Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

TSR Extra: Recess Notes: Answers to Questions on Common Environmental Questions, by Tom Randall and Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: As members of the House and Senate head home for the August recess, many important issues regarding energy and the environment will be on constituents' minds. Here are succinct responses to common questions in the areas of: I. global ...
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Keep the Statue of Liberty Free: An Argument for Congressional Oversight of U.N. Land Designations in the U.S.

National Policy Analysis #419 /
This Independence Day more than most, our Statue of Liberty has special meaning. With its flame of freedom overlooking the site of the World Trade Center complex, the Statue of Liberty eloquently symbolizes the characteristics for which Americans are most ...
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For Safety’s Sake: Buckle Up, Black America, by Mary Katherine Ascik

National Policy Analysis #422 /
Black America needs to fasten its collective seatbelt. According to figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), only 69 percent of African-Americans wore seat belts in 2000 as opposed to 74 percent of whites.1 That's just a five ...
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A Global Warming Primer, by Gerald Marsh (updated)

National Policy Analysis #420 /
(Please note: This is an updated version of National Policy Analysis #316 of the same title, published September 2001.  A pdf version of this updated version can be found here.) Introduction The purpose of this primer is to help the ...
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Wildfires Linked To Environmental Extremists As Disingenuous Denials Fly, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: The Clinton Administration's compliance with environmentalist diktats on forest management has been a major contributor to the monster wildfires roaring across the U.S. Despite this, Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, issued a denial of responsibility for ...
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Yucca Mountain: Could Nuclear Energy Be Killed By Senators “Playing Nice”? by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: Opening the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository must be voted on by the Senate by July 25, 2002 or it may be killed forever, and with it, the future of nuclear energy in the United States. When Nevada's Governor ...
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Wildfires Exceed Record Year of 2000 by 50 Percent, Continue to Grow in Overfueled Forests, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: As of June 20, wildfires in the U.S. had devastated 1,857,500 acres, almost entirely on federal land. This is more than double the ten year average for wildfire destruction by this date and 50 percent greater than the "modern ...
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Bush Administration, Senate Finance Committee Formally Approve Placing Tax Subsidy to Environmental Groups in Tax Code to Promote Land Grabs by Environmentalists and the Government, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: Yesterday the U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved out of committee the U.S. Care Act of 2002, a bill initially designed to promote donations to charitable organizations through tax incentives. However, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Senate Finance ...
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Forty-Five Members of Congress Urge President to Resist Efforts to Implement Clinton-Era Roadless Rule, by Tom Randall

BACKGROUND: U.S. House Western Caucus Member John Thune (R-SD), Caucus Chairman Richard Pombo and Scott McInnis, chairman of the Forests and Forest Health Subcommittee were joined, on June 5, 2002, by 42 other Representatives in signing a letter to President ...
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EPA Ruling Backfires, Spurs Sales of Diesel Trucks, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: The Wall Street Journal (1) reported recently that long-haul truck sales have skyrocketed primarily as trucking firms buy new rigs before new anti-pollution rules for diesel engines take effect October 1, 2002. The added cost of the new less ...
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