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Terry Anderson explains free-market environmentalism
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Country: United States

Terry Anderson answers questions about free-market environmentalism for the Stanford Review. (10/97)

Why We're Gaining Wetlands
Source: NCPA
Author: Jonathan Tolman
Country: United States

The U.S. is actually gaining wetlands, rather than losing them as is commonly believed. (8/95)

Earth Day 1999 fact sheet: myths and facts about the environment
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Country: United States

The Earth Day Information Center sets the record straight on some of the more popular environmental doomsday predictions. (4/99)

Incentives Are Key To Improving Park Service
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Richard Stroup
Country: United States
E-mail: perc@perc.org

Yellowstone National Park is constantly in the news and the news is often bad. We learn that there are too many visitors, too many elk, too many crumbling roads, and not enough money. Yellowstone Park Superintendent Michael Finley told a New York Times reporter, "As the park continues to deteriorate, the service level continues to decline." (8/4/99)

A new environmentalism?
Source: New Environmentalism Project
Country: United States

What is "new environmentalism?" RPPI and NEPI identify four basic principles at their collaborative Web site.

The secret past of resource recovery
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Pierre Desrochers
Country: United States

PERC reminds us again of the days before the major environmental statutes, before the central-planning schemes of industrial ecologists, back when there was still a positive incentive to reduce and reuse. (9/99)

Environmental sweetheart suits
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Ben Lieberman
Country: United States

Lieberman, a CEI researcher, unveils the publicly financed shell game EPA and environmental groups play in fueling both excessive bureaucracy and frivolous litigation in the environmental policy arena. (10/21/99)

More safe than sorry
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States

Adler makes a timely point: Exercising some caution when experimenting with new technology is a good idea, but the excessive risk aversion practiced by leading environmental advocacy groups can be disastrous. (11/24/99)

Overcoming the chicken little syndrome: Environmental misinformation in America
Source: Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Author: Paige Parham
Country: United States

Short statement on the pervasiveness of environmental misinformation and the rush to judgment it creates. (4/22/99)

An Environmental Tax Cut
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States

Repealing the estate tax would be a boon for environmental conservation by removing a powerful economic incentive to develop land and thereby liquidate natural resources. For countless rural Americans who are "land-rich and cash-poor," subdividing or developing the inherited land is the only way they can afford to pay the estate tax. (8/99)

Pro-green, pro-growth: An interview with Jack Kemp
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Country: United States

Jack Kemp joined CEI in May as a distinguished fellow. He will focus on promoting rational, free-market environmental policies in opposition to the type of global regulatory regime represented by the as yet unratified Kyoto Protocol on global warming. (7/99)

Enough! We have all the wilderness we need
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: James Patric and Raymond Harbin
Country: United States

Contrary to popular belief, America has plenty of forested land. Short commentary accompanying the release of a more extensive study on the same topic by the authors. (12/23/98)

Pollution prevention: Public and private roles
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Lynn Scarlett
Country: United States

Lynn Scarlett explains how market conditions of competition, private ownership of property, and free exchange of differently valued resources will drive environmental progress in the future. (6/98)

Environmental education: Four views
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Country: United States

Jo Kwong, Richard Wilke, Karl Kamena, and Michael Sanera provide some insight into the challenges of properly educating the next generation of environmentalists. (12/97)

Jane Shaw on market-based environmentalism
Source: Environmental News Network
Country: United States

Jane Shaw of PERC did a "live ENN chat" last month. Read what many environmentalists around the world heard about the evolution of free-market environmentalism. (11/16/99)

Giving Thanks for a Better World
Source: The Cato Institute
Country: United States

The Cato Institute has compiled various essays and reports on the state of our environment. "We have a lot to be thankful for -- despite media hysteria." (11/18/99)

Squashing the myths of imported produce
Source: Consumer Alert
Author: Dana Joel Gattuso
Country: United States

Eco-freaks and anti-trade groups are spreading myths about the safety of imported produce. Dana Gattuso sets the record straight. (5/23/00)

Roadless areas paved with politics
Source: Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Author: Jefferson G. Edgens
Country: United States

"President Clinton circumvented Congress through executive rulemaking and proposed that 40 million acres of the national forest system be designated de facto wilderness. If we want wilderness, Congress is the proper branch of government to make the determination -- not an all-powerful person." (12/99)

The problem of environmental protection
Source: Ideas on Liberty
Author: Dwight R. Lee
Country: United States
E-mail: dlee@terry.uga.edu

Lee acknowledges that protecting the environment is a tricky problem, but says that economic insights can help us navigate the minefield. (04/01)

Tax reformers analyze Bush environmental plan
Source: ATR
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

Americans for Tax Reform has a new web page with links to analysis, details commonly asked questions and other issues relating to President George W. Bush's environmental plan. (05/16/01)

Libertarian solutions: government-mandated recycling: wasteful, harmful, and rejected
Source: LP News
Author: David Rothbard & Craig Rucker
Country: United States

"With outrageous costs spawned by unreachable goals now weighing down these efforts nationwide, communities across the U.S. are being forced to alter, scale back, or abandon their recycling efforts altogether, and environmentalists are being forced to up the ante with a push for more coercive measures." (12/98)

Linking liberty, economy, and ecology
Source: Foundation for Economic Education/Ideas on Liberty
Author: John A. Baden and Robert Ethier
Country: United States

"For years environmentalists ignored or discounted the strong correlation between economic prosperity and environmental concern. But when prosperity is at risk, people willingly trade environmental quality for economic gain. This occurs even in wealthy nations." (09/93)

The environmental source 2001
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Angela Logomasini
Country: United States

"Americans care about their environment, but this does not mean that they care about existing environmental policies, and all their attendant excesses and costs. Most Americans wish to save endangered species, but are horrified when federal regulations senselessly lower the property values of innocent landowners." (10/01)

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