Angela Logomasini

Angela Logomasini

Credentials

Background

Angelo Logomasini is a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), specializing in โ€œenvironmental risk, regulation and consumer freedom.โ€ She has published articles in the Huffington Post, New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, among a range of publications. Logomasini has written extensively against regulations that could affect the chemical industry.4โ€œAngela Logomasini: Senior Fellow,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived March 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RVLdD

Before CEI, she worked as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. She was also former environmental editor for the Research Institute of America.5โ€œAngela Logomasini: Senior Fellow,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived March 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RVLdD

She is the manager of SAFEChemicalPolicy.org, a group created by CEI in coalition with a number of other organizations that promotes โ€œthe life-enhancing value of chemicals,โ€ and is also a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF).6โ€œAbout,โ€ SAFEChemicalPolicy.org. Archived March 27, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vlsYV

SafeChemicalPolicy

According to their website, โ€œCoalition Membersโ€ who partnered with CEI to create SAFEChemicalPolicy.org include the following:7โ€œCoalition,โ€ SAFEChemicalPolicy.org. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/dysEe

Comments Surrounding 2021 Capitol Insurrection

Angela Logomasini was among dozens of the individuals and organizations profiled in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database who posted online or gave interviews about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Some posted claims of election fraud, similar to those that drove the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6. Some circulated dubious information about the insurrection itself. DeSmog has preserved a selection of notable posts related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, including some that were later deleted or removed.

Logomasiniโ€™s Twitter profile is now removed, per search Feb. 1, 2021. She had posted multiple times about the 2020 election, including a retweet of a Jan. 5 call to โ€œFIGHT BACK w @RealDonaldTrump.โ€

On the day of the insurrection, Logomasini re-tweeted a post by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about โ€œfraudulent electoral votes.โ€

On Jan. 3, 2021, a tweet from Angela Logomasini suggested that there was something โ€œreally weirdโ€ about vandalism at House Speaker Nancy Pelosiโ€™s house. 

The linked article reads, in part: โ€œAn ugly story emerged on New Yearโ€™s Day: Vandals had attacked Nancy Pelosiโ€™s San Francisco house, leaving behind graffiti on her garage complaining about the stimulus bill, along with a pigโ€™s head in a puddle of red paint. People less credulous than the media, though, noticed that the vandals were kind enough to do their dirty deed without touching the brick facing on Pelosiโ€™s house. These may have been polite vandals, or there may be more here than meets the eye. โ€ฆ When you think of your average Antifa type (these mug shots may be representative), does that Antifa guy or gal strike you as the kind of person who would carefully avoid getting any paint on bricks so as to spare Pelosi the inconvenience of getting the paint off the bricks? Itโ€™s entirely possible that this was an Antifa effort and the person spraying paint had some residual compassion for Pelosi. But itโ€™s also possible that this is a false flag effort. I am not offering any suggestions as to who might have raised this false flag. I note only what others have pointed out before: Somethingโ€™s peculiar here.โ€8Andrea Widburg. โ€œThereโ€™s something peculiar about the vandalism at Pelosiโ€™s house,โ€ American Thinker, January 3, 2021. Archived Febuary 12, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/JUEXl

On Jan. 4, 2021, @Alogomasini tweeted out a news article suggesting that Trump votes were โ€œremovedโ€ in Pennsylvania (PolitiFact has reviewed numerous similar claims about the Pennsylvania election and labeled them false).9โ€œFact-checking false claims about Pennsylvania and the presidential election,โ€ Politifact. Accessed February 15, 2021.

