The Wonk Salon, September 18, 2011

Feds and State Must Cooperate to Save the Bay
Government Accountability Office
The federal government is basing its save-the-bay policy on The Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. State policy is based upon Chesapeake 2000 Agreement. Feds and states need to get on the same page.

Denser Cities Mean More Concentrated Pollution
Heritage Foundation
Densification of cities will not reduce air pollution. Even if it reduces automobile traffic overall, it concentrates that traffic in a smaller geographic area. Pollution is worse in the densest cities, not better.

Statewide Smoking Bans: Not Much Effect on Heart Attacks
Journal of Community Health
Statewide smoking bans have no measurable effect on the incidence of heart attacks. (Cancer is quite a different matter!)