June 2004 News Coverage

June 2004 News Coverage

Date	News Source	Headline	Summary
6/26/04	National Journal	Energy – King Coal’s Resurgence & Coal: Not a Four-Letter Word	With electricity consumption growing dramatically and the price of natural gas tripling in the last 3 years, coal is returning as the cheapest answer for energy. This article reviews U.S. power sources and discusses modern environmental regulations that increase the cost of coal production. Included is an excerpt from Jim Roger’s (CEO of Cincinnati-based Cinergy) RFF-hosted speech on his plans to build the nation’s most expensive and most environmentally friendly coal planet.
6/25/04	Inside EPA	Graham Highlights EPA Problems in Assessing Benefits of Air Rules	This article goes over the issues discussed at an RFF hosted event promoting the newly released Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the U.S. and Europe. Guest panelists John Graham of the OMB, suggests the EPA analysis of the benefits of Air rules does not take into account the scientific uncertainty in cost-benefit reviews.
6/25/04	Electric Energy Online (Montreal, QC) Also ran in: Power Marketing Association-Power Report	Mercury Debate Concentrates on Hot Spots	Senior Fellows Dallas Burtraw and Alan Krupnick are quoted on their findings regarding the cap-and-trade component of the Bush administrations proposal on mercury levels. They say the cap could be set lower to produce quicker and improved results.
6/24/04	CNNMoney	An Assessment of the Impacts of Forest Management on Aboriginal Hunters: Evidence from Stated and Revealed Preference Data	This article cites RFF Gilbert White Visiting Fellow W. Adamowicz.
6/22/04	CNNMoney Also ran in: Rural Sociology	Resource Dependence and Community Well-Being in Rural Canada	The RFF document, ‘Natural Resources and Rural Poverty: An Overview’ is referenced.
6/18/04	Inside Washington Publishers	OMB Official Highlights EPA Problems In Assessing Benefits of Air Rules	White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) regulatory chief John Graham joins a roundtable on environmental policy hosted by RFF.
6/16/04	Roll Call	Climbers	Former RFF research assistant, Aaron Severn, recently joined Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) as a legislative assistant.
6/13/04	The State.com (SC)	South Carolina has Scant Funding Options	South Carolina is looking for money form the Federal Superfund program for major cleanup of pollutants. RFF Senior Fellow Kate Probst states that the South Carolina Pinewood landfill may be listed under Superfund sites in the future, but is not guaranteed money because of this listing.
6/13/04	The Hartford Courant	We Need To Pay Even More At The Pump	The author discusses the benefits of gas taxes which include reducing the number of cars on the road and requiring the production and purchase of more efficient vehicles. Senior Fellow Ian Parry agrees that there is a compelling case for higher gasoline taxes and that, “people are undercharged for driving.”
6/11/04	Science	Wounding Earth’s Fragile Skin	Pierre Crosson, recently retired from RFF, challenges the calculations of the cost of soil erosion in the United States determined by Cornell University ecologist David Pimentel. Crosson points out that Pimentel’s figures are based largely on models rather than field data.
6/04/04	Edina Sun-Current (MN)	More than one side to an issue	Howard Gruensphecht of RFF is quoted as saying Environmentalists are putting too much weight in the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review program. Instead, Gruensphrecht believes that the NSR should be replaced w/ more effective & efficient policies as it retards environmental progress and wastes resources.
6/1/04	Environment Also ran in: CNNMoney	Controlling Sulfur Dioxide in China: Will Emission Trading Work?	The article notes that in 2001 RFF lent technical assistance to the city of Taiyuan in northern China’s Shanxi province in establishing an efficient cap-and-trade program.
6/1/2004	Journal of the American Water Resources Association	Nutrient Mass Balance and Trends, Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi	An Overview of the RFF Environmental Data Inventory: Methods, Sources, and Preliminary Results was cited in this lengthy piece on a study of nutrient levels in some southeastern U.S. water sources.
6/01/2004	Journal of Economic Issues	Industrial Activity	The author is comparing neoclassical environmental economic views of environmental regulation with non-neoclassical views using the example of RFF’s Karen Palmer, Paul Portney, and Wallace Oates response to the arguments set forth by Michael Porter and Claus van der Linde.
6/2004	Risk Policy Report	Amid Findings of Unreliable Claims: OMB Peer-Review Guide May Get Boost From Health Warning Study	A review of Syracuse University Professor Allan Mazur’s study on government issued public health warnings that include risks posed by environmental contaminants. The study finds that federal issued warnings are often less reliable than warnings developed and peer-reviewed by scientific organizations.

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