Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

The Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade Bill: Quick Summary and Analysis, by Casey Lartigue and Ryan Balis

National Policy Analysis #570 /
Introduction and summary The United States Senate will soon begin debate on America's Climate Security Act of 2007, popularly referred to as the Lieberman-Warner bill after its chief sponsors, Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA). The legislation ostensibly ...
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Senator Dole Out of Step with North Carolinians, Poll Shows

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Dole Co-Sponsored Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Rejected by Overwhelming Majority in Region Washington, DC - Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), as a co-sponsor of the America's Climate Security Act presently scheduled for a key Senate vote at 9 AM Friday, is ...
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Ethanol: The Fuel to Nowhere

National Policy Analysis #571 /
Move over "bridge to nowhere," there's a new poster child of congressional waste and avarice - ethanol, the "fuel to nowhere."  Ethanol leads only to higher food prices and greater greenhouse gas emissions. Anytime Congress can find an excuse for ...
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Ethanol: A Burden on the Poor

National Policy Analysis #572 /
The red-hot Congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol is starting to leave many supermarket customers feeling mighty blue these days as they pay inflated prices for grocery staples. Even worse, it's likely to dramatically increase the cases of ...
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Government Land Acquisition on the Sly

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Joe Thomas of WCHV in Charlottesville, Virginia has posted a podcast online of his radio interview with National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Dana Joel Gattuso. Dana, as many of you know, is the author of the absolutely ...
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Overwhelming Majority of Americans Oppose Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Proposal, New Poll Suggests

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Clinton, McCain and Obama at Odds With 90%+ of Americans Washington, DC - Just as the U.S. Senate is poised to vote on the Lieberman-Warner America's Climate Security Act (S. 2191), a new poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans ...
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Landowners Beware – The Government’s Found a New Way to Control Your Land

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Conservation Easements Not What They Used to Be, Says New Report Under the guise of making more land accessible for the public's use and providing tax relief for land-rich but cash-poor landowners, the government has found a convenient way to ...
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Comment by National Center President Amy Ridenour on Announcement Regarding Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act

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The decision to list the polar bear as “threatened” announced today by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was probably the best that could be expected from a government agency operating under a severely-flawed Endangered Species Act, but it is a regrettable ...
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An Earmark + “K Street” Lobbyist = Massive Federal Land Grab

National Policy Analysis #568 /
George Bush is now the last remaining hurdle to the establishment of de facto federal zoning along a 175-mile corridor running from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Charlottesville, Virginia.  It’s one of the largest federal land grabs in history. On April 29, ...
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Should Earmarks be Spent on Lobbying? Should Lobbyists Represent Congressmen?

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Should earmarks paid for with public funds be spent promoting projects under consideration by Congress? Is it OK for a lobbyist to represent a Congressman at a meeting about one of the Congressman's bills? As far as I know, these ...
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