Executive Summary By Randy T. Simmons and Kimberly Frost Arational public dialogue about the value and effectiveness of the Endan- gered Species Act (ESA) must consider the costs incurred by the regulators and those being regulated. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service�??s report Three-Year Summary of Federal and State Endangered Species Expenditures, Fiscal Years 1998-2000Continue reading “Accounting for Species:”
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Economic Report of the President – 2004
Chapter 9: Protecting the Environment Economic growth and environmental improvements go hand-in-hand. Economic growth can lead to increased demand for environmental improvements and can provide the resources that make it possible to address environmental problems. Some policies aimed at promoting environmental improvements can entail substantial economic costs. Misguided policies might actually achieve less environmental progressContinue reading “Economic Report of the President – 2004”
Soaring High
Philanthropy Magazine January/February 2004 By Thomas J. Bray The environmental movement has blossomed into one of the most powerful political, social, and economic forces of our time. As a result, environmental philanthropy had burgeoned to an estimated $3.5 billion a year by the late 1990s. More than 4,000 nonprofit environmental groups, ranging from the well-knownContinue reading “Soaring High”
Record Shows Profit-Seeking Drives Green Innovation
By Jane S. Shaw David Driesen is disappointed that market mechanisms such as trading pollution credits do not automatically spur innovations that further reduce pollution. But that’s taking a short-term view. Trading reduces the often heavy cost of regulation, freeing up funds for other uses. And the success of the private sector in using itsContinue reading “Record Shows Profit-Seeking Drives Green Innovation”
The Property Rights Path to Sustainable Development
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas October 23, 2003 “You can’t have a free society without private property.” – Milton Friedman By Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins Sustainable development has become the byword of environmental policy. The term has been around for about thirty years but has only recently become popular (see International Institute forContinue reading “The Property Rights Path to Sustainable Development”
The Potential of High Technology for Establishing Tradable Rights to Whales
Chapter 6 from The Technology of Property Rights By Gregory B. Christainsen and Brian C. Gothberg We do not own this Earth, we simply borrow it from our childr Am I prepared to die to defend the whales? The answer is yes. I would consider it an honour to die in their defense.1 – CaptainContinue reading “The Potential of High Technology for Establishing Tradable Rights to Whales”
Denver Post:
Denver PostColorado VoicesOctober 12, 2003 Squeezing multiple use By Tim Fitzgerald, Western Colorado A couple weeks ago I rode on the North Thompson cattle pool west of Carbondale. Not being familiar with the country, I paid special attention to it. The cattle range is national forest land. It is also dotted with gas wells. IContinue reading “Denver Post:”
Another Take on Free Market Environmentalism
PERC’s Conference for Journalists Emigrant, Montana October 4, 2003 Friendly Critique By David Roodman Thank you. In this morning’s program, Rick and I are set up to take opposite views on a fundamental philosophical question. Despite that, I think both of us will acknowledge that neither extreme view is tenable. Free-market environmentalism is neither perfectlyContinue reading “Another Take on Free Market Environmentalism”
A Grazing Buy-Out?
Rocky Mountain NewsFall 2003 By Holly Lippke Fretwell Although little noticed by most Americans, grazing on federal land is a big business. Ranchers across the West lease permits to graze their cattle on about 250 million acres of federal land, an area more than twice the size of California. Some environmental groups, concerned that cattleContinue reading “A Grazing Buy-Out?”
Pork Politics at its Worst
Orange County RegisterAugust 29, 2003 By J. Bishop Grewell “Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before,” wrote Jonathan Swift in “Gulliver’s Travels,” “would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the wholeContinue reading “Pork Politics at its Worst”