Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Eliot Spitzer Attack against U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Left-Wing Politics at its Worst

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Washington, DC - This statement was issued today by Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the Free Enterprise Project: Eliot Spitzer's commentary in Slate ("Chamber of Horrors,"http://www.slate.com/id/2232441/) calling for state pension funds to pressure corporations to leave the U.S. Chamber of ...
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Cap and Trade Bill Contains a New “Cash for Clunkers” Program Covering Consumer Products

National Policy Analysis #587 /
The Wall Street Journal has sarcastically suggested that "Cash for Clunkers" be extended to "subsidize the purchase of kitchen appliances... and new fishing boats," arguing that such items "are hardly less deserving than cars."1 Be careful what you wish for.  ...
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The Next Big Cure for Global Warming: Condoms!

Image by Erik Cleves Kristensen via Flickr Stop the presses! Stop the presses! The London School of Economics has discovered the solution to global warming: Condoms! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, birth control will save us all from the hypothesized temperature ...
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What’s Happening Now

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If All Nippon airways really wanted to reduce carbon emissions, it wouldn't ask its customers to pee; it would ask them to stay home. Here's hoping the idiotic sports reporters who attacked Rush Limbaugh over his perfectly-appropriate Donovan McNabb comment ...
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Senate Cap-and Trade Bill Favors Corporate Interests Over National Interest

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Washington, D.C. -The “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act” introduced by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) favors corporate interests over our national interest, says the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research.  ...
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Cooling the Hysteria: Time to Ask the “Nasty Questions,” by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #586 /
"Climate change is a reality; the debate is over," Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary of Interior, recently told reporters before releasing a plan intended to mitigate warming's effect on natural resources.1 Well the fat lady's not singing yet. Debate on the ...
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Let Them Eat Cake and Buy Hybrid Vans

Rumors asserting that President Obama's interest in pursuing cap-and-trade legislation has dwindled are vastly overstated. In reality, sketchy plans and letting Congress take the lead is classic Obama. Recall that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wrote the stimulus bill and ...
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Big Ag’s Free Ride Should Be Eliminated from Cap-and-Trade Bill

National Policy Analysis #584 /
Farm belt congressmen who voted for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill committed – to borrow from the New York Times’ Paul Krugman – a form of treason.  It was treason against the agricultural communities they represent. Sure, they got a few ...
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Steve Milloy on O’Reilly Factor Discussing Relationship Between GE, NBC and White House

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Steve Milloy, author of the 2009 book Green Hell, proprietor of the Green Hell and Junk Science websites and co-director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, was the first guest on the O'Reilly Factor Monday ...
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The Best Health Reform May Be to Kill Cap-and-Trade

National Policy Analysis #577 /
If you worry about what Congress could do in its health care legislation, you should be terrified by the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, which could cost millions of Americans their health insurance. Nearly 15 million Americans are now looking for work, ...
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