Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

And They Call Themselves Environmentalists?

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William La Jeunesse had a report on the Fox News Channel yesterday detailing how anti-nuclear environmental activists are trying once again to shut down America's most environmentally-friendly major energy source. I provide my take on this here. (Just for the ...
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Environmentalists Make Last Gasp Attempt to Kill America’s Most Environmentally-Friendly Major Energy Source

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BACKGROUND: America has nearly one hundred million gallons of high-level nuclear waste and over 40,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel. It presently is scattered in 131 aging temporary surface storage sites located in 39 states. Since 1978, the federal ...
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Center for Environmental Justice Unveils New Website

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The Center for Environmental Justice, a joint project of The National Center's John P. McGovern MD Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs and Project 21, has unveiled a new web design. We invite you to visit ...
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Senator Kerry, Please Respond

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At an Earth Day observance in 2003, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) pledged to make "environmental justice" a top priority of his administration should he be elected president in 2004... Because there are diverse views on environmental justice that in practice ...
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Clarity Needed on Clear Skies

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Comments from NCPPR research associate Eric Chapman: Bruce Barcott's New York Times Magazine cover story on April 4, 2004, "Changing All the Rules," criticized the Bush Administration for its failure to pass the President's energy bill and said the President's ...
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Kyoto Protocol is a “Death Treaty,” Says Russian Official

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Andrei Illiaronov, an influential Russian economist close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has come under fire for saying: "'The Kyoto Protocol is a death treaty, no matter how strange this seems, because its main purpose is to stifle economic growth ...
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Some Predictions Don’t Come True

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John Ray at the Dissecting Leftism blog makes an interesting observation today. He compares reporting on AIDS in the 80s and early 90s (specifically, that the disease would ravage the American heterosexual community) to the global warming scare today. Yes, ...
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Regulations keep Forest Fire Victims from Rebuilding

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One of my stronger memories from 2003 is listening to talk show host Roger Hedgecock, who is based in San Diego, describe the enormity of the forest fires that took place in California last November. As luck would have it, ...
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Elitist Environmentalists Say “No Thanks” to New Jobs, by Kevin Martin

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Jobs are a hot political issue these days. While technical support and textiles jobs continue to be "outsourced" to foreign workers in countries like China and India, we must not forget that over 300,000 new jobs were created in America ...
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Elitist “Environmental Justice” Bad News for Minorities

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Environmentalists like playing the race card, but they make a dreadful mistake. They don't play with a full deck. "Environmental justice" is a term green activists use to demonize businesses and complain that the government isn't doing enough to help ...
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