May 2004 News Coverage

May 2004 News Coverage

Date	News Source	Headline	Summary
05/28/04	US Newswire (NY)	Kathryn S. Fuller Named Chair of Ford Foundation Board of Trustees	RFF Board Member Kathryn Fuller in the news.
05/26/04	Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA)	Resource Pointer #365: Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach”	A review of RFF’S Ramanan Laxminarayan’s book which examines the growing resistance of pests to pesticides and bacteria to antibiotics which threaten human and environmental health globally.
05/23/04	Sunday News (Lancaster, PA) CNNMoney	Friends of the Chesapeake Bay	Friends of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation honored environmentalist David Hess for their work in protecting the quality of the bay. Hess had previously been awarded by RFF for unrelated environmental work.
05/23/04	The Detroit News Also in: FreePress Kiplinger.com	Big 3 see tax hike as fuel-saving plan	"The right thing to do is to tax energy and reduce our petroleum imports." RFF President and Senior Fellow Paul Portney comments on the merits of a gas tax over fuel economy standards in The Detroit News. This article uses a RFF graph that shows the gas tax per gallon in countries who have higher tax rates than the U.S.
05/20/04	Worldwide Faith News	Disciples News Brief	This news brief links to the RFF website summarizing the Climate Stewardship Act.
5/18/04 & 6/22/04	Inside EPA & Risk Policy Report	Draft OMB Peer-Review Guidelines May Get Boost From Study on Public Health Warnings & Amid Findings of Unreliable Claims OMB Peer-Review Guide May Get Boost From Health Warning Study	Overview of RFF Press book “True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears and Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971” by Alan Mazur. This argument should help efforts to establish standardized scientific peer review practices across all federal agencies, an initiative taken on by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
05/17/04	Chicago Tribune Also in: CNNMoney Grainnet.com	Invasie Aphid a Menace to Crops & Invasive Aphids Threaten Illinois Soybean Crops	RFF Fellow Michael Margolis is quoted regarding the potential for future invasive species to enter the U.S. through global trade and the problems they may cause. He says that there are still many unknowns regarding these invasions and their consequences.
05/17/04	Chicago Tribune	Invasive Aphid a Menace to Crops	RFF economist, Michael Margolis, is quoted regarding the potential for future invasive species to enter the U.S. through global trade and the problems they may cause. He says that there are still many unknowns regarding these invasions and their consequences.
05/13/04	SeedQuest The Journal of Agrobiotechnology Management & Economics	Biotech and Planted Trees: Some Economic and Regulatory Issues	Senior Fellow Roger Sedjo published a paper providing an introduction and background into forestry and transgenic trees. He also covers the economic potential related to transgenic trees.
05/11/04	Risk Policy Report	Reviewing the Literature; All the President’s Economists	A collection of essays by eight former White House Council of Economics Advisors (CEA) members on efforts to improve environmental policy throughout three presidential administrations. Fellow William Pizer, a former CEA member, discusses comprehensive economic analysis of long-term regulation policies.
05/11/04	Inside EPA	All the Presidents’s Economists Press Coverage	A review of “Painting the White House Green: Rationalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President” published by RFF Press. The volume is a collection of essays including that of RFF Fellow William Pizer regarding policy approach to climate change.
05/11/04	Inside EPA	All the Presidents’s Economists	A review of “Painting the White House Green: Rationalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President” published by RFF Press. The volume is a collection of essays including that of RFF Fellow William Pizer regarding policy approach to climate change.
05/10/04	Inside EPA	EPA Superfund Site Database May Allay Community Concerns	RFF report, Success for Superfund: A New Approach for Keeping Score is being reviewed by the EPA in order to improve and fill in missing gaps in the soon to be released database on Superfund sites. The database should address concerns on accessing current information on the status of cleanups.
05/07/04	Greenwire, Environment Reporter	EPA Urged to Create Standard Document For All Sites Showing Progress in Cleanup	This article stresses the importance of the suggestions laid out by the RFF report, Success for Superfund: A New Approach for Keeping Score. Specifically noting the need for a standardized set of core data for all contaminated sites that are on the National Priorities List as well as a standard document for every priority superfund site to monitor progress in the remediation process.
05/07/04	Greenwire	EPA Study Endorses Creation of High-Level Cleanup Advisory Board	This overview of the recently released report, “Success for Superfund: A New Approach for Keeping Score” by Katherine Probst and Diane Sherman, lists some of the 100+ recommendations for Superfund cleanup. One such recommendation is the creation of a Board of Directors within the EPA to enforce more cleanups as well as funding for these cleanups.
05/06/04	Clean Air Report via InsideEPA.com	Acid Rain Study May Boost EPA Benefits Analysis, New NRD Suits	The RFF study assessing New York residents’ willingness to pay for ecological improvements to the Adirondack State Park could lead to stricter environmental standards as well as benefits to recover damages from acid rain and air emissions. The study, currently under peer review, utilizes consumer surveys to measure consumers’ willingness to pay for improvements.
05/04/04-05/05/04	TCS: Tech Central Station	Biotech’s Antagonists & “I Love Humanity; It’s People I Can’t Stand”	This two-part series of articles take an in-depth look at biotechnology or genetic modification, applied to agriculture and food production. The author is critical of RFF and similar organization’s studies on the safety of biotechnology leading to ‘more uncertainty, more concerns, (and) the need for more regulation’ rather than occupying middle ground on such controversies.
05/04/04	Ladies’ Home Journal	The Fatal Flaw in Your Fresh Foods	An investigative report on harmful contaminants carried by imported produce. RFF director of the Risk, Resource and Environmental Management Division, Michael Taylor, comments on the lack of resources and poor policy involved in produce imports to the US.
05/01/04	Environment	Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties	Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter reviews “Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties” by Vaclav Smil. He notes that although the scope is current and vast, it is more of a retrospective of Smil’s work than an exploration into his topics of study.

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