Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

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Bonner Cohen: New York’s Anti-Fossil Fuel Shakedown Could Spread To Other States

Commentary, Environment /
Last week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill allowing the state to fine oil and gas companies up to $75 billion over 25 years, blaming them for climate-related damage to state infrastructure. "Their agenda is extortion," ...
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Bonner Cohen: The Senate Should Free The U.S. From The Paris Climate Agreement

Commentary, Environment /
The incoming Trump administration needs to get "the United States – once and for all – out of the December 2015 Paris Climate Agreement," writes the National Center's Bonner Cohen, Ph.D., in a commentary published at Human Events. To these ends, ...
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Bonner Cohen: Trump Needs to Get the U.S. Out of the Paris Climate Agreement

Media Mention /
At Restoration News, Kevin Mooney quotes National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen in an article outlining why and how incoming President Trump should get the U.S out of the Paris Climate Agreement once and for all. Bonner told Kevin: Getting ...
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Bonner Cohen: Chris Wright, Trump’s Energy Secretary Nominee, Promises To Be Climate Cartel’s Nightmare

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President-elect Trump's "naming of fracking magnate Chris Wright to head the Department of Energy underscores the radical change in direction coming to Washington in January," writes National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen in a commentary published at The Washington Times ...
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Gabriella Hoffman & Donna Jackson: Biden-Harris Green Policies Will Worsen the Housing Crisis

Project 21 Commentary /
Does it seem yet like it was all just a bad dream? Two weeks ago, before President Trump was resoundingly chosen to once again lead the United States, our nation was still grappling with the reality of what we might ...
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Bonner Cohen: America is "Woefully Unprepared" for Electric Vehicle Mandates

Bonner Cohen: America is “Woefully Unprepared” for Electric Vehicle Mandates

Media Mention /
Is America ready for nationwide electric vehicle mandates? In a piece by Kevin Mooney at The American Spectator, National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, Ph.D., argues that the Biden administration's "de facto EV mandates" are out of touch with both ...
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Black Activist to Testify Before House Committee About Damage Biden’s Energy Policies Have Caused Black Families

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, September 19, Donna Jackson, Director of Membership Development for Project 21 -- the black leadership network of the National Center for Public Policy Research -- will testify before the U.S. House Committee on the Budget in a public hearing ...
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Remembering R.J. Smith

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The National Center recently lost a dear friend and colleague, Robert J. ("R.J.") Smith. For nearly 20 years -- from 2005 until his passing in April -- R.J. was a senior fellow in environmental policy at the National Center.  He ...
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Richard Holt: European Voters Are Taking Sledgehammer To Continent’s Radical Open Borders And Climate Agenda

Project 21 Commentary /
In a commentary published at the Daily Caller, Project 21 Ambassador Richard Holt notes that the recent European election results reflect a growing dissatisfaction with leftist climate and immigration policies: Voters are increasingly skeptical of policies that they perceive as ...
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Chevron Risks Allegations of Greenwashing by Overcommitting to Carbon Reduction

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Washington, D.C. – At today’s annual Chevron shareholder meeting, the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal (Item 4) asking for the energy corporation to report the risks arising from its voluntary carbon-reduction ...
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