Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Lincoln Chafee Advances Bill to Usurp Local Control of Land Use Planning and Zoning, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: S.975, euphemistically titled the "Community Character Act," was introduced last May and is now scheduled to come before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Thursday, April 11, 2002. The bill, introduced by Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), with Senators ...
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Gasoline Shortages Begin – Prices Approach 2001 Levels

Press Release /
Record high gasoline prices? Severe shortages? According to Tom Randall, director of The National Center for Public Policy Research's John P. McGovern MD Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, all the elements are in place for another energy crisis. The ...
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Natural Resources Defense Council ‘Cries Wolf’ Over Consultation on Bush Energy Plan, by Christopher Burger

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Supposedly worried that environmental groups were not consulted when the Bush administration developed its energy plan, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit to force the Department of Energy (DOE) to release documents revealing the names of ...
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LCV Environmental Scorecard Ratings Shortchange Urban Blacks, by Mike Green

New Visions Commentary /
While pretending to be nonpartisan, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) recently published a "report card" grading politicians on their environmental voting records. Internet ads hyping the rankings tease "Did your senator vote to trash the environment?" We are supposed ...
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Giving With One Hand, Taking Away with the Other: Competing Government Policies Both Promote and Deny Homeownership Opportunities for Minorities

New Visions Commentary /
It's three steps forward, but two steps back. Policies removing barriers to minority homeownership are favored by governments, but the competing objective of combating the perceived threat of urban sprawl by some of these governments is simultaneously restricting homeownership opportunities ...
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On Environmental Issues, Conservative Groups and Labor Unions are Natural Born Allies, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #400 /
"We'll remember in November... we'll remember in November... we'll remember in November," the words rang out, time after time from the speakers - nearly a dozen of them - at one of the most unlikely rallies in the history of ...
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State Regulators Destroy Los Angeles’s Fellowship With the Ringmakers, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #401 /
Local jewelers and city government officials in Los Angeles, California came together to create a shining example of how public-private cooperation can fix a potential environmental health problem without harming economic health. The intervention of state environmental regulators, however, tarnished ...
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Giving With One Hand, Taking Away with the Other: Competing Government Policies Both Promote and Deny Homeownership Opportunities for Minorities

National Policy Analysis #402 /
It's three steps forward, but two steps back. Policies removing barriers to minority homeownership are favored by governments, but the competing objective of combating the perceived threat of urban sprawl by some of these governments is simultaneously restricting homeownership opportunities ...
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Questions and Answers on Global Warming

1. Is global warming occurring? Have the forecasts of global warming been confirmed by actual measurements? There is no proof that significant man-made global warming is taking place. The computer models used in U.N. studies say the first area to ...
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The Radical Spectrum: Environmentalists Push the Envelope to Push Their Cause

National Policy Analysis #403 /
While most of America came together after September 11, the political fringe remains at odds with the rest of society. Our new realities, however, make it easier to spot their extremism. Take, for example, Karen Davis. Davis is president of ...
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