She also Tweeted a warning on โ€œBig Tech efforts to lock down speechโ€:

@Alogomasini also re-tweeted a Steve Bannon interview with archbishop Carlo Maria Viganรฒ on Jan. 4, 2021 where the โ€œembattled archbishop is speaking out against the deep State and the deep Church,โ€ according to Church Militant.โ€œ10Rodney Pelletier. โ€œSTEVE BANNON INTERVIEWS ABP. VIGANร’,โ€ Church Militant, January 4, 2021. Archived February 12, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Yt9DX

Stance on Climate Change

While Angela Logomasini does not appear to have an official statement on climate change, she is a co-author on a CEI document that recommends President Trump withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement and defund the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.11Marlo Lewis, Angela Logomasini, and William Yeatman. โ€œFirst Steps for the Trump Administration: Champion Affordable Energy,โ€ CEI WebMemo No. 41 (December 15, 2016). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

One of the document’s โ€œPolicy Recommendations: is: โ€œthe incoming administration should zero out the hundreds of millions of dollars of annual funding for the Paris Agreementโ€™s foreign aid program, Green Climate Fund.โ€12Marlo Lewis, Angela Logomasini, and William Yeatman. โ€œFirst Steps for the Trump Administration: Champion Affordable Energy,โ€ CEI WebMemo No. 41 (December 15, 2016). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Key Quotes

November 30, 2016

Writing on the contributor platform of Huffington Post, Angela Logomasini writes that the legacy of biologist Rachel Carson โ€œis nothing to celebrateโ€:13Angela Logomasini. โ€œActivists Celebrate Carsonโ€™s Dangerous Anti-Chemical Legacy,โ€ The Huffington Post, November 30, 2016. Archived April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9VEAv

โ€œCarsonโ€™s writings included many inflammatory and misleading claims about chemicals, claims that have long been rebuked by scientists. Yet her rhetoric spawned a radical environmental movement that promotes unwarranted bans and restrictions on pesticides that otherwise could be used to make food more affordable and fight mosquito-transmitted diseases such as malaria, the Zika virus, the West Nile virus, and more,โ€ Logomasini wrote.14Angela Logomasini. โ€œActivists Celebrate Carsonโ€™s Dangerous Anti-Chemical Legacy,โ€ The Huffington Post, November 30, 2016. Archived April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9VEAv

February 21, 2013

Writing at Huffington Post, Logomasini wrote there is no connection between increased cancer risk and chemicals:15Angela Logomasini. โ€œโ€˜Cancer Prevention Tipsโ€™ to Avoid,โ€ The Huffington Post, February 21, 2013. Archive April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Nf3Wv

โ€œIf trace chemicals were a significant cancer cause, cancer rates would rise with increased chemical use, but the opposite is true,โ€ she wrote.

February, 2009

Quoted in Fox News, Logomasini argued that teaching children in public schools things like avoiding plastic water bottles, using re-usable containers, and conserving water is akin to political indoctrination:16โ€œEnvironmental Lesson Plans Drawing Praise, Concern,โ€ Fox News, February 9, 2009. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/eeREn

โ€œI think children should not be forced to take one set of values over another,โ€ Logomasini said. โ€œThis isn’t simply about controlling litter, like we had in the ’70s. It’s more about recycling, living organically โ€” it’s a lifestyle choice that is being forced on students whether they like it or not, whether parents like it or not.โ€17โ€œEnvironmental Lesson Plans Drawing Praise, Concern,โ€ Fox News, February 9, 2009. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/eeREn

She added that students should be โ€œlearning science and they should be learning different perspectives from which they can make a critical analysis.โ€18โ€œEnvironmental Lesson Plans Drawing Praise, Concern,โ€ Fox News, February 9, 2009. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/eeREn

Key Actions

November 16, 2021

The CEI hosted on online discussion about plastics with CEI President Kent Lassman and Logomasini.19CEI Online Event: The Plastics Paradox: Featuring Chris DeArmitt and Angela Logomasini,” YouTube video uploaded by user “Competitive Enterprise Institute,” November 16, 2021. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

In the discussion, titled “The Plastics Paradox,” Logomasini claimed “people don’t understand the value that plastics bring to society and there’s a lot of effort to get rid of them.”

She added that regulations and policies being considered “is going to be a net negative impact on the environment, wildlife, in a lot of ways you wouldn’t expect.”

“Right now there’s legislation in Congress that would set up this extensive, what’s called ‘extended producer responsibility programs’. Programs that would be very complicated, very bureaucratic, very top-down. It would really mess with our entire solid waste management system. I think it would create a lot of problems and basically could put the plastics industry out of business.”

