Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Honest Al He Isn’t: Don’t Trust Al Gore on the Environment

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BACKGROUND: Former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to deliver a speech "indicting" the Bush Administration on environmental issues at noon today. According to speech sponsors MoveOn.org and Environment2004, "Mr. Gore will issue an indictment of the Bush administration's inaction ...
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Tightening CAFE Standards Would Increase Congestion

More useful information from Mike Catanzaro at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: It's difficult to gainsay the intensity of feeling among environmental groups over CAFÉ. "The auto industry and their friends in Congress should stop holding fuel efficiency ...
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Washington Post Slams Bush Global Warming Policy, But There’s More to the Story

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BACKGROUND: The Washington Post on January 1 ran a page one article questioning the usefulness of the Bush Administration's reliance on voluntary programs to reduce emissions of so-called "greenhouse gases." The article, which ran in other newspapers nationwide, begins: "Two ...
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Mercury Madness: First-Ever Mercury Limits Called “Gift to Polluters” by President Bush’s Political Opposition

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BACKGROUND: The EPA this month announced a draft proposal to use a "cap and trade" model to regulate mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The President's political opponents immediately attacked the plan. A "cap and trade" model would ...
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Civil Rights Report Wrong on Environmental Justice Priorities

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published November 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Select Steel, Inc. couldn't build a steel mill in Genesee County, Michigan due to "environmental justice" concerns. Now ...
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The National Aviation Heritage Act: No Way to Celebrate the Wright Brothers

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BACKGROUND: The U. S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Nov. 18 on the "National Aviation Heritage Act," H.R. 280. Sponsored by Rep. David Hobson (R-OH), the bill would create a National Aviation Heritage Area encompassing several counties in ...
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The Government Can’t Even Put Out a Fire

ConservativeBlog.org /
There's a good bit of idiocy in this piece, which tries to tie forest fires to global warming. Environmentalists have a lot of gall. They oppose forest thinning and sensible management programs to reduce the chance of monster forest fires ...
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Hispanics Would Be Hard-Hit by McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Proposal

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BACKGROUND: Management Information Services, Inc., a national economics firm with a client roster representing both business and environmental organizations,1 has released a study showing that passage of S. 139, the McCain-Lieberman global warming bill, would impede, or even reverse, the ...
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Senators McCain and Lieberman Propose Energy Tax, by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) have proposed a de facto energy tax on the American public that most likely soon will be debated on the Senate floor. Their bill, titled the "Climate Stewardship Act of 2003" ...
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Dioxin Shenanigans: Why the is EPA Afraid of Independent Peer Review?

National Policy Analysis #492 /
If he makes it past a bruising Senate confirmation process, Utah Governor and EPA Administrator-designate Mike Leavitt will soon face an even bigger challenge. How does he deal with an entrenched EPA bureaucracy that - if it can get away ...
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