Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Great Lakes Designated “Oceans” to Tap into Federal Dollars

The Relief Report /
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Clinton’s Urban Sprawl Program Threatens Freedom and the Environment

National Policy Analysis #231 /
What percentage of U.S. land do you think has been developed? 50%? 25%? 10%? Answer: Less than 5%. Yet the Clinton Administration believes that taxpayers must pay for a multi-billion dollar land acquisition program aimed at curbing "urban sprawl" - ...
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White House Tries to Buy Support for Greenhouse Gas Reductions, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #233 /
One of the more surprising developments in the ongoing global warming debate is the Clinton Administration's success in lining up major corporate support for the greenhouse gas reductions stipulated under the Kyoto Protocol. Signed by the United States and 158 ...
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Behavior of World’s Glaciers Fails to Prove Global Warming Theory, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #235 /
Global warming theory proponents have resorted to the politics of fear to drive their point home. They argue that man-made greenhouse gases are already causing the world's glaciers to melt, causing sea levels to rise and threatening humanity with a ...
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Rural Sprawl Outpaces Urban Sprawl

On January 11, 1999, Vice President Al Gore unveiled the Administration's $10 billion program to stop urban sprawl by preserving open space and curbing suburbs. But urban sprawl isn't the problem the Vice President claims it is, with land set ...
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Global Warming Not Responsible for 1998’s Unusual Weather

National Policy Analysis #228 /
The U.S. may have experienced more than its fair share of unusual weather this past year, but this has nothing to do with global warming. Global warming theory advocates were quick to seize on last summer's heat waves and the ...
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Environmentalists Suffer Election Setback

National Policy Analysis #222 /
Environmental groups that have been crowing over Republican losses in the recent national elections may end up eating crow once the 106th Congress begins voting on environmental legislation. The reason? Despite the loss of five Republicans in the U.S. House ...
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Environmentalists Erroneously Cite Government Pork-Barrel Spending as Evidence of Global Warming

National Policy Analysis #221 /
Environmentalists continue to use every means of measuring the temperature of the planet except a thermometer. A case in point is the recent claim that the rising number of presidential disaster declarations - often used as a means of dishing ...
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Hypocrisy in Buenos Aires: Millions of Gallons of Fuel to Be Burned By Those Seeking Curbs on Fuel Use

National Policy Analysis #217 /
Next month, the American people will witness an extraordinary act of hypocrisy: Millions of gallons of fuel will be burned as a direct result of an international conference convened to curb fossil fuel use. On November 2, the fourth meeting ...
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Buenos Aires Conference On Global Warming: Much Ado About Nothing, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #218 /
This November, the Clinton Administration will attend a conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There, it will offer recommendations on measures the United States and more than 100 nations can adopt to cut man-made greenhouse gases, which, the Administration alleges, are ...
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