Opinion
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Increased congestion and proposed solutions
Opinion -Contrary to well-publicized claims by the anti-automobile Surface Transportation Policy Project, cities that have emphasized transit over highways experienced the greatest increases in congestion over the past two decades. -
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Table: Change in travel time from 1982 to 1999
Opinion -This table lays out the time traveled, the hours spent on the road, etc., by noted smart growth and transportation scholar Randall O'Toole. -
Study: All growth but “smart growth” pays for itself
Opinion -In fast-growing regions, “smart-growth” advocates often use people's fears that existing residents are forced to subsidize newcomers in order to build support for restricted growth policies. -
Recent forest fires traced to reduced logging
Opinion -A growing number of severe forest fires in recent years has many environmental scientists convinced America should open up its National Forests to a greater annual timber harvest. -
Klamath Falls bucket brigade protests water shutoff
Opinion -More than 20,000 people held a “bucket brigade” in Klamath Falls, Oregon on May 7 to protest the federal government’s decision to cut off irrigation water that serves more than 90 percent of the farmers in the area. -
‘Smart Growth’ a major cause of traffic congestion
Opinion -To no one’s surprise, the latest traffic congestion numbers from the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) show that traffic congestion is increasing across the nation. -
Environmentalists seek ESA protection for local orcas
Opinion -Anti-logging and anti-commercial fishing advocacy groups on May 1 petitioned the federal government to grant endangered species status to a group of Pacific Northwest orcas known as the “southern residents. -
Interior Secretary Norton to block reintroduction of grizzlies
Opinion -Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has decided to scrap a Clinton administration plan to reintroduce grizzly bears into areas of Montana and Idaho. -
Judge blocks Clinton-Bush ban on roads in National Forests
Opinion -A federal judge in Idaho has blocked a ban on new roads in nearly half of America’s National Forests, ruling the ban would cause irreparable harm to multi-use interests. -
IPCC: “More politics than science,” scientist says
Opinion -In an early March briefing before congressional staff, members of the press, and scientists, Professor Richard S. -
God knows where the wild creatures belong
Opinion -Introductions of new species or restoration efforts can be construed as quite presumptuous. -
Bush nominates Norton, Whitman to cabinet posts
Opinion -According to many New Era Environmentalists, the partnership of Carol Browner at EPA and Bruce Babbitt at the Interior Department has been a long nightmare for rural Americans, advocates of sound science, and market-based environmental policies. -
Debate rages over future of Green Party
Opinion -Ralph Nader's Green Party arrived on the scene last summer with a big bang. Many people feel it left with a whimper when the dust settled on the strangest of all national elections. -
ACLU challenges anti-protester rules
Opinion -From a tea party in Boston Harbor to Vietnam War marches, protesting against government is firmly rooted in the American psyche. -
Poor nations can’t afford debate on gene-altered crops
Opinion -Cape Town, South Africa—Recent world conferences on agricultural biotechnology have made it unmistakably clear that if governments foil the growth of this technology, mankind will be denied solutions to a host of problems that plague many nations, -
Africa Cries Out for Genetically Modified Foods
Opinion -Project 21, an African-American leadership network, has been joined by African leaders in urging that Africa be provided with the tools it needs to feed its people. -
Can Biotechnology Survive Bad Science, Media Hype, and Environmental Extremists?
Opinion -In August 1999, television viewers across the country tuned in to CBS Evening News heard correspondent Wyatt Andrews say, “This growing concern over biotechnology in the food chain is also reflected in a new study, the first field study to show that -
Government deceit uncovered at proposed Darby National Wildlife Refuge
Opinion -"I'm astounded at these FOIA documents—that three organizations think they can get together and partition an entire county." David Dhume Commissioner, Madison County LONDON, Ohio—Claims that the U.S. -
Recreation access groups win legal fight
Opinion -On December 22, a federal judge gave pro-access recreation advocates a stunning victory when he ruled against a national preservationist group's legal effort to ban off-highway vehicle (OHV) use on millions of acres in Utah. -
Who will be the new EPA administrator?
Opinion -The tumultuous election of 2000 will cast its shadow over the American polity for years to come. As these lines are being written, Texas Gov. George W. -
Scientists assail climate treaty
Opinion -In the midst of international negotiations on how to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from energy use, “dissident” scientists vocally objected to the underlying premise that individual and industrial human activities influence nature's -
Environmental extremists destroying National Forests
Opinion -The year 2000 will be remembered in forestry circles as the year of the Big Burn. At no time in our previous record-keeping has the total acreage burned in our National Forests approached the levels of last year. -
Sprawl for me, but not for thee
Opinion -Perhaps the oddest political coalition in America today is the alliance between anti-suburban intellectuals and suburban "slow growth" activists.