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    Simplify, Simplify

    Alternative Environmental Permitting at the State Level

    Policy Study by Christopher A. Hartwell February 1, 1999

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    Environmental Flexibility in Action

    A Minnesota Case Study

    Policy Study by Christopher A. Hartwell and David W. Riggs January 1, 2000

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    Solid-Waste Management

    A Guide to Competitive Contracting For Collection

    How-to-Guide by Lynn Scarlett and Joe Sloan October 1, 1994

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    Solid Waste Management

    A Guide for Competitive Contracting for Collection

    How-to-Guide by Lynn Scarlett and Joe Sloan September 1, 1996

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    Managing America’s Garbage

    Alternatives and Solutions (Working Paper)

    Policy Study by Lynn Scarlett September 1, 1989

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    Integrated Waste Management

    Rethinking Solid Waste Problems and Policy Options

    Policy Study by Lynn Scarlett May 1, 1991

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    Mandates or Incentives?

    Comparing Packaging Regulations with User Fees for Trash Collection

    Policy Study by Lynn Scarlett May 1, 1993

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    Solid Waste Recycling Costs

    Issues and Answers

    Policy Study by Lynn Scarlett August 1, 1995

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    Packaging, Recycling, and Solid Waste

    Policy Study by Lynn Scarlett June 1, 1997

  • Smoking, Plain Packaging and Public Health
    Smoking, Plain Packaging and Public Health

    The introduction of "plain packaging" has done little to reduce demand for cigarettes in Australia

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris May 30, 2014

  • An Evaluation of the Effects of California’s Proposed Plastic Bag Ban
    An Evaluation of the Effects of California’s Proposed Plastic Bag Ban

    A plastic bag ban will cost consumers but won't improve the environment

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris and Lance Christensen June 18, 2014

  • Devastating Fires Show Forest Management Reforms Are Badly Needed
    Devastating Fires Show Forest Management Reforms Are Badly Needed

    How to fix the management of forests in the Northwest to better prevent and fight wildfires

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris September 1, 2015

  • The Paris Agreement: An Assessment
    The Paris Agreement: An Assessment

    Examining the Paris climate deal and policy options that would better address the problem of climate change

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris April 19, 2016

  • The World Health Organization’s Opposition to Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Threat to Public Health?
    The World Health Organization’s Opposition to Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Threat to Public Health?

    Why secrecy and a failure to embrace alternatives to smoking have the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on a path to failure.

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris September 14, 2016

  • Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges for U.S. Marine Aquaculture Development
    Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges for U.S. Marine Aquaculture Development

    Aquaculture already produces half of the seafood that humans consume and that percentage continues to rise.

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris and Arthur Wardle April 6, 2017

  • CAFE and ZEV Standards: Environmental Effects and Alternatives
    CAFE and ZEV Standards: Environmental Effects and Alternatives

    Requiring manufacturers to comply with fuel economy standards, rather than using a more cost-effective alternative policy tool to achieve the same goals, likely harms the environment.

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris and Arthur Wardle August 3, 2017

  • A Bet Gone Bad: How the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act Harms Consumers, States and Sports
    A Bet Gone Bad: How the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act Harms Consumers, States and Sports

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris and Guy Bentley August 31, 2017

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    The Effect Of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards On Consumers

    CAFE standards distort manufacturers’ incentives, forcing them to produce new vehicles with lower gas consumption than would be preferred by consumers.

    Policy Brief by Julian Morris April 1, 2018

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