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Celebrate the Cuyahoga's Comeback
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 5.27.2009
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire, an event that has come to symbolize environmental degradation. The current condition of the river symbolizes something else worth recalling in the wake of Earth Day -- environmental improvement, from abysmal conditions.
Unilateral or Worldwide, Waxman-Markey Fails Standard Cost/Benefit Tests (CO2 “leakage” makes bad even worse)
Submitted on 5.26.2009
Jim Manzi has a very good post introducing the analysis of costs and benefits of Waxman-Markey. Here I want to follow up on Manzi’s great start, by showing that Chip Knappenberger’s estimate of the climate benefits of Waxman-Markey (W-M) actually erred on the side of optimism in its assumptions.
The Geography of Carbon Emissions
Submitted by Jack Dini on 5.23.2009
No American city is among the top 50 cities in the world for air pollution according to the World Bank. (1) Another list, ‘The Top Ten of the Dirty Thirty,' compiled by the Blacksmith Institute of New York compared the toxicity of contamination, the likelihood of it getting into humans and the number of people affected. Places were bumped up in rank if children were impacted. No US or European sites made the list.
Uncommon Knowledge: The Environment with Steven F. Hayward
Submitted on 5.19.2009
Steven F. Hayward was interviewed by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution in Stanford, CA, about environmental issues, the progress that has been made, and the Index of Environmental Iinicators: 2009 Report.
Exploding The Myth Of Green Jobs
Submitted on 5.15.2009
Great video of Dr. Robert Murphy talking about the myth of so-called “green jobs.”
High/Low: Is There Now Reasonable Agreement on the Costs and Benefits of Waxman-Markey?
Submitted on 5.12.2009
Supporters of the Waxman-Markey climate bill have not seriously disputed the extreme costs and the negligible benefits estimated by critics of the cap-and-trade proposal.
When Environmental 'Catastrophes' Really Aren't
Submitted by Peter Robinson on 5.1.2009
This year we mark the anniversaries of two environmental catastrophes. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil into the sea. Twenty years earlier, in 1969, the Cuyahoga River proved so thick with pollutants that it caught fire, sending oily black smoke billowing into the sky for half an hour.
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