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09.02.2009 2:28 pm

Cash for clunkers is a lemon environmentally, too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you weren’t swayed by my economic arguments against the “cash for clunkers” program, you may want to read Christopher Knittel’s analysis of the program’s supposed environmental benefits. Knittel, an economist at the University of California-Davis, calculated how much carbon…

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09.01.2009 3:40 pm

Food from faraway adds little to our carbon footprint

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

After I wrote a column critical of Illinois’ local-food law, a couple of readers accused me of ignoring the energy used in shipping food. A comment from Oni, for example, said:

Shipping food all over the place has several problems not mentioned…

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