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Date
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News Source
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Headline
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Summary
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| 02/29/04 |
Power Economics |
The rules of our play: US politics return to bill row |
RFF President and Senior Fellow Paul Portney is quoted, giving his opinion on Bush’s energy bill. |
| 02/24/04 |
The Morning Call |
Hydrogen fuel cash siphoned for ‘pork’ |
Senior Fellow Raymond Kopp is quoted in this article. Kopp explains that funds for hydrogen research are being given to the wrong projects. |
| 02/23/04 |
Chemical and Engineering News |
Getting to ‘Clean Coal’ |
This article focuses on President Bush’s plan to use “clean coal” in coal-fired electric plants. Senior Fellow Dallas Burtraw is quoted, supporting regulatory-forcing regulations on electric utilities industries to achieve this. |
| 02/23/04 |
Grist Magazine |
Certifiably Insane? Wood-labeling program less green than it appears |
This article questions the environmental improvements that were supposed to result from the creation of the timber industry’s “Sustainable Forest Initiative.” RFF President and Senior Fellow Paul Portney is quoted, explaining that more is being done now to reach sustainability than if SFI had not been created. |
| 02/20/04 |
Science Daily |
Deliberately Exposing People To Toxins: Report Calls For More Stringent Ethical Standards In Scientific Studies |
In this article, Senior Fellow and National Research Council Committee co-chair Michael Taylor, explains the importance of participants’ safety in human dosing studies. |
| 02/20/04 |
The Kansas City Star
Also ran in:
New York Times
Environmental News Service
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Use of data from pesticide-dosed humans urged |
This article covers a study that would allow the testing of pesticides on humans and allows the EPA to use the data from these studies. Senior Fellow Michael Taylor is quoted stressing the need for safety of participants. |
| 02/18/04 |
Heritage Foundation |
Nature in the Suburbs |
Senior Fellow Roger Sedjo is quoted in this article about the surprising abundance of wild animals in the suburbs. |
| 02/02/04 |
Space News |
Water, Water Everywhere? |
Senior Fellow Molly Macauley wrote this article about the seriousness of a global water crisis. |
| 02/01/04 |
The Oregonian |
Mad cow case reveals food safety system flaws |
The article brings up the possibility of combining the many separate food inspection agencies into one single entity. Senior Fellow Michael Tayloris quoted, saying that he questions the effectiveness of the existing system. |
| 02/01/04 |
Public Utilities Fortnightly |
Rethinking Restructuring |
In this article about regulation vs. deregulation of electricity, RFF is mentioned for it’s 1975 estimate on total costs of nuclear plants vs. total costs of equivalent coal plants. |
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February ’04
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The Bloomsbury Review
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Natural States: The Reality of Water and the “Environmental Imagination”
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This article mentions a book by Richard Judd and Christopher Beach, published by RFF Press, entitled Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation.
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