McDonald’s claims that its latest initiative is not a publicity stunt. The company has announced that its cooking oil from french fries, hash browns, and chicken McNuggets will be recycled and used to fuel its fleet of trucks in the United Kingdom, reports the BBC. Considering that the company has 1,200 outlets in the UnitedContinue reading “Big Mac Polishes Image With Biodiesel-Fueled Trucks”
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New Jobs Created By Drive To Sniff The Environment
A small, but growing, professional opportunity for those with a keen sense of smell is rapidly developing in the Guadong Province of China. An environmental monitoring station in southern China is seeking the services of those with sharp noses who can sniff out foul gases in the air. At present, eleven professional noses are beingContinue reading “New Jobs Created By Drive To Sniff The Environment”
Recently in the Hoover Digest
September 2007 Volume 25 | Number 3 … An Economist Looks at Global Warming Investing in anticipation of environmental upheaval is a matter of numbers. Global warming effects are expected to take a long time to appear, and there is great uncertainty about their extent. Moreover, where one sets the “discount rate” for that futureContinue reading “Recently in the Hoover Digest”
Do Profits Promote Pollution? The Myth of the Environmental Race to the Bottom
Environmentalists, politicians, and scholars express concern about a "race to the bottom" in environmental policy. Yet economic theory indicates that a race to the bottom in environmental policy is highly unlikely, and there is little evidence that such races have, in fact, occurred.
Saving Our Streams: Harnessing Water Markets
A guide on restoring instream flows through voluntary water markets.
Trading Forest Carbon: A Panacea or Pipe Dream to Address Climate Change?
Irrespective of the uncertainties surrounding the causes of climate change, the United States is poised to join the rest of the developed world in a fight against rising carbon dioxide levels.
Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West’s First Great Water Transfer
Insights to guide the ongoing conversation about water politics and the future thereof.
Letters to the Editor
Ideas travel far and fast I read with interest, as usual, the Spring edition of PERC Reports, I remember the book very well, and not only that, it seems to me that we may have one of the first quotations of the book in an article in Spanish. Together with Alberto Benegas Lynch we bothContinue reading “Letters to the Editor”
Buy That Fish A Drink
Water marketing for environmental flows gains momentum
Figntin’ or Drinkin’
Not surprisingly, global warming is getting the blame for drought conditions in many parts of the American West. For example, in the January 31, 2003, issue of Science, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) reported that recent droughts in the West are caused at least partly by global warming-induced rises in western PacificContinue reading “Figntin’ or Drinkin’”