Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

CAFE Standards Kill: Congress’ Regulatory Solution to Foreign Oil Dependence Comes at a Steep Price, by Ryan Balis

National Policy Analysis #546 /
On the heels of the Arab oil embargo, in 1975 Congress enacted Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards as a regulatory solution to reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil and gasoline consumption.1  CAFE standards mandate that vehicles sold ...
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Policy Groups to Congress: Lift Federal Ban on Offshore Energy Production

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research has delivered a coalition letter to all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, urging them to remove the moratoria on offshore oil and gas production. "States that wish ...
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The “Collaboration for the Recovery of Endangered Species Act”: An Analysis of the Senate Proposal to Reform the Endangered Species Act, by Peyton Knight

National Policy Analysis #538 /
Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation designed to reform the Endangered Species Act.  Dubbed the "Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act," and commonly referred to as TESRA, the measure would place authentic property rights protections for American ...
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Henry Paulson on Cap and Trade

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Following up my post about the Weekly Standard's green praise of Treasury Secretary-designate Henry Paulson, I'm recommending this Grist article about Paulson, which says "Paulson also worked with environmental groups including the World Resources Institute and the Natural Resources Defense ...
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Whole Foods Founder: Freedom Movement Needs to “Re-Brand” Itself

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Inspired by a daughter who is a serious fruit-and-vegetable lover, over the last year or so I've been shopping semi-regularly at Whole Foods, but I always figured I was probably one of the few non-lefties there. Guess not, as a ...
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Media Matters Misleads on CEI’s Horner, Kyoto & Global Warming

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Media Matters is criticizing the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner for saying, on the Fox New Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto, that ratification of the Kyoto global warming treaty was not a high profile for President Bill Clinton during ...
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“Smart Growth” Policies Hurt, by Ryan Balis

National Policy Analysis #539 /
It is not uncommon to find workers in the Washington, DC area who suffer a two-hour commute each way to their jobs.  Some travel from as far as West Virginia or Pennsylvania.1  In many cases, the cause is not preference ...
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The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area: An Example of How Pork-Barrel Politics Can Threaten Local Rule and Property Rights, by Peyton Knight

National Policy Analysis #540 /
Just one year after the U.S. Supreme Court's dreadful Kelo v. City of New London decision that sparked a national outcry against government eminent domain abuse, some in Congress are preparing to bring a new threat to property owners in ...
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Oil Prices and the Media: Don’t Believe the Hype

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The National Center's Peyton Knight attended a Media Research Center Business and Media Institute symposium on gasoline prices at the National Press Club today. Given the high public interest in oil prices lately, I thought readers might be interested reading ...
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Seven Degrees of ExxonMobil

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The environmental lefties sure are desperate to discredit any scientist who disagrees with them on global warming. Thanks to Google, I happened upon this reference and this similar one to our think-tank in which Dr. Tim Ball, a retired professor ...
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