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Stocks | Joseph L. Shaefer submits:

I live in the mountains near the 7 000-foot level at Lake Tahoe. After fattening themselves on berries grubs garbage and other tasty treats our bears used to hibernate all winter long living on the fat they stored in spring summer and fall. But nowadays our bears don’t hibernate much – there are too many human visitors coming up for a long ski weekend for whom it is just too much trouble to pack their party or dinner trash out when they leave so they stick it in a plastic bag on the street. As a result bear tracks are no longer uncommon in winter and bear sightings are only slightly less so.

I know it’s stretching the analogy a bit (!) but I wonder if the party-ers on Wall Street and the fat-cat whiners winers and diners in Washington DC aren’t leaving one heck of a lot of trash strewn about that might well attract the bears -- or worse The Bear.

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Barron's Thomas G. Donlan makes the case that the best way to a greener planet is to leave the job to free markets.

In the 1970's Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency the Clean Water Act the Clean Air Act the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Since then environmental laws have proliferated on the national state and local levels. But some of these laws may be useless and worse some may hurt more than they help.

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