A consumer and environment research team, active in the fight against nuclear power, and dedicated to resource conservation, economic efficiency, and effective utility regulation.



We work for environmental sustainability by promoting property rights (private or communal), markets, the rule of law, the right to know, accountability through liability, cost and risk internalization, economic efficiency, competition, consumer choice, and an informed public.



We strive to eliminate tragedies of the commons1 by advocating property rights where resources can be exclusive, divisible, and alienable. In these situations, EPRF believes resources are most sustainably managed by the users of the resources themselves. EPRF advocates property rights:



to establish and preserve rights and responsibilities;



to account fully for social and environmental costs based on the values assigned by the rights holders; and



to internalize risks and costs (and to eliminate moral hazards2) in decision making.



We favour court actions based on the common law of nuisance, trespass, and riparian rights to empower individuals to protect themselves from environmental harm.