Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

SUVs: How Safe Are They?

National Policy Analysis #453 /
Fasten your seatbelts for some politically incorrect news: You are most likely to survive a motor vehicle accident if the vehicle you are in is big. Size and weight equals better occupant protection - it is basic physics - and ...
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Say “No” to Terrorists By Saying “Yes” to ANWR

National Policy Analysis #451 /
American television viewers recently received the dubious treat of television commercials telling them that if they drive SUVs, they support terrorists. The ads, produced by such renowned terrorism experts as the producer of the film "Pulp Fiction," claimed that SUV ...
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Liberal Senators Critique Bush Environmental Policy

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Liberal elected officials, including Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton (NY) Dick Durbin (IL), Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Patrick Leahy (VT), Barbara Boxer (CA), and independent Senator Jim Jeffords (VT), have recently issued alarmist criticisms of President Bush's environmental record. Sample statements: ...
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Detroit Project is Hypocritical, Muddleheaded

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Statement of National Center for Public Policy Research President Amy Ridenour on the anti-SUV ads being run by the Detroit Project: "The Detroit Project, which currently is running TV ads portraying owners of SUVs as supporters of terrorism, is hypocritical ...
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McCain and Lieberman Push for New Anti-Global Warming Legislation

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BACKGROUND: Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) plan to introduce a new anti-global warming bill this week instituting a so-called "cap and trade" system for greenhouse gas emissions. McCain, incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has scheduled ...
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New Year Likely to Bring Another ANWR Showdown, by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: The stage is being set for another Senate confrontation over drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Pro-drilling Senators are considering adding an ANWR provision to the FY 2004 budget reconciliation bill. As reconciliation bills cannot be filibustered ...
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Buckle Up, Black America, by Mary Katherine Ascik

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published January 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Black America needs to ...
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McCain and Lieberman Join the Ranks of Ecoactivists With New Legislation on Global Warming

National Policy Analysis #446 /
It's a peculiar and pervasive phenomenon in the nation's capital. Invent a major problem where none exists, then propose a complicated and costly solution, create yet another bureaucratic fiefdom and hand out scads of federal grant money and patronage positions ...
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New Study Says Minorities and Poor Harmed by Anti-Sprawl Policies

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Policies to combat sprawl penalize minorities, the poor, urban families and the young, says a new econometrics report being released at a November 21 Washington policy conference by the Center for Environmental Justice of The National Center for Public Policy ...
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Environmental Justice Study to Be Released November 21

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A new econometrics report will be released at a November 21 Washington policy conference by the Center for Environmental Justice of The National Center for Public Policy Research. The study, "Smart Growth and Its Effects on Housing Markets" examined this ...
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