ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

CLIMATE CHANGE

Treaties, National Sovereignty, and Executive Power: A Report on the Kyoto Protocol"
(Prepared by the Committee to Preserve American Security and Sovereignty, May 18, 1988)
The issues of national sovereignty and delegation of power raised by the proposed Protocol are serious. U.S. doctrines of constitutional, administrative, and international law provide few clear answers about the extent to which decisions by international bodies would bind the U.S. government or U.S. citizens.

WATER

Dam Fools
(From Reason, April 1998)
Environmentalists want to tear down dams, and they might be right. Many should not have been built in the first place and the cost benefit case for keeping them cannot be assumed. A look at the Great American Dam Building Binge.

Slowing Down the Flow
(From Washington Times, August 23, 1997)
The ultimate Congressional silliness: Low-flow showers and low-flow flush toilets.

SUPERFUND

Privatizing Superfund: How to Clean Up Hazardous Waste Sites
(Cato Institute Policy Analysis, December 1995)
Superfund has been called "the worst program ever enacted by the U.S. Congress." This paper shows why, and proposes some remedies. Not for the squeamish, or the easily bored.

Superfund and Insurers
(in Rethinking Insurance Regulation, A Conference Sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, March 8, 1996)
Superfund as a problem for the insurance industry. (This article is not on the web; to obtain a copy, contact The Competitive Enterprise Institute.)

Superfund XVII: The Pathology of Environmental Policy
(Competitive Enterprise Institute Environmental Studies Program, August 1997)
More on Superfund and why the amendments proposed in the 1997/1998 Congressional session would do little good.

RISK

Stopping Points for Environmental Regulation
(From Professional Safety, February 1989)
Industries feel beleaguered by unnecessary or unproductive rules. Environmentalists feel aggrieved by the shortfalls of these same rules. Some suggestions on deciding how much is enough. (This article is not on the web; to obtain a copy, email the Regulatory Policy Center.)

Risk and the Legal System
(From Journal of Products Liability, 1984)
An overview of the approaches of the liability and regulatory systems. (This article is not on the web; to obtain a copy, email the Regulatory Policy Center.)

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE

Wasting Away: Mismanaging Municipal Solid Waste
(Competitive Enterprise Institute Monograph, May 1994)
Common sense about trash and the recycling fad, or -- why most writing about garbage is garbage.

Of Mountains and Molehills
(Brookings Review, Spring 1994)
An abbreviated treatment of trash (This article is not on the web; to obtain a copy, email the Regulatory Policy Center.).