Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

A Change in Climate on Climate Change? Don’t Count on It, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #416 /
"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing mean surface air temperature and subsurface ocean temperature to rise."1 That line and a few others in the Bush Administration's recent rambling, confusing and often contradictory ...
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Climate Change and California Assembly Bill 1058: Is it Hype? by Willie Soon, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #417 /
The fear of any catastrophic effects of man-made greenhouse gases continues to terrorize Californians. Assembly Bill 1058, authored by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley (D-Woodland Hills), "instructs" the California Air Resources Board to come up with regulations that allow "maximum and cost-effective" ...
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Monster Wildfires are Preventable, by Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #418 /
A monster fire in Arizona is devouring trees and houses with unprecedented ferocity. It has already consumed 300,000 acres of forest and forced 30,000 people to evacuate their homes. This is just one of 17 big fires scorching the West ...
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Federal Government Raises Price of New Homes to Protect the Lumber Industry It Has Nearly Killed, by Tom Randall

BACKGROUND: The International Trade Commission has upheld a U.S. tariff of 27 percent on Canadian softwood lumber, the type used for the framing of homes. The action was taken because imports of Canadian lumber pose a "threat of injury" to ...
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Pay Americans First: More Federal Land Purchases Would Add to PILT Burden, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: The Bush Administration has asked Congress for $165 million for fiscal year (FY) 2003 for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program -- a decrease of $45 million from last year. The federal government does not pay local ...
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Senator Barbara Boxer Proposes Designating 2.5 Million More Acres as “Wilderness” In California, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wants to designate an additional 2.5 million acres of federal land in California as wilderness with her introduction of the "California Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2002." Her bill (yet unnumbered) would add to 14 ...
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Tom Daschle and Senate Democrats Attack Bush Administration for Reassessing the Secretly-Developed Clinton Rule to Halt Forest Road Building, by Tom Randall

BACKGROUND: Half of all Senate Democrats recently signed a letter to President Bush accusing him of failing to uphold the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. They claimed in their letter that this so-called "Roadless Plan" was the product of years of ...
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Sportsmen and Hunting Groups Write President Bush about Forest Management, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: In the ongoing argument over logging in national forests, a group of hunting and sportsmen's clubs wrote President Bush last week pointing out that forest management is as essential for wildlife conservation as it is for healthy forests. Young ...
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Relief Report: Environmental Protection: Shouldn’t We Be Doing It for Future Generations?

The Relief Report /
Contents: Environmental Protection: Shouldn't It Be for Future Generations?Clean Air Regulations Costly to Rural Areas, Study Says; Bush Administration Undecided About Reform  Environmental Protection: Shouldn't We Be Doing It for Future Generations?The modern environmental movement has a problem: It seems ...
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Study Says Clean Air Rules More Costly for Rural Areas, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: A University of North Texas (UNT) study just released says the Clinton Administration EPA's interpretations of New Source Review (NSR) regulations for power plants would have a costly effect on rural areas. These interpretations are being challenged in court ...
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