Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Environmental Regulations Contributing to Air Traffic Congestion

Press Release /
Nation's Airport Authorities Cannot Build Runways Fast Enough to Keep Up With Demand Due to Federal and State Environmental Laws Overly restrictive environmental regulations are significantly contributing to airline delays and cancellations by inhibiting the timely construction of much-needed runways, ...
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Mad About the Quality of Air Travel These Days? Blame Environmentalists, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #331 /
The next time you find yourself stuck in an airport waiting for a flight that is hours overdue or wonder why it seems to take forever for your plane to land although the airport is clearly in sight: Blame the ...
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President Bush Must Kill Kyoto Global Warming Treaty and Oppose Efforts to Regulate Carbon Dioxide, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #328 /
Now that Bill Clinton and Al Gore have vacated the White House, President George W. Bush should seize the opportunity to finally rid the nation of one of the former Administration's most unwanted and potentially costly legacies - the Kyoto ...
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After False Starts, Ford Motor Company Improves its Defense of SUVs

National Policy Analysis #326 /
Little noted amid Christmas and Inaugural festivities was this small bulletin out of the Ford Motor Company's headquarters in Dearborn: The giant automaker announced that it was recalling about 110,000 Explorer and Mountaineer sport utility vehicles (SUVs), not because of ...
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Opening ANWR To Oil Exploration Would Help Consumers Without Hurting Environment

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Drilling for Billions of Barrels of Oil Would Require Using Mere .1 percent of ANWR's 19 Million Acres The environmental movement's opposition to President George W. Bush's vow to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration ignores ...
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Gale Norton’s Colorado Record Bodes Well for Innovative New Approach to Environmental Protection at Interior, by John K. Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #323 /
President-elect George W. Bush's selection of former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton to head the U.S. Department of the Interior promises to restore sanity to an environmental regulatory system that has been bereft of reason for far too long. The ...
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Environmentalists’ Opposition to Oil Exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Is Unfounded, by John K. Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #324 /
The environmental movement's vehement objection to President George W. Bush's vow to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration is showing Americans suffering from high energy prices that the environmental movement is no friend of theirs. Environmentalist ...
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Thrown Off the Cliffs: Families Face Eviction Due to New Clinton National Monument, by Gretchen Randall and Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #320 /
With the stroke of a pen, President Bill Clinton is expected to end a way of life in southwestern Idaho before he leaves office by creating the Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument. This designation of 2.7 million acres of mountains, canyons, ...
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Turn Out the Lights on “Midnight Regulations”

National Policy Analysis #322 /
Bill Clinton once declared the era of Big Government over. Despite that, his Administration is burning the midnight oil to enact a wealth of new regulations before he leaves office. These new rules will make Big Government bigger than ever ...
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Economic Opportunity and Social Issues Trump Environment as Top Concern for Poor and Minorities, by John Carlisle

New Visions Commentary /
Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Environmental laws are unfair to minorities and the poor because, although they are least able to pay, they must bear the greatest costs for adhering to those laws through lost jobs and higher prices ...
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