John Zink Company
Environmental Health and Safety
Other Voices
Other Voices
John Zink Company is confident that safety and environmental excellence is compatible with economic growth and long-term business success. Read more from outside experts who agree and learn about innovative approaches to environmental issues.
New Visions for Compliance
Waste Reduction
Risk Management
Remediation
Environmental Views
New Visions for Compliance
Environmental Excellence starts with full compliance. At the same time, many experts are asking whether traditional "command and control" models of compliance protect the environment as well as incentives within a free market. The goal of free market supporters is not to weaken environmental protection, but to change how environmental laws are written and enforced.
Free Market Environmental Protection
http://www.ecoworld.com/aaayyand.html
This brief and easy to read "think piece" sponsored by EcoWorld champions environmental protection based in property rights and free competition.
Political Economy Research Center
http://www.perc.org
PERC is a market-oriented think tank whose research covers a wide range of environmental and natural resource issues. This extensive resource list includes materials for teachers and students.
Market-Based Environmental Laws: 100 Ways to Use Prices to Control Pollution
http://www.globalff.org/Feature_Articles/Previous_Articles/pre-100w.htm
The Global Futures Organization explains why market-based regulation is more effective than "command and control" laws that set arbitrary limits. Some of the initiatives proposed are emissions trading, user fees, and refundable deposits.
Free-Market Environmentalism
http://www.pacificresearch.org/centers/ces/index.html
A potpourri of essays on how to apply free-market environmentalism to issues from highway congestion to the fate of the Delhi fly to global warming, sponsored by the Pacific Research Institute.
Waste Reduction
Recycling is one of many strategies for changing how businesses create value from resources.
Rethinking Recycling
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=2679
This essay explains, in straightforward terms, how the economics and environmental impacts of recycling may be more complicated than we expect.
Risk Management
Risk management is one of the cornerstones of smart environmental decision-making. Learn some important basics in this important science.
What is Risk: Principles, Policies, Papers, and Primers
http://www.em.doe.gov/irm/question.html
The Department of Energy has collected links to a variety of background materials on risk management and risk assessment. Issues range from cost-benefit models for risk assessment to questions such as whether highly technical risk cases should be tried before juries.
The Role of Risk Analysis and Risk Management in Environmental Protection
http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Risk/rsk-1.cfm
This Congressional Research Service report gives an overview of how risk analysis is used under current environmental laws.
Remediation
Today's environmental leaders don't wait for Superfund classifications to clean up land and put it back into productive use.
Superfund: The Good, the Bad, the Broken
http://www.cse.org/informed/issues_template.php/456.htm
From Citizens for a Sound Economy, this is a lengthier and more detailed essay that includes the history of the Superfund program and takes a more extensive look at Superfund decision-making. The conclusion discusses possibilities for reform.
Environmental Views
The Truth about the Environment
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=718860
Bjorn Lomborg, a statistician at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, once held what he calls "left-wing Greenpeace views". In 1997, he set out to challenge an economist who doubted claims that human activity was defiling the earth. His research shows that the data generally supported that economist's position. This article from The Economist sums up his research.
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