Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Frank Wolf’s Anti-Property Rights National Heritage Area Bill Scheduled for Pivotal Vote in the House Today, March 7

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Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Frank Wolf's (R-VA) controversial Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act is scheduled for a vote in the House Resources Committee today.  This is virtually the same legislation that failed to move in the ...
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March of the Lemmings: Media Shuns Climate Change Report’s Good News on Sea Levels, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #551 /
Remember the headlines last summer, spurred by the release of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, warning that massive amounts of Antarctica's ice sheets are melting, threatening to raise sea levels 20 feet worldwide and wipe out Antarctica's Emperor penguins ...
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National Heritage Area Elitism Gone Wild

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One of the anti-property rights activists fighting for Rep. Frank Wolf's (R-VA) "Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act" revealed her confusing, yet interesting, take on American government recently. In response to critics who point out that Rep. Wolf's ...
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Environmentalism versus Poor (Again)

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The current pro-ethanol fad in the United States apparently is a factor in making poor Mexicans cut back on corn tortillas, a dietary staple, says a January 27 Washington Post article by Manuel Roig-Franzia: Thick, doughy tortillas roll hot off ...
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Citing Safety Concerns, National Center for Public Policy Research Calls on President Bush to Reconsider his Call to Increase Fuel Economy Standards

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research calls on President Bush to reconsider his call for an increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, as he apparently called for in his State of the Union ...
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Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act Dies – For Now

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Peyton Knight applauds one of the last non-acts, but wise decisions, of the 109th Congress: Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act Dies With 109th Congress Washington, D.C. - Despite a furious, last-minute charge from anti-property rights lobbyists, Congress ...
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Smart Growth Legislation Discriminates Against Less Affluent Homeowners

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The Las Vegas Review Journal asks: "...what exactly is smart growth, who's behind it and how does it affect local property owners?" Reporter Hubble Smith's answer includes quotations from a Capital Research Center report by James Dellinger and the National ...
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Congress May Be a Lame Duck, But National Heritage Area Proposal Still Lives

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We're told Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) is going to try to get his National Heritage Area legislation through Congress during the lame duck session. We worry that the National Heritage Area plan could harm property rights and inappropriately increase federal ...
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Global Warming Consensus: Folks Who Believe There is One Can’t Tell you What It Is

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From page one of today's (Nov. 25) Washington Post, an article by Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin that begins with a reference to "the scientific consensus about climate change" as if the "consensus" were an established fact: While the political ...
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Journey Through Hallowed Ground Debated in House Committee

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Our Peyton Knight testified Thursday in the House Resources Committee Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands about the impact on property rights of the Allen-Wolf proposed "Journey Through Hallowed Ground" National Heritage Area. The Committee is chaired by ...
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