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Release: Jan. 20, 1995
Contact: Patricia Coen (609/258-5764)


Lecture: "Does Environmental Regulation
Help or Hinder Competitiveness?"

Princeton, NJ--Paul Portney, vice president and senior fellow at
Resources for the Future, will give a lecture titled "Does
Environmental Regulation Help or Hinder Competitiveness?" at
Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs on Thursday, February 9, at 4:30 p.m. in
Bowl 6, Robertson Hall.

Resources for the Future (RFF) is a Washington-based, nonpartisan
research and educational organization that addresses issues on
natural resources and the environment. From 1986-87, Portney
served as director of RFF's Quality of the Environment Division,
and in 1987 was appointed director of its Center for Risk
Management. Before moving to RFF, Portney served as chief
economist at the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive
Office of the President.

Portney is the author or coauthor of numerous journal articles and
books, including Public Policies for Environmental Protection
(Resources for the Future, 1990) and Natural Resources and the
Environment: The Reagan Approach (The Urban Institute Press,
1984). Additionally, he has served as a member of the Board on
Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Academy of
Sciences and has acted as a consultant to the Environmental
Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior, as well as
to a number of private corporations, trade associations, and
environmental groups.

His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the
UniversityÕs Program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy.

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