A former owner of a small business, shares his grim experience with the tentacles of the Superfund law and its ever expanding liability.
Volume 21, No.1, Spring 2003
Features
The director of the Inter Region Economic Network (IREN) in Nairobi discusses the problems with government control of wildlife in Kenya
PERC issues a "Mid-Term Report Card" on George W. Bush's environmental policy The grade is low.
A professor at Case Western Law School writes about the perverse results of the Cleveland airport's "mitigation" of the loss of a wetland. To build a new runway, the airport must pay to "create" wetlands by damaging a beautiful and serene park sixteen miles away.
Columns
A major study of the Clean Air Act confirms that -- as businesses often claim -- the costs are high.
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