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# Spring 2001 

Vol. 24 No. 1 

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##### From the Cover 

### [The Truth About Light Trucks ](/regulation/spring-2001/truth-about-light-trucks)

By Douglas Coate and James VanderHoff 

##### Features 

#### [The Bad Harvest ](/regulation/spring-2001/bad-harvest)

By Jerry R. Skees 

#### [The Trouble With Implementing TMDLs ](/regulation/spring-2001/trouble-implementing-tmdls)

By Kurt Stephenson and Leonard Shabman 

#### [The Beneficiaries of Clean Air Act Legislation ](/regulation/spring-2001/beneficiaries-clean-air-act-legislation)

By Matthew E. Kahn 

#### [Seeing Through the Snow ](/regulation/spring-2001/seeing-through-snow)

By John R. Graham 

#### [The Problems of Price Controls ](/regulation/spring-2001/problems-price-controls)

By Fiona M. Scott Morton 

#### [Privatizing Commercial Law ](/regulation/spring-2001/privatizing-commercial-law)

By Gillian K. Hadfield 

##### For the Record 

##### [Cancer and the Environment ](/regulation/spring-2001/cancer-environment)

##### Mercatus Reports 

##### [Arsenic in Drinking Water ](/regulation/spring-2001/arsenic-drinking-water)

##### [Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps ](/regulation/spring-2001/air-conditioners-heat-pumps)

##### [Truck Emissions ](/regulation/spring-2001/truck-emissions)

##### [Toxic Release Inventory, Lead and Lead Compounds ](/regulation/spring-2001/toxic-release-inventory-lead-lead-compounds)

##### [Roadless Areas ](/regulation/spring-2001/roadless-areas)

##### [Clothes Washer Efficiency ](/regulation/spring-2001/clothes-washer-efficiency)

##### [Medical Privacy ](/regulation/spring-2001/medical-privacy)

##### [Blacklisting ](/regulation/spring-2001/blacklisting)

##### [Modified Patients’ Bill of Rights ](/regulation/spring-2001/modified-patients-bill-rights)

##### [Ergonomics Program ](/regulation/spring-2001/ergonomics-program)

##### [Commentary: Reversing Midnight Regulations ](/regulation/spring-2001/commentary-reversing-midnight-regulations)

By Susan E. Dudley 

##### Briefly Noted 

##### [Graduate Students Unite? ](/regulation/spring-2001/graduate-students-unite)

##### [Obstructing Olestra ](/regulation/spring-2001/obstructing-olestra)

##### [Consumers in the Wringer ](/regulation/spring-2001/consumers-wringer)

##### In Review 

##### [Book Review: *To America’s Health: A Proposal to Reform the Food and Drug Administration*](/regulation/spring-2001/book-review-americas-health-proposal-reform-food-drug-administration)

By Henry I. Miller 

##### [Book Review: *The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century*](/regulation/spring-2001/book-review-challenge-global-capitalism-world-economy-21st-century)

By Thomas Oatley 

##### [Book Review: *Are Preditory Committments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?*](/regulation/spring-2001/book-review-are-preditory-committments-credible-who-should-courts-believe)

By [Richard L. Gordon](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-gordon) 

##### [Need for Reseeding ](/regulation/spring-2001/need-reseeding)

By [Richard L. Gordon](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-gordon) 

##### Final Word 

##### [California’s Dim Bulbs ](/regulation/spring-2001/californias-dim-bulbs)

By [P.J. O’Rourke](https://www.cato.org/people/pj-orourke) 

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