Author: The National Center

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

National Policy Analysis #401 /
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sierra Club Attacks Senators for Vote on CAFE, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Today the Sierra Club issued a press release praising 38 senators for standing "up to the scare tactics and lies of the auto industry and [voting] against this do nothing amendment," referring to the Levin-Bond amendment to the Senate ...
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Media Misconceptions Help Lead to Public Fear of Global Warming, by Christopher Burger

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The Washington Post repeatedly has reported that areas of the U.S. will warm extensively in the coming century. On December 17, 2001, for example, citing a report commissioned by Congress, the Post reported that the Northeast (New England and ...
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Time to Stop “Nomination Profiling,” by Kevin Martin

New Visions Commentary /
We were shocked and horrified to learn police officers were using race as a factor to identify potential criminals. "Racial profiling" is condemned for generalizing entire classes of people. But that was then and this is now. In the liberal-controlled ...
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Enron and Global Crossing: A Double-Standard? by Michael King

New Visions Commentary /
Reprints permitted provided source is credited.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a new species of businessman sprung up across the land. Known as "robber barons," they were known, sometimes unjustly, but often accurately, for their ruthless tactics and ...
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