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Items in this update:
o Klamath Basin crisis
o The Shocking Truth about the California Energy Crisis
o Tarheel State smokestacks bill could lead to costly regulations
o Energy freedom: lifting government burdens on U.S. energy
producers and consumers
o Evaluation of President Bush's energy plan
o Staley on sprawl
o Endangered fish policy may have cost firefighters' lives
o New problems fester in Klamath water dispute
o Greens may enter Utah monument case
o World population to peak this century
o House to consider controversial land-acquisition bill
o Martin Luther King III joins with IJ to denounce Mississippi
eminent domain abuse
o Cloning decisions should not be made by Congress, Libertarians
say
o Pro-market energy commission chairman to resign
o Bush likely to present climate plan
o European Commission says a third of Europe's produce tainted with
pesticide
o House passes ban on human cloning
o What side effects to a clone ban?
o House approves drilling in Alaska
o Europeans 'sorry' for Russia because of nuclear waste
o Endangered Species Act excesses come home to roost in
metropolitan east coast
o Winner and losers at the Kyoto corral
o France and Germany push for 'greener agriculture' subsidies
o Raising electricity prices will save money
o Send out the clones
o Climate change science?: National Academy of Sciences Global
Warming Report fails to live up to its billing
o CARA: black-hole land legislation up for vote
o Sun, oceans, and other details
o Global warming treaty: fatally flawed indeed
o Conserve gas: scrap the ethanol program
o The House takes a misplaced bite at 'energy vampires'
o 'Just compensation' and the U.S. Department of Justice
o Why not the best energy market?
o Post editorial challenges biotech myths
o Privatization addresses Australia's power needs
o ANWR apathy
o Klamath Falls Crisis Relief Fund
==> Online Resource Directories <==
Klamath Basin crisis
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For the sake of endangered fish, the federal government has
halted water service to the Klamath Falls Basin, devastating the
livelihoods of the 1400 farmers who live there. Find out more about this
environmental regulatory embarrassment.
rjd@klamathbasincrisis.org?subject=SUP
PORT
http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/
The Shocking Truth about the California Energy Crisis
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Short answers and resources regarding the California energy
crisis.
http://www.theadvocates.org/issues/elecd
ereg.html
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybycat
egory/homepages/
==> Scholarly and In-Depth Studies <==
Tarheel State smokestacks bill could lead to costly regulations
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by Roy Cordato
"'Clean smokestacks' legislation now moving through
North Carolina's General Assembly would create a new global warming
commission. But the scientific issues involved are complex and unsettled.
If North Carolina were to try to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions on its
own, it would have a trivial impact on global climate but destroy tens of
thousands of jobs." (07/05/01)
lockefoundation@free-market.net
http://www.johnlocke.org/issues/Spotligh
ts/199global.html
Energy freedom: lifting government burdens on U.S. energy producers and
consumers
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by Raymond J. Keating
In this study, Keating calls for removing price controls,
counterproductive environmental regulations, and other government
interventions restraining domestic energy producers. In Adobe Acrobat.
(07/01)
rkeat614@aol.com
http://www.sbsc.org/media/pdf/policyseri
es3Energy.pdf
Evaluation of President Bush's energy plan
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Prepared by the Center for Data Analysis in partnership
with DRI/WEFA, Inc. the study evaluates the plan's effects in major
energy markets and in the general economy. (08/05/01)
http://www.heritage.org/shorts/20010803
energy.html
For more Scholarly and In-Depth Studies see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyca
tegory/in-depth/
==> Audio and Video <==
Staley on sprawl
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by Sam Staley
"Sam Staley discusses the latest 'Sprawl Index', that
urban decay can't be blamed on suburbs, and that people ought to have a
right to more room if they want it." RealPlayer is needed.
(08/02/01)
http://www.jerrybowyer.com/audio.php?
