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Items in this update:
o Latest global warming report already obsolete
o Violation of property rights at root of DDT disaster
o Politics, science, and arsenic standards
o City views
o Two new products
o Calififornia judge imposes huge fine on land grab fighters
o Judge frees driving range owner but rules for county
o Property rights win over tree law in Virginia
o Arkansas Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to land seizure
for Clinton library
o Group advocates more private land
o Conserving water with pricing
o California politicians ask for price caps on electricity
o Little Rock to seize man's property for Clinton library
o Abraham defends energy policy before CEI
o Bush rules out price caps on electricity
o Anti-competitive Valley Plaza decision appalling
o Defenders wins freedom for Shrubman
o Locking up land isn't good stewardship
o 'Price gouging' doesn't cut it as reason for rising energy prices
o Sell to Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
o Land conservation: government failure, market solution
o Get ready for the political clash over stem cell research
restrictions
o It's no time to go wobbly on Kyoto
o Fears of revolutionary scientific changes are greatly exaggerated
o When the lights go out, then what?
o Bush administration's national energy policy
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
Latest global warming report already obsolete
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by Paul J. Georgia
"If recent studies are correct there would be little
justification for Kyoto-style policies that would ltimately impede
humanity's ability to provide itself with the wealth- and wealth-enhancing
benefits of modern civilization." (05/16/01)
http://www.cei.org/OnPointReader.asp?I
D=1477
Violation of property rights at root of DDT disaster
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by Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss
"Two PERC researchers, reviewing the history of the
banned pesticide DDT, have concluded that violation of private
property rights lies at the heart of the conflict over DDT." The full
report is available in Adobe PDF. (05/23/01)
http://www.perc.org/ps22pr.html
Politics, science, and arsenic standards
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by Angela Logomasini
CEI's Angela Logomasini reviews the science behind the
last-minute Clinton Administration effort to adjust arsenic standards for
drinking water. It turns out there isn't much science behind
it. (05/16/01)
http://www.cei.org/OnPointReader.asp?ID
=1475
City views
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by Bill Steigerwald
Steigerwald interviews urban studies legend Jane Jacobs on
gentrification, the New Urbanism, and her legacy. (05/01)
http://www.reason.com/0106/fe.bs.city.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybycate
gory/in-depth/
==> News Reports <==
Two new products
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Stewardship Chronicles is a weekly commentary about private
conservation. CEI's annual compendium of information on the size and scope
of the regulatory state is also newly available. (05/25/01)
http://www.cei.org/CSPINReader.asp?ID=
1488
Calififornia judge imposes huge fine on land grab fighters
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A Santa Barbara judge fined a couple more than $800,000 for
refusing to turn over land to the Coastal Commission for a public beach
trail. The judge, activists and bureaucrats say the fine was
generous," as it could have hit nearly $12 million. The Commission is
trying to
skirt a 1987 Supreme Court ruling that such land grabs are
unconstitutional. (05/25/01)
http://www.newspress.com/westmont/05
25coastal.htm
Judge frees driving range owner but rules for county
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Rather than deal with the property rights and abuse-of-power
issues at the core of John Thoburn's dispute with Fairfax County,
Virginia, Judge McWeeny authorized officials to landscape the imprisoned
golf range owner's land as they see fit, and fined him $48,500. (05/25/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,25
660,00.html
Property rights win over tree law in Virginia
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Under court order, Falls Church, Virginia, changed a law
against people cutting their own trees from a criminal
matter to a civil one. The man at the center of the case that forced the
reform said he isn't done yet, and he considers the law to still be
unconstitutional. (05/24/01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-d
yn/articles/A67725-2001May23.html
Arkansas Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to land seizure for
Clinton library
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The case of a landowner who is fighting to keep Little Rock,
Arkansas, from taking his land to make way for President
Clinton's presidential library will be heard by the state Supreme Court.
