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Items in this update:
o The Cost of Kyoto 2001
o PETA leader praises McVeigh for last meal choice
o Judge doubts federal decision in Kennewick Man case
o Officials kick off bid to save Kyoto protocol
o Russia ready to abandon Kyoto protocol
o Bush backs broad ban on human cloning
o Davis to squeeze money from power companies
o Congress works to make schools safe for roaches and rodents
o Property rights advocates upset over federal land grab
o RPPI blasts air quality report
o Senators drop effort to control electricity prices
o Clone ban could ban life-saving research
o Eco-terrorist's goal: end of industrial civilization
o Eco-terrorism: elusive, ethereal and electronic
o California shortage, Texas surplus
o Bush is right on global warming ... not that reporters would
understand
o CEI applauds CDC on biotech food report
o Making energy woes worse
o Profile of Skeet Burris, private conservationist
o CARA spells disaster
o Leave land-use issues to local citizens
o High-yield farming integral to wildlife management
o Cartoon: Energy price caps
o Why wholesale price caps on electricity won't solve California's
energy woes
o Climate Rx: A Manhattan Project of research
o 'Biodevastation' activists spread false fears about safe foods
o W. goes wrong on energy
o Stupidity in the golden state
o Thanks to Feds, farming community faces extinction
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
The Cost of Kyoto 2001
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by Foreword by Jonathan H. Adler
A collection of essays developed out of a CEI-sponsored
conference on the risks of implementing the Kyoto Treaty. (06/01)
http://www.cei.org/costsofkyoto2001.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyca
tegory/in-depth/
==> News Reports <==
PETA leader praises McVeigh for last meal choice
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For some, the "agenda" always outweighs other
considerations. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' vegan
campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich lionizes Oklahoma City bomber Timothy
McVeigh for his choice of a meatless "last meal" before his
execution earlier this month, and takes credit for convincing him to
forego the flesh in his final repast. (06/12/01)
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename
=View&c=Article&cid=FT35GTJ4WNC
Judge doubts federal decision in Kennewick Man case
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On Wednesday, a federal judge said he had "very serious
concerns" about the basis for a decision made by the Interior
Department last year to turn over to American Indian tribes the
9,300-year-old skeleton known as "Kennewick Man."
(06/21/01)
http://www.nando.net/nation/story/304
13p-518339c.html
Officials kick off bid to save Kyoto protocol
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Renewed efforts to salvage the Kyoto climate treaty are under
way in the Hague. Four days of talks will be hosted by the
Dutch Environment Minister, Jan Pronk, who heads the UN forum on climate
change. He wants to introduce changes that would make the USA and
Japan more friendly to the treaty. (06/25/01)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
americas/newsid_1407000/1407035.
stm
Russia ready to abandon Kyoto protocol
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It looks likely that the beleaguered Kyoto Protocol, the
agreement signed in 1997 designed to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases, is to be dealt another blow. Russia now has serious reservations
about ratifying the treaty, and alternative plans are already
being drawn up. They include lowering greenhouse emissions, but without
damaging Russia's economic interests. (06/19/01)
http://www.gazeta.ru/2001/06/19/Rus
siaReadyt.shtml
Bush backs broad ban on human cloning
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The Bush administration is putting its weight behind a bill
that would make make human cloning a federal crime. The ban would apply to
the creation of human embryos for research. (06/21/01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy
n/articles/A23750-2001Jun20.html
Davis to squeeze money from power companies
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California Governor Gray Davis says he will sue power
companies if they don't cough up $9 billion in rebates he believes
are due in return for "gouging" energy customers after his
state's energy regulations caused a crisis in the power market. (06/21/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2
7717,00.html
Congress works to make schools safe for roaches and rodents
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Even thought there's little scientific data that pesticides
threaten health, and plenty that vermin do, the Senate
approved a bill that would make it difficult for schools to clear rats and
roaches from areas where children spend much of their lives.
(06/22/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,
27842,00.html
Property rights advocates upset over federal land grab
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Supporters of property rights are protesting continuing
efforts, supported by the Bush administration, to take real estate out of
private hands and place it under government control -- especially since
the government's track record on management is so poor. (06/22/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,
27843,00.html
RPPI blasts air quality report
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Accusing the American Lung Association of using "shady
methodology to inflate environmental harms," the Reason Public Policy
Institute said the ALA's recent "State of the Air" report
on air quality and pollution levels is misleading. (06/20/01)
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.
cfm?QID=195539
Senators drop effort to control electricity prices
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Senate Democrats said they would no longer try to impose
stringent price controls on Western electricity sales, opting to
give federal regulators' less-draconian restrictions time to work.
(06/20/01)
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_s
outhwest/397676_power19e.html
Clone ban could ban life-saving research
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Researchers are up in arms over two proposed bills that would
make human cloning illegal. They argue that the study of
cloned embryos could lead to cures for a range of diseases. (06/22/01)
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech
/0,1286,44737,00.html
Eco-terrorist's goal: end of industrial civilization
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Some environmental activists are ambiguous about their
anti-property beliefs. Not Josh Harper, who sees "a spark
of hope in every broken window, every torched police car and every mink
running free as their hearts desire." For this 26-year-old anarcho-socialist,
those acts are necessary to achieve his ultimate goal: "The complete
collapse of industrial civilization."
