Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Eight States Decide to Set National Global Warming Policy

National Policy Analysis #516 /
The attorneys general of eight states -- California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin -- have filed a lawsuit against five of the nation's largest electricity producers. The attorneys general claim their intent is to ...
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Russia Better Off Without Kyoto

National Policy Analysis #517 /
It is difficult to imagine that someone who maneuvered to the top of the KGB would fail to recognize his own self-interest. That's why it's hard to credit recent reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed his mind and ...
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Now They Want to Be Caesar: Eight State Attorneys General Decide to End-Run Legislatures, Set National Global Warming Policies Themselves

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BACKGROUND: According to a press release announcing the events, "New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey, Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch, Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell and ...
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Only WE Can Prevent Forest Fires

Writing in the Washington Times June 1, Professor Tom Bonnicksen explains how we can do as Smokey Bear advised: We have only two basic choices for dealing with our wildfire crisis. First, we can acknowledge we need, live in and ...
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Enviro Guru Says: Adopt Nuclear Power or Suffer Gaian Dystopia

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I'm getting a kick out of May 24 articles in the British newspaper the Independent. It seems that the prominent Greenie James Lovelock has called upon his fellow members of the environmental left to abandon their opposition to nuclear power ...
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Hey Roland, Wanna Buy the Brooklyn Bridge?

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National Center executive director David W. Almasi is critical of "The Day After Tomorrow" director's muse: In an interview with SCI FI Wire, "The Day After Tomorrow" director Roland Emmerich admits he previously pledged never to make another disaster movie, ...
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The Endangered Species Act: Bad for People, Bad for Wildlife

National Policy Analysis #511 /
In the 30 years since its enactment, the Endangered Species Act has emerged as one of the most powerful, and ineffective, environmental statutes on the books. Of the some 1,260 species listed as "endangered" or "threatened" under the ESA, fewer ...
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Don’t Trust Hollywood Science: Global Warming Wouldn’t Cause a New Ice Age

National Policy Analysis #512 /
Promoters of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" must believe most of us were born yesterday. As most movie fans know, the much-hyped film focuses on a global apocalypse of cataclysmic floods, tornadoes, storms and blizzards that ...
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Notice They Don’t Recommend Taxing Private Planes

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A script for a radio broadcast I ran across in the course of my work: Air Traffic Contributes to Global Warming January 14, 1999 You've heard that cars add to global warming — they burn fossil fuels, so they pump ...
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Earth Day’s Disparate Impact

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A nice column Friday by Duane D. Freese, published by Tech Central Station, on the press conference Project 21 participated in on Earth Day. Here's how it starts: Does Earth Day need a disparate impact statement? The thought may make ...
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