All Posts Tagged With: "environmental protection"

A Busybody Behind Every Tree

If you happen to be flying into Reagan National Airport in summertime and look out the window, you will see that the suburbs of Washington, D.C, are heavily wooded. In many sections the trees are so thick it’s difficult to believe there are houses, let alone a major city, below. How did this suburban forest [...]

7Jul2010 | James L. Payne | 3 comments | Continued

Some 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 | Continued

Putting a Bureaucrat in Your Tank: Gasoline Markets and Regulation

If you run a barrel of crude oil through a still, the technique used by the earliest refineries and still a stage in modern refining, it separates into various fractions, including kerosene, gasoline, diesel, fuel oils, waxes, and asphalt. Without further processing, about 10 percent will be “straight run” gasoline. In the 1870s this 10 [...]

1Oct2007 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | Continued

Law and Good Intentions

Americans, not just classical-liberal ones, have an almost instinctual distrust of government. Our nation began in a revolt inspired partly by the “Intolerable Acts” of King George III and taxation without representation. The Declaration of Independence recited a lengthy list of grievances against the British government, summarized as “a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, [...]

1Jun2005 | Andrew P. Morriss | 2 comments | Continued

Regulatory Roadblocks to Turning Waste to Wealth

Pierre Desrochers is a professor of geography at the University of Toronto. The small industrial town of Kalundborg, located 75 miles from Copenhagen, shouldn’t be on the radar screen of most visitors to Denmark. It has nonetheless become something of a Mecca for “sustainable development” theorists the world over. Kalundborg’s main attraction, apart from its [...]

1Sep2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 0 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

Environmentalism as Though People and Facts Really Mattered

Christopher Lingle is a visiting professor of economics, ESEADE at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. One of the most compelling political issues of the new millennium is to discover ways to arrest and reverse the debilitation of our natural environment. To many observers, no less than a revolution is necessary to change public opinion and to implement [...]

1May2001 | Christopher Lingle | 0 comments | Continued

Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto by Peter Huber

Basic Books • 2000 • 288 pages • $25.00 hardcover; $15.00 paperback Peter Huber’s new book will delight as well as infuriate people who seek a consistent free-market approach to environmental issues. He delivers a devastating blow to the views of environmentalists who are antitechnology and antimarket, and does so with great vigor and wit. [...]

1Feb2001 | Joseph L. Bast | 0 comments | Continued

The Golden Age at Risk

What a wonderful world! Wait a minute. What about the Asia meltdown and declining stock market values? What about horrible ongoing civil wars and terrorism that plague large numbers of people on the planet? What about scandals in high public office? Impeachment? Wonderful? In spite of all this, we know that more people are experiencing [...]

1Dec1998 | Bruce Yandle | 2 comments | Continued

Sustainable Development: Common Sense or Nonsense on Stilts?

Jerry Taylor is director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute and senior editor of Regulation magazine. The mantra of “sustainable development” is constantly on the lips of the international agencies and nongovernmental organizations helping lesser-developed countries. The concept seems innocuous enough; after all, who would favor “unsustainable development”? But the fundamental premise of [...]

1Sep1998 | Jerry Taylor | 3 comments | Continued

Global Warming: Hot Problem or Hot Air?

Jonathan Adler is director of environmental studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C., and the editor of The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications (1997), from which portions of this essay are adapted. El Niño is the overhyped weather event of the decade. It has even made CNN’s “Larry King [...]

1Apr1998 | Jonathan H. Adler | 6 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

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