Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Obama Huddles with “The Usual Suspects” – Liberal Business Leaders on West Coast – to Advance his Big Government Agenda

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Obama's Closed-Door Dinner with Clean Energy Allies Could Escalate his War on Fossil Fuels, says the National Center for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. - President Obama traveled to the West Coast today to tout his 2012 budget and possibly ...
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Obama Cuts Heating Aid to Poor While Raising Energy Prices

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Black Activist Speaks Out Against Agenda that Assures Suffering Washington, D.C. – The Obama Administration proposed today that the federal government cut home heating assistance in half, even as the Administration continues to fight for controversial programs that will raise ...
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GOP Leaders ask Supreme Court to Dismiss “Climate Change” Case

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In an amicus brief filed Monday (pdf), three GOP lawmakers asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit that Source: istockphoto seeks to hold a few American utility companies responsible for contributing to alleged global climate change. In their brief, House ...
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Proposal to Limit EPA Emissions Rules Will Save Jobs, Incomes

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Washington, D.C. – A proposal to keep the EPA from usurping the authority of elected lawmakers will receive a hearing this week, marking one of the first attempts by the new Congress to blunt the Obama Administration's regulatory efforts to ...
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Green Goals Hurt Poor, Minorities

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On February 9, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy and Power will hold a hearing on the discussion draft of legislation to strip the EPA of authority to regulate carbon restrictions based on the Clean Air ...
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Bonner Cohen on Hydraulic Fracturing: The Way to Energy Independence

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“Energy independence” is not simply a slogan kicking around — it’s something our nation can really do.  That’s the message National Center senior fellow Bonner Cohen delivered in a February 2011 interview with the Heartland Institute’s Environment and Climate News ...
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Project 21’s Deneen Borelli on Obama’s Flawed Energy Agenda

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Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli discusses the unrealistic energy goals of President Barack Obama as laid out in his State of the Union Address. This plan is flawed, in part, because it will benefit self-serving companies such as General Electric ...
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Is Jeffrey Immelt’s Obama Administration Appointment Already Paying Off Financially for GE?

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Writing on FoxNews.com yesterday, the National Center for Public Policy Research's Dr. Tom Borelli predicted that President Obama's appointment of GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt would serve GE's business interests. Has that prediction already come true? Tim Carney of the Washington ...
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The EPA’s Latest Unscientific Power Grab, by Jeff Stier

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Why would the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overturn its own scientists and decide to regulate trace levels of perchlorate in drinking water after it recently decided it didn't need to be regulated?1 Earlier this month, the EPA announced it will ...
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Senators Inhofe, Upton, and Barrasso to Introduce Bills to Reign in EPA

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On the 1/27/11 edition of the Fox Business Network’s “Follow the Money,” Tom Borelli of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project talks about President Obama’s energy priorities that were laid out in his State of the Union Address to Congress.  ...
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