Category: Articles

Tree-Huggers or Fire-Huggers?: The Environmental Movement’s Confused Forest Policy, by Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #424 /
The drumbeat for prescribed fire has never been louder. The Sierra Club and other environmentalists say this is the way to solve the wildfire crisis: fire is natural and therefore good for forests. Yet, the Sierra Club has a "zero ...
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Daschle’s Election Year Ploy May Open Door for Return of Sound Forest Management Policies, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #425 /
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and environmental groups such as the Sierra Club may accidentally have opened the door for the return to sound forest management in the United States, and the eventual return to policies preventing catastrophic ...
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Growth Often is Not the Sole Culprit When Affordable Housing Disappears, by Eric Peters

National Policy Analysis #429 /
Quantity and quality determine the cost (and ultimately, therefore, the availability) of everything from candy bars to computers. So why is it surprising that the same factors affect the price - and therefore availability - of housing? And, just as ...
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Daschle Admits Logging Projects Can Help Prevent Forest Fires, by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: The Sierra Club is vehemently against logging in our national forests, but has declined to condemn Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) for supporting logging projects in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota. The most powerful Democrat in Congress ...
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Where is the Sierra Club’s Condemnation of Senator Daschle? by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: The Sierra Club is vehemently against logging in our national forests, but has declined to condemn Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) for supporting logging projects in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota. The most powerful Democrat in Congress ...
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Senate Bill Introduced to Codify Forest Roadless Plan; Plan Bans Building Roads for Fighting Forest Fires, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) added language to a spending bill that would exempt the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota from environmental lawsuits that prevent logging. This proposal would outlaw litigation and appeals that attempt ...
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TSR Extra: Recess Notes: Answers to Questions on Common Environmental Questions, by Tom Randall and Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: As members of the House and Senate head home for the August recess, many important issues regarding energy and the environment will be on constituents' minds. Here are succinct responses to common questions in the areas of: I. global ...
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Black Judge Finally Confirmed; After More Than a Year, Senate Democrats Allow Vote on Circuit Court Nominee

Press Release /
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 applaud the Senate's July 15 confirmation of Judge Lavenski R. Smith's nomination to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, but continue to urge senators to curb the partisan bias that is slowing ...
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Old Guard NAACP to Young Black Politicians: Get to the Back of the Bus

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Black conservatives are independent thinkers and not the "ventriloquist dummies" that NAACP chairman Julian Bond called them during his keynote address at the NAACP's national convention on July 7. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are outraged that ...
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EPA Policies Expose Americans to Deadly Infections

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Dust carried by the wind could potentially be laced with a deadly biological cocktail: staphylococcus aureus, a dangerous pathogen that is often the cause of serious hospital infections. This killer is combined with chemical irritants such as lyme that make ...
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