Year: 2002

State Regulators Destroy Los Angeles’s Fellowship With the Ringmakers, by Syd Gernstein

Local jewelers and city government officials in Los Angeles, California came together to create a shining example of how public-private cooperation can fix a potential environmental health problem without harming economic health. The intervention of state environmental regulators, however, tarnished ...

Giving With One Hand, Taking Away with the Other: Competing Government Policies Both Promote and Deny Homeownership Opportunities for Minorities

It's three steps forward, but two steps back. Policies removing barriers to minority homeownership are favored by governments, but the competing objective of combating the perceived threat of urban sprawl by some of these governments is simultaneously restricting homeownership opportunities ...

Questions and Answers on Global Warming

1. Is global warming occurring? Have the forecasts of global warming been confirmed by actual measurements? There is no proof that significant man-made global warming is taking place. The computer models used in U.N. studies say the first area to ...

Project 21 Press Release: U.S. Environmental Policy Unfriendly to Minorities; African-American Network Wants Earth Day Reassessment of Regulations

Press Release /
Environmental regulations are harming minorities and low-income Americans while providing little real environmental protection. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 suggest that Earth Day 2002, observed on April 22, be used as a time to reassess our nation's ...

The Radical Spectrum: Environmentalists Push the Envelope to Push Their Cause

While most of America came together after September 11, the political fringe remains at odds with the rest of society. Our new realities, however, make it easier to spot their extremism. Take, for example, Karen Davis. Davis is president of ...

Asbestos Lawsuits: Putting Retirements at Risk

The terrorist attacks on America last September 11 left behind more than just carnage and rubble - they also left behind a long line of personal injury lawyers filing thousands of lawsuits with an estimated potential liability of some $60 ...

Project 21 Press Release: U.S. Environmental Policy Unfriendly to Minorities; African-American Network Wants Earth Day Reassessment of Regulations – April 2002

Press Release /
Environmental regulations are harming minorities and low-income Americans while providing little real environmental protection. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 suggest that Earth Day 2002, observed on April 22, be used as a time to reassess our nation's ...

Ice Shelf Breaks Off Antarctica Coastline, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Scientists believe the 12,000 year old ice shelf which broke off the coast of Antarctica over a recent 35-day period detached as the result of warming in the region over the last 50 years or more. But they could ...

Nevada Congresswoman Uses Misleading Evidence in Bid to Stop President Bush from Opening Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository; Video Shows Anti-Tank Missile Penetrating a Cask Used for Shipping Spent Nuclear Fuels, But Cask in Video was More Fragile than the Genuine Article

Press Release /
A dramatic video being circulated by U.S. Representative Shelly Berkley (D-NV), which purports to show an anti-tank missile penetrating a cask used for shipping spent nuclear fuel, is deceptive in the fact that it is not representative of normal nuclear ...

Increase Fuel Economy Without Killing Americans

The Relief Report /
Contents: Why Not Increase Fuel Economy Without Taking Lives? Gas Prices May Spike this Summer: Lack of Drilling and New Refineries Partly to Blame Why Not Increase Fuel Economy Without Taking Lives? The Senate, laughably called the world's greatest deliberative ...

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