Category: Articles

Stay the Course: President Bush Should Continue Sticking with Science on Global Warming, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: In what has to be classified as a major blunder, the President's Council of Economic Advisors and other White House advisors are now indicating that global warming is a problem, needlessly painting the President into a corner. Dan Lashof ...
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Union of Concerned Scientists Pushes Fuel Efficiency at Expense of Auto Safety, by Christopher Burger

BACKGROUND: The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a report on February 2, 2002 claiming that our nuclear power plants are vulnerable to terrorist attack and saying that increasing domestic oil production won't lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It ...
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National Research Council Reports Higher Water Levels Not Needed for Klamath Basin Fish, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Last year both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service issued "biological opinions" claiming more water needed to be released from Upper Klamath Lake to protect both the sucker fish and coho salmon. The ...
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Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #395 /
A young woman who didn't care for my opinion that energy should be cheap and plentiful confronted me one night on a Chicago public television talk show. Insisting that air pollution from burning fossil fuels was killing Americans and that ...
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Political Money Monitor: Campaign Finance Regulation Faces Vote in House

Contents* Campaign Finance Regulation Faces Vote Wednesday * Judge Overturns Bush Order on Worker Protections * Washington Union Begins Issuing Political Refunds * Common Cause Violates Laws It Promotes * Secrets of the Oklahoma Right-To-Work Victory Campaign Finance Regulation Faces ...
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Let’s Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable… Brazilian-Style, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #390 /
According to the Detroit Free Press,1 Luiz Carlos Austin, a television meteorologist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is facing criminal charges and a possible six month jail sentence. His crime: a bad weather forecast. Austin had predicted severe weather in ...
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Stop Worrying About Yucca Mountain, by Gerald E. Marsh and George Stanford

National Policy Analysis #391 /
The opposition to opening the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is not about public safety. It is about nuclear power. We know this because there are already far more plutonium and fission products under the ground - with no special ...
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Spent Fuel Belongs in Yucca Mountain, by Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford

National Policy Analysis #397 /
In approving Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham's recommendation to open Yucca Mountain as the nation's first long-term nuclear repository, President George W. Bush says that moving ahead with the repository "is necessary to protect public safety, health, and the nation's security." ...
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The Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems (STATS) Report: Implications for Nuclear Power Growth and Energy Sufficiency, by Charles E. Boardman, Carl E. Walter, Marion L. Thompson and Chester S. Ehrman

National Policy Analysis #396 /
(Note: For otimum viewing, we recommend the pdf version of this paper. To immediately download the pdf version, click here.) As part of the re-examination of Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems (STATS), the Department of Energy requested the National Research ...
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Relief Report Newsletter: Are We Entering the Age of Global Cooling? and Enron and Global Warming

Contents: After a Decade of Global Warming Warnings, Are We Now Facing Global Cooling? Enron and Global Warming: Climate Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows After a Decade of Global Warming Warnings, Are We Now Facing Global Cooling? After a decade ...
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