Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Interior Department Proposes Joint Federal, Environmentalist Land Grab Via Tax Code, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: The U.S. Interior Department's 2003 budget recently submitted to Congress contains a "Conservation Tax Credit" that would cut the capital gains tax by 50 percent if a property owner "voluntarily sell[s] land or water to a government agency or ...
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Senators Propose Dangerous Increase in Fuel Efficiency Standards and Regulatory Phase-Out of SUVs, Minivans and Light Trucks, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Two bills have been introduced in the Senate to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) fuel efficiency standards for autos, light trucks, SUVs and minivans. Presently, cars must get an average of 27.5 miles per gallon (mpg) of gasoline ...
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Stay the Course: President Bush Should Continue Sticking with Science on Global Warming, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: In what has to be classified as a major blunder, the President's Council of Economic Advisors and other White House advisors are now indicating that global warming is a problem, needlessly painting the President into a corner. Dan Lashof ...
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Union of Concerned Scientists Pushes Fuel Efficiency at Expense of Auto Safety, by Christopher Burger

BACKGROUND: The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a report on February 2, 2002 claiming that our nuclear power plants are vulnerable to terrorist attack and saying that increasing domestic oil production won't lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It ...
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Bush Proposes “Charter Forests,” by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: President Bush has proposed a new pilot program called "charter forests" in his 2003 budget. This proposal is not clearly defined yet but the budget does propose to "establish certain forests or portions of forests as separate entities outside ...
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National Research Council Reports Higher Water Levels Not Needed for Klamath Basin Fish, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Last year both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service issued "biological opinions" claiming more water needed to be released from Upper Klamath Lake to protect both the sucker fish and coho salmon. The ...
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Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #395 /
A young woman who didn't care for my opinion that energy should be cheap and plentiful confronted me one night on a Chicago public television talk show. Insisting that air pollution from burning fossil fuels was killing Americans and that ...
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A Different Standard for the Powerful Means no Environmental Justice from Washington, by Syd Gernstein

New Visions Commentary /
Laws are supposed to make our society orderly and protect the public interest. But red tape can overwhelm and actually cause more harm than good. The process can also be corrupted. Take, for instance, "environmental justice." This policy empowers the ...
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New Research Indicates the Earth May Be Cooling

National Policy Analysis #388 /
After a decade of warnings that the Earth's temperature may be rapidly warming, and that this supposed warming may result in a surge of catastrophic flooding and lethal storms, it now appears that we may be in for global cooling ...
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Let’s Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable… Brazilian-Style, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #390 /
According to the Detroit Free Press,1 Luiz Carlos Austin, a television meteorologist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is facing criminal charges and a possible six month jail sentence. His crime: a bad weather forecast. Austin had predicted severe weather in ...
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