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Bill targets ag department slush fund worth billions
The House Appropriations agriculture subcommittee favorably reported its spending bill along party lines Thursday. The bill’s next stop is the full House Appropriations…
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EPA’s new coal rule: Still unlawful after all these years
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week posted the pre-publication draft of its proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) emission performance standards for fossil-fuel power plants…
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The EPA Strikes Back
In last summer’s West Virginia v. EPA decision, the Supreme Court held that the EPA’s claims of vast new powers to reorganize America’s electricity sector raised…
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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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The True State Of The Planet
The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World’s Premier Environmental Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement Date: 1995 Edited…
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Global Warming: Messy Models, Decent Data, Pointless Policy
Full Document Available in PDF The apocalyptic vision of the greenhouse effect has been presented to us all through a never-ending series…
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A Fresh Look at Environmental Policy
Environmental journalists are, on the whole, fairly good at producing stories. Unfortunately, these lend to be the stories put forward by the environmental establishment: Large…
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The Market and Nature
(Originally appeared in The Freeman, September 1993) Many environmentalists are dissatisfied with the environmental record of free economies. Capitalism, it is claimed, is…
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Kentucky Hosts Rio Follow-Up…but Frivolity is Pretty Big on the Agenda
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Daren Bakst
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Marlo Lewis, Jr.
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