Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Ice Shelf Breaks Off Antarctica Coastline, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Scientists believe the 12,000 year old ice shelf which broke off the coast of Antarctica over a recent 35-day period detached as the result of warming in the region over the last 50 years or more. But they could ...
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Increase Fuel Economy Without Killing Americans

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Contents: Why Not Increase Fuel Economy Without Taking Lives? Gas Prices May Spike this Summer: Lack of Drilling and New Refineries Partly to Blame Why Not Increase Fuel Economy Without Taking Lives? The Senate, laughably called the world's greatest deliberative ...
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Sierra Club Attacks Senators for Vote on CAFE, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Today the Sierra Club issued a press release praising 38 senators for standing "up to the scare tactics and lies of the auto industry and [voting] against this do nothing amendment," referring to the Levin-Bond amendment to the Senate ...
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Media Misconceptions Help Lead to Public Fear of Global Warming, by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: The Washington Post repeatedly has reported that areas of the U.S. will warm extensively in the coming century. On December 17, 2001, for example, citing a report commissioned by Congress, the Post reported that the Northeast (New England and ...
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Teamsters Union Claims Environmentalist Support For ANWR Oil Exploration, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a strong supporter of President Bush's energy plan, issued a press release dated February 26, 2002 claiming the plan to drill in ANWR has the support of environmentalists with past or current affiliations with ...
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CAFE Belongs in the Graveyard with its Victims: We Can Increase Fuel Economy Without Costing Lives, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #399 /
The Senate, laughably called the world's greatest deliberative body, recently found itself locked in another absurd debate, spurred on by two men whose primary motivation seems to be their desire for George W. Bush's job - Senators John McCain (R-AZ) ...
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Cautionary Energy Tales

The Relief Report /
Contents: Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale CAFE Costs, and CAFE Kills Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale A young woman who didn't care for my opinion that energy should be cheap and plentiful confronted me one night on a ...
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Bush’s Global Warming Plan a Mix of Giveaways and Research, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: President Bush has announced his voluntary plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 18 percent by 2010. The initiative would allot $4.6 billion in total climate spending over the next five years including $3 billion in funds for more research ...
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Holding Global Warming Forecasters Accountable; Yucca Mountain

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Contents: Let's Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable... Brazilian-Style Opposition to Yucca Mountain is About Nuclear Power, Not Public Safety Let's Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable... Brazilian-Style According to the Detroit Free Press, Luiz Carlos Austin, a television meteorologist in Rio ...
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Bill Clinton’s Department of Energy is on Record: Oil And Gas Exploration is Environmentally-Friendly, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: Today some Republicans and most Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) in particular, turn nearly apoplectic at the suggestion of oil and gas exploration in just 2,000 of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's (ANWR) 19,500,000 acres, claiming the ...
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