“There are impacts of these policies that certainly would be worse than the plastics themselves,” she claimed.

March 24, 2017

Writing on the contributor platform of Huffington Post, Logomasini invites readers to join the staff at the Competitive Enterprise to celebrate โ€œHuman Achievement Hour,โ€ a CEI campaign opposing the WWF‘s Earth Hour, where hundreds of millions of people turn off their lights for one hour.20Angela Logomasini. โ€œDonโ€™t Remain in the Dark: Celebrate Human Achievement,โ€ The Huffington Post, March 24, 2017. Archived April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/y7L7S

According to CEI‘s description of the event:21โ€œHuman Achievement Hour,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL:  https://archive.is/CZG6i

โ€œOriginally launched as the counter argument to the World Wide Fund for Nature’s Earth Hour, where participants renounce the environmental impacts of modern technology by turning off their lights for an hour, Human Achievement Hour challenges people to look forward rather than back to the dark ages.โ€œ

CEI‘s โ€œHuman Achievement Hourโ€ invites people to use as much electricity as possible. โ€œWays to Celebrateโ€ listed by CEI include:22โ€œHuman Achievement Hour,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL:  https://archive.is/CZG6i

  • โ€œUse your phone or computer to connect with friends and family
  • โ€œWatch a movie or your favorite television show
  • โ€œDrink a beer or cocktail
  • โ€œDrive a car or take a ride-sharing service
  • โ€œTake a hot shower
  • โ€œOr, in true CEI fashion, celebrate reliable electricity that has saved lives, by bringing heat and air conditioning to people around the world, and keep your lights on for an hour!โ€

December 15, 2016

Logomasini, Marlo Lewis, and William Yeatman are all authors of a CEI โ€œWebmemoโ€ on first steps for the Trump administration. Policy recommendations included int he memo included:23Marlo Lewis, Angela Logomasini, and William Yeatman. โ€œFirst Steps for the Trump Administration: Champion Affordable Energy,โ€ CEI WebMemo No. 41 (December 15, 2016). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

  • โ€œEnd U.S. Participation in the Paris Climate Agreement and Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and U.N. Green Climate Fund.โ€
  • โ€œOverturn the Clean Power Plan.โ€
  • โ€œRequire the EPA to Meet its Statutory Deadlines before Pursuing Discretionary Objectivesโ€
  • โ€œStop Counting Pollution Reduction Benefits Achieved Both Above and Below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards as One and the Same.โ€
  • and โ€œReform and Terminate Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs.โ€24Marlo Lewis, Angela Logomasini, and William Yeatman. โ€œFirst Steps for the Trump Administration: Champion Affordable Energy,โ€ CEI WebMemo No. 41 (December 15, 2016). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The memo also cites one of Logomasini’s articles from 2012. She had written on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Design for the Environment (DfE) program which called on companies to voluntarily remove certain chemicals from their products.25Angela Logomasini. โ€œEPA’s Design to Strong-Arm the Chemical Industry,โ€ CEI, May 18, 2012. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/r8iSH

At the time, she described the agency as โ€œusing the DfE program to strong-arm the laundry industry to stop using detergents that include a certain class of chemicals โ€“ Nonylphenol Ethoxylate (NPE) surfactants โ€“ although there has been no proper risk assessment process that would justify regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).โ€ โ€œEPA can get away without proper reviews and standards because, after all, the program is ‘voluntary!’ Well, apparently not  for everyone,โ€ she wrote.

