Category: Articles

Kyoto Global Warming Treaty Losing Support Around the World While Thriving in U.S. Senate, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #412 /
The U.S. Senate has packed its energy bill with massive new "greenhouse gas" and "global warming provisions," even though the Kyoto Protocol, commonly referred to as the global warming treaty, is all but dead as leaders in nation after nation ...
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Juneteenth a Time for Black Celebration; Holiday Commemorates End of Slavery, Beginning of Full Self-Determination

Press Release /
"Juneteenth," the oldest known celebration marking the end of slavery in America, is observed on June 19. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 ask for people everywhere to set aside some time on this day to reflect upon ...
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Historic Preservation Saves Buildings But Robs Residents of Goods and Services, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #413 /
Homes of black heroes such as Frederick Douglass and Carter G. Woodson, where roofs leak and walls are collapsing, are historic landmarks located in our nation's capital that need protection.1 A still-operating grocery store and a boarded-up hardware store, however, ...
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Yucca Mountain: The Right Decision, by Gerald Marsh and George Stanford

National Policy Analysis #415 /
Opening the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is right for Nevada. It's right for anyone who pays for electricity. It's right for public safety. It's right for energy security. And it's right for national security. Why is it needed? Because ...
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A Change in Climate on Climate Change? Don’t Count on It, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #416 /
"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing mean surface air temperature and subsurface ocean temperature to rise."1 That line and a few others in the Bush Administration's recent rambling, confusing and often contradictory ...
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Climate Change and California Assembly Bill 1058: Is it Hype? by Willie Soon, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #417 /
The fear of any catastrophic effects of man-made greenhouse gases continues to terrorize Californians. Assembly Bill 1058, authored by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley (D-Woodland Hills), "instructs" the California Air Resources Board to come up with regulations that allow "maximum and cost-effective" ...
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Monster Wildfires are Preventable, by Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #418 /
A monster fire in Arizona is devouring trees and houses with unprecedented ferocity. It has already consumed 300,000 acres of forest and forced 30,000 people to evacuate their homes. This is just one of 17 big fires scorching the West ...
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Federal Government Raises Price of New Homes to Protect the Lumber Industry It Has Nearly Killed, by Tom Randall

BACKGROUND: The International Trade Commission has upheld a U.S. tariff of 27 percent on Canadian softwood lumber, the type used for the framing of homes. The action was taken because imports of Canadian lumber pose a "threat of injury" to ...
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Pay Americans First: More Federal Land Purchases Would Add to PILT Burden, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: The Bush Administration has asked Congress for $165 million for fiscal year (FY) 2003 for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program -- a decrease of $45 million from last year. The federal government does not pay local ...
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Senator Barbara Boxer Proposes Designating 2.5 Million More Acres as “Wilderness” In California, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wants to designate an additional 2.5 million acres of federal land in California as wilderness with her introduction of the "California Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2002." Her bill (yet unnumbered) would add to 14 ...
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