Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2008 Report
By: Steven F. Hayward
This report provides important facts about California’s energy system, summarizes past policies, and investigates current policies that are receiving high levels of attention. For example, what effect do taxes have on consumption? Does mandated conservation work? Has state investment in alternative energy sources been beneficial?

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Hysteria's History
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
Listening to the global-warming alarmists, one gets the idea that humanity faces a critical and certain danger from the rising global temperature, which will raise sea levels and swamp major cities, reduce arable land to desert, impoverish billions, and end civilization as we know it.

Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2007 Report
By: Steven F. Hayward, Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
As it has done over the past dozen years, the Index shines a spotlight on, and deepens Americans’ understanding of, environmental progress—the side of the environmental story that is seldom told. Positive trends are occurring in key areas such as national forests, air quality, toxic chemicals, and biodiversity.

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Sense and Sequestration: The Carbon Sequestration Cycle Explained
by Amy Kaleita, Ph.D

Though there is no conclusive proof of the effects of CO2 on climate change, there is growing public concern that greenhouse gases are a potential cause of global warming. With carbon dioxide comprising more than 80 percent of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions, policymakers are looking toward carbon sequestration—the process in which carbon is captured before or after emission and stored long term—as one approach to decreasing CO2 emissions.

This tenth edition of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators is a good time to take stock of progress over the last decade. When the Index was launched, there were few efforts to develop environmental indicators or report trends in a useful way for the media or the public. Now there are dozens of worthy efforts in the public and private sector, many of them highly detailed and most available on the Internet. (An inventory of 86 Internet-accessible indicator sets is included in this ...

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Heat Advisory, a recent report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), claims that increased temperatures resulting from global warming will cause higher ozone smog levels and therefore harm Americans’ health. In other words, in addition to other harms, NRDC claims global warming will cause future air pollution to be worse than current air pollution levels. For example, NRDC asserts that the number of days per year exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 8-hour ozone standard will increase by an average of 60 percent in America’s metropolitan areas.

The ninth annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, released today by the Pacific Research Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, shows that the environment continues to be America’s single greatest policy success. Environmental quality has improved so much, in fact, that it is nearly impossible to paint a grim, gloom-and-doom picture anymore.

In a dramatic turning point for environmental policy, the 2002 U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa affirmed that economic growth is a prerequisite for improving the world's environment. This should translate into a greater reliance on market-based policy solutions. However, many environmental issues remain as contentious as ever — climate change, sustainable development, food production, and urban growth.

Australia has one of the worst records of mammalian extinction in the world, in large part because so many of its species evolved in isolation and were not well-equipped to deal with the introduced species that came with European settlement. In recent years, however, a focus on feral eradication and on protection of native species in feral-proof enclosures or sanctuaries has started to reverse this trend.

Earth Sanctuaries, Ltd., a private company in Australia, has been at the forefront of this type of protection. It has played a significant role in the recovery of many species.