Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

The Time is Now for a New Environmental Justice Policy, by Michael Centrone

The Time is Now for a New Environmental Justice Policy, by Michael Centrone

New Visions Commentary /
When Select Steel Inc. proposed construction of a $175 million steel mill that would create 200 jobs in the economically-distressed community of Genesee County, Michigan, the majority of local residents welcomed the proposal. But thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency's ...
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Choking Black Prosperity, by Syd Gernstein

Choking Black Prosperity, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #306 /
At a cost of somewhere between $25 and $35 billion in taxpayer dollars, Congress passed the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990.1 It is the mother of hundreds of regulatory laws across America that are supposed to address air pollution ...
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The Time for Superfund Reform is Now, by Michael Centrone

The Time for Superfund Reform is Now, by Michael Centrone

National Policy Analysis #307 /
There was a time when the Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation in Toms River, New Jersey, employed nearly 2,000 workers. Today it employs none. The plant was forced to shut down operations in 1996 for violating the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ...
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Treaty to Combat Unproven Global Warming Threat Would Hurt Americans' Standard of Living, by John K. Carlisle

Treaty to Combat Unproven Global Warming Threat Would Hurt Americans’ Standard of Living, by John K. Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #309 /
Engaging in the global warming debate is often akin to a journey into the surreal. Proponents of the theory that man-made greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, are dangerously heating up the planet urge politicians and the American people to support ...
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Economic Opportunity and Social Issues Trump Environment as Top Concerns for Poor and Minorities, by John Carlisle

Economic Opportunity and Social Issues Trump Environment as Top Concerns for Poor and Minorities, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #310 /
Environmental laws are unfair to minorities and the poor because, although they are least able to pay, they must bear the greatest costs for adhering to those laws through lost jobs and higher prices. The time is long overdue for ...
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Good For Thee, But Not For Me, by Mike Ramey

Good For Thee, But Not For Me, by Mike Ramey

New Visions Commentary /
Who could forget the sound and the fury of the recent Million Mom March (it was thousands, actually) in Washington, D.C.? Ahh, the pageantry. Ooh, the morality. Ouch - the hypocrisy! Say what? Rosie O'Donnell, the television-talk-show-host-turned-anti-gun-advocate - the woman ...
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Clean Air Regulations Harmful to Minority Economic Gains, by Syd Gernstein

Clean Air Regulations Harmful to Minority Economic Gains, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #303 /
Black Americans have made remarkable progress in recent decades. The income levels of black households have tripled over the past 24 years, and the number of black-owned businesses more than doubled between 1987 and 1997. If these trends hold, racial ...
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How the Environmental Protection Agency Became a Public Health Risk, by Michael Centrone

How the Environmental Protection Agency Became a Public Health Risk, by Michael Centrone

National Policy Analysis #304 /
If the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established to safeguard the nation's environment, then why does it require people to purchase gasoline that pollutes the water and makes them sick? That, after all, is the result of the EPA's controversial ...
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Gasoline Additives Fuel High Prices and Environmental Problems, by Syd Gernstein

Gasoline Additives Fuel High Prices and Environmental Problems, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #302 /
There has never been a worse time for the government to enact policies that raise gasoline prices. In just the past 12 months, gasoline prices have skyrocketed - rising almost 45%.1 Desperate citizens are urging the government to intervene. It ...
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Bill Clinton Makes Blacks Pay More at the Pump, by Stuart Pigler

Bill Clinton Makes Blacks Pay More at the Pump, by Stuart Pigler

New Visions Commentary /
With gasoline prices rising to well over two dollars a gallon in the Midwestern United States, America's love affair with the automobile may be headed toward a break-up. But before we ditch our wheels, we should first demand the government ...
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