November 3, 2016

Logomasini is the author of a CEI report advocating for fewer regulations on pesticides in order to combat the Zika virus. View the complete report here.26Angela Logomasini. โ€œRegulatory Hurdles Impede Zika Control, โ€œ CEI, November 3, 2016. Archived April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/yuyv4 27Angela Logomasini. โ€œRegulatory Hurdles Impede Zika Controlโ€ (PDF), CEI OnPoint, No. 222 (November 3, 2016). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œFederal pesticide laws are a substantial problem because unscientific and excessively restrictive standards have produced bans and forced useful products off the market,โ€ she wrote. โ€œIf federal lawmakers are truly interested in fighting Zika and other emerging vector-borne infections, they need to revisit the FQPA standard to eliminate the regulatory burdens associated with its excessively cautious approach.โ€œ

In her conclusion, she advocated for a โ€œrobust free market for the development of new pesticides.โ€28Angela Logomasini. โ€œRegulatory Hurdles Impede Zika Controlโ€ (PDF), CEI OnPoint, No. 222 (November 3, 2016). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

August 3, 2016

Writing at Huffington Post, on the โ€œContributor platformโ€ in which HuffPost notes that โ€œContributors control their own work and post freely to our site,โ€ Logomasini advocates for DEET in order to prevent the spread of Zika virus.29Angela Logomasini. โ€œThe Best Possible Zika Prevention Kit Includes DEET,โ€ The Huffington Post, August 3, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vPxO4

โ€œIn fact, there are no documented cases of anyone dying or suffering serious long-term health effects from the proper use of DEET,โ€ she writes, adding โ€œThere have been concerns that excessive application of DEET on children caused seizures, but these claims were based on a handful of inconclusive cases.โ€

Here conclusion is as follows:30Angela Logomasini. โ€œThe Best Possible Zika Prevention Kit Includes DEET,โ€ The Huffington Post, August 3, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vPxO4

โ€œZika, West Nile, Lyme, and other insect-transmitted illnesses pose serious risks, and DEET is among the best tools available to prevent their transmission. Expecting mothersโ€”or anyone elseโ€”should not fear DEET and other EPA-approved pesticides as long as they follow the directions on the label. The real danger lies in remaining inadequately protected because of misinformation about DEET and other pesticide risks.โ€

April 19, 2016

Writing at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Logomasini argues that reforms to the nation’s chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), would โ€œdo more harm than goodโ€:31Angela Logomasini. โ€œTSCA ‘Reform’ Is Likely To Do More Harm Than Good,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute, April 19, 2016. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9ZXPS

โ€œEnvironmental activists and others claim TSCA should be modernized because it has accomplished very little in terms of regulatory activity. That is not true [โ€ฆ] They also cite concerns that existing chemicals pose significant risks that demand greater regulation. Yet, there is no evidence to support assertions that trace exposure to chemicals through consumer products pose substantial risks, such as for cancer or other adverse health effects,โ€ Logomasini writes.

June 5, 2015

Logomasini authored an article titled โ€œSave the Bees: Eliminate Biofuel Mandatesโ€ at Huffington Post. She argues that federal biofuel mandates are โ€œone of the biggest threatsโ€ to pollinating bees.32Angela Logomasini. โ€œSave the Bees: Eliminate Biofuel Mandates,โ€ The Huffington Post, June 5, 2016. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4x6gj

โ€œFortunately, there is something the federal government can do to make private wildlife habitat more viable: eliminate the federal Renewable Fuel Standard,โ€ she wrote. โ€œThis mandate promotes excessive planting of corn by creating artificial demand for biofuels such as ethanol. Corn, which self-pollinates, has limited nutritional value to bees and other pollinators.โ€

October 7, 2015

Logomasini published another study on BPA, this titled the โ€œGovernmentโ€™s Unfounded War on BPA.โ€ She claims that โ€œDuring the past decade, the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has become a target of environmental activists who make a host of unfounded claims about the chemicalโ€™s risks to humans.โ€ Read her full CEI report here.33Angela Logomasini. โ€œGovernmentโ€™s Unfounded War on BPA,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute, October 7, 2015. Archived February 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mdaTQ 34โ€œGovernmentโ€™s Unfounded War on BPAโ€ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute OnPoint No. 210 (October 7, 2015.) Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

April 2, 2014

Angela Logomasini is the author of the CEI report โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the ‘Science’ Behind Chemical Scares.โ€ According to Logomasini, โ€œWhen it comes to studies attempting to link chemicals and health ailments, the absolute risks are largely theoretical and generally too low to measure. In fact, many of the alarmist new stories report on studies where the findings are very weak and often inappropriate for drawing any conclusions.โ€35โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the Science Behind Chemical Scares,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute, April 2, 2014. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/oqYIR

