As energy efficiency has become a top priority for many companies, cogeneration power plants are supplying some solutions. Cogeneration provides electricity to customers along with steam that can be used in their production or manufacturing processes. In Orange County, Texas, Conoco Energy Solutions and NRG Energy Inc. have begun operations at a 420-megawatt cogeneration powerContinue reading “Full Steam Ahead”
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Australian Flower Power
Flower power has taken on a new meaning in western Australia. Kate Delaporte, a horticulturist at Adelaide University, is cultivating native plants and flowers in an attempt to jump-start a new industry along the Murray River. Once well known as a fruit-growing area, the region is losing agricultural production because of increasing soil salinity, decreasingContinue reading “Australian Flower Power”
Who Drained the Everglades?
Not the private sector, not the state of Florida. Rather, the people who are supposed to restore it.
Controlling the British Countryside
Under the name of environmental policy, the British government robs the rights of landowners.
Saving Fish and Teaching Economics
PERC Reports interviews Colorado school teacher Marc Johnson about his students’ property-rights drama.
Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?
Benjamin. Daniel K. Benjamin reports that economists have come up with persuasive evidence that free trade reduces pollution.
Population Growth, Economic Freedom, and the Rule of Law
Seth Norton shows that the impacts of rapid population growth are not as severe as most people believe. Even more important, he shows how changes in a country's legal system and economic framework can overcome the problems caused by population growth.
The Role of IFQs in Improving Fishery Governance
February 13, 2002 By Don Leal Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee thank you for the opportunity for me to testify on individual fishing quotas or IFQs in relation to re-authorization of the Magnuson Stevenson Act. Because IFQs effect both structural makeup in a fishery, the subcommittee expressed interest in hearing views on aContinue reading “The Role of IFQs in Improving Fishery Governance”
Population Growth, Economic Freedom, and the Rule of Law (No. 24) (full)
This paper, “Population Growth, Economic Freedom, and the Rule of Law,” is the third PERC Policy Series essay honoring the late Julian Simon, a path-breaking economist who revised traditional thinking on issues from population growth to natural resources.
Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Global Warming Battle
By Bruce Yandle and Stuart Buck