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Items in this update:
o No more scares!
o Devolution to the states is working for welfare; it can work for
public lands
o The fear profiteers: do socially responsible businesses sow
health scares to reap monetary awards?
o Russia seeks more emission quotas -- to sell them
o Supreme Court upholds broad property rights
o California power talks begin
o PLF urges 'God Squad' to intervene in Klamath disaster
o Windmills vs. squirrels?
o Environmentalists seeks 'wilderness' designation for ocean sites
o Economic growth is key to environmental quality
o Another Supreme Court property rights victory
o Devolution to the states is working for welfare; it can work for
public lands
o Helping the world's farmers save wild species
o Organic farms not so bucolic
o Energy crisis: double or nothing
o The fake consensus on 'global warming'
o No Net Loss of Private Land Act
o Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
o Constitutional Land Acquisition Act
o Endangered Species Listing and Delisting Process Reform Act of
2001
==> Online Resource Directories <==
No more scares!
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The latest from the Junkman, Steven Milloy, in conjunction
with the National Center for Public Research. Through this
site, Milloy hopes to explain the tactics of what he calls "scare
marketers" and how they benefit financially from their
shenanigans on such false alarms as Alar, Bovine Growth Hormone,
Swordfish, etc.
webmaster@nomorescares.com
http://www.nomorescares.com/
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.free-market.net/directoryby
category/homepages/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
Devolution to the states is working for welfare; it can work for public
lands
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by Gretchen Randall
Randall suggests devolving control of public lands to the
states they're in -- whether by outright transfer of the land itself, or
by movement of federal management funds to state agencies. (06/01)
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA340.
html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.free-market.net/directoryby
category/brief/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
The fear profiteers: do socially responsible businesses sow health scares
to reap monetary awards?
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by Staff article
"So-called 'socially responsible' businesses make money
by launching irresponsible and groundless health scares," says this
report. "Authored by a distinguished group of experts, it describes a
number of major health scares of the last decade and links them to Fenton
Communications - public relations business that, along with its
clients, makes money by alarming the public." (06/21/00)
webmaster@nomorescares.com
http://www.nomorescares.com/report/d
efault.htm
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyc
ategory/in-depth/
==> News Reports <==
Russia seeks more emission quotas -- to sell them
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Russia is insisting at informal climate talks that more of
its forests and farmland be counted as "carbon sinks" to reduce
its greenhouse gas totals, Germany's environment minister said on
Wednesday. Russia is expected to meet its Kyoto targets easily, since
economic decline there has trimmed industrial output of carbon dioxide.
But larger quotas could be sold to other states. (06/28/01)
http://www.gazeta.ru/2001/06/28/Russ
iaSeeksW.shtml
Supreme Court upholds broad property rights
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Citing the Fifth Amendment's "takings" clause, the
Supreme Court ruled that owners can claim property was
unconstitutionally tied up by governmental regulation -- even if the rules
in question were imposed before the owner acquired the property.
(06/29/01)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/art
icles/2001/6/28/162313.shtml
California power talks begin
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Negotiators began meetings on exactly how much western states
will be able to extort from power companies in "refunds"
for "price gouging." California is demanding $9 billion, but the
judge supervising the case speculates that $2.5 billion will be the
maximum settlement for all of the involved states combined.
(06/26/01)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2001
0626/ts/power_woes.html
PLF urges 'God Squad' to intervene in Klamath disaster
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Siding with a number of victims of the Klamath Basin
disaster, Pacific Legal Foundation has formally appealed to Governors Gray
Davis (CA) and John Kitzhaber (OR), and the federal government, to
immediately convene the Endangered Species Committee (commonly called the
"God Squad") to seek exemption from regulations that turned a
once fertile agricultural valley into parched wasteland. (06/26/01)
http://www.pacificlegal.org/klamath
/pr-klm_ltr.htm
Windmills vs. squirrels?
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As the world's largest wind-generating project nears
completion, other environmental concerns could alter, if not delay,
it all. The Stateline Wind Generating Project along the Washington-Oregon
border could produce enough electricity to power 70,000 homes. The
problem: they've found Washington ground squirrels, protected
under Oregon's Endangered Species Act, at the construction site.
