Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Elites Denying Affordable Energy to Average Americans, by Deneen Borelli

New Visions Commentary /
Failing schools, crime and single-parent households are just a few of the challenges facing urban communities.  Now, thanks to "Club Green" - radical environmentalists and their supporters - soaring energy prices join the list. Club Green fights against oil exploration ...
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Pensions in Peril: Are State Officials Risking Public Employee Retirement Benefits by Playing Global Warming Politics? by Steven J. Milloy, MHS, JD, LLM and Thomas Borelli, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #575 /
I. Executive Summary Global warming has emerged as an important issue for investors, including state and local pension funds. Although global warming regulation appears likely to cause significant adverse impacts to the broad economy and stock market, a substantial minority ...
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The Pickens Plan: Questions Unanswered, by Reece A. Epstein and David A. Ridenour

National Policy Analysis #574 /
Introduction On July 7, 2008, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens introduced the “Pickens Plan,” an ambitious proposal to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil by one-third over the next ten years.1  The cornerstone of the Pickens Plan is replacing the ...
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A Need for Less Speed? by Mychal Massie

New Visions Commentary /
In June, Senator John Warner (R-VA) pushed "cap-and-trade" legislation he claimed would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  Analyses found it would more likely drive up energy prices, drive down the gross domestic product and put untold numbers of people out of ...
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Media Flocks to Gore Speech on Energy; Mostly Ignore His Use of Gas-Guzzlers to Get There

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Apparently complacent about criticism from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research that his family's energy use at his Nashville home is more than 19 times greater than the average American household's, Al Gore has committed conspicious energy consumption once again ...
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Just Say "Drill"

Just Say “Drill”

National Policy Analysis #573 /
To burst the oil bubble, just use a drill. If Congress has the political will to stand up to special interests and develop domestic sources of energy, oil prices will come tumbling down. The U.S. has ample reserves of oil ...
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Drill

ConservativeBlog.org /
To burst the oil bubble, just use a drill, says David Ridenour, in an op-ed piece at least two dozen newspapers (another example here and here) have now run on their commentary pages. A version of the piece (various papers ...
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Clean Water Restoration Act Could Trigger Largest-Ever Expansion of Federal Powers Over Private Property

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972 makes it a crime to discharge pollutants into the "navigable waters of the United States."  However, what constitutes a "pollutant" or "navigable water" has often left federal regulators scratching their heads and ...
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Weyrich: Congressional Hearings on Land Trusts Needed

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Conservative leader par excellence Paul Weyrich has written a column about National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Dana Joel Gattuso's National Policy Analysis paper, "Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Paul begins: Phil Truluck is ...
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Farm-Belt Voters Favor Eliminating or Scaling Back Corn Ethanol Mandate, New Poll Finds

Press Release /
76% of Americans Want Ethanol Law Changed; 41% Want Mandate Repealed Entirely Washington, DC - Most Americans - including those in the Farm Belt - want Congress to reduce or eliminate the corn ethanol mandate, according to a new poll ...
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