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Free Market Environmental Bibliography
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Editorial: Time for Senate to feel the heat
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April/May edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
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Greenhouse Policy Without Regrets: A Free Market Approach to the Uncertain Risks of Climate Change
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Lights Out on Subsidies: Why We Need to Turn Off the Switch on Federal Subsidies for Energy
This article is excerpted from Greenhouse Policy Without Regrets: A Free Market Approach to the Uncertain Risks of Climate Change, a new study…
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Ecology, Liberty & Property
Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Are free markets and environmental protection compatible? Is…
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Introduction to ‘Ecology, Liberty, and Property’
The book "Ecology, Liberty, and Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader," edited by Jonathan H. Adler, was published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2000.
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The Risks of Risk Regulation
Portions of the following are adapted from “Deadly Fallout of Too Many Rules” and “Regulated…Out of this World” in the Washington Times, June 2 and…
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EPA in Need of Adult Supervision
After Carol Browner was confirmed as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, one of her first actions was to promulgate new rules governing reformulated gasoline.
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Regulating Greenhouse Gases: Will EPA Take a Dive?
The International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) wants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate carbon dioxide. This fall, ICTA, an anti-technology group…
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More Sorry Than Safe
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Market Strategies Beneficial to Nature
There is a growing consensus among academics and policy makers that U.S. environmental policy needs dramatic change. While environmental reform remains at a standstill, there is a…
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15 Years and Counting — Milestones In CEI History
March 9, 1984 — CEI is founded. First offices were in Fred Smith’s kitchen. After the first few months, he’d spent a few thousand dollars,…
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Ruling on EPA (Letter to the Editor)
The front-page story on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to invalidate the Environmental Protection Agency’s new air-quality standards leaves readers with the false…
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Coming Down to Earth Day
Today is Earth Day. Every year since 1970, environmental activist groups have used this day to warn of “impending environmental catastrophe and advocate new government programs,…
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The Anti-Environment Estate Tax: Why the “Death Tax” Is Deadly for Endangered Species
View Full Document as PDF The economic and social benefits of repealing the “death tax” are well known. Repeal of the…
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EPA Can’t Win This Country’s Sprawl Brawl
Last month, the Clinton-Gore Administration unveiled a new multibillion-dollar environmental agenda, including the so-called Livability Agenda and Lands Legacy Initiative, as well as efforts to…
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EPA Aided Mill Fighters
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Global warming hype needs light, not heat
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Environmentalists’ Racism
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Warming Without Regrets: A Free-Market Approach To Uncertainty And Climate Change
Vice President Al Gore proclaims that "people are sweltering," recent hot spells demonstrate that human-induced global warming is here, and the world must adopt…
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Property Owners Deserve Equal Access To Justice
The Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution was enacted to secure the rights of Americans. It enumerates several rights that may not…
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The EPA’S Latest Injustice
Convent is a small, relatively poor town in St. James Parish, Louisiana, that lies along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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Hurricane Hype
The Clinton-Gore Administration has seized upon recent weather extremes to promote the fear of global warming. Speaking in North Dakota after this spring's floods, President…
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Species-Friendly Tax Cuts
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Green Grantmaking in D.C.
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Anti-Environmental Enforcement
Expanding enforcement of environmental “crimes” is at the top of Carol Browner's agenda for 1997. Browner, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, wants to…
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The Costs of Kyoto
In 1997, the Competitive Enterprise Institute set out to answer just that question. CEI sponsored a conference on the implications of an international treaty…
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No Basis in Reality
"If there is one event that causes the diverse environmental community to hyperventilate in unison, it is an assault on the ESA (Endangered Species Act),"…
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Clinton’s Stealth BTU Tax
The centerpiece of President Bill Clinton's first budget proposal was a massive energy tax. The tax on BTUs (or "British Thermal Units") was estimated to…
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Green but Anti-Government
Numerous opinion surveys have documented widespread public support for environmental protection. Polls routinely find that over 70 percent of Americans characterize themselves as environmentalists…
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Cool Climate…
Environmental activists are increasing the heat on policy makers worldwide to do something about global warming before it is too late. They charge that human…
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Regulation vs. Conservation
For the past two decades, federal land-use control has been the primary means of protecting endangered species and ecologically-sensitive lands. Laws such as the Endangered…
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Property Rights, Regulatory Takings, and Environmental Protection
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The GOP vs. The Environment?
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Appropriations Riders and Environmental Reform: How Appropriate?
Full Version Available In PDF The reform and restriction of federaql regulatory programs is a key element of the conservative Congressional agenda. Many…
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Making the Polluters Pay
Environmentalists often call for a world with zero pollution. The response from industry and professional economists is disbelief. Who is right? That depends…
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Property Rights Fact and Fiction
Full Document Available in PDF The rise of property rights activism was…
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The Property Rights Reader
Full Document Available in PDF The rise of property rights activism is one of the untold…
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Fire in Paradise: The Yellowstone Fires and the Politics of Environmentalism
ON AUGUST 20, 1988–A DAY THAT came to be known as “Black Saturday”–about 160,000 acres were consumed by fires in the greater Yellowstone Park…