About the author

Rich Trzupek

<p>Rich Trzupek grew up on the far southeast side of Chicago in the 60&rsquo;s and 70&rsquo;s. It was steel-mill country back then. The neighborhood was working class, but prosperous. His father did shift-work in the mills, mom stayed at home till the youngest of her six children hit high-school. We all went to Catholic elementary schools, and most of us &ndash; including Rich &ndash; followed that up with Jesuit high-school and college educations, back when Jesuit institutions of learning were actually Jesuit in nature. It was a pretty standard baby-boomer childhood/adolescence.</p><p>By education, Rich is a chemist and loves all things science, with the exception of our current back-sliding into politicizing science. There&rsquo;s not a hell of a lot of difference between the IPCC and Pope Urban VIII in Rich&#39;s view. Rich also love history and I love to write. History and its cousin historical fiction are his favorite genres and have consumed most of his life as a vociferous reader.&nbsp;</p><p>Rich has written for himself and for the public over the better part of the last thirty-five years.</p><p>On the personal side, Rich is married to his second wife, Cheryl. They live in the northwest Chicago suburbs with two dogs, three cats and a couple of noisy birds. Rich&#39;s daughter Sara lives in the UK with her husband. Cheryl&rsquo;s oldest two sons from her first marriage Joe and Jay live nearby, while her youngest, Alec is away at college.</p><p>Rich&#39;s portfolio includes:</p> <ul> <li><em>Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA is Ruining American Industry</em>, author, Encounter Books, 2011, ISBN 1594035261</li> <li><em>The New Leviathan</em>, contributor, Encounter Books, 2012, ISBN 9781594036026</li> <li><em>Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Manual</em>, author, McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN 978-0071373340</li> <li><em>Frontpage</em> - numerous articles and commentaries</li> <li><em>Examiner Publications</em> &ndash; numerous commentaries</li> <li><em>Chicago Tribune</em> &ndash; multiple op-eds</li> <li><em>Breitbart</em> &ndash; numerous articles and commentaries</li> <li><em>Rueters</em> &ndash; occasional commentaries</li> <li><em>The American Spectator</em> &ndash; occasional commentaries</li> <li><em>The Heartland Institute </em>&ndash; numerous articles and commentaries</li> <li><em>Threedonia</em> - numberous commentaries</li> </ul>