Category: Articles

CAFE Belongs in the Graveyard with its Victims: We Can Increase Fuel Economy Without Costing Lives, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #399 /
The Senate, laughably called the world's greatest deliberative body, recently found itself locked in another absurd debate, spurred on by two men whose primary motivation seems to be their desire for George W. Bush's job - Senators John McCain (R-AZ) ...
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League of Conservation Voters Scorecard Ignores Important Environmental Votes, But Includes Abortion and Campaign Finance Reform, by Christopher Burger

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) released their 2001 National Environmental Scorecard on February 20, 2002. The scorecard claims to demonstrate which elected officials had a pro-environment voting record in 2001 and which did not. However, important environmental votes ...
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Center for Environmental Justice Press Release: From the “New Segregation” to Higher Costs: Environmental Policies Cost Minorities the Most

Press Release /
From the "New Segregation" threatened by anti-sprawl advocatesto the disproportionate burden carried by lower income Americans to comply with clean air regulations to the potential loss of nearly 900,000 held by African-Americans should restrictive anti-global warming policies be adopted, African-Americans ...
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Bush’s Global Warming Plan a Mix of Giveaways and Research, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: President Bush has announced his voluntary plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 18 percent by 2010. The initiative would allot $4.6 billion in total climate spending over the next five years including $3 billion in funds for more research ...
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Political Money Monitor newsletter: Liberals Already Exploiting Shays-Meehan Loopholes, more

Political Money Monitor /
 Contents * Liberals Already Exploiting Shays-Meehan Loopholes * Proposed Legislation Provides for Worker Protections Left Out of New Campaign Finance Regulations * AFL-CIO Planning to Increase Member Dues to Fund Political Action * New Colorado Paycheck Protection Rule Having Profound ...
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Project 21 Press Release: African-American Network Calls For Quick Vote on Education Department’s Civil Rights Nominee

Press Release /
Believing the lack of a full staffed U.S. Department of Education is a disservice to our children, the members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 urge the members of the U.S. Senate to work quickly so that a timely ...
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Holding Global Warming Forecasters Accountable; Yucca Mountain

The Relief Report /
Contents: Let's Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable... Brazilian-Style Opposition to Yucca Mountain is About Nuclear Power, Not Public Safety Let's Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable... Brazilian-Style According to the Detroit Free Press, Luiz Carlos Austin, a television meteorologist in Rio ...
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Bill Clinton’s Department of Energy is on Record: Oil And Gas Exploration is Environmentally-Friendly, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Today some Republicans and most Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) in particular, turn nearly apoplectic at the suggestion of oil and gas exploration in just 2,000 of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's (ANWR) 19,500,000 acres, claiming the ...
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Interior Department Proposes Joint Federal, Environmentalist Land Grab Via Tax Code, by Gretchen Randall

BACKGROUND: The U.S. Interior Department's 2003 budget recently submitted to Congress contains a "Conservation Tax Credit" that would cut the capital gains tax by 50 percent if a property owner "voluntarily sell[s] land or water to a government agency or ...
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Senators Propose Dangerous Increase in Fuel Efficiency Standards and Regulatory Phase-Out of SUVs, Minivans and Light Trucks, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Two bills have been introduced in the Senate to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) fuel efficiency standards for autos, light trucks, SUVs and minivans. Presently, cars must get an average of 27.5 miles per gallon (mpg) of gasoline ...
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