Enron Outrage More About Bashing Bush Than Righting Wrongs, by Eddie Huff

New Visions Commentary /
Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) rang the dinner bell, calling the starved and downtrodden media to feast on their first real bite of Bush-flesh since the election. The media had been hungering since the inauguration. Then came Lieberman's trial balloon: someone ...
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NAACP Boycott Over Flag Hurts Struggling Black Resort Community, by Kimberley Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
Atlantic Beach needs help. Along with Eatonville, Florida, Atlantic Beach, South Carolina is one of the last remaining chartered predominately black towns in America. Located on the coastline, it earned the nickname of the "Black Pearl of the Grand Strand." ...
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Teamsters Union Claims Environmentalist Support For ANWR Oil Exploration, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
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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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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Cautionary Energy Tales

The Relief Report /
Contents: Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale CAFE Costs, and CAFE Kills Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale A young woman who didn't care for my opinion that energy should be cheap and plentiful confronted me one night on a ...
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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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Center for Environmental Justice Press Release: From the “New Segregation” to Higher Costs: Environmental Policies Cost Minorities the Most – February 26, 2002

Press Release /
Black Stewardship Celebrated in Black History Month ObservanceCall Made for True Environmental Justice: Minorities Should Not Have to Bear Disproprotionate Burden for Environmental ProtectionFrom the "New Segregation" threatened by anti-sprawl advocatesto the disproportionate burden carried by lower income Americans to ...
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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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