Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Cap and Trade Bill Economic Suicide for Taxpayers and Businesses, says National Center for Public Policy Research

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Washington, DC - Get ready to be taxed even more, America! Memorial Day is the target date set by Democrats Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) for passage of a cap-and-trade bill that promises economic hardship for all. The ...
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The Extremely Cold Conditions Are Due to Global Warming

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The I Hate the Media blog covers the amusing story of the "ecological explorers" who had to give up their expedition to the North Pole intended to draw attention to global warming, due to unexpectedly cold temperatures. Richard Henry Lee ...
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Ridiculous

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eter Roff's May 18 U.S. News & World Report blog post about President Obama's speech at Notre Dame quotes the President saying the following about global warming: Your generation must decide how to save God's creation from a changing climate ...
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Ban Ki-moon Rejects Waxman-Markey as Insufficient

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The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade global warming bill would "reduce aggregate GDP by $7.4 trillion, kill 844,00 jobs and raise the energy bill paid by a typical family by about $1,500 annually" (based on a study by the Heritage Foundation's Center for ...
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Supporting Cap-and-Trade “Almost Demented”

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"Charlie Munger, the second in command behind Warren Buffet at Berkshire Hathaway, says in an interview on CNBC that it's 'almost demented' to pass cap-and-trade given the state of our economy." So reports Tom Borelli, director of the National Center ...
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The Kangaroo Returns: Obama Administration’s One-Sided Energy Hearing a Kangaroo Court

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The Kangaroo poses with an unidentified woman outside the Obama Administration hearing in San Francisco The kangaroo is back: Live "Kangaroo" Returns to Highlight One-Sided Obama Administration Hearing; San Francisco Hearing on Offshore Energy Resources a Kangaroo Court For Release: ...
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Outrage of the Day: The Costly Waxman-Markey Global Warming Tax

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Last Tuesday, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) unveiled proposed legislation that, if adopted, would kill (at best) hundreds of thousands, more likely, millions of jobs and put a substantial and highly-regressive global warming tax on every American ...
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The New Byrd-Hagel

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The Senate has voted 89-8 to oppose cap-and-trade if it raises electricity or gasoline prices. Of course, cap-and-trade would raise electricity and gasoline prices, so the Senate has effectively just gone on record 89-8 against cap-and-trade. In 1997, the Senate ...
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The California Drought’s Congressional “Kangaroo Court”

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The kangaroo waits for the hearing to begin. The kangaroo listens attentively to hearing proceedings. The National Center for Public Policy Research's Jeff Temple and Devon Carlin are seated to the kangaroo's left. Devon Carlin provides a report on the ...
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Does President Obama Have a Mandate For His Pledge to Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions?

National Policy Analysis #578 /
Barack Obama doesn't have a mandate for his global warming policies. He doesn't even have a mandate from his most fervent supporters. President Obama has repeatedly reiterated his support for an aggressive effort to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases ...
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