Opinion
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Whitman requires Hudson dredging
Opinion -Pulling out of last-minute negotiations for a compromise solution, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman announced on August 1 the agency would require the General Electric Company to pay over half a billion dollars to dredge a -
Mayor says Seattle will implement Kyoto Protocol
Opinion -Seattle Mayor Paul Schell announced at a July 24 press conference that his city would abide by the Kyoto Protocol, whether or not the U.S. government does. -
HIAA Supports Private-Sector LTC
Opinion -The Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA) is promoting "Americans Planning for Today and Tomorrow," a grassroots campaign designed to build stronger and broader support for the Long-Term Care and Retirement Security Act of 2001. -
500,000 Seniors to Lose Medicare+Choice Insurance
Opinion -Health care costs that outstrip federal reimbursements by a 6-to-1 margin are mostly to blame for the health insurance industry's decision to drop 500,000 seniors from their Medicare+Choice health insurance plans next year, according to Karen Ignagni, -
Leapfrog Group Recognized for Efforts to Reduce Medical Errors
Opinion -The Business Roundtable’s “Leapfrog Group” has received the esteemed Ellwood Award for outstanding efforts to foster consumer-focused accountability in health care. -
Uninsured Population Overstated
Opinion -Since the early 1980s, the U.S. Census Bureau has used questions in its Current Population Survey (CPS) to arrive at estimates of the uninsured population. -
PhRMA Asserts itself in Court Action
Opinion -The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) said it will ask the U.S. -
ESA blamed for firefighter deaths
Opinion -An investigation into the July 10 "30-mile fire" in central Washington state has uncovered that the Endangered Species Act (ESA) played a central role in the deaths of four young firefighters combating the blaze. The U.S. -
Bush energy plan clears first hurdle
Opinion -President George W. Bush's national energy policy cleared its first major hurdle August 2 when the U.S. House of Representatives gave its stamp of approval to the measure. -
Congress preempts EPA in mandating new arsenic standards
Opinion -A close vote in the U.S. House of Representatives and a near-unanimous vote in the U.S. Senate have forced the Bush administration's hand on the issue of arsenic levels in drinking water. -
Why the arsenic standard should not be changed
Opinion -A strange thing happened in the last days of the Clinton administration: The Environmental Protection Agency rushed to set a new arsenic drinking water standard. -
Klamath Basin a departure from common-sense environmentalism
Opinion -This spring, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation shut off irrigation water to 1,400 farmers and 210,000 acres of land in the Klamath River Basin of Southern Oregon and Northern California, effectively ending farming for the year. -
Everglades sparrow stirs controversy in southern Florida
Opinion -Efforts to protect the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow have divided residents throughout southern Florida. The controversy surrounds a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to pump water into the eastern Everglades to facilitate sparrow nesting. -
National Geographic or ‘National Deceptivegraphic’?
Opinion -The National Geographic Society is proud of its maps. So it should be downright embarrassed by the map it published on pages 56 and 57 of the July 2001 issue of National Geographic magazine. (You can see the map at http://magma.nationalgeographic. -
Kyoto bet backfiring on some energy companies
Opinion -While the usual cast of anti-free market environmentalists has assembled to pressure Congress and President George W. -
News from the month that was . . .
Opinion -The sixth annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the climate treaty, involving all 180 national delegations, met in Bonn and activated the Kyoto Protocol (KP), designed to limit emissions of greenhouse gases. -
Yucca Mountain clears another hurdle
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has given a favorable safety assessment to a plan that would build a nuclear waste storage facility beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain. -
‘Shrub Man’ out of jail
Opinion -John Thoburn, the "Shrub Man" of Reston, Virginia who was sent to jail for violating zoning ordinances on the planting of trees, has been released from jail but must sell part of his golf range to cover his mounting legal expenses. -
NAEP Brings Good News and Bad News
Opinion -The release of the 2000 math scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), sometimes called the Nation's Report Card, produced a flurry of good-news headlines during the summer doldrums, especially in states where scores were up -
A Privatization Success Story
Opinion -According to Utah State University's Substitute Teaching Institute, about 10 percent of American classrooms need a substitute teacher on any given day. That's more than a quarter of a million substitute teachers a day. -
The Education Industry
Opinion -The private-sector education market in the United States grew 8 percent to top the $100 billion mark in revenues last year, according to a new report on the education industry published in August by Eduventures, an independent research firm focused on -
PR and the Public Schools
Opinion -How to announce poor test scores: "The opening paragraphs should announce and explain an action plan and several paragraphs later, announce the scores. -
Rx Discount Card Plan Stalled by Judge
Opinion -A federal court on September 6 blocked President George W. Bush’s plan to offer prescription drug discount cards to elderly Americans by early next year. -
New Jersey Adopts Patients’ Bill of Rights
Opinion -More than 3 million New Jersey residents enrolled in state-regulated health plans now have the right to sue their HMOs, under provisions of the so-called patients' bill of rights signed by Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco on July 30, 2001.