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Environmental right-to-know
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The Pitfalls of the Environmental Right to
Know
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2005 Utah L. Rev. 805
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Environmental
Information: The Toxics Release Inventory, Stakeholder Participation, and
the Right to Know
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by Alexander Volokh, Kenneth Green, and Lynn Scarlett, Reason Public Policy Institute, policy studies
Nos. 246 and 247 (December 1998).
The theme: environmental information laws aren't always
beneficial -- they can distort understanding of risks and benefits,
needlessly violate privacy, undermine trade-secret protection, possibly
encourage industrial sabotage, and increase meritless litigation.
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Environmental goals suffer when right-to-know laws go wrong
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Greater Milwaukee Business Journal, October 5, 1995 -- about the story of Charter Steel and
why the Toxics Release Inventory doesn't give useful environmental information
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Environmental federalism
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Shades of Green
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Reason, May 1998 --
about how state regulators and the private sector are making environmental policy more effective and less
intrusive
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Race to the
Top: The Innovative Face of State Environmental Management
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by Alexander Volokh, Lynn Scarlett, and Scott Bush, Reason Public Policy Institute, policy study No.
239 (February 1998).
The theme: state
governments are doing a good job of protecting the environment, relying
more on problem-solving instead of punishment,
better balancing different goals, allowing for flexible compliance, providing greater
incentives for private stewardship, and allowing more decisions to be
made at the local level than does the federal government.
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Southern California Air District Parially Privatizes Permitting
Program
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Privatization Watch, August 1996 -- about the Certified Permitting Professional
program at the Southern California AQMD
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Massachusetts Moves Toward Environmental Compliance Privatization
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Privatization Watch, August 1996 -- about the Massachusetts DEP's Environmental Results Program
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Punitive damages
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Punitive Damages and
Environmental Law: Rethinking the Issues
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Reason Foundation policy study No. 213 (September 1996)
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What To Do About Punitive Damages
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Investor's Business Daily, August 7, 1996
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Environmental enforcement
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Testimony before the U.S. EPA's Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
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San Francisco, Calif., March 17, 1997 -- on the National Performance
Measures Strategy.
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Cleaning up the EPA
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Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, October 27,
1996 -- about a proposed environmental-crimes bill that would only make things worse
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Environmental
Enforcement: In Search of Both Effectiveness and Fairness
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by Alexander Volokh and Roger Marzulla,
Reason Foundation policy study No. 210 (August 1996).
The theme: environmental enforcement should focus
more on results and less on punishment for its own sake, and should
also respect the Bill of Rights.
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Carrots over Sticks: The case for environmental self-audits
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Washington Monthly, June 1997 -- on the battle between the states and the federal government
about audit-privilege laws
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Tastes Great! More
Polluting!
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Reason, January 1996 -- a brief piece on the
usefulness of environmental audits and why the EPA opposes them
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Environmental justice
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Testimony before the L.A. City Planning Commission
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August 8, 1996 -- explaining why a provision on environmental justice should not be
included in the Los Angeles general plan
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Testimony before the L.A. City Council
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December 11, 1996 -- again explaining, this time to the full council, why a provision on environmental
justice should not be included in the Los Angeles general plan
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General
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Market-based Approaches to Cleaning the Air
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Privatization Watch, May 1998
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Libre Mercado: Protector Del Medio Ambiente
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by Felix Ibanez S., El Mercurio (Santiago, Chile), November 19, 1997 -- an interview with me
about free-market environmentalism
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Twenty-five years of American environmental regulation:
Lessons for Chile
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delivered in Spanish at Instituto Libertad y
Desarrollo, November 1997, Santiago, Chile -- click here for the Spanish text, and here for photos of the event
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Twenty-five years of environmental regulation: What
Americans have learned
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delivered in Russian at the UrbanEco 97
American-Russian Conference, "A Safe Environment for Big Cities on
the Threshold of the 21st Century," February 4-6, 1997, San Diego, Ca. --
click here for the Russian text
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Ban Chlorine? Let's Hope EPA Steers Clear of Fuzzy Logic
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Knight-Ridder Financial News, September 9, 1994 -- about the
environmental fallacies of the movement to ban chlorine
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Jefferson Group Weighs Risk
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CEI UpDate, February 1994 -- a report on a meeting of the Jefferson Group, a CEI-sponsored
group of policy wonks who met to discuss environmental risk issues
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Don't apply human morality to the amorality of nature
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UCLA Daily Bruin, January 19, 1990
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Book reviews
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Nature's Nature
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Reason, July 1995 -- book review of A Moment on the
Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism by Gregg
Easterbrook
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How Green
Is Our Valley?
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Reason, March 1995 -- book review of
Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth by Peter Marshall,
No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental
Thinking by Wallace Kaufman, and The Green Crusade: Rethinking the
Roots of Environmentalism by Charles T. Rubin
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