The full report attempts to debunk a number of what it describes as โ€œalarmistโ€ claims about chemicals. It includes sections broadly highlighting supposed flaws in study types that have reached conclusions that certain chemical types may be dangerous. In a study trying to discredit elements of Epidemiological Studies, she relies on climate science denier and โ€œjunk scienceโ€ expert Steve Milloy to outline โ€œrelative risk.โ€ She goes on to claim that animal tests, particular rodent tests, are  exaggerated by researchers.36โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the Science Behind Chemical Scaresโ€ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Under the heading โ€œbasic principles promoting good science,โ€ Logomasini outlines how low level exposures to chemicals should be supposedly safe, noting that โ€œ a 70-year-old individual who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years has a much higher cancer risk than a 70-year-old who only smoked that much for a year or two in his 20s, all other factors being equal.โ€37โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the Science Behind Chemical Scaresโ€ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

She provides a section that promises to offer โ€œadditional insights that can help consumers better assess questionable terminology and phraseology employed by those within the alarmist trade.โ€38โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the Science Behind Chemical Scaresโ€ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œWhat about ‘hazardous’ chemicals? They sure do sound scary! And environmental activists are aware of that, which is why they use the terms regularly,โ€ she writes, adding that โ€œThe focus on hazard rather than risk downplays, if not largely ignores, the benefits from these products.โ€39โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the Science Behind Chemical Scaresโ€ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œSometimes green activists attack chemicals as ‘toxic’ rather than ‘hazardous,’ but the concept is nearly the same,โ€ she writes in a subsequent section. While she admits that โ€œThese claims might technically be true,โ€ she then adds that โ€œactual risk of harm remains extremely low given real-world exposures.40โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the Science Behind Chemical Scaresโ€ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

In a section on Endocrine Disruptors, she again quotes Steve Milloy, who had written that โ€œDES [diethylstilbestrol] is not an โ€˜endocrine disrupterโ€™โ€”especially as the enviros use the term.โ€41โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the Science Behind Chemical Scaresโ€ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

On trace chemicals, Logomasini writes: โ€œ there is no compelling body of evidence showing that the existence of trace chemicals in the human body is a problem.โ€42โ€œA Consumerโ€™s Guide to Chemical Risk: Deciphering the Science Behind Chemical Scaresโ€ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2014. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

February 13, 2014

In the wake of a West Virginia chemical spill that left approximately 300,000 people in Charleston without drinking waterโ€”the third spill to occur in the Kanawha River valley within five yearsโ€”Logomasini wrote a CEI paper addressing โ€œmyths and factsโ€ about the spill.43Angela Logomasini. โ€œMyths and Facts about the West Virginia Chemical Spill,โ€ CEI OnPoint No. 189 (February 13, 2014). Retrieved from Scribd. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. 44โ€œCompany That Caused Historic Chemical Spill Leaks More Waste Into West Virginia Waters,โ€ ThinkProgress, June 13, 2014. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Yg82e

In her paper, Logomasini writes that the repeated chemical spills are not reason to impose more regulations, pointing her finger at โ€œopportunistic environmental activists who are using this unfortunate event as an excuse to push legislation that is largely unrelated to the spill.โ€45Angela Logomasini. โ€œMyths and Facts about the West Virginia Chemical Spill,โ€ CEI OnPoint No. 189 (February 13, 2014). Retrieved from Scribd. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Among the supposed โ€œMyth’sโ€ presented by Logomasini is that the spill is a โ€œmajor environmental catastrophe,โ€ that more regulation is needed for the chemical industry, and that the public’s safety is in question after the spill. She concludes with an argument that โ€œaccidents happenโ€:46Angela Logomasini. โ€œMyths and Facts about the West Virginia Chemical Spill,โ€ CEI OnPoint No. 189 (February 13, 2014). Retrieved from Scribd. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œLaws were already in place that should have prevented this accident or at least better prepared officials to address the risks and communicate those risks. And unfortunately, accidents may happen even when public officials do a good job,โ€ she wrote at CEI.47Angela Logomasini. โ€œMyths and Facts about the West Virginia Chemical Spill,โ€ CEI OnPoint No. 189 (February 13, 2014). Retrieved from Scribd. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

