeared in Trenton Times 0n 4/4/00)	4/12/00
	"Somewhere in the cornfield of the future" Omaha World-Herald	4/2/00
	"Growing greener, and smarter" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette	12/28/99
	"Activists fail to see good in biotech crops" The Columbus Dispatch	12/1/99
	"Mercury emissions from China exceed USA" The Virginian-Pilot	8/98
	"Playing the game to meet 50 percent recycling law" The Sacramento Bee	4/23/97
	"Too much recycling can be a waste of resources" The Atlanta Constitution	3/9/97
	"More money for Superfund?" Rocky Mountain News	10/1/96
	"Should we stop recycling?" Newsday	9/9/96
	“Time to Rethink Germany’s Onerous Environmental Laws” The Wall Street Journal Europe	10/19/94
	“Let States Clean Up Superfund’s Mess” The New York Times	2/6/94
	“Trash That Recycling Plan” The Wall Street Journal	6/28/93

 

©J. Winston Porter 2001