Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Banking Bailout Money in Lobbyists’ Pockets: TARP Money Used to Push for a New “Green Bubble”

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Washington, DC - Wall Street firms bailed out by the American taxpayer are now financing an extensive lobbying campaign to promote the costly federal regulation of greenhouse gases and putting the American public at risk of facing yet another costly ...
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Profiting from Global Warming

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Don't miss Senior Fellow Tom Borelli's op-ed in today's Washington Examiner. It begins: When the housing bubble burst, it exposed an unseemly alliance between special interests and the financial sector. Activists wanted homes for all at any cost, and lenders ...
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Tom Borelli on Fox News Channel’s “Glenn Beck” Discussing GE

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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has posted some amazing video from Youtube (shown above) of Fox News anchors interviewing Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) on the health care provisions on the trillion dollar stimulus bill nobody's ...
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The Scandal that is the EPA

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Writing on National Review Online, Henry I. Miller excoriatesthe Environmental Protection Agency. Here's just a sample: ...The EPA has long been more concerned with public relations than public health. An EPA scheme that was exposed in 2005 planned to divert ...
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How the Media Covers Global Warming: A Case Study

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Image by Lyubov via Flickr When University of Washington Professor Eric Steig announced in a news conference and paper published in the January 22 edition of the journal Nature that he and several colleagues had removed one of many thorns ...
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$8.6 Billion of Stimulus Plan Earmarked for Pet Causes of Environmental Activists Should Be Jettisoned

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Washington, D.C. - At least $8.6 billion of President Obama’s proposed $1.2 trillion stimulus plan is meant to fund dubious special interest policy initiatives of environmental activists and should immediately be jettisoned, says Deneen Borelli, full-time Fellow with the Project ...
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Stimulating Obama’s Green Agenda, by Dana Joel Gattuso

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As the House and Senate hash out their differences in the stimulus package and President Obama further bemoans Republicans' "usual political games," he should note that his critics extend far beyond the GOP.  Democrats, Keynesian economists, and even the editorial ...
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Regulation Expected to Push Gas Stations Out of Business

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From Alfred Lee at the Pasadena Star-News, information that new environmental regulations in California will push some gas stations out of out of business: Dozens, and potentially hundreds, of gas stations around California are choosing to shut down rather than ...
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Global Warming News Roundup

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A British government environmental minister is warning that recycling "could be adding to global warming." Furthermore, this Daily Telegraph article notes that some local governments in Britain have "admitted using anti-terrorism legislation to snoop on householders who fail to recycle ...
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Not British Health Care

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If the United Nations can't run a climate conference, how could it possibly run climate policy? This video of the waiting line outside the COP-15 UN climate conference in Copenhagen on 12/15/09 shows the United Nations is equipped for neither ...
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