Environmental Policy Since Earth Day I: What Do We Know About the Benefits and Costs?

Data on costs and benefits of the major environmental laws passed during the 1970s are reviewed. The winners in terms of benefit-cost analysis include: getting lead out of gasoline, controlling particulate air pollution, reducing the concentration of lead in drinking water, and the cleanup of hazardous waste sites with the lowest cost per cancer case avoided under Superfund. The losers include: mobile source air pollution control, water pollution control, and many of the regulations and cleanup decisions taken under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and Superfund.Environmental Economics and Policy,

Letter from Emme A. Myrick to John Muir, 1901 Jun 26.

[letterhead]June 26, 1901Dear Mr. Muir,Your very cordial note came yesterday, and I am pleased to know I shall have friends on the noble mountain tops. Tell Wanda & Helen, I am taking the privilege of my age02869 by having a tent, which I hope they will use for dressing and bathing very often. I am a novice in the Yosemite, as well as they, and we can [stand?] in awe struck wonder together - I am going by way of Raymond, the first of July, from San Francisco on the fiveo\u27clock afternoon train. We shall meet in the Yosemite if all goes well, With kind regards to Mrs. Muir from Mr. Myrick and myself,I remain,Sincerely yours,Emma A. Myric

The Benefits and Costs of the Dickey-Lincoln Project : a Preliminary Report

The Dickey-Lincoln School Hydro Power Project was authorized by Congress in 1965. Advanced engineering and design work was then begun by the Army Corps of Engineering in early 1966. Further detailed design work was suspended in November, 1967 because .of Congress\u27 failure to appropriate further funds for design or construction. However, it now appears likely that Congress will include funds for continued design and engineering work in its appropriations for fiscal year 1974-75

An Economic Perspective on Environmental Regulation

The laws and regulations that govern the use of environmental resources have complicated effects on our society and our economy. Efforts to regulate environmental impacts are frequently controversial precisely because they have such complicated effects. No single perspective can adequately encompass all of the issues that arise in environmental regulation and environmental protection. Even the terms themselves suggest the fundamentally opposed philosophies that approach the assessment of environmental laws: While proponents of greater environmental activism emphasize the need to protect the environment, critics of more stringent controls emphasize that these laws regulate and limit the actions of individuals. At the PURE \u2792 conference, speakers with very different perspectives were invited to share their views of the important issues in environmental protection and environmental regulation. Myrick Freeman provides an economic perspective