for ensuring an abundant supply of fresh water in both industarialized and developing countries. Other participants included Clive Crook, senior editor of The Atlantic; Gretchen McClain of ITT Corporation; Peter H. Gleick, president of Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security; and Bruce Babbitt, Trustee of World Wildlife Fund, former U.S. Interior Secretary, and governor of Arizona.

like those damaged during the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico.

"Reasonable people will differ on the value of a pelican. Some will say zero; some will say thousands."

according to RFF Senior Fellow Roger Sedjo. In a letter to the editors of The Economists Voice, Sedjo points out that taxing fossil fuels at their source undermines efforts to develop new energy technologies such as carbon capture and storage.