Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

After nearly thirty years, Earth Day may be obsolete. Thirty years ago, Americans had good reason to be concerned about the environment. In 1966, 80 people reportedly died from air pollution-related causes during a four-day temperature inversion in New York ...
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Over the past several decades, the American people have been manipulated by a handful of scientists outside the mainstream to fear safe products that improve their quality of life. Products have been removed from the market, banned, or heavily regulated ...
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In 1987, the environmentalist Worldwatch Institute predicted an oil shortage would cause a major energy crisis within five years.1 No crisis has occurred. Instead, the oil industry is producing a million more barrels a day than it can sell.2 According ...
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Environmentalists who have accused the Republican Congress of conspiring with powerful industry groups to protect corporate profits at the expense of the environment may soon have some solid evidence to back up that claim. Over the next several months, the ...
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With just 76 legislative days planned this year in the U.S. Senate and even fewer planned for the House of Representatives, the prospects for significant movement on major environmental reform bills are dim. On the other hand, prospects for the ...
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Table of Contents IntroductionEndangered SpeciesWetlandsWater-Related RegulationClean Air ActZoning OrdinancesOccupational Safety and Health AdministrationHazardous MaterialsNational Parks and ForestsSmall BusinessMaritime TradeMiscellaneous AbusesAcknowledgments  Introduction by Bobby Unser I never imagined myself becoming a spokesman in the ongoing controversy over the government's regulatory policies. My ...
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Scoop®Your Inside View to the Strategies and Activities of the Conservative Movement in Washington Issue 182 * December 19, 1997 The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Ridenour, President 300 Eye Street N.E. Suite 3 * Washington, D.C. 20001 ...
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...Not even bad girls and boys would get lumps of coal in their stockings. ...Presents would be cut by seven percent below 1990 levels by 2010. ...Santa's sleigh would be battery-powered to cut down on those nasty reindeer emissions that ...
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Forget what you've read in the press or heard on television: There is no scientific consensus on global warming. In recent months, there has been much talk in the national news media about a scientific consensus on global warming. A ...
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Policy Proposals Seek Solution to Hypothetical Health Risks While Ignoring Real Ones For Immediate Release November 21, 1997 Contact: David Ridenour of The National Center for Public Policy Research at (202) 507-6398 or [email protected] The public health "big picture" has ...
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