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07/1999 Legislative Update
Opinion -Dams Senator Slade Gorton (R-Washington) is once again trying to link appropriations for blowing up the Elwha Dam in western Washington with protection for all other dams in the Snake and Columbia river system. -
06/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -EPA Accused of Financial Mismanagement The Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General issued a 76-page report accusing the agency of mismanaging taxpayer funds and improperly awarding non-competitive grants to the Center for Chesapeake -
06/1999 Legislative Update
Opinion -American Sovereignty The American Sovereignty Protection Act has been reintroduced as HR-883, sponsored in the House by Don Young (R-Alaska) with 137 co-sponsors, and S-510, sponsored by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado). -
04/1999 News Briefs
Opinion -Nuclear Waste Policy Act Introduced Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and committee members Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Rod Grams (R-Minnesota) introduced the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of -
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. -
Poll: State, Local Governments Better than Feds on Environmental Protection
Opinion -Seven out of 10 registered voters nationwide believe that state or local government agencies can better protect the environment than the federal government, according to a new poll conducted by The Polling Company for the Washington, DC-based -
Radicals Suffer Election Losses in Congress
Opinion -Environmental groups that have been crowing over Republican losses in the recent national elections may end up eating crow once the 106th Congress begins voting on environmental legislation. The reason: Despite the loss of five Republicans in the U. -
‘Enviro-capitalists,’ Public Profit from Wilderness Conservation
Opinion -The idea of having to pay to use wilderness areas for recreational purposes smacks of heresy in certain circles, but it is a growing trend, debunking the long-held belief that profits are inconsistent with a healthy environment. -
11/1998 News Briefs
Opinion -Study Deflates Risk of Second-Hand Smoke A 10-year study of European smoking recently released concluded that the risk of second-hand smoke is far less than previously asserted, and is nonexistent for children. -
Two Peas in a Pod
Opinion -The Sierra Club and trial lawyers have a great deal more in common than many people realize. Both have a huge financial stake in seeing to it that legal reform fails. As a result, both also have the same political enemies. -
‘Talkin’ Trash
Opinion -Two new reports charge that American school children are being manipulated and frightened by a steady stream of politically motivated educational materials that distort the facts about environmental issues. -
How EPA Has Taken the Environment Out of Environmental Enforcement: an exclusive interview with Roger Marzulla
Opinion -Roger Marzulla is a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Marzulla & Marzulla, specializing in environmental law and property rights. -
Environmental Education Today: How to Teach Facts, Not Fear: an exclusive interview Jane Shaw
Opinion -Jane Shaw is a Senior Associate of PERC (the Political Economy Research Center) in Bozeman, Montana, a research and educational organization that explores market solutions to environmental problems. -
The Future of Environmental Policy: Free Market Environmentalism: an exclusive interview with Fred L. Smith Jr.
Opinion -Fred L. Smith Jr. is the president and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a public interest group active in a wide range of economic and environmental public policy issues. -
New ESA Plan Would Lock up Over a Million Acres of Private Property in Texas
Opinion -A proposed “habitat conservation plan” (HCP) for Central Texas will lock up over one million acres of private property, warns Ike Sugg, a fellow in wildlife and land-use policy at the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. -
Textbooks Mislead Teachers on Environmental Issues
Opinion -Although professional environmental educators have established nationwide standards of fairness and accuracy for evaluating environmental education materials, a new study finds that all but one of the university-level textbooks used at eight University -
Little Movement on Key Environment Issues Expected in 1998
Opinion -A short Congressional schedule, the political realities stemming from divided government, President Clinton’s uncertain political future, and a general lack of agreement on how to address a host of highly controversial environment issues--all make it -
12/1997 News Briefs
Opinion -American Heritage Rivers Initiative The Idaho congressional delegation has asked the President’s Council on Environmental Quality to allow Idaho to opt out of any AHRI programs, saying that the state is already doing a good job with Idaho water quality -
Court Decisions Offer New Approach for Resisting Federal Mandates
Opinion -Four recent Supreme Court decisions have re-established the Constitution as the law of the land, giving American landowners a new method for countering EPA and other government agency efforts to trample private property rights. -
House Moves to Halt ‘Green Army’ Scheme
Opinion -Representative Kevin Brady (R-Texas) has cosponsored (with Representative Richard Pombo, R-California) and won House passage of legislation that expressed the “sense of Congress” that U.S. -
10/1997 News Briefs
Opinion -American Heritage Rivers Initiative Touted by the Clinton administration as a way to “protect and restore” America’s rivers, this initiative is opposed by many who consider it a threat to local control of water and riparian areas. -
CAFE Standards, Consumers Set for Head-On Collision
Opinion -As the Clinton administration's global warming team considers ways to reduce emissions of man-made greenhouse gases, federal regulators and environmental groups appear more than willing to lend a helping hand: They want to drive minivans and sport -
08/1997 News Briefs
Opinion -American Land Sovereignty Act (HR-901) Congressman Don Young's (R-Alaska) bill to protect American public and private lands from jurisdictional encroachments by United Nations programs (such as Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites) came out of -
The Dangerous Greening of American Foreign Policy
Opinion -Dr. Henry Miller was trained as a physician and molecular biologist.
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