January 9, 2014

Writing at CEI, Logomasini defended the antibacterial chemical triclosan. In the defense of manufacturers, of which she wrote have been forced to โ€œtry to do the impossible,โ€ due to regulations forced by โ€œgreen hype.โ€48Angela Logomasini. โ€œThe Green Campaign against Triclosan Is Dangerous and Regressive,โ€ CEI OnPoint No. 188 (January 9, 2014.) Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œ[N]othing in life is risk free,โ€ Logomasin wrote. โ€œRather, the question is whether products provide more benefits than risks, which is clearly the case with the chemical triclosan.โ€49Angela Logomasini. โ€œThe Green Campaign against Triclosan Is Dangerous and Regressive,โ€ CEI OnPoint No. 188 (January 9, 2014.) Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

November 8, 2011

Logomasini argued at CEI that plastic bag bans are actually bad for the environment:50Angela Logomasini. โ€œPlastic Bag Bans Are Bad for the Environmentโ€ (PDF), CEO WebMemo No. 18 (November 8, 2011). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œIn reality, bans never promote innovation or growth-they do the opposite,โ€ She wrote. โ€œBans destroy the investment, productivity, and creativity of those who invent and develop products, and they divert resources from useful enterprises in order to find alternative products, which are usually inferior to those they replace.โ€51Angela Logomasini. โ€œPlastic Bag Bans Are Bad for the Environmentโ€ (PDF), CEO WebMemo No. 18 (November 8, 2011). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

April 21, 2011

Logomasini published a CEI study titled โ€œAnti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Healthโ€ suggesting that bans on BPA are โ€œmisguided.โ€ View the complete study here.52Angela Logomasini. โ€œAnti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Health,โ€ Competitive Enterprise Institute, April 21, 2011. Archived April 3, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/U3qPx 53Angela Logomasini. โ€œAnti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Healthโ€ (PDF)CEI On Point No. 174 (April 21, 2011). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œThis anti-BPA legislation is based on environmental activistsโ€™ wrongheaded claims that BPA poses an unreasonable risk to human healthโ€”specifically to childrenโ€”but the overwhelming body of research suggests otherwise,โ€ she suggests in the study.54Angela Logomasini. โ€œAnti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Healthโ€ (PDF)CEI On Point No. 174 (April 21, 2011). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

She contends that there is โ€œnegligible riskโ€ regarding BPA. โ€œBPA has been extensively studied for potential impacts on human health,โ€ she writes. โ€[โ€ฆ] This large body of research has failed to find a strong relationship between current consumer exposures to BPA and health effects.โ€55Angela Logomasini. โ€œAnti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Healthโ€ (PDF)CEI On Point No. 174 (April 21, 2011). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The article concludes:56Angela Logomasini. โ€œAnti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Healthโ€ (PDF)CEI On Point No. 174 (April 21, 2011). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œBPA bans will do little for public health, since they do not address significant risks. They are part of an ever-expanding arbitrary regulatory state that places many valuable products and freedoms at risk.โ€57Angela Logomasini. โ€œAnti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Healthโ€ (PDF)CEI On Point No. 174 (April 21, 2011). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

November 30, 2012

In a CEI report titled โ€œRachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicalsโ€™ Benefits to Human Health and the Environment,โ€ Logomasini argued that Rachel Carson used โ€œharsh and unscientific rhetoricโ€ to postulate that โ€œthat man-made chemicals affect processes of the human body in ‘sinister and often deadly ways.’โ€58Angela Logomasini. โ€œRachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicals’ Benefit to Human Health and the Environmentโ€ (PDF), CEI Issue Analysis No. 8. (November, 2012). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