(06/18/01)
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/
27876_harper18.shtml
Eco-terrorism: elusive, ethereal and electronic
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Some call it "self-defense" (against
"environmental rape"), but one thing is sure: episodes of
"eco-terrorism" have risen considerably in recent
times, especially in the Pacific Northwest, with at least 45 unsolved
crimes against property in Washington and Oregon alone. Meanwhile, groups
like the Earth Liberation Front seem to exist only in cyberspace.
(06/18/01)
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/
27871_ecoterror18.shtml
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bycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
California shortage, Texas surplus
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by F.R. Duplantier
Why does Texas have a surplus of energy and California a
shortage? Because Texas refused to overregulate the industry. (06/19/01)
http://www.americanpolicy.org/apf/6
_19_01.htm
Bush is right on global warming ... not that reporters would understand
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by James K. Glassman and Sallie L. Baliunas
Climate is constantly changing, growing warmer and cooler as time passes,
but that doesn't mean that humans are responsible or can do anything to
affect the process. (06/19/01)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/mag
azine/mag_6_39_01/glassman_baliu
nas_feat_6_39_01.asp
CEI applauds CDC on biotech food report
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by CEI staff
A recent study released by the Center for Disease Control
finds that StarLink corn is not allergenic. (06/14/01)
http://www.cei.org/PRReader.asp?I
D=1518
Making energy woes worse
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by Charli Coon
If the government wants to help consumers out with energy
costs, the most effective course would be to remove all caps and
production-inhibiting regulations. (06/21/01)
http://www.heritage.org/views/2001/ed
062101.html
Profile of Skeet Burris, private conservationist
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by Allison Freeman and Robert J. Smith
CPC tells the story of a South Carolina landowner who became
the organization's "private conservationist of
the year." (06/22/01)
http://www.privateconservation.org/com
ment.php?article_id=75
CARA spells disaster
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by CEI staff
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute joins property
rights activists, taxpayer groups, farmers, ranchers, senior
citizens, and other free-market environmentalists in condemning this $45
billion bill, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act
(CARA)." (06/20/01)
http://www.cei.org/PRReader.asp?ID=1524
Leave land-use issues to local citizens
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Text of Samuel Staley's testimony at a May 8 hearing on land
use where he extols the virtues of freedom and property rights over
coercive government land-use planning. (06/26/01)
http://www.mackinac.org/3534
High-yield farming integral to wildlife management
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The World Conservation Union and Future Harvest representing
Third World agricultural researchers) have just issued a
path-breaking wildlife conservation report declaring that high-yield
"ecoagriculture" must be a major part of the world's
efforts to save wildlife. This breaks step with Greenpeace, the Sierra
Club and others who continue to rail against agricultural
improvements.
(06/04/01)
http://www.hudson.org/new_detail.cf
m?Art_ID=818
Cartoon: Energy price caps
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by Steve Benson
Maybe price caps are NOT the best way to deal with the energy
market. (06/20/01)
http://www.arizonarepublic.com/opinio
ns/benson/062001benson.html
Why wholesale price caps on electricity won't solve California's energy
woes
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by Brett D. Schaefer and Charli E. Coon, J.D.
The writers argue that California should serve as a lesson
that partial deregulation cannot work. Intervening in California and
Western states' wholesale electricity markets, whether by price caps or
price mitigation, does nothing to solve the supply-demand imbalance
and will only make matters worse. (06/20/01)
http://www.heritage.org/library/execme
mo/em754.html
Climate Rx: A Manhattan Project of research
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by James K. Glassman
"The current enthusiasm over global warming is based on
either unsound -- or if you want to be more modest about it,
unsettled -- science. We don't know much about climate. That's the
truth." (06/20/01)
http://www.techcentralstation.org/News
Desk.asp?FormMode=MainTerminalA
rticles&ID=70
'Biodevastation' activists spread false fears about safe foods
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by staff article
"Consumers and journalists beware -- biodevastation
activists aim to target you over the next few days with false and
misleading information about food safety, nutrition and the
environment." (06/22/01)
http://www.acsh.org/press/releases/w
arning062201.html
W. goes wrong on energy
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by Larry Kudlow
"After holding the line on Kyoto global warming and SDI
in his recent trip to Europe," says Larry Kudlow, "President
Bush has suddenly gone wobbly at home by endorsing an
electricity-price-cap plan ordered by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission." (06/19/01)
http://www.nationalreview.com/comme
nt/comment-sullum062101.shtml
Stupidity in the golden state
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by P.J. O'Rourke
"California is in the midst of an enormous stupidity
crisis," writes libertarian humorist P.J. O'Rourke.
"Californians have been sitting in the dark because they didn't turn
the lights on." (06/20/01)
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show
_article?ID=705303&pic=none&TP=get
article
Thanks to Feds, farming community faces extinction
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by Bob Vice
Excerpt: "John Steinbeck, call your office. The Klamath
River basin straddling the California-Oregon border is threatened with
dust bowl conditions that would make the displaced Oklahoma farmers in the
'Grapes of Wrath' feel at home..." -- Bob Vice, former
president of the California Farm Bureau Federation, and senior
advisor to the Board of Trustees of Pacific Legal Foundation. (06/20/01)
http://www.pacificlegal.org/klamath/o
p-klamath.htm
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