BACKGROUND: As of June 20, wildfires in the U.S. had devastated 1,857,500 acres, almost entirely on federal land. This is more than double the ten year average for wildfire destruction by this date and 50 percent greater than the "modern ...
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BACKGROUND: Yesterday the U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved out of committee the U.S. Care Act of 2002, a bill initially designed to promote donations to charitable organizations through tax incentives. However, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Senate Finance ...
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 Contents * New Campaign Regulations Find Liberal Opposition * Next Regulatory Step Already Proposed * Oklahoma Right to Work Law Validated by Federal Court * Legislative Challenge to Colorado Paycheck Protection Order Turned Back * Union-Supported Campaign Regulation Initiative Overturned ...
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BACKGROUND: U.S. House Western Caucus Member John Thune (R-SD), Caucus Chairman Richard Pombo and Scott McInnis, chairman of the Forests and Forest Health Subcommittee were joined, on June 5, 2002, by 42 other Representatives in signing a letter to President ...
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BACKGROUND: The Wall Street Journal (1) reported recently that long-haul truck sales have skyrocketed primarily as trucking firms buy new rigs before new anti-pollution rules for diesel engines take effect October 1, 2002. The added cost of the new less ...
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BACKGROUND: Reuters News Service reports that Australian Prime Minister John Howard said today his government will not ratify the Kyoto Treaty because of the economic impact it would have on jobs there. Howard said, "For us to ratify the protocol ...
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President George W. Bush is being attacked by conservative pundits and praised by the leadership of environmental groups because a just-released document from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been incorrectly reported by the media as endorsing the concept ...
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BACKGROUND: The Bush Administration's EPA released a report, "U.S. Climate Action Report 2002" quietly last week stating that greenhouse gas emissions have "likely affected the global climate system." To many this is a turn-about in policy by the Administration since ...
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BACKGROUND: President Bush has reportedly called the recent EPA report that says human activities cause global warming "nothing more than a product of government bureaucracy." According to a Reuters News Service report by Tom Doggett, the President has no plans ...
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BACKGROUND: The U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. has voted 2-1 that the U.S. EPA overstepped its power in implementing what's called the "Haze Rule." In 1999, the EPA's Haze Rule imposed emissions controls on power plants in ...
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