Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Energy Bubble, Anyone? Henry Waxman Gives Public a Look at the Corporate-Congressional Alliance that Threatens to Raise Energy Prices in Pursuit of Private Profit

Press Release /
Washington, DC - Thursday’s first hearing of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee since Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) ousted Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) as chairman is drawing criticism from the National Center for Public Policy Research, which says the ...
READ MORE

At Energy and Commerce Hearing, House Conservatives Call CEOs to Account

ConservativeBlog.org /
Looks like conservatives on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee are calling turncoat corporate CEOs to account on the Hill today: From Stephen Power's account on the Wall Street Journal's Environmental Capital blog, as posted there by Keith Johnson: ...
READ MORE

Statement on USFWS Plans to Introduce More Mexican Gray Wolves in the Southwest

ConservativeBlog.org /
Senior Fellow R.J. Smith has issued a statement on USFWS plans to introduce still more Mexican Gray Wolves in the Southwest: For a quarter of a century the controversial program to repopulate the Southwest with Mexican Gray Wolves has created ...
READ MORE

Land Grab Bill to Be Reintroduced?

ConservativeBlog.org /
Rumor has it that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is re-introducing his massive federal land control bill. The National Center for Public Policy Research polled African-Americans on the legislation. 52% oppose the legislation while only 37% support it. As our ...
READ MORE

Cap and Trade Legislation Would Increase Uninsured By Millions

Press Release /
Washington, DC - The U.S. Senate can increase the number of Americans with health insurance by tens of millions -- at zero cost to taxpayers -- by rejecting cap-and-trade legislation passed by the U.S. House, according to a policy analysis ...
READ MORE

Clean Water Restoration Act Information

Clean Water Act Papers, Polls, Press Releases & Commentary from the National Center for Public Policy Research A paper on the implications of the Clean Water Restoration Act for sportsmen is here... A press release with link to the first ...
READ MORE

New Poll Finds that Majority of African-Americans Oppose Public Lands Bill

Press Release /
Will African-Americans Continue to be Taken for Granted Even After Historic Election? Vote on Harry Reid's Omnibus Public Lands Bill Will be Key Test Washington, DC - Senator Harry Reid's effort to pass the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act this ...
READ MORE

Pickens Plan Requires More Digging

Press Release /
Lots of Questions Unanswered, States Public Policy Group Washington, DC - Key questions remain unanswered about the so-called "Pickens Plan," an energy plan being promoted across the U.S. in an expensive marketing campaign by billionaire T. Boone Pickens, says a ...
READ MORE

Black Activist on End of Congressional Ban on Oil Exploration: ‘Energy Freedom Day’ Great for Families and for Energy Independence

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. - On October 1, 2008, a congressionally-mandated ban on offshore oil exploration and expanded development of oil from shale rock in the American West officially expires.  Supporters of increased domestic energy production are calling it "Energy Freedom Day." ...
READ MORE

We Didn’t Ask for an Apology, Mr. Pickens

Press Release /
Washington, DC - The following is the response of National Center for Public Policy Research President Amy Ridenour to T. Boone Pickens' response* when a reporter from the Detroit Free Press asked him about the National Center's new paper, "The ...
READ MORE

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.