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Bush Picks Pacific Research Institute Experts for Key Environmental Posts
Submitted on 1.25.2001
President George W. Bush has named three environmental experts associated with the California-based Pacific Research Institute (PRI) to top positions in his Cabinet and Transition Advisory Teams: Gale Norton, nominee for Secretary of Interior; Steven Hayward, Transition Advisory Team for the Environmental Protection Agency; and Terry Anderson, Transition Advisory Team for the Dept. of the Interior.
How To Create an Energy Crisis
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.14.2001
Contrary to current belief, creating an energy crisis in California is not a simple matter. To achieve skyrocketing utility bills and brownouts at current levels, with the threat of worse to come, requires a complicated series of steps and considerable determination.
California’s Electricity Crisis
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 1.9.2001
A recent New York Times article blamed California’s energy crisis on the state's supposed “blind faith in markets.” Many politicians in Sacramento are repeating this refrain, with some calling for government takeover of the power industry. Trouble is, government, not the market, caused this crisis in the first place.
“Energy Crisis” Turns the Light on Ignorance
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 1.1.2001
The power shortages being billed as the latest “energy crisis” provide an opportunity for a basic lesson in economics, in which facts dispel hysteria and fanaticism, commodities currently in oversupply.
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