All Posts Tagged With: "water pollution"
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 | ContinuedThe Cuyahoga Revisited
Stacie Thomas is an economist with the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, D.C. This is adapted from PERC Reports, June 1999. Early in the summer of 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire. Piles of logs, picnic benches, and other debris had collected below a railroad trestle, which impeded their movement down the river. These piles [...]
1May2000 | Stacie Thomas | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Commons: Tragedy or Triumph?
In the summer I watch ruby-throated hummingbirds fly and hover near a feeder that my wife, Dot, carefully fills with nectar and hangs in view of our kitchen window. The store-bought nectar is colored red, since people think that hummingbirds find that color attractive. Business around the feeder picks up following rains that wash away [...]
1Apr1999 | Bruce Yandle | 9 comments | Continued-
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