Category: Articles

Lincoln Chafee Advances Bill to Usurp Local Control of Land Use Planning and Zoning, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: S.975, euphemistically titled the "Community Character Act," was introduced last May and is now scheduled to come before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Thursday, April 11, 2002. The bill, introduced by Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), with Senators ...
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Gasoline Shortages Begin – Prices Approach 2001 Levels

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Record high gasoline prices? Severe shortages? According to Tom Randall, director of The National Center for Public Policy Research's John P. McGovern MD Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs, all the elements are in place for another energy crisis. The ...
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Natural Resources Defense Council ‘Cries Wolf’ Over Consultation on Bush Energy Plan, by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: Supposedly worried that environmental groups were not consulted when the Bush administration developed its energy plan, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit to force the Department of Energy (DOE) to release documents revealing the names of ...
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On Environmental Issues, Conservative Groups and Labor Unions are Natural Born Allies, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #400 /
"We'll remember in November... we'll remember in November... we'll remember in November," the words rang out, time after time from the speakers - nearly a dozen of them - at one of the most unlikely rallies in the history of ...
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State Regulators Destroy Los Angeles’s Fellowship With the Ringmakers, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #401 /
Local jewelers and city government officials in Los Angeles, California came together to create a shining example of how public-private cooperation can fix a potential environmental health problem without harming economic health. The intervention of state environmental regulators, however, tarnished ...
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Questions and Answers on Global Warming

1. Is global warming occurring? Have the forecasts of global warming been confirmed by actual measurements? There is no proof that significant man-made global warming is taking place. The computer models used in U.N. studies say the first area to ...
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Project 21 Press Release: U.S. Environmental Policy Unfriendly to Minorities; African-American Network Wants Earth Day Reassessment of Regulations

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Environmental regulations are harming minorities and low-income Americans while providing little real environmental protection. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 suggest that Earth Day 2002, observed on April 22, be used as a time to reassess our nation's ...
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Nevada Congresswoman Uses Misleading Evidence in Bid to Stop President Bush from Opening Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository; Video Shows Anti-Tank Missile Penetrating a Cask Used for Shipping Spent Nuclear Fuels, But Cask in Video was More Fragile than the Genuine Article

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A dramatic video being circulated by U.S. Representative Shelly Berkley (D-NV), which purports to show an anti-tank missile penetrating a cask used for shipping spent nuclear fuel, is deceptive in the fact that it is not representative of normal nuclear ...
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Sierra Club Attacks Senators for Vote on CAFE, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Today the Sierra Club issued a press release praising 38 senators for standing "up to the scare tactics and lies of the auto industry and [voting] against this do nothing amendment," referring to the Levin-Bond amendment to the Senate ...
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Teamsters Union Claims Environmentalist Support For ANWR Oil Exploration, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a strong supporter of President Bush's energy plan, issued a press release dated February 26, 2002 claiming the plan to drill in ANWR has the support of environmentalists with past or current affiliations with ...
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