Opinion
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Baby Boomers Are Living Proof That Pesticides Are Safe
Opinion -The Baby Boom generation holds a lot of distinctions, but one you may not have thought about is this: Baby Boomers are the first generation to grow up eating food treated with pesticides. -
06/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -EPA Accused of Financial Mismanagement The Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General issued a 76-page report accusing the agency of mismanaging taxpayer funds and improperly awarding non-competitive grants to the Center for Chesapeake -
Safe Drinking Water: EPA’s Misguided Policy on Chloroform
Opinion -Late last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rendered one of the most troubling decisions in its stormy 29-year history. Faced with having to choose between science and politics, the agency opted for the latter. -
Inhofe Spots Terrorist Roadmap at EPA
Opinion -“I believe EPA has lost sight of the purpose of this data,” Senator James Inhofe said at the opening of his March 16 hearing into the Environmental Protection Agency’s reckless handling of its Risk Management Program. -
06/1999 Legislative Update
Opinion -American Sovereignty The American Sovereignty Protection Act has been reintroduced as HR-883, sponsored in the House by Don Young (R-Alaska) with 137 co-sponsors, and S-510, sponsored by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado). -
Policies That Emanate from Liberty Most Successful: an Exclusive Interview with Becky Norton Dunlop
Opinion -Becky Norton Dunlop served as Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1994 to 1998. During her tenure, the state's economy was booming, providing more jobs and record levels of investment. -
Kyoto Protocol’s Impact on U.S. Economy
Opinion -In 1997, the White House projected that 900,000 U.S. jobs would be lost by the year 2005 if the country were to stabilize its carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels. The administration-supported Kyoto Protocol, however, actually requires the U.S. -
Junk Science Update: Fist-icuffs
Opinion -International cyber-boxing is here. I know. I've just been hit below the belt by Stewart Fist, the (anti)technology columnist for The Australian. -
Study: Kyoto Protocol Flawed and Dangerous
Opinion -The Kyoto global warming accord is so deeply flawed, say analysts at the Reason Public Policy Institute (RPPI), that it is likely to do “far more harm than good. -
Florida Approves Voucher Escape Route
Opinion -With the Florida legislature’s passage of the nation's first statewide school voucher plan, children in failing schools in the Sunshine State will have the means to escape: an education voucher worth roughly $4,000 a year for use at any accredited -
Save the Schools, Save the City
Opinion -We should welcome the fact that the "immune system of the urban public school system is breaking down" because saving public schools is one of the keys to city renewal, said Paul Grogan, vice president of government, community, and public affairs at -
Small Unions Must Disclose Political Spending
Opinion -A federal judge in California has ruled that eight local affiliates of the California Teachers Association (CTA) and six Bay Area school districts violated teachers' constitutional rights. -
Farm Bureau: Anti-pesticides Report a ‘Shameless Attempt’ to Frighten the Public
Opinion -Leading scientists agree that Americans enjoy the world's safest, most abundant food supply. -
Campaign Launched to Add Millions of Prairie Dogs to Endangered Species List
Opinion -School children, always eager to befriend warm and fuzzy animals, are now being recruited by environmentalists and a major corporation to come to the defense of the prolific and destructive prairie dog. -
Forest Service Builds Tank Traps in National Forest
Opinion -“Nowhere is the administration’s agenda of ‘locking up the land and keeping people out’ more evident than in the Targhee [National Forest],” Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) told Environment News. -
Experts: No quick fix for failing schools
Opinion -To turn around low-performing schools, policymakers and educators must "create educational safe-havens for the children who are being victimized by dysfunctional schools. -
How the Scholarships Work
Opinion -Last year, when entrepreneur Ted Forstmann and investor John Walton formed the Children's Scholarship Fund, they each offered to put up $50 million for private scholarships of between $600 and $1,600 for children in grades K-8 who qualified for the -
EPA Must Change Before States Accept Responsibility for Environment Policy
Opinion -Despite its public statements professing eagerness to cooperate more with the states, the U.S. -
Legislation Proposed to Rein in Forest Service
Opinion -Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) has introduced the “Forest Roads Community Right-to-Know Act” to ensure local public participation in any decisions of the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management to permanently close a forest road. -
Court: It’s OK to Drain Wetlands
Opinion -In a ruling with far-reaching implications, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's finding that landowners and local government agencies are free to drain wetlands without permits or interference from the Army Corps of -
Urban School Reforms Don’t Improve Education
Opinion -Frederick M. Hess Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform Brookings Institution Press, 228 pp., $39.95 "A frenetic search for quick solutions is precisely the kind of leadership unlikely to produce long-term improvement. -
School choice news from the states
Opinion -State Nixes Secession Bid The California state school board has rejected an attempt by residents in Lomita, a 2,000-student suburban community south of Los Angeles, to secede from the 700,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District. -
Study: States Should Take the Wheel of Environmental Progress
Opinion -Despite claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the contrary, states are not failing as environmental regulators, according to a new report from the Reason Public Policy Institute (RPPI). -
Land Trust Spotlight
Opinion -Arizona By comparison in Massachusetts--where the first land trust was created in the 1880s--only 1 percent of the land is in government hands.