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Environment & Energy
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Greens Suffer Setback at Johannesburg Summit
Opinion -In a stunning setback for the anti-market “Green” wing of the global environmental movement, delegates at the recently concluded World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa rejected calls for restricting poorer nations’ -
Bush Backs Greenhouse Gas Trading Scheme
Opinion -On February 14, 2002 President George W. Bush directed various agencies to transform the Department of Energy’s Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases program into a program awarding “transferable credits” for “voluntary” emission reductions. -
Floridians Battle Bureaucrats to Save Their Homes, Property
Opinion -Ten years ago, Hurricane Andrew blasted the coast of Southeast Florida with the force of a Level Five hurricane, only one of three of that magnitude to hit the United States during the twentieth century. -
You’ve been had!
Opinion -You’ve Been Had!How the Media and EnvironmentalistsTurned America into a Nation of Hypochondriacs Melvin A Benarde, Rutgers University Press, $28 As his title suggests, epidemiologist Melvin Benarde is not one to mince words. -
Grassroots activists to rally in Florida
Opinion -The worst fears of land-acquiring bureaucracies and big-government activist groups have become reality: Last year’s Klamath Falls protests were merely the genesis, not the culmination, of a renewed property rights movement. -
Business to Congress: Stop stalling on NSR reform
Opinion -Editor’s note: The following letter was sent on August 20 to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives. -
Daschle double-dealing scorches Healthy Forests opponents
Opinion -Opposition to active forest management took an unexpected hit on July 23 from an unlikely source. -
Sustainable development: The book and the ideology
Opinion -Sustainable Development: Promoting Progress or Perpetuating Poverty? Julian Morris (editor), Profile Books, $15. -
Critics of U.S. confined to Johannesburg sidelines
Opinion -With the United States assuming leadership at the World Sustainable Development Summit, the ever-present anti-U.S. crowd was largely relegated to the Johannesburg sidelines. -
‘Come stand where I stand!’
Opinion -Standing atop an Oregon mountain summit, President George W. Bush straddled the divide between the old and the new. On one face of Squires Peak, the ashes of an old and failed forest policy lay literally at the President’s feet. -
Logging: An essential part of sustainable forestry
Opinion -Logging. It was once what Oregon was all about. Now, it’s become almost a curse word in this land of Douglas firs and Ponderosa pines. As I travel the state, I see mill after mill closed. I see businesses in rural communities shuttered. -
America leads at Johannesburg summit
Opinion -One person, two contrasting images. On September 4, the final day of the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, a packed hall of professional demonstrators repeatedly booed and heckled U.S. -
Robert Bradley receives Julian Simon Award
Opinion -Robert L. Bradley Jr., president of the Institute for Energy Research, was presented the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) on May 22. -
Mining rights under legal attack
Opinion -In 1872, Congress enacted the General Mining Law, allowing miners to enter onto federal land, locate valuable mineral deposits, and develop those minerals. -
Testimony on Asbestos Litigation
Opinion -September 22, 2002 Senator Patrick Leahy Chairman Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Leahy: Please accept the following comments to the Senate Committee on -
Losing our heritage, our land
Opinion -The National Heritage Areas Act (HR 2388), sponsored by Reps. Joel Hefley (R-Colorado) and Nick Rahall (D-West Virginia), would do for land grabs what the assembly line did for automobiles. Private property would go the way of the horse and buggy. -
Forest Service still spinning the Thirty Mile Fire
Opinion -A year after last July’s deadly Thirty Mile Fire, the U.S. Forest Service’s public relations spin continues. -
NSR rules must provide certainty
Opinion -When Detroit Edison proposed replacing worn turbine blades at two plants with an improved design that would increase efficiency by 4.5 percent, EPA Region V bureaucrats in May 2000 concluded doing so would not constitute “routine” maintenance. -
Forest Service says ‘no’ to American flag
Opinion -As if attacks on the Pledge of Allegiance weren’t enough, the federal government in July turned its attention to the American flag. Debbie Gaynor, a recreation forester for the U.S. -
Cooking the books for a better environment
Opinion -In early July, the World Wildlife Fund issued a report warning that mankind is strip-mining the Earth so rapidly we’ll be forced to colonize two additional planets by 2050 to support current trends in resource consumption. -
Big wins for Wise Use and property rights
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives considered the Interior Department appropriations bill in July, and advocates for access to public lands and private property rights won important victories. Snowmobiles amendment. Reps. -
Wrong-headedness killing the forests
Opinion -When the Hayman Fire—the largest wildfire in Colorado history—first began, the smoke billowed over my office in southwestern Denver. Outside, I could smell the fumes from flames 50 miles away. Worst yet, I could see the ash in the air! -
Jeffords pushes mandatory national recycling plan
Opinion -Get ready to start separating, washing, and storing aluminum cans, if Senator Jim Jeffords (I-Vermont.) has his way. -
Stealing land in the Atchafalaya and Immokalee
Opinion -An American citizen whose land has been condemned by a federal agency or by any governmental entity, especially those receiving federal monies, has significant rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S.