id=303
For more Audio and Video see:
http://www.free-market.net/directorybyc
ategory/multi/
==> News Reports <==
Endangered fish policy may have cost firefighters' lives
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Rules that prevent the dousing of blazes with water from
streams and lakes in national forests may have cost the lives of four
firefighters. The Endangered Species Act requires special permission to
use the water, in order to protect fish habitat. (08/02/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3
1019,00.html
New problems fester in Klamath water dispute
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Federal officials on Tuesday gave two Oregon irrigation
districts one day to resume water flow to a northern California lake
that is home to endangered sucker fish. The districts had been holding
water back against the possibility of the drought continuing into next
year. (08/02/01)
http://cgi.sacbee.com/news/calreport/
calrep_story.cgi?story=N2001-08-01-0
045-0.html
Greens may enter Utah monument case
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"Environment groups must be allowed to intervene in
litigation challenging President Bill Clinton's 1996 Grand Staircase
Escalante National Monument in Utah." (07/10/01)
mslf@free-market.net
http://www.mountainstateslegal.org/pre
ss_releases.cfm?pressreleaseid=136
World population to peak this century
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Despite a growth burst that more than doubled the global
human population over the past 50 years, a new study predicts that
the human head count will peak at 9 billion by 2070 and then begin to
decline. (08/02/01)
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/s
citech/DailyNews/worldpopulation0108
01.html
House to consider controversial land-acquisition bill
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A bill that would give the federal government more money to
acquire private lands is headed for a full House vote this fall. The
Conservation and Reinvestment Act alarms property rights advocates because
of its potential to transfer even more land to federal control.
(08/07/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,
31501,00.html
Martin Luther King III joins with IJ to denounce Mississippi eminent
domain abuse
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In June, Martin Luther King III, the national president of
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, joined with Institute for
Justice advocates, clients and supporters the evening before a key hearing
to decide whether or not the government can take the land of Madison
County property owners for the benefit of a private company. (07/01)
http://www.ij.org/publications/liberty/200
1/10_4_01_b.asp
Cloning decisions should not be made by Congress, Libertarians say
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In response to the a vote by the House of Representatives to
ban human cloning, the Libertarian Party announced: "Yes, cloning of
human beings does raise serious ethical issues, but those issues are
best addressed by individuals, doctors, and scientists, not
politicians." (08/03/01)
http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archiv
e/200108/CUL20010801b.html
Pro-market energy commission chairman to resign
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Curt Hebert Jr., the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
chairman whose pro-market approach to California's power crunch has been
under attack by state officials, will resign at the end of the
month. His expected successor, Pat Wood III, is less likely to let the
market work as it should. (08/07/01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn
/articles/A39628-2001Aug6.html
Bush likely to present climate plan
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White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, Jr. says that the
administration will likely present fresh proposals for revising a global
warming treaty at a conference this fall.(08/06/01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy
n/articles/A35811-2001Aug5.html
European Commission says a third of Europe's produce tainted with
pesticide
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A third of the fruit, vegetables and cereals eaten in Europe
contain pesticides and almost one in 20 crops is contaminated with illegal
levels of the chemicals, the European Commission said. (08/06/01)
http://www.ttc.org/ba10806a.htm
House passes ban on human cloning
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In a move that could pose major implications for the future
of scientific freedom in the United States, the House voted to ban
all cloning of human embryos after hours of debate that weighed potential
scientific benefits against moral principles. (08/01/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3
1034,00.html
What side effects to a clone ban?
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The House vote to ban cloning doesn't just cut off a
reproductive option, it outlaws research into the therapeutic potential of
reproducing human cells. (08/01/01)
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0
,1286,45744,00.html
House approves drilling in Alaska
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In a late Wednesday vote, the House approved oil and gas
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as part of
a package of energy proposals expected to be sent to the Senate.
(08/02/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3
1094,00.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.free-market.net/directoryby
category/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
Europeans 'sorry' for Russia because of nuclear waste
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by Vladimir Katin
The Russian president's decision to open Russia's door wide
for nuclear wastes from all over the world has caused a lot of negative
reaction from a number of European political and public figures and also
environmentalists. A series of possibly fatal consequences for the
country have been noted. None of them could be compensated for with the
dollars that the government hopes to earn. (07/30/01)
http://www.therussianissues.com/storie
s/2001/06/06/991820155/996496243.html
Endangered Species Act excesses come home to roost in metropolitan east
coast
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by staff article
"Finally people in the northeast are getting a small
taste of the great abuses people in the west have been suffering for years
under the Endangered Species Act." (07/31/01)
http://www.nationalcenter.org/TSR731
01.html
Winner and losers at the Kyoto corral
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by Patrick J. Michaels
