Opinion
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11/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -Senate Endorses Continued CAFE Freeze On September 15, the Senate rejected by a 55-40 vote an effort to lift a five-year-old freeze on corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards. -
Commentary: Clemency for Terrorists Endangers Nation’s Businesses, Researchers
Opinion -When President Clinton offered clemency to 16 Puerto Rican nationalists who waged a campaign of terror-bombing in the 1970s and 1980s, he dramatically increased the danger posed to American businesses and researchers by the most organized terrorist -
An Informed Citizen Is a Powerful Force: an Exclusive Interview with Dr. Lester Crawford
Opinion -Frank Maisano The Center is a graduate studies program that manages the Ceres Conferences. In these five or six major conferences per year, government, industry, academia, and consumer groups constructively discuss issues in food and nutrition policy. -
11/1999 Legislative Update
Opinion -This bill, requiring Congressional approval for United Nations land designations on U.S. soil, has 14 Senate cosponsors for its run as S-510. -
Appropriations Bill Provision Survives Senate Challenge
Opinion -A provision to give the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture wide discretion on how species surveys are conducted on federal lands, added to the Senate Appropriations Bill (Section 329) by Senators Slade Gorton (R-Washington) and Larry Craig -
Cypress Bay Plantation: a Testimonial to Private Ownership and Vision
Opinion -Over the Labor Day weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting Skeet Burris' 1000-acre tree farm, Cypress Bay Plantation, in the pine woods of South Carolina's coastal plain. -
Low-Flow Toilet Law Needs No Fix
Opinion -The summer heat wave that affected the East Coast and the Midwest, causing serious water shortages, serves to remind us all how important clean, safe water is to our health and comfort. -
Federal Government Has No Business in Your Bathroom
Opinion -It is no great secret that over the years Washington has gotten more intrusive in the daily lives of the American people. -
Victim Impact Statement: Small Businessman Ruined Due to Federal Raid
Opinion -Earl Peck opened his exotic foods distribution business in 1993. Little did he know that what began as a promising entrepreneurial venture would turn into a regulatory nightmare that has yet to end. -
Animal Law: No Longer a Sideshow
Opinion -“Would even bacteria have rights?” Richard Epstein, professor of law at the University of Chicago, recently asked The New York Times. -
Commentary: ‘Smart Growth’ Won’t Save Cities, but a Market Solution Might
Opinion -One reason for the popularity of the "Smart Growth" idea among some public officials is the claim that curbing new development at the outskirts of metropolitan areas can revive declining central cities. -
Interim Report on Amoco Cancer Cluster Released
Opinion -Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins University, brought in by Amoco Corp. (now BP Amoco PLC) to study an apparent cluster of brain tumor cases, released an interim report on August 5. -
Family Ousted from Home on Columbia River
Opinion -Thirteen months after Brian and Jody Bea built their home overlooking the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Commission not only decided they couldn’t live there, but also mandated that the house be -
Cancer Clusters: Statistically Inevitable?
Opinion -Scientists and environmentalists often differ in their explanations for why "cancer clusters"--unusually high numbers of cancer cases in a small area--occur. -
Dixy Lee Ray Symposium: CO2 Levels: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Opinion -As the world's economies continue to rely on fossil fuels, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere continue to rise. Is that good news or bad? And if it's bad, what is the "something" we should do about it? -
Crawford: Regulatory Improvement Act Would Achieve ‘Long-sought Goal of Science-based Decision-making’
Opinion -In my view and based on my experience, S. 746, the "Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999," would remedy a pernicious problem that has increasingly bedeviled the U.S. rule-making process. -
Alaska’s Forests Left to Die by Government ‘Stewards’
Opinion -Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula is a lush, green wilderness pointing southwest from Anchorage toward Kodiak Island . . . no more. -
Ferries Under Fire
Opinion -Ferry boats each year provide 100 million passengers in 35 states with an alternative means of transportation that not only relieves traffic congestion, but often provides breathtaking views of their natural surroundings. -
11/1999 Junk Science Report: Smog and Mirrors
Opinion -New York’s attorney general plans to seek “enormous” legal damages from coal-fired power plants in the Midwest and South unless they stop polluting New York’s air. The U.S. -
Better America Bonds
Opinion -Vice President Al Gore, whose efforts to rid the country of urban sprawl and greenhouse gases have already made him the designated “environmentalist” candidate for the Y2K Presidential nomination, could soon have at his disposal $9. -
Chicago Moves Fast to Halt Beetle Spread
Opinion -In sharp contrast to the federal government’s inaction when faced with a beetle invasion, Chicago, Illinois moved quickly when it discovered trees infested by the Asian long-horned beetle. -
Federal District Court Brings Northwest Timber Sales to a Standstill
Opinion -Federal District Court Judge William Dwyer in Seattle granted a temporary injunction against 25 timber sales, after having previously halted nine projects involving 22 sales in early August. -
Going Ape
Opinion -“We demand the extension of the community of equals to include all great apes: human beings, chimpanzees, and orangutans,” declared the Great Ape Project, an animal rights group whose U.S. headquarters is listed as a post office box in Portland, Oregon. -
USDA Forest Service Works with Local Groups
Opinion -The U.S. Forest Service recently took a major step to protect spotted owl habitat and preserve old-growth forests, while at the same time providing for selective logging and clearing underbrush that causes wildfires.
