All Posts Tagged With: "environment"
Is the EPA Necessary?
I submit that common sense tells us to do away with the agency.
8Dec2010 | William L. Anderson | 9 comments | ContinuedCan Government Save Us from Manmade Disasters?
Overcoming environmental abuse is not likely to be achieved by governmental dictation.
16Aug2010 | James L. Payne | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy
The extraordinary thing about this excellent book is not its content as much as its source. Jack M. Hollander is a retired professor of energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he has had an impressive career in the field of energy (he has more than 100 publications to his credit), in [...]
6Jul2010 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedSafer Living with Chemistry
Back in 1651 Thomas Hobbes described life in the state of nature as “nasty, brutish, and short.” But even in civilized society during his lifetime, most people lived under what we would consider wretched conditions. At that time, you were lucky if you lived past 30; our notion of basic sanitation didn’t exist; people used [...]
25Jun2010 | Angela Logomasini | 1 comment | ContinuedAre Americans Addicted to Oil?
The American political elite tells us we are addicted to oil. Whether it’s from former President George W. Bush or the present administration, Americans for years have been admonished to break the oil habit and use alternative fuels that meet Washington’s approval.
19May2010 | William L. Anderson | 12 comments | ContinuedThe Personal Is the Political
As government’s role grows, more and more decisions that we think of as personal are becoming political.
11Feb2010 | Steven Horwitz | 21 comments | Continued100 Reasons Why Climate Change is Natural
“HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made. ” (Daily Express, Tuesday) I would have been convinced by 10 or so. FEE Timely Classic: “Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics” by Doug Bandow
16Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedEPA to Announce New Greenhouse Regulations
“An ‘endangerment’ finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the government to require businesses that emit carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to make costly changes in machinery to reduce emissions — even if Congress doesn’t pass pending climate-change legislation. EPA action to regulate emissions could affect the U.S. economy [...]
7Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedSome Utility Companies Want Cap and Trade Now
“Utility executives are stepping up calls for legislation to cap greenhouse-gas emissions, fearing that if Congress doesn’t act, the EPA will establish rules that would be costlier and less effective.” (Wall Street Journal, Monday) Summary of domestic energy policy debate: Devil you know or the devil you don’t? FEE Timely Classic: “The Perverse Popularity of [...]
9Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedThe “I Hate the Poor” Act of 2009
So I was shaving the other day, and the man on the morning talk radio show was on a roll. Cash for Clunkers was being temporarily shut down, or so declared the PR flack in the Department of Waste that administers the program, and Talk Show Guy thought this taught great lessons. “This was a good program! [...]
23Oct2009 | Christopher Westley | 4 comments | ContinuedAppearance on Mike Beitler's Free Market Program
Click here to listen to my interview on the Mike Beitler’s Internet talk show, “The Free Market.”
31Jul2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedDim Bulbs
“Hell, there are no rules here—we’re trying to accomplish something.” —Thomas A. Edison Edison’s words may have been true in the 1800s. Today, however, we have plenty of rules, thanks to the U.S. Congress. Some are so bizarre that you have to question the judgment of those who come up with them. One rule in [...]
10Jun2009 | Michael Heberling | 30 comments | ContinuedMr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall!
All of us should worry, if not panic, when we remember that the walls keeping others out also keep us in.
21May2009 | Becky Akers | 69 comments | ContinuedGood News! New Spontaneous Rainforest Orders
The Jan. 30 front page NYT article (“New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Saving Primeval Rain Forests”) does a nice job of reporting the benefits of economic growth in Brazil and Central America.As economies grow, people leave the rural areas for jobs in or near cities. Jungles are less competitive for most agricultural uses, compared [...]
4Feb2009 | Greg Rehmke | 0 comments | ContinuedA Higher Gasoline Tax Will “Solve Everything”?
Regrettably, I have to criticize someone who, in the past, I have admired a great deal. John Tierney is an iconoclastic columnist for the New York Times who has been writing on environmental issues for at least a decade. His now-classic 1996 Times Magazine story critical of recycling was a well-researched article that I have [...]
1Apr2006 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Warming: Extreme Weather or Extreme Prejudice?
Christopher Lingle is professor of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and global strategist for eConoLytics.com. Extreme weather is making headlines. Record summer temperatures in Europe and a large number of heat-related deaths in India joined news about severe flooding in Bangladesh, China, and Sri Lanka. And an unusual number of tornados in the [...]
1Nov2003 | Christopher Lingle | 4 comments | ContinuedThe State of the Air: Propaganda, Not Science
Each May the American Lung Association (ALA) issues “The State of the Air” in which it reports on ground-level ozone pollution county by county over a three-year period. The study gives each county a grade (A-F) based on what are called “ozone exceedence days” and calculates the number of people “put at risk” for respiratory [...]
1Oct2003 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | Continued-
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