Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewAugust 19, 2007
By Bill Steigerwald
Policy
Greenwire
November 4, 2004Alex Kaplun
Greenwire reporter
Billings GazetteSeptember 11, 2004
By Holly L. Fretwell
RS-02-1a Update: 2004Bruce Yandle, Madhusudan Bhattarai, and Maya Vijayaraghavan
A new series of books for young people offers objective and balanced discussions of controversial issues.
A new series of books for young people offers objective and balanced discussions of controversial issues.
RS-02-3: 2002By Bruce Yandle, Andrew P. Morriss, and Lea-Rachel Kosnik
Read Chapter 9:All Play and No Pay: The Adverse Effects of Welfare Recreation
A new series of books for young people offers objective and balanced discussions of controversial issues.
A new series of books for young people offers objective and balanced discussions of controversial issues.
Violation of Property Rights at Root Of DDT Disaster, Say PERC Scholars
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By Roger E. Meiners and Andrew Morriss
Jane S. Shaw and Ronald D. Utt, editors
Preface by The Honorable Malcolm Wallop
Jonathan Adler
Arlington, Virginia
Ryan Amacher, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
University of Texas, Arlington
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Private land trusts are proliferating around the nation as ways of preserving environmental values. So why not a federal land trust to manage the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah?
Parks in Transition:A Look at State ParksRS-97-1 1997By Donald R. Leal and Holly Lippke Fretwell
By Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill
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Superfund:The Shortcut That Failed
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By Richard L. Stroup
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Public Lands and Private Rights:The Failure of Scientific ManagementBy Robert H. Nelson
Eco-Sanity:A Common-Sense Guide to EnvironmentalismBy Joseph L. Bast, Peter J. Hill and Richard C. Rue
A PERC Workshop with scholars presenting papers on on land use conflicts in the West and raising questions about the governing institutions.
The workshop focuses on using markets as tools for making land management decisions in both the public and private arena. How can federal agencies adopt market based-principles and how can we stimulate new markets for environmental amenities such as open space?
New Forest Service policy calls for more sustainability even for communities and recreation. Trying to make everything sustainable simply makes no sense.
As PERC’s Rick Stroup often says, “Efficiency has no constituency,” and that’s certainly true of environmental policy. The federal government is replete with inefficiencies resulting from overlapping, redundant, and wasteful spending programs.
Would the EPA be better run by a bipartisan commission? Reform the agency by politicizing it, says PERC board member Steven Hayward.
Facing the "fiscal cliff," perhaps the president and Congress should start thinking in terms of the "foreclosure crisis." All lenders, whether a local home-loan bank or the Chinese government, expect to be repaid either from the borrower's income or, if that is insufficient, from the sale of assets. Where does that leave the U.S. government?
From the World Resources Institutes initiative for Keeping Options Alive to the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, calls for conserving biodiversity are persistent. This goal appears reasonable, at least on its face.
Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence.
Outreach associate, David Currie talks with Alan Girard (Chesapeake Bay Foundation) and Joan Mulhern (Earth Justice) on the Marc Steiner Show. Together they consider the legacy of the Clean Water Act on its 40th anniversary.
Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. No doubt, the billions spent on the act have improved overall water quality.
Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson a team of national experts explores the book’s historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. The conclusion makes it abundantly clear that the legacy of Silent Spring is highly problematic. While the book provided some clear benefits, a number of Carson’s major arguments rested on what can only be described as deliberate ignorance. Despite her reputation as a careful writer widely praised for building her arguments on science and facts, Carson’s best-seller contained significant errors and sins of omission. Much of what was presented as certainty then was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.
PERC Senior Fellow Bruce Yandle orginated the theory of Bootleggers and Baptists in the early 1980s. In essence, two different groups suppor the same, regulations, but benefit from different effects of the regulation. Has anything changed?
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Urban sprawl did not increase as fast as expected between 1976 and 1992 -- in fact, it did not increase at all.
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EPA cleanups of superfund sites
cost an average of $12 billion
for every cancer case prevented.
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