Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Smart Growth Tosses a White Hood Over Black Homeownership, by Kevin Martin

New Visions Commentary /
When one imagines liberal environmental activists, the stereotype is one of tie-dyed followers of the Grateful Dead. These days, environmental activism is big business. Well-paid heads of green groups more likely choose Bruno Maglis over Birkenstocks. But some of the ...
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Radanovich and Allen Introduce Bills to Keep Sludge Out of the Potomac, Bring Endangered Species Act Enforcement to East Coast, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA) and Senator George Allen (R-VA) have introduced legislation to require the Environmental Protection Agency to restrict the Army Corps of Engineers from dumping millions of gallons of toxic sludge into the Potomac River, home to ...
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House Rejects Senate’s Greenhouse Gas Provisions in Energy Bill, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: On Thursday, October 3, conferees from the U.S. House of Representatives voted 15-2 to reject the "greenhouse gas" provisions in the Senate version of the energy bill, which is now in conference. The Senate provisions would establish a voluntary ...
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When It Comes to Safeguarding Chemical Facilities, the EPA is No Defense Department

National Policy Analysis #436 /
The so-called "Chemical Security Act" recently introduced by Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) is laboring under a monstrous misnomer. By essentially placing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in charge of security requirement at the nation's private and public chemical facilities, the ...
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Senate Continues to Bicker Over Forest Health Amendment, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: Democrats and Republicans in the Senate continue to disagree on details of an amendment to the Department of Interior appropriations bill that would allow thinning of forests in insect-infested trees and in areas near homes and communities. The main ...
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Congress Considers Expanding Daschle’s South Dakota Forest Provisions to Nation, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: The U.S. House Resources Committee will hold a hearing Thursday, September 5, 2002 to consider several bills that would permit thinning of forests nationwide without interruption from environmental lawsuits. One bill, The National Forest Fire Prevention Act (H.R. 5214), ...
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Wildfires Should Motivate a New Century of Forest Restoration, by Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #434 /
"The most reprehensible waste is that of destruction, as in forest fires," President Theodore Roosevelt said nearly a century ago. His comment is as true today as it was then. Teddy Roosevelt founded the "forest conservation" movement to restore America's ...
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President Bush Offers Plan To Protect Homes and the Environment From More Catastrophic Wild Fires; Environmental Extremists Counter With Plans to Continue the Disasters

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: President Bush, on Thursday, August 22, 2002, issued his initiative to prevent catastrophic wildfires by returning to the sound forest management practices the environmental movement has successfully eliminated. Stung by criticism that the policies set forth by the Sierra ...
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Environmental Groups Use Smokescreen to Dodge Responsibility for Wildfires, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: As President Bush travels to Oregon for a major address on wildfires to be delivered on this date, the Wilderness Society and other environmental groups are distorting the truth to escape responsibility for policies that have exacerbated the wildfires ...
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New York Times Sounds False Climate Alarm Once Again: Bush, Not Times, Has It Right On Global Warming, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The New York Times, a leader in false reporting about climate change, has struck again. The paper's August 18 article by Amy Cortese, which reads like an advertisement for insurance companies wishing to sell climate change policies, flatly and ...
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