Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

NCPPR’s Almasi Comments on CAFE in National Review

In the May 5 print edition of National Review, Fred Schwarz described how the catalytic converter was perfected just as automakers faced potentially crippling federal emissions requirements. Liberals cite this as proof that all that is needed to make technological ...
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Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #569 /
Introduction Conservation easements, as we know them today, are a fairly recent approach to land conservation. As government acquisitions and regulatory restrictions on land use have become prohibitively invasive, costly, and ineffective, governments have looked to conservation easements as a ...
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Every Day is Arbor Day for Private Conservationists

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From Casey Lartigue, Jr.: Do we want more trees or more moralizing about trees? Today, in Washington, D.C. and other parts of the country, Americans will plant a tree. Coming on the heels of the political brow-beating of earlier this ...
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World Malaria Day Marked By Call for Action; Millions at Risk

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Washington, D.C. - In observance of the very first "World Malaria Day," an activist with the Project 21 black leadership network is calling upon establishment environmentalist groups and global health administrators to rethink their opposition to the use of the ...
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Congressional Energy Diet Also Reduces Waistlines and Pocketbooks (Don’t Even Ask About Global Warming!)

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From David Almasi: The liberal leadership in Congress came to power in 2006 saying they had a solution to rising gas prices. Did that solution involve prices continuing to go up and taking the cost of food with them? When ...
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Americans Reject Proposed Expansion of Clean Water Act, Poll Shows

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Washington, D.C.: A majority of Americans oppose the Oberstar/Feingold Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA), according to a nationwide survey by Wilson Research Strategies for the National Center for Public Policy Research. CWRA will receive a hearing of the full House ...
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Sportsmen Should Beware the Clean Water Restoration Act

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Conservationists, Boaters, Fishermen, Hunters, Users of All-Terrain Vehicles and Others Could See Activities Restricted by Oberstar/Feingold Measure Washington, D.C.: The Oberstar/Feingold Clean Water Restoration Act, scheduled for a hearing in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Wednesday, would do more ...
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EPA Jeopardizes Children in Potentially Dangerous Sludge Experiments

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Project 21's Deneen Borelli is not happy about the EPA and other federal agencies conducting de facto experiments on families in poor, black families: EPA Sludge Tests a "Modern-Day Tuskegee Experiment"Children in Poor Black Neighborhoods Potentially Imperiled by EPA Studie ...
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Sportsmen: Beware the Clean Water Restoration Act, by Peyton Knight

National Policy Analysis #567 /
Introduction and Summary Congress is currently considering legislation that would substantially broaden the federal government's authority under the Clean Water Act.  However, like many misnamed bills before it, the Clean Water Restoration Act is a lesson in false advertising.  The ...
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If Animals Ran Political Ads, What Would They Look Like?

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To draw a bit of fun attention to the polar bear question (should they or should they not be listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act due to "global warming"), The National Center for Public Policy Research, in conjunction ...
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