Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Dark Ages Redux: Will America Meet Her Future Energy Needs?

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BACKGROUND: North America suffered through its largest-ever electrical power blackout August 14-15, leaving tens of millions of Americans and Canadians without power. The blackouts come at a time when passage of an energy bill has been stalled in the Senate ...
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No Excuse for Natural Gas Shortage

National Policy Analysis #477 /
With summer's hot weather finally upon us, Americans by the millions are cranking up their air conditioners to help them cope with this seasonable discomfort. But in a few weeks they'll be getting the bill from the local power company ...
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“Blackouts” Today, “Greenouts” Tomorrow: America Needs a Pro-Production Energy Policy

National Policy Analysis #484 /
Tens of millions Americans got a wakeup call Thursday: cheap, accessible energy isn't something to take for granted. Unfortunately, many of America's most powerful environmental organizations do take energy for granted, and they are trying to set America on a ...
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Nuclear Power: Clean, Safe and Needing a Level Playing Field, by Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford

National Policy Analysis #480 /
Nuclear power is economical. All it needs is a level playing field. But the field is not level. For one thing, competing power sources are heavily subsidized by society. Unlike nuclear plants, they don't bear the full cost of disposing ...
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Anti-SUV Activists Versus the American Family, by Matthew Craig

National Policy Analysis #481 /
When you get behind the wheel of your SUV or minivan, do you automatically become a member of a hate group? According to the radicals now dominating the environmental movement, driving one of these vehicles proves you hate the planet ...
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Inhofe Challenges Colleagues to Understand Basic Facts About Climate Change Debate

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BACKGROUND: Just as Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) are pushing a "Kyoto-Lite" anti-global warming amendment to put greenhouse gas emissions caps on every major sector of the U.S. economy, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Chairman of the Committee ...
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This Land is My Land: How United Nations Claims of World Heritage May Swipe America’s Past, by Ryan Balis

National Policy Analysis #473 /
It is curious that we Americans have placed some of our most valued landmarks - such as the Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall and Yellowstone National Park - under United Nations jurisdiction. National symbols have an unmistakable allure. They have ...
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Inhofe Makes “Chemical Security” From Terrorists a Top Priority

National Policy Analysis #474 /
Underscoring the need to provide the nation's over 1,500 chemical facilities with the greatest possible protection against terrorist attacks, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has introduced the "Chemical Facilities Security Act of 2003." Inhofe is chairman of the Senate Environment & ...
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Rules Protecting Endangered Species Endanger Defense Readiness Instead, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #475 /
"Our new radar - it's a remarkable scientific achievement capable of spotting an intruder in the air at quite a long range... But we can't get permission to put her up [on top of the mountain from] the National Park ...
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The EPA Global Warming Report, the Bush Administration and the News Media: Cooking the Books or Cooking Up Stories?

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BACKGROUND: "The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to publish a draft report next week on the state of the environment, but after editing by the White House, a long section describing risks from rising global temperatures has been whittled to ...
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