Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Occupy Occupy D.C. Calls for Cease Fire in Obama’s War on Nature

Interior Department Puts Hit Out on Barred Owls, Proving Folly of Endangered Species Regulations Washington, D.C. - Members of the National Center for Public Policy Research's "Occupy Occupy D.C." street team will rally against the Obama Administration's new policy to ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 13: End the War (on Owls)

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Roaring into March like a lion, members of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s “Occupy Occupy D.C.” street team rallied on Thursday against the Obama Administration’s new policy to kill the barred owl in the Pacific Northwest in deference ...
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Out of Touch Obama, by Deneen Borell

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With soaring gasoline prices, increasing unrest in Afghanistan and threats of a nuclear Iran on his plate, President Obama made it a priority to call the Georgetown University law student criticized by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for demanding free ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C. Activists Call on Congress to Conduct Oversight Hearings into EPA Grantmaking

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Washington, D.C. - "Occupy Occupy D.C." activists will gather just steps from the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency at noon on Friday, February 24 to demand that Congress hold oversight hearings about possibly politicized grants made by the federal ...
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Apple Board Member Al Gore Faces Conflict of Interest Shareholder Proposal

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Apple's Climate Change Policy Benefits Gore's Personal Investments and Not Shareholders, says National Center for Public Policy Research Says Apple Would Have Benefited from Continued Membership in U.S. Chamber of Commerce Washington, D.C. - Today policy experts from the National ...
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Tom Borelli at Apple Shareholder Meeting

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Blog: Tom Borelli at Apple Shareholder MeetingOutside of Apple headquarters prior to the company’s shareholder meeting in Cupertino, California, Free Enterprise Project director Tom Borelli talks to Fox Business Network reporter Adam Shapiro about the National Center’s shareholder resolution.  The ...
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Congress Asked to Hold Oversight Hearings to Review Possibly Politicized EPA Grants

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Oversight Hearing Should Review Objectivity of Grant Recipients, Goals and Appropriate Funding Level Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research is today calling on Congress to hold a series of oversight hearings over possibly-politicized grants made by ...
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Senator Inhofe Acts to Stop EPA’s Job-Killing Utility MACT Regulation by Using the Congressional Review Act

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Democrats from Coal Dependent States Should Join Inhofe's Effort to Protect Constituents from Skyrocketing Electricity Prices, says National Center for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. - Policy experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research are urging bipartisan support ...
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Tom Borelli Talks Apple Shareholder Resolution on Fox Business Network

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Free Enterprise Project director Tom Borelli talks about the National Center’s shareholder resolution.  The resolution asks for the company to investigate a potential conflict-of-interest regarding Apple board member Al Gore and the company’s decision to withdraw its U.S. Chamber of ...
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Green Activists Push Polystyrene Ban in California; We Push Back

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In an op-ed in the Orange County Register, Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution and I argue against a legislative effort to ban polystyrene foodservice containers throughout California. We write: The California Assembly could soon vote to make ...
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