Opinion
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Heritage Rivers Opposition Collapses
Opinion -Opposition to President Clinton’s American Heritage Rivers Initiative (AHRI) appears to have all but collapsed in the U. S. House of Representatives. -
Sensenbrenner: EPA Settlement with NRDC Looks Too Much Like Kyoto Treaty Implementation
Opinion -In a further escalation of tensions between Congress and the White House over global warming policy, House Science Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin) has voiced strong objections to a proposed consent agreement he says represents an -
No Link Found between Global Warming and Mosquito-borne Diseases
Opinion -The popular belief that mosquito-borne diseases--chief among them malaria, dengue, and yellow fever--will spread if global temperatures start to rise ignores both science and history, an infectious-disease expert told a briefing for Congressional -
Century-Old Mining Law Not Yet Out-of-Date, Report Says
Opinion -The 1872 federal Mining Law, which governs the right to mine gold, silver, copper, uranium, and other hardrock minerals from federal lands, works much better than its critics contend, according to a new analysis by PERC, a Bozeman, Montana-based think -
Child-Centered School Funding: Key to Education Reform
Opinion -Knotty issues of school finance and school construction, raised by state courts in Arizona and Ohio and plaguing state legislatures nationwide, would be addressed by a “child-centered” approach to education funding that differs dramatically from the -
CO2 Regulation Would Affect One Million Smaller Businesses
Opinion -EPA’s threat to classify carbon dioxide (CO2) as a regulated “pollutant” would generate an enormous bureaucracy and impose legal and economic burdens on at least one million businesses, “the entire heart of the American economy,” according to a study -
Don’t Like the Weather? Don’t Blame it on Global Warming
Opinion -In recent years, advocates of the global warming theory have convinced many Americans that virtually any weather-related calamity is evidence that human-induced global warming is underway. -
Federal Court Rejects EPA Secondhand Smoke Study
Opinion -In one of the most embarrassing setbacks for EPA in recent memory, a federal judge has thrown out the agency’s landmark 1993 risk assessment linking secondhand smoke to cancer. -
Study: EPA Botched Analysis of Great Lakes Initiative
Opinion -Heralded by environmental groups as an example of cost-effective regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Initiative (GLI) will cost U.S. businesses and taxpayers an astounding $1 million for every $5.00 in benefits it produces. -
The Ups and Downs of Paycheck Protection
Opinion -In 1992, Washington became the first state in the nation to pass a campaign reform initiative, Initiative 134, that required businesses and labor unions to obtain employees' written consent before money was deducted from their paychecks for political -
We Cannot Afford to Wait Any Longer
Opinion -While the clout of most politicians declines after leaving office, just the opposite is happening to former Democratic Congressman Floyd H. Flake. -
Where There’s Fuel, There’s Bound to be Wildfire
Opinion -When Vice President Al Gore claimed there was a 1 in 1,000 chance that the wildfires that ravaged Florida during June and July would have occurred without global warming, he actually overstated the odds. -
White House Releases Economic Analysis on Global Warming
Opinion -The White House has forwarded to Congress a detailed report outlining an Administration analysis that concludes the United States can meet the emissions reductions mandated by the Kyoto climate change treaty at "modest" cost to the economy. -
Earth Day 1998: Coalition Demands that EPA Punish Real Polluters, Not Paperwork Errors
Opinion -At a Washington, DC Earth Day briefing on April 22, a coalition of groups led by the National Center for Policy and CREA (???) called on the federal government to ease the environmental regulatory burden on American citizens and businesses. -
Charter School Notes
Opinion -If a charter school's goal is something vague, like developing good citizens, it will be much more difficult for the school's sponsors to authorize whether a charter should be renewed or not, warns a March 16 report from the University of Minnesota's -
Solid Advances in School Choice Reported
Opinion -Nearly 32 states considered a school choice program of some kind in 1997, and at least 45 governors stated their support for different degrees of school choice or charter schools, according to a new report from The Heritage Foundation. -
Indiana U. Voucher Analysis Labeled “Faulty”
Opinion -Contradicting the findings of an analysis conducted by Indiana University's School of Education, Harvard University researchers conclude from a re-analysis of the data that, in fact, students in Cleveland's choice schools show academic gains in all -
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CORA Legislation Advances
Opinion -A bill that would strengthen Capitol Hill’s oversight of federal regulatory agencies by creating a new Congressional office to review the costs and benefits of proposed rules is picking up momentum. H.R. -
EPA Charged With Widespread Abuse of Power
Opinion -In a landmark report released May 12 by the Alexandria, Virginia-based National Wilderness Institute (NWI), EPA is charged with grossly misusing science to achieve political ends; intimidating and harassing its own employees who question agency -
Blowing the Whistle on EPA’s Widespread Abuse
Opinion -Editor's note: The following letter to the editor appeared in the June 10 issue of The Washington Times, and is reprinted here with permission. -
Poison Pill Inactivated
Opinion -With the withdrawal of the California charter school initiative, a "poison pill" that would have closed the award-winning Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter School on June 30 has been deactivated. -
School Reform Lessons from Texas
Opinion -Many lessons about accountability can be drawn from the successes of school districts across Texas, according to Policy Review assistant editor Tyce Palmaffy: Decentralization is critical. -
New California Charter Law Boosts School Choice
Opinion -California's citizen initiative process scored a major victory for school choice on May 7, when Governor Pete Wilson signed into law a bill that dramatically strengthens the state's charter school law, allowing an immediate doubling of the number of