ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Environment

A six-point environmental flexibility checklist
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Christopher A. Hartwell
Country: United States

"RPPI's "how-to" checklist on making innovation work in your state. The lessons learned from some of our policy research are general enough to fit most situations, and have been tested at the local and state level." (9/99)

Environmental policy proposals from PERC
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Country: United States

PERC makes recommendations on policy changes to the incoming Bush Administration. Market-oriented solutions are offered in the areas of endangered species, national monuments, grazing rights, recreation fees, and water management. (06/01)

Paying to play: The Fee Demonstration Program
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Holly Lippke Fretwell
Country: United States

This PERC Policy Series discusses the U.S. government's new Fee Demonstration Program -- an application of market-based environmentalism with early signs of promise for evolving into free-market restoration and maintenance of federal recreation areas. Adobe PDF. (11/99)

Seeking Safety in a Dangerous World: A Risk Reduction Framework for Policymakers
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Kenneth Green, D.Env
Country: United States

Current politicized approaches to protecting environmental health can create more problems than they solve. "Green argues that a successful risk-reduction strategy uses a big-picture perspective, prioritizes risks, uses sound science, and first targets risks for which policy makers can get the most bang for the buck." RPPI Policy Study No. 261. (9/99)

The increasing sustainability of cars, trucks, and the internal combustion engine
Source: The Hearltand Institute
Author: Joseph L. Bast and Jay Lehr
Country: United States
E-mail: think@heartland.org

Cars and trucks deliver benefits that far exceed their costs to society. Moreover, concerns over future shortages of oil, loss of farmland, air quality, and global warming don't justify restrictions on our freedom to travel. Command-and-control regulations should be replaced with a "peaceful means-protecting approach" to environmental problems. Available in HTML and Adobe Acrobat. (6/22/00)

Forest Service Reform in the Works
Source: Thoreau Institute
Country: United States

Thoreau Institute offers an insightful look at what's really going on right now with federalism and Forest Service reform. (11/7/99)

Regulating environmental risks with balance
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Richard Wilson
Country: United States

Risks in society can be reduced but not eliminated. Environmental risks are no exception. Why does government try to eliminate some risks completely, while ignoring others? (3/00) Adobe PDF.

The environment and the election
Source: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Author: Karlyn Bowman
Country: United States

"As the 2000 presidential election draws near, Karlyn Bowman predicts that environmental issues will not play a significant role." (6/00)

Environmental 'rights': special rights or no rights at all?
Source: Association For Liberal Thinking
Author: Jo Kwong
Country: Turkey

"[T]here is no need to develop an entirely new area of rights called 'environmental rights'. The key to encouraging stewardship of the environment is to find ways to create markets in its resources, based on private property rights and voluntary exchange." This study shows how and why the US regulatory approach has failed to help the environment and sometimes has harmed it. (03/98)

Index of environmental indicators 2000
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Steven Hayward, Elizabeth Fowler, Laura Steadman
Country: United States

Pacific Research Institute's annual index of environmental indicators is now available at the Institute's Web site in Adobe PDF format. (4/00)

Earth Day, then and now
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Ronald Bailey
Country: United States

Ronald Bailey explains why "the planet's future has never looked better." (5/00)

The Levin-Thompson proposal: How regulatory improvement veers off track
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Angela Antonelli
Country: United States

Read the latest study on what's good and what's bad about proposed regulatory reform bills to limit new environmental regulations in the United States to ones that are likely to be the most cost-beneficial. (11/1/99)

The new conservation movement
Source: Thoreau Institute
Author: Randall O'Toole
Country: United States

O'Toole explains the distinction between "preservationists" and "conservationists," and he describes how the balance of power between the two is shifting. (12/99)

PERC Reports for December 1999
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Country: United States

The December issue of PERC Reports features articles on ecosystem management, land trusts, "smart growth" and transportation, and the politics of Superfund. (12/1/1999)

Time for a new environmental justice policy
Source: The National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Michael Centrone
Country: United States

Preventing miniscule environmental health risks at the expense of significant economic development opportunities is hardly justice for the socially disadvantaged. (6/00)

December 2000 PERC Reports
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Country: United States

In the December 2000 issue of PERC Reports, free-market environmentalism pioneers Donald Leal and Terry Anderson reflect on accomplishments over the past two decades. Available in Adobe PDF format. (12/00)

March 2001 PERC reports
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Country: United States

PERC researchers report on the greening of foreign policy and the environmental impacts of modern agriculture, and much more. (03/01)

Four suggestions for improving environmental health policy
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Kenneth W. Chilton
Country: United States

There's increasing concern about public health risks from environmental contamination, even though contamination is decreasing. This is due to information that is incomplete and out of context. Available in Adobe PDF format. (9/00)

Evaluation of President Bush's energy plan
Source: Heritage Foundation
Country: United States

Prepared by the Center for Data Analysis in partnership with DRI/WEFA, Inc. the study evaluates the plan’s effects in major energy markets and in the general economy. (08/05/01)