"On July 23, 178 nations agreed to a new draft of the
Kyoto Protocol on global warming. The United States did not. The
United States, alone in the world, did the right thing" and we will
benefit economically from it. (07/31/01)
http://www.cato.org/dailys/07-31-01.html
France and Germany push for 'greener agriculture' subsidies
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by Daniela Spinant
France and Germany announced, on Monday, that they would push
for reforms of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) to reorient farming
subsidies more along lines of environmental protection and food
safety. (07/31/01)
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtm
l?selected_topic=9&action=view&artic
le_id=3056
Raising electricity prices will save money
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by Alexander Tabarrok*
Tabarrok explains how California Governor Davis has greatly
increased the total costs of the energy crisis in his state by
not taking the necessary but perhaps politically inexpedient steps
of ending retail price controls. (07/30/01)
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/01
0730Tabarrok.html
Send out the clones
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by Ronald Bailey
"[B]y passing this bill the House of Representatives is
not only throwing out cloned babies; it is also jettisoning the research
bathwater that might one day cure and comfort millions of suffering
patients." (08/01/01)
http://reason.com/rb/rb080101.html
Climate change science?: National Academy of Sciences Global Warming
Report fails to live up to its billing
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by Gerald Marsh
Marsh criticizes the NAS report on global warming for its
lack of sound science. (08/01)
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA349.html
CARA: black-hole land legislation up for vote
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by Matt Richardson
"Congress is currently considering whether or not CARA,
or HR 701, shall become law. This widely publicized legislation
represents the federal government's boldest effort in acquiring property
for the sake of environmental groups and the like minded." (07/31/01)
dpr@free-market.net
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/cara_
731.htm
Sun, oceans, and other details
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by Staff article
"Those who were taught in grade school that 'all energy
comes from the sun' might think to ask whether this enormous furnace has
something to do with temperature changes on earth. After all, there had to
be a natural cause for climate fluctuations -- 'upheavals'' would be a
better term' -- in the millennia preceding the Industrial
Revolution." (07/01)
pcd@free-market.net
http://www.oism.org/cdp/july2001.htm
Global warming treaty: fatally flawed indeed
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by Raymond J. Keating
"Supporters of the Kyoto Protocol have declared that
President Bush is being isolationist when it comes to the Kyoto Protocol.
I would call it exhibiting smart economics, environmental
realism, common sense, and real political leadership." (07/30/01)
rkeat614@aol.com
http://www.sbsc.org/LatestNews_Actio
n.asp?FormMode=CyberColumn&ID=173
Conserve gas: scrap the ethanol program
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by Joseph Lehman
While some politicians demand that automakers produce
vehicles that consume less gas, the federal ethanol program
continues to increase gas usage in America. (08/06/01)
http://www.mackinac.org/3578
The House takes a misplaced bite at 'energy vampires'
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by James Gattuso and Ben Lieberman
"In a month punctuated by news of plummeting PC sales
and ever more tech industry lay-offs and bankruptcies,
Congress moved forward legislation that's bound to affect the ailing New
Economy. ... the House voted August 1 to place new energy use restrictions
on consumer electronic products." (08/01/01)
http://www.techcentralstation.com/New
sDesk.asp?FormMode=PolicyTracksA
rticles&ID=130
'Just compensation' and the U.S. Department of Justice
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by William Perry Pendley
In spite of being ruled against in court in two property
rights cases, the DOJ is dragging its feet in paying the "just
compensation" the victorious plaintiffs are owed. (07/01/01)
mslf@free-market.net
http://www.mountainstateslegal.org/su
mmary_judgment.cfm?articleid=42
Why not the best energy market?
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by Donald Cooper
"The notion that price caps are needed seems to be
firmly rooted in an economic notion called the 'theory of the second
best.'... [If] California's elected officials are really interested in
solving the energy problem, then they must abandon the 'second-best'
approach of price caps and work to create a truly free energy
market." (07/08/01)
http://www.objectivistcenter.com/pubs/n
av_4_7_com_why_not_the_best.asp
Post editorial challenges biotech myths
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by Editorial
The Post editorial admits: "So far, after all, not a
single genetically modified product has been shown to harm
human health; on the other hand, the more abundant and cheaper food that
biotechnology promises could make a huge difference to
consumers, especially in poor nations with extensive malnourishment. Yet
consumer groups are up in arms against so-called Frankenfoods."
(08/05/01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn
/articles/A30279-2001Aug3.html
Privatization addresses Australia's power needs
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by Alan Moran
"Following Victoria's electricity restructuring and
privatisation there were massive generator performance improvements.
... By February of next year, half a dozen new generators in Victoria and
South Australia are now expected to increase capacity by 750 MW or 7
per cent." (07/14/01)
http://www.ipa.org.au/Media/amhs1407
01.html
ANWR apathy
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by Sam MacDonald
"Does anyone really care if oil wells in Alaska disturb
the caribou?" (08/03/01)
http://reason.com/hod/sm080201.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.free-market.net/directoryby
category/commentary/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Klamath Falls Crisis Relief Fund
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Help out the 1400 farmers in the Klamath Falls Basin
devastated by government actions.
gnemesis@v1.net
https://www.keepandbeararms.com/ne
wsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=vi
ew&articleid=1800
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.free-market.net/directoryb
ycategory/actions/
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