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”
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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”
Commentary on Mid-term Report Card
Let Us Hear You PERC’s Mid-Term Report Card on the Bush administration’s environmental policy has prompted many comments. We welcome responses from all comers and would like to post them on this page. Please email your comments to us at perc@perc.org and include some brief information about yourself, your job, or your particular interest inContinue reading “Commentary on Mid-term Report Card”
Ecological Agrarian: Agriculture’s First Evolution in 10,000 Years
Demands on agriculture are changing and the focus of agriculture is changing too.
Can We Expect Environmental Progress From the Bush Administration?
President Bush had numerous chances to show that conservative principles include conservation, yet at midterm scores low grades for implementing the tenets of free market environmentalism, which emphasizes establishing incentives and clarifying property rights within a growing economy that values environmental quality. Instead his administration continues an unfortunate trend of making the Republican Party lookContinue reading “Can We Expect Environmental Progress From the Bush Administration?”
Restoring Harmony in the Klamath Basin
Restoring Harmony in the Klamath Basin explains how this conflict developed and offers a solution—markets in water. Written by Roger Meiners and Lea-Rachel Kosnik, this paper persuasively argues that clarification of property rights to water is fundamental to ending the crisis.
Beer for Bessie
Spent grains and stale beer make nutritious meals for livestock.
Facing the Future
Multi-billion-dollar farm subsidies won’t last forever.
If You Want It, Buy It
A market approach to conservation: Buy land.
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Primer
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT Executive Summary Since 1991, when economists first reported a systematic relationship between income changes and environmental quality, this relationship, known as the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), has become standard fare in technical conversations about environmental policy (Grossman and Krueger 1991). When first unveiled, EKCs revealed a surprising outcome: Some important indicatorsContinue reading “The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Primer”