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The High Costs of the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act
Concerns about plastics waste in the world’s oceans have raised genuine issues about the impact of plastics on the environment. In response, Sen. Jeff Merkley…
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Ban Overboard: Exploring Solutions to Ocean Pollution
Heartbreaking photos and videos of wildlife harmed by plastics litter have rightly raised public concerns about plastics in the ocean. In response, state and local…
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The Immeasurable Benefits of Plastics to Humanity
It is popular these days for people to proclaim that they are giving up plastics. Just browse the Web and you will find all sorts…
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How Plastics Benefit Wildlife and the Environment
Several proposals designed to end America’s so-called addiction to plastics are currently pending in Congress. They include the Break-Free from Plastics Act (H.R. 2238, S.
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EPA Should Revise Its Assessment of Medical Supply Sterilant
The COVID-19 crisis is a stark reminder of the importance of maintaining critical medical supplies. Not only must policy makers ensure that the market is…
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End All National Institutes of Health Grants to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer
As the Trump administration considers defunding the World Health Organization (WHO) because of its handling of the COVID-19 crisis, it should also make sure that…
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Lift #NeverNeeded Plastics Regulations and Bans – Permanently
Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, lawmakers have finally begun considering the unintended impacts of bans on single-use plastics, particularly the potential for disease transmission from…
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Deploy Rational Science-Based Policies for Medical Plant Sterilization
Several medical supply sterilization plants have shut down during the past year because of unwarranted fearmongering about ethylene oxide (EtO), a gas used to sterilize…
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Federally Funded Children’s Environmental Health Centers Do Little to Promote Public Health
October is Children’s Health Month, a time when official federal agencies call attention to important efforts and policies designed to advance childhood health and safety.
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EPA’s Flawed IRIS Program Is Far from Gold Standard
Environmental activists claim that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) represents the gold standard for risk assessment.[i] In…
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U.S. Should Stop Funding the International Agency for Research on Cancer
Numerous scientific bodies around the world, both public and private, attempt to assess the cancer-causing potential of various industrial chemicals. Ideally, those research programs should…
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EPA Transparency Rule Will Bolster Science and Improve Rulemaking
Transparency is a cornerstone of the scientific process and a well-recognized goal long-extolled within the scientific community.
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EPA Denial of Chlorpyrifos Ban Sets Pro-Science Precedent
View full document as PDF Some consumers may wonder why some staples of a healthy diet, such as orange juice and many…
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Polluted Logic Taints WHO Reports on Children’s Health
View Full Document as PDF The world has been getting wealthier in recent decades. That economic growth has enabled millions of people…
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Regulatory Hurdles Impede Zika Control
View Full Document as PDF Ever since the discovery that the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus can cause serious birth defects, policy makers have…
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TSCA “Reform” Is Likely To Do More Harm Than Good
Full Document Available on PDF According to news reports, congressional aides from both houses of Congress are currently engaged in private meetings…
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Fanning the Flames
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Government’s Unfounded War on BPA
During the past decade, the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has become a target of environmental activists who make a host of unfounded claims about the…
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“Beepocalypse” Not
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A Consumer’s Guide to Chemical Risk
A constant barrage of news headlines suggests that synthetic chemicals—even some naturally occurring ones—are responsible for nearly every public health problem imaginable, sowing fear and…
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Myths and Facts about the West Virginia Chemical Spill
Senior fellow and chemical policy expert, Angela Logomasini, Ph.D., released a report examining the myths and facts surrounding the Jan. 9 chemical spill in West…
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The Green Campaign Against Triclosan is Dangerous and Regressive
Environmental activists have sounded the alarm suggesting that consumers face serious health risks from the antibacterial chemical triclosan, which manufacturers have safely used in soap…
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Rachel Was Wrong
As the world reexamines Rachel Carson’s anti-pesticide legacy, this paper focuses on the importance of chemicals designed for crop production. Unfortunately, the benefits of these…
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Of Mice, Mushrooms, And Formaldehyde
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The Real Meaning of “TSCA Modernization”
Modernizing the Toxic Substances Control Act, the federal law that regulates chemicals, could lead to bans on many valuable products, thereby undermining innovation and diverting…
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Green Chemistry’s March of the Ostriches
Popular myths about man-made chemicals cause lawmakers to bury their heads in the sand and support restrictive regulations that do not realistically address risks to…
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Plastic Bag Bans Are Bad for the Environment
The past several years have seen a groundswell of regulations on plastics, particularly plastic bags and polystyrene food containers. Supporters of these bans claim that…
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Trashing the Poor: The Interstate Garbage Dispte
Full Document Available in PDF This year, Virginia Governor James Gilmore decided that he would “save” his state from…
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A CARE-less Rush to Regulate Alcohol
Wine, beer, and spirit wholesalers have a long history of employing state laws to secure a guaranteed slice of the market. Recent court cases have…
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Anti-BPA Packaging Laws Jeopardize Public Health
Full Document Available in PDF In public policy, bad ideas have an unfortunate…
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Depoliticizing Groundwater
Full Document Available in PDF Groundwater management problems in Jakarta Indonesia, as recently highlighted in the Financial…
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Reform Wetlands Policies
Liberate to Stimulate Index…
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Restore the Constitutional Right to Property
Liberate to Stimulate Index The right to property is an essential part of a free society, and widespread private property ownership is…
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Embrace Private Conservation of Land and Natural Resources
Liberate to Stimulate Index Private stewardship and markets play a critical role in land and natural resource conservation. Much of America’s land…
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Protect Endangered Species
Liberate to Stimulate Index The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is bad for wildlife, because it is bad for people. It…
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Clarify the Role of Invasive Species
Liberate to Stimulate Index In the past, policies addressing problem plants and animals followed a rational path: They focused on controlling organisms…
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Trash Counterproductive Waste Disposal Policies
Liberate to Stimulate Index Many of the nation’s current solid waste policies follow an outdated, politicized, and government-centered model. State and local…
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Affirm the Role of Property Rights in Water Rights Policies
Liberate to Stimulate Index Battles over limited water supplies in the United States and around the world have long produced conflicts and…
