All Posts Tagged With: "environmental regulation"
“We Want to be Regulated”
Efforts in Washington to write a major climate-change law are causing some Bootlegger/Baptist coalitions to fall apart and new ones to emerge. In late September Exelon Corporation, a major electric utility, followed industry partners Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and PNM when it resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber opposed the Waxman-Markey [...]
5Jan2010 | Bruce Yandle | 6 comments | ContinuedStealth Expansion of Government Power
The government of the United States spent the year debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform. Yet a far more fundamental shift, in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of government power over the private sector of the economy, has been going on [...]
23Oct2009 | Murray Weidenbaum | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/2
Voodoo Science by Robert Park Oxford University Press — 2000 — 230 pages — $25.00 Reviewed by Patrick J. Michaels I really wanted to like Robert Park’s Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud a lot more than I did. It’s a pretty good book about how bad science manages to prosper and replicate, [...]
1Feb2002 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedEnvironmental Cancer: A Political Disease
Environmental Cancer: A Political Disease, by S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman, is a studied attempt to prove that the phrase “environmental cancer” has been used insincerely by activists, politicians, and the media in an attempt to further public-policy agendas that often undermine individual freedoms. Lichter (president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs) [...]
1Jun2000 | Conrad F. Meier | 0 comments | ContinuedProperty Matters and Property Rights: Understanding Government Takings and Environmental Regulation
It has now been almost three decades since the beginning of the federal environmental misadventure, a period that saw the rise of the regulatory state and the erosion of private-property rights. During this time, federal statutes, regulations, and centralized control have systematically replaced a diverse mix of decentralized common-law rules, state statutes, and local ordinances, [...]
1Jun1998 | Bruce Yandle | 0 comments | ContinuedA Century of Forest Service Ineptitude
John A. Baden is chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) and the Gallatin Institute, an organization for writers of the West. Andrew C. St. Lawrence, an intern at FREE and the Gallatin Institute, is a student at Montana State University studying animal and range science. This year marks the [...]
1Oct1997 | and John A. Baden | 0 comments | ContinuedCultivating 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 | ContinuedThe True State of the Planet
Mr. Carolan is Executive Editor of National Review. Those who have studied logic or critical thinking are probably familiar with the informal fallacy of the “false dilemma,” a kind of pseudo-argument in which a speaker pushes you into agreeing with him, or accepting an unwanted alternative. For example: if we don’t raise taxes to save [...]
1Jan1996 | Matthew Carolan | 0 comments | Continued-
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