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NCPA Commentaries by H. Sterling Burnett
H. Sterling Burnett is a Senior Fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis. While Burnett works on a number of issues, he specializes in issues involving environmental policy and gun policy.
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Sep 16, 1998 Pro-con Brady Bill: A Deadline on Public Safety
If Congress does not extend the Brady Law's waiting period past this arbitrary expiration date, thousands of people who are prohibited by law from purchasing guns could slip through the cracks and obtain lethal weapons.
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Sep 16, 1998 Pro-con Brady Bill: Brady Bill Will Soon Be Dead-Do Not Resuscitate!
The waiting period, the provision of the bill that most troubles gun rights defenders, lapses on November 30.
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Aug 13, 1998 A Modest Proposal to Improve Forest Management: State Forest Block Grants
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is a lightning rod for both fiscal conservatives and liberal environmentalists, two groups not often on the same side of issues.
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Jul 15, 1998 Environmental Miseducation: Flawed Texts and Pernicious Federal Influence
America's children score among the lowest of 21 countries participating in the International Mathematics and Science Study on general math and science knowledge.
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Jul 01, 1998 Making Sense of Nonsense: What is a "Juvenile" Brady Bill?
The Brady Bill doesn't apply to juveniles because Federal law prohibits the sale of handguns to anyone under 21.
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Apr 22, 1998 Green Growth: Five Principles for a Better Environment
On Earthday 1998, with the new millennium approaching it is time to build a bridge to a better environment in the 21st century.
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Apr 01, 1998 Burning Down the House: The Climate Change Treaty's Probable Effects on the Natural Gas Industry
At the 1992 United Nations' Earth Summit in Rio, the United States signed a treaty establishing the voluntary goal of returning to 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000. By 1996 it was evident voluntary action was not working.
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Mar 27, 1998 Regulating the Regulators: Assessing the 1997 Regulatory Improvement Act
In 1997 the federal government, which had demanded that new passenger vehicles come equipped with passenger-side air bags by that year, did an about-face.
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Dec 01, 1997 "Ecosystem Health" Common Ground
I'm still hoping, perhaps foolishly, that traditional environmentalists (by that I mean the typical Audubon or Sierra Club member) will find common ground with the classical liberals who call themselves free market environmentalists.
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Oct 16, 1997 Global Warming and the Spread of Tropical Disease
Though ground-level measurements of temperature show the earth has warmed between 0.3 and 0.6 degrees Celsius in the last 100 years, many scientists and the American public remain largely unconvinced or unconcerned that global warming is a serious threat to society.
