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Cutting Green Tape: Toxic pollutants, environmental regulation and the law
Source: Independent Institute/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Richard L. Stroup and Roger E. Meiners (Eds.)
Country: United States

Stroup and Meiners team up to provide a series of articles that explain who the real winners have been under federal policies to clean up toxic wastes. They offer an alternative approach that rewards action rather than talk. (294pp., paper, 1999, LFB price $19.95.)

Hard Green: Saving the environment from the environmentalists, a conservative manifesto
Source: Basic Books/Amazon.com
Author: Peter Huber
Country: United States

Peter Huber draws a strong distinction between the pragmatic "hard green" environmentalists and the often overly risk-averse "soft green" environmentalists in a work that is sure to be a stimulus for future exchanges on the topic. (Pub 11/00, 224 pp. paper, Amazon price $10.50)

A Burning Issue: A Case for Abolishing the U.S. Forest Service
Source: Amazon.com
Author: Robert H. Nelson
Country: United States

University of Maryland professor, Robert H. Nelson, teaches a timely lesson about bureaucratic intransigence. Meanwhile, the "managed" forests keep burning out west. (288 pages, pb, Feb. 2000, Amazon price: $24.95 each)

Haunted Housing
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Cassandra Moore
Country: United States

This book discusses "[h]ow toxic scare stories are spooking the public out of house and home." Cassandra Moore "outlines the government-created misperceptions of risk affecting buyers and sellers of homes, tenants and landlords, brokers and agents." (10/00)

Lead Astray
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Peter Samuel
Country: United States

An interesting, in-depth examination of how EPA has bungled the lead cleanup issue. Very well researched and presented. 9/02 Freedom Book of the Month. (Pub. 9/02, 244 pp., trade paper, $24.95)

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