Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

ExxonMobil on Gas Prices: We Couldn’t Manipulate the Price Even If We Wanted To

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On behalf of this blog, The National Center's Peyton Knight participated in a blogger conference call this afternoon with ExxonMobil Vice President Ken Cohen. The following is Peyton's report: Along with eight representatives from various other weblogs, I participated in ...
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National Fuel Economy Standards to be Raised by Some Guy in California Who Thinks He Knows Best

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This gentleman was merely elected to a statewide post in California, yet believes he should set national law -- in this case, on the matter of national fuel economy standards. Perhaps he believes legislatures are such inefficent bodies that we ...
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Vanity Fair’s Environmental Silliness

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From the Department of Silliness: A magazine dedicated to clothes and makeup and the dissolute prancings of the Manhattan and L.A. elite decides to focus on climate change by selecting a group of celebrity party-attendees and praising their meaningless, often ...
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Improve the ESA with Property Rights Protections

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The National Center's environmental and regulatory project held a briefing on Capitol Hill today, in conjunction with the Capital Research Center. Happily, Hill interest in the possibility of improving the Endangered Species Act in a manner that protects property rights ...
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Dangerous Pesticide Scares

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Alan Caruba of the National Anxiety Center gives quite a scolding to environmental scaremongers in his latest column (reprinted with permission): Endless Environmental Lies by Alan Caruba In the interest of full disclosure, I need to tell you that, years ...
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Environmentalist Sports and How They Harm Us

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Alan Caruba of the National Anxiety Center sent along thoughts on a polar bear story. Unfortunately, it is not a story about cute bears, but dangerous ones -- the environmentalists who are using the current unreformed and unsuccessful Endangered Species ...
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Kyoto’s Anniversary: Little Reason to Celebrate, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #537 /
February 16 marks the Kyoto Protocol's first anniversary -- it's been one year since the UN global warming agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions went into effect. But don't plan on uncorking the bubbly any time soon. In spite of ...
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The Anti-Capitalism Virus, by Thomas J. Borelli, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #536 /
While the world watches and worries about the possibility of a pandemic bird flu influenza, another virus has been spreading in epidemic proportions in the nation's capital.         The dangerous virus is known as ACV - the anti-capitalism virus - ...
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Earth Day Information Center: Three Things to Know About… Global Warming, Endangered Species, ANWR, Wetlands and Pollution

1.  There is no consensus among scientists that man is causing the Earth to get appreciably warmer.  In fact, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) received signatures from over 17,100 basic and applied American scientists -- two-thirds with ...
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Earth Day Information Center: Environmental Progress

Air Quality:  Between 1993 and 2002, aggregate emissions of the six principle pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and lead) decreased 19 percent.1 Volatile organic compound emissions from cars and trucks have fallen 73.8 percent since ...
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