The environmental challenge to federalism
Source: Social Science Research Network Electronic Library
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States

The recent Supreme Court ruling on federal wetlands regulations has put a spotlight on the issue of environmental federalism. Jonathan Adler explores conventional environmentalists' claims of an expected environmental race to the bottom by states. (03/01)

Reforming hazardous waste policy
Source: Hoover Institution
Author: Hilary Sigman
Country: United States
E-mail: hoover@free-market.net

Hazardous waste policy encourages illegal dumping and places harsh regulations on waste that isn't proven to be dangerous. Utilizing economic incentives and a stricter scientific standard would encourage safe waste disposal and save taxpayer money. (06/99)

EPA’s CAFO Rule
Source: Mercatus Center
Author: Sean Blacklocke
Country: United States

"Most point sources of water pollution are highly regulated. Further tightening of point source discharge regulations would add substantial costs while providing only small marginal improvements in water quality." This report is available in Microsoft Word format. (07/30/01)

Liberal legal standing, scant environmental progress
Source: Social Science Research Network Electronic Library
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States

"...Liberalized (legal) standing rules, insofar as they do not make standing contingent upon any tangible, identifiable environmental harm, cannot be assumed to enhance environmental quality." (1/7/01)

Tax reform for the environment
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: George Pieler
Country: United States

“Real tax reform, defined in terms of flattening rates and eliminating special tax favors, is a much sounder environmental policy than the highly-touted ‘reforms’ environmental activists promote...” Available in Adobe PDF format. (10/00)

From waste to wilderness
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Robert H. Nelson
Country: United States

CEI fellow Bob Nelson investigates opportunities to maintain biodiversity on nuclear bomb building sites while getting more bang for the buck from their cleanup. (03/20/01)

The environmental Kuznets Curve: a primer
Source: PERC
Author: Bruce Yandle, Maya Vijayaraghavan and Madhusudan Bhattarai
Country: United States

Subtitled, "How rising incomes lead to greater environmental quality," this study examines the systematic relationship between income changes and environmental quality, known as the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), which has become standard fare in technical conversations about environmental policy. (05/15/02)

The greening of U.S. foreign policy
Source: Hoover Digest
Author: Terry L. Anderson
Country: United States
E-mail: hoover@free-market.net

"The environmental movement has managed to place its agenda smack in the middle of American foreign policy. This is not good news." (Spring, 2001)

It is time to reevaluate the Toxic Release Inventory
Source: Mercatus Center
Author: Susan E. Dudley
Country: United States

Dudley testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight regarding the science and economics of the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory rules. (PDF file) (06/02)

Hormonally Active Chemicals in the Environment
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Joel Schwartz
Country: United States

This report concludes that "[l]ow-level exposure to chemicals in the environment is unlikely to damage human endocrine systems or cause increased rates of cancer, declines in sperm counts, or other disorders." Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed. (04/09/02)

Let Fifty Flowers Bloom: Transforming the States into Laboratories of Environmental Policy
Source: The Federalism Project
Author: Jonathan Adler
Country: United States

Adler makes the case for devolving environmental policy to the states as a means of determining which alternatives among a diverse array of prescriptions work best.

An evaluation of EPA's reform recommendations
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Joseph L. Bast, Jay Lehr, and James Taylor
Country: United States

"On June 13, 2002, the EPA released its Report to the President on New Source Review (NSR), a program created by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 to regulate emissions from new or substantially modified factories and power plants. We have been asked whether the recommendations for NSR reform contained in EPA's 2002 Report to the President are justified ..." (07/02)

Variable-Rate or 'Pay-As-You-Throw' Waste Management: Answers to frequently asked questions
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Lisa A. Skumatz and Kenneth Green
Country: United States

This report explores the innovative solid-waste collection system called "pay as you throw," which charges customers by the amount of trash they dispose of. (PDF file) (07/02)

Bush's environmental policy midterm report card
Source: PERC
Author: Bruce Yandle and Jane S. Shaw (Eds.)
Country: United States

The Bush administration is evaluated in 16 environmental categories, with an overall midterm grade of C- assigned by PERC. (PDF file) (1/03)

2003 index of leading environmental indicators
Source: PRI
Author: Steven F. Hayward
Country: United States

Eighth edition, presenting updated trend information on numerous environmental quality measures, plus an overview of notable books and studies. New this year is a feature on the best and worst environmental journalism. (PDF file) (4/03)

Removing muck with markets: A case study on pollutant trading for cleaner water
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Michael DeAlessi
State: WI, Country: United States

"Regulatory restrictions on nutrient and suspended solid pollution have improved water quality in most U.S. watersheds. ... A good example is Wisconsin's Fox-Wolf River Basin where poor water quality remains a problem. .... Market mechanisms ... offer a promising avenue to further and more practical improvements in water quality in the nation's watersheds." (PDF file) (08/12/03)

2004 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators
Source: PRI
Author: Steven F Hayward
Country: United States

Ninth annual report, bearing mostly good news on environmental issues for the U.S. (4/04) (PDF file; paper edition available for $14.95)

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