(06/27/01)
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2831
1,00.html
Environmentalists seeks 'wilderness' designation for ocean sites
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The Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental preservation
group, wants the government to declare certain coastal waters
as ocean wilderness sites. They are asking the government agencies that
manage pristine marine habitats to step up their protection. That would
mean no shipping or fishing in the water and no digging or drilling on the
ocean floor within designated areas. (06/26/01)
http://www.nando.net/healthscience/
story/33391p-556173c.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.free-market.net/directory
bycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Economic growth is key to environmental quality
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by Dr. Steven Hayward
Research suggests that economic growth and prosperity, rather
than being the enemy of environmental protection, may in fact
be key to reducing pollution and preserving resources. (06/28/01)
http://www.mackinac.org/3536
Another Supreme Court property rights victory
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by Nancie G. Marzulla
The Supreme Court ruled that a Rhode Island man whose
property was declared a wetland suffered a taking. "It's time
government regulators got the message that the property rights of
landowners cannot be destroyed in the name of environmental
protection," writes Marzulla.(06/28/01)
dpr@free-market.net
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/pr
essreleases/010628.htm
Devolution to the states is working for welfare; it can work for public
lands
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by Gretchen Randall
Randall suggests devolving control of public lands to the
states they're in -- whether by outright transfer of the land itself, or
by movement of federal management funds to state agencies. (06/01)
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA3
40.html
Helping the world's farmers save wild species
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by Dennis Avery
As Avery points out, "Environmentalists take great pride
in global expansion of wildlife preserves, but half of major
preserves are heavily used for agriculture." He notes that the
win/win (and usually free market based) solution in most cases has
been to consign the less fertile lands to wildlife preserves, while
leaving the arable land for agriculture. (06/15/01)
http://www.hudson.org/new_detail.cfm
?Art_ID=828
Organic farms not so bucolic
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by Dennis Avery
Avery writes: "The organic milk carton says it was
produced by 'a family of family farms.' But the milk came from the
Horizon organic dairy, an international conglomerate that owns about
20,000 cows and often ships its milk thousands of miles in huge,
refrigerated trucks, much of it produced with feeds irrigated by the very
dams that the Sierra Club condemns for destroying ecosystems."
(06/28/01)
http://www.hudson.org/new_detail.cf
m?Art_ID=835
Energy crisis: double or nothing
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"We need a flexible set of policy responses to meet the
emerging world need for energy. But we can't solve real
problems simply by "solving" calculation exercises."
(06/01)
http://www.stats.org/newsletters/0106
/double.htm
The fake consensus on 'global warming'
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by Jarret Wollstein
"Contrary to the insistence of the mainstream press and
career bureaucrats, there is no scientific consensus on 'global warming'
or that -- if it exists at all -- it is caused by human activity."
(07/03/01)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ar
ticles/2001/7/2/185108.shtml
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.free-market.net/directoryb
ycategory/commentary/
==> Bills, Laws, and Decisions <==
No Net Loss of Private Land Act
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This Senate bill would outlaw the federal government's
nationalizing any more than 25 percent of a state's land.(2001)
dpr@free-market.net
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/l
egislation/s322.htm
Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
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by Justice Anthony Kennedy
Supreme Court decisions which ruled that a Rhode Island man
whose property was declared a wetland suffered a taking. (06/28/01)
dpr@free-market.net
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/br
iefs/PALAZZOLOdec.htm
Constitutional Land Acquisition Act
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This House bill would amend the Land and Water Conservation
Fund Act of 1965 to provide greater protection of private property
rights. (2001)
dpr@free-market.net
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/le
gislation/hr1592.htm
Endangered Species Listing and Delisting Process Reform Act of 2001
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This Senate bill would make it harder to add animals to the
endangered species list without scientific evidence, and also improve
notification to states and private property owners. (2001)
dpr@free-market.net
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/leg
islation/s347.htm
For more Bills, Laws, and Decisions see:
http://www.free-market.net/directory
bycategory/laws/
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