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February 2004 News Coverage

January 2005 News Coverage

Date

News Source

Headline

Summary

1/25/2005

San Francisco Chronicle

Adding Up the Cost of Bags

There is no incentive at the back end for shoppers who return bags and no motivation to pluck bags out of the waste stream says RFF scholar Margaret Walls
1/19/2005

Associated Press

Also Appeared in:
AZ Central
Inside Tucson Business
Casa Grande Dispatch
Tucson Citizen
KMSB-TV Channel 11
Chronicle of Higher Education

 

 

New UA Business School Chief to Earn Hefty Salary RFF President Paul R. Portney has been named new dean of the University of Arizona business school
1/2005

Environmental Health Perspectives

North Korean Catastrophe

RFF Scholar Ruth Greenspan Bell raises several questions about the United Nations Environment Programme report DPR Korea: State of the Environment 2003

1/2005

Food Protection Report

Public Health Advocates Have High Hopes for New USDA Secretary RFF Senior Fellow and Director of Rsk, Resource, and Environmental Management Katherine Probst hopes the new Secretary will recognize the need for fundamental reform of the system and exert leadership to achieve it.
1/2005 Regulation What is a Life Worth? Determining the value of a human life is necessary for good public policy. RFF Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick has studied this issue in depth and has found that if the risk doubles, the risk premium does not necessarily double
1/2005

Regulation

 

 

The FDA's Antibiotic Resistance RFF Fellow Ramanan Laxminaryan's recent book, Battling Resistance of Anitbiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach, is listed as recommended reading at the end of this article

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