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Purify Federal Water Policies
Liberate to Stimulate Index Drinking Water. Drinking water policy should focus on how best to ensure that Americans have clean and safe…
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Ensure Consumers’ Access to Bottled Water
Liberate to Stimulate Index Bottled water offers many important benefits— including portability, emergency applications, and convenience. The bottled water industry had been…
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Electronic Waste
Full Document Available in PDF Increasingly, news reports and environmental activists are claiming that we are facing a…
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Solid Waste Management
Full Document Available in PDF Americans like to recycle, and recycling is indeed an important part…
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Toxics Release Inventory
Full Document Available in PDF Several states and the federal government have in place various “right-to-know”…
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Interstate Waste Commerce
Full Document Available in PDF For more than two decades, various states and localities have battled over…
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Brownfields
Full Document Available in PDF U.S. cities are home to hundreds of thousands of old, abandoned commercial and…
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Superfund
Full Document Available in PDF Perhaps no other environmental program has been cited more often as a failure…
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Solid and Hazardous Waste Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Federal regulation of solid and hazardous waste…
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Lead in Drinking Water
Full Document Available in PDF During the winter of 2004, the District of Columbia discovered…
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Rural Drinking Water
Full Document Available in PDF Rural communities face heavy burdens under uniform federal drinking water standards…
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Radon
Full Document Available in PDF The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to promulgate a drinking water…
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Chlorine and the Disinfection Byproducts Rule
Full Document Available in PDF For many years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has attempted to develop standards to regulate disinfection…
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Arsenic
Full Document Available in PDF The debate over whether to tighten the drinking water standard for arsenic highlighted…
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Safe Drinking Water Act Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Since passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)…
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Pesticides in Schools
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, policymakers have been confronted with claims that children…
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Pesticides and Public Health
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, public health authorities have expressed serious…
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Pesticides and Agriculture
Full Document Available in PDF In 1989, environmental activists claimed that a chemical called Alar…
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Food Quality Protection Act
Full Document Available in PDF In 1996, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) amended the two…
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Pesticide Regulation Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Pesticide residues found on domestic and imported produce pose little, if…
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Measuring the Scope of Federal Land Ownership
Full Document Available in PDF During much of American history, landuse regulation was…
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The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
Full Document Available in PDF The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management…
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REACH – The EU’s Chemical Policy
Full Document Available in PDF Regulations enacted in the European Union (EU) increasingly are having…
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The Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Full Document Available in PDF In 2001, the Bush administration signed the United…
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Population
Full Document Available in PDF In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus argued…
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Accessing Energy Resources on Public Lands
Full Document Available in PDF Federal land ownership affects the ability of energy developers to…
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Endocrine Disrupters
Full Document Available in PDF Having largely…
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The True Causes of Cancer
Full Document Available in PDF Environmental activists have long claimed that man-made chemicals are…
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Cancer Trends
Full Document Available in PDF In recent decades, many have claimed that cancer is rising…
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Chemical Risk Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Worldwide, the average human life span has increased from about…
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Environmental Trends
Full Document Available in PDF For the past 30 years, prognosticators have predicted an imminent environmental…
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Bottled Water and the Overflowing Nanny State
In her study Angela Logomasini's analyzes how misinformation about bottled water erodes consumer freedom…
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The Green Regulatory State
Full Document Available in PDF Over the years, the environmental lobby has advanced a considerable…
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Environmentalism’s Legal Legacy
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Public Comment Regarding Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin
June 15, 2006 Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Office of Management and Budget 727 17th Street, N.W. New Executive Office Building, Room 10201 Washington,…
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Greening a Homeland Bureaucracy: Chemical Plant Security Issue Hijacked by Green Activists
Full Document Available in PDF Nearly…
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The U.N.’s Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management Program
Full Document Available in PDF In February 2006, at…
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Europe’s Global REACH: Costly for the World; Suicidal for Europe
Full Document Available in PDF Regulations enacted in the…
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The Environmental Source
NOTE: A new edition of The Environmental Source has been published. The new version of this essential reference book on environmental policy is available in…
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Ratification without Representation?
Full Document Available in PDF In 2001, the Bush Administration signed the United Nations Environment…
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Pesticides and the West Nile Virus: An Examination of Environmentalist Claims
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Federal Pesticide Law Needs an Overhaul: Anti-Competitive Effects Hit Consumers, A Case Study
Full Document Available in PDF Most Americans believe that the federal regulatory process is simply designed to protect them from fraud and…
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Senators Attempt Balancing Security And “Right to Know”
View Full Document as PDF The Department of Justice (DOJ) warned in year 2000 that the risk of a terrorist attack on…
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Inhofe-Clinton Enviro Miseducation Bill
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Arsenic and Old Politics
View Full Document as PDF President George W. Bush has been taking a lot of heat for his decision to review the…
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League of Conservation Voters “Scorecard”: Most Americans Are “Dirty”
Every year, the League of Conservation Voters issues a “Congressional Scorecard.” Supposedly, this Scorecard tells the American public which members of Congress support…
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Lawmakers Trashing the Poor?
Full Study Available In PDF Format For more than two decades, various states have battled…
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The Clean Air Act’s Federal Terrorist Assistance Program
View Full Document as PDF In recent years the United States has experienced the horrors of the terrorist attack of a…