The pop cans, plastic cups, cellophane wrappers, and other debris that people toss on streets and sidewalks can end up on the beach or bobbing in the ocean. Oil and grease from cars and trucks can also be flushed into open water by a rainstorm or melting snow. Storm drains are built to catch theContinue reading “Spinning Trash”
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Regulators Damage a Park
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.
Superfund Destroys a Small Business
A former owner of a small business, shares his grim experience with the tentacles of the Superfund law and its ever expanding liability.
How to Protect People and Wildlife in Kenya
The director of the Inter Region Economic Network (IREN) in Nairobi discusses the problems with government control of wildlife in Kenya
A Mediocre Grade on the Environment
PERC issues a “Mid-Term Report Card” on George W. Bush’s environmental policy The grade is low.
The Costs Of Clean Air
A major study of the Clean Air Act confirms that — as businesses often claim — the costs are high.
Toward Better Environmental Education
In this article prepared for the Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment at Lindenwood University, Jane Shaw discusses how advocacy has replaced good science in many school textbooks, and how it can be changed.
Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom and Prosperity
What property rights are, what they do, how they evolve, how they can be protected, and how they promote freedom and prosperity.
Bush Administration’s Environmental Policies I
Introduction Grades Executive Summary Complete Report Card This mid-term report card was developed by PERC–the Center for Free Market Environmentalism to evaluate actions affecting natural resources and the environment taken by the George W. Bush administration during its first two years. The report card assesses actions in the light of free market environmentalism (FME). ConsiderationContinue reading “Bush Administration’s Environmental Policies I”
Grades on Bush’s Environmental Policies
GRADES Overall Grade C- Agricultural Chemicals B Air Quality Regulation D Arctic Wildlife National Refuge C Brownfields and Superfund C- Chemical Plant Security B Drinking Water and Arsenic D Endangered Species C Global Climate Change C Grazing on Public Lands C- Ocean Fisheries D Persistent Organic Pollutants D Public Lands Management C- RegulationContinue reading “Grades on Bush’s Environmental Policies”