ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Embarrassments and Regulatory Outrages

Bureau of Land Management works some magic with cost-benefit numbers
Source: Mercatus Center's Regulatory Studies Program
Country: United States

A closer look at the federal government's initiative to revise and update regulations governing hardrock mining operations reveals that the effort could cost up to $378.7 million. Full document in MS Word. (2/16/00)

Turning a profit on public forests
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Donald R. Leal
Country: United States

From the PERC Policy Series. Why does the U.S. Forest service LOSE money selling timber? (9/95)

Endangered Species Act: making innocent species the enemy
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Richard L. Stroup
Country: United States

From the PERC Policy series. Points out that the ESA creates a perverse incentive for land-owners to get rid of species under their "protection."

Superfund: The Shortcut That Failed
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Richard L. Stroup
Country: United States

From the PERC Policy Series. What went wrong with the Superfund toxic-waste cleanup program? What can be done about it? (5/96)

How the Environmental Protection Agency became a public health risk
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Michael Centrone
Country: United States

"If the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established to safeguard the nation's environment, then why does it require people to purchase gasoline that pollutes the water and makes them sick?" (8/00)

Superfund follies
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Daniel K. Benjamin
Country: United States

"EPA cleanups of superfund sites cost an average of $12 billion for every cancer case prevented." (12/99)

Testimony of Ben Lieberman on The Plumbing Standards Improvement Act
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Ben Lieberman
Country: United States

Ben Lieberman speaks out for the National Consumer Coalition on getting the federal government out of Americans' bathrooms. (7/27/99)

Green wars put peace and security at risk
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Paul Benjamin
Country: United States

National security policy in the United States has an increasing element of environmental protection. Intervening in other country's affairs may reduce risks from pollutants, but it increases risks of terrorism and even war. (4/20/00)

Giving Away the Store: The Flaws in EPA's Expanded Right to Know Program
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: William H. Lash III
Country: United States

Even a relatively well intentioned law can have unintended consequences, costs, and risks that go along with it. (8/98)

Tax reform is green: green taxes aren't
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: George Pieler
Country: United States

"True tax reform itself, defined in terms of flattening rates and eliminating special tax favors, is a much sounder environmental policy than the highly touted 'tax reforms' environmental activists promote." Available in Adobe PDF format. (10/30/00)

The Federal government's poor management of America's land resources
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Alexander F. Annett
Country: United States

This report deals with the federal approach to land management policy, its financial wastefulness, and the occasional environmental harm it causes. (5/17/99)

The deadly effect of fuel economy standards: CAFE's lethal impact on auto safety
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Country: United States

The federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards aim to downsize passenger cars to reduce air pollution and save statistical lives, but the smaller styled cars themselves killed between 2600 and 4500 people in 1997. In Adobe PDF format. (6/99)

Should EPA Cost-Benefit Analyses Be Conducted by Independent Experts? The GLI as a Case Study
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Daniel W. Smith, Ph.D.
Country: United States

In 1995, the EPA launched its Great Lakes Initiative (GLI). This case study examines just how extraordinarily wasteful that program is. In turn, this supports the case for external analysis of costs vs. benefits of EPA regulations. Heartland Policy Study No. 86. Executive summary available. (8/98)

Demystifying the risks about plastic-softening chemicals
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: George Passantino
Country: United States

Plastic-softening chemicals are the latest high-profile public health risk. But, high profile does necessarily mean high risk. Available in Adobe PDF format. (7/21/00)

2000 national directory of environmental and regulatory victims
Source: The National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: John Carlisle
Country: United States

The new annual review of crimes against liberty in the pursuit of regulatory power and environmental utopia is now available from The National Center for Pubic Policy Research's Environmental Policy Task Force. (4/00)

OMB report on the costs and benefits of regulation gets a failing grade
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Richard B. Belzer
Country: United States

CSAB dissects the recent Office of Management and Budget report on the costs and benefits of regulation. Lots of F's on this report card. Adobe PDF format. (2/23/00)

Draft report to Congress on the costs and benefits of federal regulations
Source: U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Country: United States

The OMB has posted for public comment the latest figures on the "efficiency" of federal government regulations. The dollar values of environmental quality gains attributable to environmental regulation make for interesting reading. Adobe PDF format. (1/00)

Big government and bad science: Ten case studies in regulatory abuse
Source: Institute for Policy Innovation
Country: United States

"This year's report on 10 of the worst regulations of the federal government features environmental and other regulations where the combination of bad science and big government results in regulatory madness that needlessly infringes on the freedom of American citizens and corporations." (11/30/99)

Progress in federal regulatory policy: 1980-2000
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Murray Weidenbaum
Country: United States

A look back at twenty years of command-and-control regulation in the United States, and a look forward into the future of market environmentalism. Available in Adobe PDF format.(5/2/00)

