[…] years, during which time analysts calculate it would generate $117 billion in revenues, equal to the expected shortfall of payments from all TARP recipients. In announcing the plan, Obama put populist red meat on the table when he said: βMy commitment is to recover every single dime the American people are owed. And my […]
[…] Selling a product that could be improperly disposed of by another is not the same thing. Further, βknowledge alone is insufficient to prove that an entity β planned forβ the disposal, particularly when the disposal occurs as a peripheral result of the legitimate sale of an unused, useful product.β With this opinion, Justice Stevens […]
Enjoyment of the environment is intimately related to healthy water quality conditions for swimming, fishing, and recreation. And at the heart of it all is seagrass.
Β Fire-maintained longleaf pine once occupied 90 million acres in the Southeast. Today, roughly three million acres remain. Land conversion and lack of fire on the landscape have decreased habitat for a variety of species dependent upon an open canopy and diverse ground cover. Consequently, many species have experienced population decline, including the gopher […]
Like the rugged cowboy roaming the plains of the American Wild West, the image of the untamable gaucho is embroidered into the fabric of the Argentine consciousness.
[…] counterproductive and based on misinformation. Thanks to Daniel K. Benjamin, a professor of economics at Clemson University, and PERC, the Property and Environmental Research Center, for a study that examined the βEight Great Myths of Recycling.β They are as follows: Our Garbage will bury us. Our garbage will poison us. Packaging is the problem. […]
[…] Meiners. The seven Γ’β¬Εgreen jobsΓ’β¬Β myths are as follows: Everyone knows what a Γ’β¬Εgreen jobΓ’β¬Β is. Creating green jobs will boost productive employment. Green jobs forecast are reliable. Green jobs promote employment growth. The world economy can be remade by reducing trade, relying on local production, and lowering consumption. Government mandates are a substitute […]
[…] a lot. And differences in cost across countries limit the prospects of gaining a global agreement to reduce carbon by dramatic amounts. We have just completed a study that looks at the relationship between per capita real GDP and total carbon emissions-1950 through 2004-for each of the G8 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, […]
[…] who long ago discovered that those occasional stretches of Indian-owned private property on reservations did much better than the property under trust control. Want to see the poorest minority group in the country fare much, much better? Then free the Indians. Jay Ambrose is a columnist living in Colorado and a PERCΒ Media Fellow. E-mail: SpeaktoJay@aol.com.
Federally owned forests in the United States are facing financial and ecological problems. In this case study Alison Berry explores the pros and cons of using woody biomass to create ethanol, electricity, and heat.