Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository to Open, Says U.S. Energy Secretary, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced today that he is recommending to President Bush that the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository be opened for storing the nation's nuclear waste ­ waste that currently is now in nearly 100 locations ...
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Enron and the Environmental Movement: Global Warming Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows

National Policy Analysis #384 /
With a payoff worth tens of billions of dollars at stake, Enron Corporation laid out millions in campaign contributions in the 1990s apparently in part to persuade the Clinton Administration and the U.S. Senate to support the Kyoto global warming ...
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The Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times, Part I: DDT, by Adam J. Lieberman (1967-1997) and Simona C. Kwon, M.P.H.

National Policy Analysis #386 /
Background DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) was first synthesized in 1877,1 but it was not until 1940 that a Swiss chemist discovered that it could be sprayed on walls and would cause any insect to die within the next six months, without any ...
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Civil Rights Commission Needs to Assess the Economic Impact of Environmental Justice Policies

New Visions Commentary /
Over the past few years, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hasn't been known for promoting racial harmony. Chairman Mary Frances Berry is a stalwart liberal who rules the Commission with an iron fist. Critics accuse her of using the ...
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Brownfield Revitalization Cuts Urban Blight, Suburban Sprawl, by Syd Gernstein

New Visions Commentary /
As concern over "urban sprawl" intensifies, the Bush Administration is coming to the rescue by making it easier to revitalize decaying city infrastructures. This will both lessen the need for cities to expand and create new jobs and new sources ...
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Fuel Efficiency Standards: What to Do Next? by Gretchen Randall

National Policy Analysis #393 /
Washington is debating whether to increase Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standards to require automakers to produce cars, minivans, SUVs and light trucks that get better gas mileage. Some Democrats and Republicans are pushing for a mandatory increase in the ...
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Solidarity and Stewardship: African-Americans and the Environment

Environmental Justice Study /
**This page has been moved** To visit Solidarity and Stewardship: A History of Black Environmentalism and African-American Environmental Heroes please click here to visit our projects page ...
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Teamster Chief James Hoffa Warns Politicians In Both Parties Not To Stand In The Way Of Oil Exploration In Alaska, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: On the issue of oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa told The National Center for Public Policy Research, "ANWR provides expanded energy resources and increased job opportunities ...
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Associated Press Misleads Public With Headline Saying “Study: Drilling Threatens Wildlife,” by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: An Associated Press story by Josef Herbert with the headline cited above spends 15 paragraphs explaining how a U.S. Geological Survey study shows how oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would threaten wildlife there. It is only ...
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Earth Day 2002 Fact Sheet: Myths and Facts About the Environment

Myth: The science on global warming is sound. CNN reported that a National Academy of Sciences report in 2001 represented "a unanimous decision that global warming is real, is getting worse and is due to man. There is no wiggle ...
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