(05/25/01)
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story
/14601p-284151c.html
Group advocates more private land
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Utah's 1999 Quality Growth Act calls for a "no net loss
of private lands" policy. (05/24/01)
http://www.sltrib.com/05242001/utah/99
876.htm
Conserving water with pricing
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A new study out by the World Resources Institute documents
the value of pricing as a water resource conservation tool. (05/14/01)
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-rele
ase.asp?id=4348
California politicians ask for price caps on electricity
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In an attempt to enforce their total ignorance of the laws of
economics, California's legislative leaders asked a federal appeals
court for an order forcing federal regulators to cap wholesale electricity
prices. (05/23/01)
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/22/pow
er.lawsuit.ap/index.html
Little Rock to seize man's property for Clinton library
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Under fire from property rights advocates, Little Rock,
Arkansas, is defending plans to seize property for President
Clinton's presidential library under a law that allows the city to take
land for public parks. The property owner has gone to court to challenge
the move. (05/23/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,25
398,00.html
Abraham defends energy policy before CEI
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As green groups launch an ad campaign attacking the
president's energy plan, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham spoke
before the influential Competitive Enterprise Institute and defended
elements of the administration's policy that defy the realities of the
market. (05/29/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,25
717,00.html
Bush rules out price caps on electricity
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Bush went to California to tell state politicians that he
won't guarantee them cheap electricity by putting a cap on its price -- a
move that the administration and many economists object would remove the
incentive to produce more power. (05/29/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,25
841,00.html
Anti-competitive Valley Plaza decision appalling
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A clear indication of the evisceration of property rights in
New Zealand is an Environment Court's decision to stymie a supermall
project for Upper Hutt. (05/28/01)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/st
ories/4c/23/200105281142.c927a371.html
Defenders wins freedom for Shrubman
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"Yesterday, John 'Shrubman' Thoburn was released from
Fairfax County jail, where he has spent the last 98 days for alleged
landscaping violations." (05/25/01)
dpr@free-market.net
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/press
releases/010526.htm
Locking up land isn't good stewardship
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by Holly Lippke Fretwell and Linda Platts "Using broad strokes to
paint all roadless areas the same is a serious disservice to ecological
health and economic vitality." (05/17/01)
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php
?section=opinion&display=content/opinio
n/guest2.inc
For more News Reports see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyc
ategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
'Price gouging' doesn't cut it as reason for rising energy prices
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by James K. Glassman
Politicians like to claim that energy companies are ripping
off the public, but the truth is that market conditions and intrusive
regulations have boosted prices. (05/21/01)
http://www.techcentralstation.com/Ne
wsDesk.asp?FormMode=MainTermin
alArticles&ID=65
Sell to Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
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by Staff
"Taking a cue from such organizations as the Nature
Conservancy, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has offered
to buy 91 contested acres ..." (05/18/01)
http://www.sltrib.com/05182001/opinio
n/opinion.htm
Land conservation: government failure, market solution
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by Jacob Halbrooks
Mainstream economists and media like to point to proper land
usage and conservation as a market failure that requires government
intervention. Halbrooks takes a different tack entirely. (05/01)
http://www.geocities.com/libertarian_p
ress/land.html
Get ready for the political clash over stem cell research restrictions
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by Michael Lynch
"Conservatives are going after stem cell research,
claiming that 'it's not therapeutic for the embryo.' The Bush
administration has already quashed plans for the National Institutes of
Health to fund stem cell research, not out of general limited-government
principles, but because of the specific activity being undertaken."
(05/17/01)
http://reason.com/ml/ml051701.html
It's no time to go wobbly on Kyoto
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by James K. Glassman
"Two months ago, in a decision marked by clarity, good
sense and not a little courage, the president said he was dropping
the climate-change protocol ... But now there are troubling signs
that he may be responding to the criticism by weakening his opposition to
an agreement that was rash, lopsided and based on unsettled science."
(05/11/01)
http://www.techcentralstation.com/Ne
wsDesk.asp?FormMode=MainTermin
alArticles&ID=64
Fears of revolutionary scientific changes are greatly exaggerated
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by Ronald Bailey
Calls for bans on genetic research aren't just authoritarian;
they exaggerate both the risks of such knowledge and the difficulty faced
by people in putting new techniques to productive use.
(05/23/01)
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb052301.html
When the lights go out, then what?
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by Steve Chapman
"The Bush administration usually stresses its faith in
the market, but when it comes to energy, the president thinks nothing
could be better than a flurry of activity in Washington. What he doesn't
seem to notice is that the market is already doing its job well enough to
make you wonder why we need his new energy program." (05/20/01)
schapman@tribune.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/co
lumnists/chapman/0,1122,SAV-010520
0240,00.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyc
ategory/commentary/
==> Bills, Laws, and Decisions <==
Bush administration's national energy policy
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The Bush administration's official blueprint for managing the
production and distribution of energy nationwide. Get ready for blackouts.
(Adobe Acrobat) (05/01)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onp
olitics/transcripts/energyreport051701
.pdf
For more Bills, Laws, and Decisions see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyc
ategory/laws/
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