Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

President Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Policy Takes Another Hit: BP, Caterpillar and ConocoPhillips Exit USCAP Global Warming Lobbying Group

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Washington, DC - President Obama's cap-and-trade policy took another hit with the announcement that oil companies BP and ConocoPhillips and heavy equipment maker Caterpillar are leaving the high-profile United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) lobbying organization. USCAP played a key ...
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Here’s How Big Business Benefits from Cap-and-Trade

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Tom Borelli explains how General Electric plans to benefit from President Obama's cap-and-trade plan on a recent edition of Stuart Varney's Varney and Co. show: Unfortunately for the American public, GE's gain would be our loss. E-mail comments to [email protected] ...
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USCAP Statement on Membership Changes Misleads Public

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The following is a statement from Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project: Yesterday's press release from the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) misled the public by failing to disclose that ...
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Alarmist Climate Scientists of Two Minds About Snow

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Climategate scientists: Global warming theory proved. It's a travesty that we can't say why (except we do). Writing in the Examiner today, Senior Fellow Dana Joel Gattuso says: "It's too bad we can't read climate scientist Kevin Trenberth's emails anymore." ...
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Following Obama Comments, Corporate and Environmental Special Interests Scramble to Lobby Administration Officials on Global Warming Legislation

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Washington, DC - Desperation and panic over the imminent failure of cap-and-trade legislation is driving a new White House lobbying push by special interest groups, according to policy experts at the National Center for Public Research. Corporate and environmental special ...
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Keith Olbermann Lists Children As Worst Persons in World for Making Innocent Snow Joke About Al Gore

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Keith Olbermann Lists Children As Worst Persons in World for Making Innocent Snow Joke About Al Gore Keith Olbermann Tuesday night named among his "worst persons in the world" four minor grandchildren of Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, along with ...
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Global Warming at the Ridenour Compound

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Yes, I know one snowstorm (or seven) in one location doesn't mean the planet isn't warming, but really, how could I resist posting this shot? E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe to feed. | Follow the National Center for Public ...
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Video: Stuart Varney Interviews Tom Borelli on New SEC Climate Guidelines

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More about the SEC's new climate change regulations here. Hat tip: Thanks to CEOMonitor for uploading it to YouTube. E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe to feed. | Follow the National Center for Public Policy Research on Twitter. | Download ...
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Bizarre Climategate Update #4: IPCC Chairman Wishes Painful Death Upon Critics

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Question this report, and a top UN official will wish you dead Under fire for the Glaciergate, Amazongate and Please-Fund-My-Institute-Gate sectors, among others, of the ever-broadening Climategate scandal, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
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Bizarre Climategate Update #5: Perhaps Our Children’s Fourth Grade Class Should Help the IPCC

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Maybe the IPCC used a primary school geography book that wasn't peer-reviewed? Steve McIntyre reports that the last IPCC report (AR4) claimed 55 percent of land on which 60 percent of the Dutch live is below sea level. The true ...
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