โ€œAs the world reexamines Carsonโ€™s anti-pesticide legacy, this paper focuses on the importance of chemicals designed for crop production,โ€ Logomasini wrote, adding that โ€œUnfortunately, these benefits are at risk as Carsonโ€™s legacy of misinformation lives on within the politically organized environmental movement.โ€59Angela Logomasini. โ€œRachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicals’ Benefit to Human Health and the Environmentโ€ (PDF), CEI Issue Analysis No. 8. (November, 2012). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

According to Logomasini, โ€œCarson was particularly wrong about DDT. For decades before it was banned, humans were exposed to massive amounts of DDT without showing ill effect.โ€ She argues that it is โ€œwell documented how Carsonโ€™s antiDDT rhetoric contributed to malaria outbreaks [โ€ฆ]โ€60Angela Logomasini. โ€œRachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicals’ Benefit to Human Health and the Environmentโ€ (PDF), CEI Issue Analysis No. 8. (November, 2012). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

The report goes on to detail the โ€œbenefits of pesticidesโ€ while arguing that โ€œanti-technology trendsโ€” particularly those against agrochemicalsโ€ will make the poor โ€œsuffer disproportionatelyโ€ due to lower crop yields.61Angela Logomasini. โ€œRachel Was Wrong: Agrochemicals’ Benefit to Human Health and the Environmentโ€ (PDF), CEI Issue Analysis No. 8. (November, 2012). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

July 23, 2009

Angela Logomasini spoke at the Washington Policy Center‘s 7th Annual Environmental Policy Luncheon & Conference, headlined by climate science denier Patrick Michaels.62โ€œ7th Annual Environmental Policy Luncheon & Conference,โ€ Washington Policy Centre, July 23, 2009. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/hACTn

Logomasini spoke on the first panel of July 23 on the subject of โ€œPrecautionary Principle.โ€ Also speaking on the panel were Dr. John Hill of the Alabama Policy Institute and Tom Holt, President and Government and Public Affairs Director of The Holt Company.63โ€œ7th Annual Environmental Policy Luncheon & Conference,โ€ Washington Policy Centre, July 23, 2009. Archived April 4, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/hACTn

Logomasini’s slideshow presentation was titled โ€œDangers of Precautionโ€ and highlighted the DDT ban as a โ€œmodelโ€ of precaution that resulted in โ€œmillions dead.โ€64โ€œDangers of Precautionโ€ (PDF),  Angela Logomasini, July 23, 2009. Retrieved from Washingtonpolicy.org. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

July 17, 2008

Logomasini authored a CEI report that opposed the TRI (Toxics Release Inventory) and โ€œright-to-knowโ€ laws which would require industries to outline certain chemicals that they release. According to Logomasini, detailing potentially harmful chemicals would be too expensive for industry, as โ€œthe burden placed on the private sector is significant.โ€65โ€œToxics Release Inventoryโ€ (PDF), CEI, July 17, 2008. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

She also contends that โ€œRight-to-know data may jeopardize some firmsโ€™ trade secrets by making information available to their competitorsโ€ and finally, citing a Reason Foundation study, she writes that โ€œTRI data are often misused by those who want to scare the public about chemical use rather than to educate the public.โ€

June 20, 2007

Angela Logomasini went on MSNBC to debate a representative from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) about recycling and the government’s approach to trash and landfills. Logomasini argues that a solution would be to bring a โ€œfree market processโ€ into the industry as opposed to government regulation.66โ€œAngela Logomasini Debates Recycling (6/20/07),โ€ YouTube video uploaded by user Competitive Enterprise Institute, July 2, 2007. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

June 28, 1996

Logomasini is listed on a โ€œRoster of Attendeesโ€ at a Cato Institute Policy Forum titled โ€œThe IPCC Report On Climate Change: Scientific Consensus or Scientific Meltdown?โ€67โ€œThe IPCC Report On Climate Change: Scientific Consensus or Scientific Meltdown?โ€ June 28, 1996. Retrieved from Greenpeace Investigations. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

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Angela Logomasini has published a range of opinion pieces and Competitive Enterprise Institute Studies. Sample publications below. View the attached spreadsheet for a full list of Logomasini’s publications (.xlsx), sortable by most frequent headline keywords.

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