The case for public access to federally funded research data
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Michael Gough and Steven Milloy
Country: United States

Michael Gough and Steven Milloy make the case that "independent review of federally funded research is crucial both for good science and for good public policy." The full report is available in Adobe PDF. (2/2/00)

The EPA's record in federal court
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States

Adler provides proof of overzealous and unconstitutional environmental policymaking under the current EPA administration. EPA has lost most of its cases heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals. (5/00)

Federal estate: Is bigger better?
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Holly Lippke Fretwell
Country: United States

The Clinton Administration's billion-dollar federal land grab proposal is making its way through Congress. Considering the current state of federal land management, is taking more land out of private ownership good for the environment? (5/00)

Federal regulatory spending reaches new high in 2001
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Melinda Warren
Country: United States

The price tag of federal regulation for 2001 is a record-high $19.8 billion. The Clinton Administration will leave a legacy of a 22% increase regulatory spending. CSAB report available in Adobe PDF format.(6/23/00)

Jump, jive, an' reform regulation
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr.
Country: United States

The latest CEI guidance document on regulatory reform recommends better agency cost accounting and stronger congressional oversight of spending, and less dependence on the $100 million cost-benefit litmus test. (2/29/00)

Choking black prosperity
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Syd Gernstein
Country: United States

On the backs of America's black families are the burdens of zero health risks from air pollutants. Economic justice, anyone? (9/00)

The time for Superfund reform is now
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Michael Centrone
Country: United States

The super waste of Superfund won't bring back two decades of jobs lost to hypothetical and unrealistic risks. But a risk-projecting remediation policy might. (9/00)

A policymaker's snapshot of the federal regulatory budget
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr.
Country: United States

CEI has assessed the reported annual cost of federal regulation and added in the hidden costs. Guess where almost one-fifth of the U.S. GDP goes. (5/00) Available in Adobe PDF format.

EPA hinders urban cleanups -- deforest service
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Dana Joel Gattuso
Country: United States

Superfund is super if you're a federal regulator, an attorney, or a consultant, but it hasn't been very super at cleaning up communities' contaminated sites. (12/00)

Deforest service
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Holly Lippke Fretwell
Country: United States

National forests aren't just for timber harvesting any more. Americans need a forest service that can meet their demands. Or maybe the U.S. doesn't need a forest service any more at all. It's a burning question out in burning Bozeman. (8/29/00)

CEI comments on the National Organic Program
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Country: United States

USDA's proposal to standardize and label organic foods tramples competition and defies the Constitution. (6/00)

Is no use good use?
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Holly Lippke Fretwell
Country: United States

"Lands should be managed for their highest valued uses ... Only by acknowledging the various land use values can we be the best stewards of our public lands." (05/01)

Violation of property rights at root of DDT disaster
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss
Country: United States

"Two PERC researchers, reviewing the history of the banned pesticide DDT, have concluded that violation of private property rights lies at the heart of the conflict over DDT." The full report is also available in Adobe PDF. (05/23/01)

When the unelected rule: Ten case studies in regulatory abuse
Source: The Institute for Policy Innovation
Author: Joseph Knollenberg, Susan E. Dudley, Bonner R. Cohen, Christopher H. Foreman
Country: United States

"This annual listing of ten of the worst regulations of the federal government, jointly produced with the Lexington Institute, focuses this year on environmental and technology regulations." (1/10/01)

The greening of foreign policy
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Terry L. Anderson and J. Bishop Grewell
Country: United States

"Bringing environmental issues into foreign policy-making and international law endangers trade, national sovereignty, and, ironically, long-term environmental improvement..." (11/00)

Politics, science, and arsenic standards
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Angela Logomasini
Country: United States

CEI's Angela Logomasini reviews the science behind the last-minute Clinton Administration effort to adjust arsenic standards for drinking water. It turns out there isn't much science behind it. (05/16/01)

Clinton's last-minute environmental regs
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Ben Lieberman
Country: United States

The Congressional Review Act allows Congress the opportunity to review midnight regulations from outgoing administrations. CEI's Ben Lieberman mentions some of the Clinton Administration's environmental regulatory proposals that need a closer look. (03/27/01)

School buses and diesel fuel
Source: American Council on Science and Health
Author: Daland R. Juberg
Country: United States

"Contrary to the claims of the activist group Natural Resources Defense Council, there is no scientific validity to fears that diesel exhaust emissions from school buses pose a cancer risk to schoolchildren." This report examines the issue in-depth. It is available in Adobe PDF. (06/01)

CAFE's three strikes - it should be out
Source: NCPA
Author: H. Sterling Burnett
Country: United States

The federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard is morally bankrupt and an indefensible public policy -- an experiment that has killed almost as many people as the number of military personnel lost in the Vietnam war. (02/13/02)

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