Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

76% of African-Americans Want Delay on Climate Legislation Until Economy Recovers, Just-Released Nationwide Poll of Black Community Finds

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Washington, DC - In light of the ABC World News program's decision to host a "Town Hall" meeting on health care at the White House without opposition participation, the National Center for Public Policy Research is making a list of ...
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“The American Family Needs Large Vehicles Too”

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In a story he tells today in U.S. News and World Report, Peter Roff and his family go out for custard, finding themselves at the same frozen custard store as President Obama and his eleven SUVs and vans (not counting ...
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Chuck Schumer’s Hypocrisies

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Climate Depot unveils two shocking examples of hypocrisy by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) when it reports that global warming zealot Schumer is seeking federal aid for New York farmers because below-average temperatures are affecting crop yields. That's my opinion, anyway ...
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Caterpillar CEO Commits to Pro-Cap-and-Trade Lobbying Course While Admitting Risk to USA and His Own Corporation; Says Stockholders Who Object Can Just Sell Their Stock

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Washington, DC - Caterpillar CEO James Owens admitted Wednesday at his company's annual stockholder meeting that the carbon caps his company supports could hurt the U.S., U.S. heavy industry and Caterpillar itself. Owens made the admission in response to questioning ...
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Game, Set and Match to the Heritage Foundation

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The National Resources Defense Council has attempted to undermine the credibility of the Heritage Foundation's analysis on the cost of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade global warming bill. The NRDC would have done itself a favor to stay home from work that ...
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A Call for Transparency in Lobbying: Caterpillar Management Challenged on Support for Climate Legislation at Stockholder Meeting

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Washington, DC - Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research, is confronting Caterpillar Inc. management at the corporation's shareholder's meeting in Chicago Wednesday, asking the corporation to increase the transparency of ...
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We Need the Energy; We Need the Jobs; We Need the Revenue

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In an op-ed appearing in papers nationwide this week, David Ridenour says Congress and the Obama White House are "shunning [an] economic stimulus that would cost taxpayers zilch, yet could create up to 160,000 jobs and up to $1.7-trillion in ...
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A Somewhat Happy Ending to the Latest Death Threat Story

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...first covered in Climate Depot about the global warming believer and blog writer at the prominent liberal blog Talking Points Memo who asked: "at what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers?" The gentleman appears contrite. "The Insolent ...
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Outrage of the Day: Political Decisionmaking at Government Motors

From "Lawmakers Seek to Influence Plant Locations" by Neil King, Jr. and Kate Linebaugh for the June 2 Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration has said repeatedly that it won't use its majority stake in General Motors Corp. to meddle ...
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“Airy Fairy Thinking”

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Our sister blog, the Free Enterpriser, has a two minute and 41 second really great video take-down of cap-and-trade. Take less than three minutes for a fast-paced tutorial by Karry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow Report. E-mail any comments to the ...
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