Opinion
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09/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -Power Line Scare Was Faked The scientist who issued the 1992 report linking electromagnetic fields with childhood leukemia and other diseases faked his data, according to the federal Office of Research Integrity. -
Kakadu to You
Opinion -At a summer meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, an attempt was made by that world-wide environmental bureaucracy to dictate land use in Australia. An alphabet soup of U.N. -
Livable Communities, Wise Land Use, and Corn
Opinion -There is nothing like a drive across the fruited plain--which, I get the impression, few liberal politicians have taken--to convince you that the free market, operated by free citizens, is the best arbiter of land use. -
Senate Votes to Restrict Access to ‘Worst-case Scenario’ Information
Opinion -In a setback for EPA and anti-industry environmental groups, the Senate has postponed for one year the electronic release of sensitive data relating to worst-case accident scenarios at thousands of chemical facilities throughout the nation. -
08/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -Canadian Firm Sues U.S. over Ban on MTBE Methanex Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia has filed a $970 million lawsuit against the United States because California has banned the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. -
The Greening of Amerika: Earth First! vs. Liberty
Opinion -“Environmentalism, with its ‘Earth First!’ arguments, represents a ‘Leviathan Two’ menace which may become more dangerous than old socialism,” Vaclav Klaus told a group of Heritage Foundation members in Philadelphia recently. -
Clean up America by Cleaning out EPA
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency, having been turned into a political tool by the current administration, has jeopardized the lives of the American people and the quality of our environment. -
Opposition to CEQ Appointment Mounts
Opinion -A growing number of environmentalists are opposing the appointment of a “proven ideologue” to the vacant chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). George T. Frampton Jr. -
MTBE: Refiners Damned If They Use It, Damned If They Don’t
Opinion -California gasoline refiners, distributors, and retailers have found themselves in an impossible situation as a result of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to do its homework on MTBE (methyl tertiary-butyl ether). -
On-site in Buenos Aires
Opinion -BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--When Peter Burleigh, the acting U.S. -
Administration Attempts End-Run on Kyoto Protocol
Opinion -Two months after the Kyoto Protocol was declared “dead on arrival” by a chorus of Congressional critics, opponents of the controversial global warming treaty now fear the administration is implementing the accord by regulatory fiat. -
States: EPA Stifles Innovation and Opposes Flexibility
Opinion -State regulators testifying on November 4 before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, at a hearing titled “Federal-State Relationship: A Look into EPA Regulatory Reinvention Efforts,” were highly critical of EPA’s approach to -
Texas Environment Agency, EPA Clash Again
Opinion -Responding to the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to make available on the Internet detailed information on the environmental performance of hundreds of producers of petroleum products, paper, steel, other metals, and automobiles, Barry McBee,