All Posts Tagged With: "Environmental Protection Agency"

Wolf Heads and Carbon Credits

Abraham Lincoln, in vivid recollections from early childhood, described the cashing of bounty for freshly severed wolf heads on the steps of an Indiana courthouse. In 1816 killing wolves at public expense was seen as an obvious necessity and probably represented a genuine emotional reassurance to the intrepid settlers of the era. Though it places [...]

21Sep2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 4 comments | Continued

Is the EPA Necessary?

I submit that common sense tells us to do away with the agency.

8Dec2010 | William L. Anderson | 9 comments | Continued

Government-Reformulated Gas: Bad in More Ways than One

The amended Clean Air Act (CAA) of 1990 called for cleaner automobile-engine combustion and a reduction in tailpipe emissions. To meet these goals, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) directed the petroleum industry to modify the composition of gasoline to comply with the “Oxygenated” and “Reformulated” Gasoline (RFG) Programs. While only those parts of the country [...]

1Sep2003 | Michael Heberling | 1 comment | Continued

The Regulatory Conundrum

Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. When Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, wanted a $190,000 Ferrari 360 Spider, he went to a German dealer, since it would have taken two to three years to obtain one from [...]

1Jun2003 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

The Smart-Growth Scam

H. Nathan Hart recently graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. Paul Cleveland is an associate professor of economics at Birmingham-Southern College. Transportation is essential to the daily life of nearly every American. Millions of people flock onto the freeways and streets to accomplish innumerable tasks each day. Americans love their cars. No other mode [...]

1Jul2001 | and and H. Nathan Hart | 2 comments | Continued

The Green Scare

Roger Meiners teaches in the economics department at the University of Texas, Arlington, and is a senior associate at PERC. During the Cold War, anti-communist activists were accused of using Red Scare tactics. They were parodied along these lines: The communists were everywhere, maybe even under your bed, so support the politicians who would spend [...]

1May1999 | Roger E. Meiners | 1 comment | Continued

Scientists Beware

Bruce Benson is DeVoe Moore Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Many political commentators lament the growing apathy among the voting-age population, but I do not believe apathy keeps many potential voters away from the polls. Many of us care a lot about what politicians are doing; we just don’t trust any [...]

1Apr1999 | Bruce L. Benson | 1 comment | Continued

The Bully that Acts Like a Hero

Harold Jones teaches at Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics in Macon, Georgia. In 1995 President Clinton established what he called “Operation Restore Trust,” a Health and Human Services initiative aimed at wiping out fraud and abuse in the health-care industry. According to the administration, only terrorism surpassed health-care fraud as [...]

1Mar1999 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 0 comments | Continued

Distrust and Verify

Perhaps the most positive legacy of the Clinton administration will be that it further eroded the public’s trust in the federal government. Trust has declined significantly since the Great Society programs of the Johnson administration. According to University of Michigan surveys, the number of people who responded that the federal government does what is right [...]

1Feb1999 | and and Dwight R. Lee | 3 comments | Continued

An Environment of Freedom

Jo Kwong is environmental research associate with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. This article is adapted from a speech delivered at a meeting of the Philadelphia Society in April 1998. For 16 years, Wirthlin Worldwide has published monthly survey results to track public opinion about environmental policy. Commenting on recent results that show ever-higher support [...]

1Sep1998 | Jo Kwong | 24 comments | Continued

Nightmare in Green

Jarret Wollstein is a founder and director of the International Society for Individual Liberty, a global libertarian organization with members in over 70 countries. He is also the author of eight books, including Lethal Compassion: Why Government Medicine Is the Cure that Kills (with Mary Ruwart). “The threat of an environmental crisis will be the [...]

1Sep1998 | Jarret B. Wollstein | 2 comments | Continued

Environmental Protection: The New Socialism?

Jane S. Shaw is a Senior Associate of PERC, a research center in Bozeman, Montana. In 1990, the economist Robert Heilbroner expressed genuine surprise at the collapse of socialism. Writing in The New Yorker, he recalled that in the debates over central planning in the 1930s and 1940s, socialism seemed to have won. A half [...]

1May1996 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Cultivating Dissent: Wetlands Regulators Down on the Farm

Mr. Porter is an attorney in the Pittsburgh office of Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corporation, the law firm that represents Robert Brace in U.S. v. Brace. To Robert Brace, drainage is as much a part of farming in Erie County, Pennsylvania, as are planting and harvesting. The topography and soil types in that part of Pennsylvania [...]

1Feb1996 | David J. Porter | 0 comments | Continued

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