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  • Heartland Calls for Reform Legislation on Asbestos Litigation

    Published March 6, 2003
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    According to written testimony submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, Congress must pass legislation to alleviate the growing crisis in asbestos litigation.
  • On NSR, Bush Should Ignore Knee-Jerk Opposition from Left

    Published March 1, 2003
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    As was demonstrated by the November election, there aren’t many issues that give Democrats an edge over Republicans. So the Democrats are trying to make the most of the few they do have, including the environment.
  • Cap and Trade: The Moral Equivalent of Bamboozle

    Published March 1, 2003
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    At the start of the 108th Congress, Senators John McCain (R-Arizona) and Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) held a hearing on climate change in preparation for legislation they have since introduced.
  • Animal Rights Group Admits Funding Domestic Terrorist Group

    Published March 1, 2003
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    WASHINGTON, DC September 19, 2002 -- “We did it. We did it. We gave $1,500 to the ELF,” said the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Lisa Lange, on Tuesday, September 17, 2002.
  • Dems Attack NSR Reform

    Published March 1, 2003
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    The Bush administration’s recently announced plans to reform the New Source Review provisions of the Clean Air Act are under assault by activist environmental groups and several northeastern state attorneys general.
  • A Picture Book for Socialist Warriors

    Published March 1, 2003
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    Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell, editor Island Press, July 2002 396 pages cloth So in conclusion, the intent of this coffee table picture book containing fraudulent essays by socialist pseudo-scientists is to
  • GreenWatch Keeps an Eye on Environmentalist Funding

    Published March 1, 2003
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    Would you like to learn more about an environmental activist group? Who funds them, and for how much? What is their annual income? How transparent is their funding? For the answers to these questions and more, try GreenWatch, at http://www.greenwatch.
  • Environmental Regulations Impede Pentagon Readiness

    Published March 1, 2003
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    With the United States in the second year of its war on terrorism, the nation’s ability to prepare troops for the deadly business of combat is being undermined by environmental restrictions being applied to military bases around the country.
  • Saving What Is Left of Jicarilla

    Published March 1, 2003
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    According to a recent assay report, $20 million in fine gold lies beneath the ground on a few acres at Jicarilla, New Mexico.
  • Congress Offers Hope of Asbestos Litigation Reform

    Published March 1, 2003
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    Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are hoping to agree on key elements of an asbestos reform bill for a vote today (June 26).
  • Reform of New Source Review Raises Concerns

    Published March 1, 2003
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    The fog has not yet cleared from the Bush administration’s decision to change the rules that govern the Clear Air Act.
  • Pennsylvania Offers Blueprint for Environmental Protection

    Published February 1, 2003
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    Can state governments protect the environment without relying on command-and-control regulation? Do public-private ventures and voluntary programs really work?
  • Bush Pushes Healthy Forests after Congressional Inaction

    Published February 1, 2003
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    With Congress failing to act on his Healthy Forests Initiative, President George W. Bush on December 11 announced a proposal to streamline fire-prevention initiatives in the nation’s forests.
  • Appeals Court Upholds Clinton ‘Roadless Rule’

    Published February 1, 2003
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    On December 12, 2002, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the most liberal and frequently overruled appellate court in the country, put more than 58 million acres, or nearly half of America’s national forests, effectively off-limits to U.S.
  • Don’t Abandon One-way Streets!

    Published February 1, 2003
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    The latest fad among urban planners is to convert one-way streets to two-way streets. The goal, they say, is to slow down traffic and make streets more pedestrian-friendly.
  • EPA Cracks down on Army Corps Toxic Sludge

    Published February 1, 2003
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    The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to force the Army Corps of Engineers to all but eliminate its long-standing practice of dumping toxic sludge in the Potomac River.
  • New Thinking on Environmental Policy

    Published February 1, 2003
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    Environmental policymaking in the United States is dominated by a mistaken focus on big-culprit, big-ticket, and big-government solutions.
  • Public Lands Grazing Faces Uncertain Future

    Published February 1, 2003
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    Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West by George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson (eds.
  • Midwesterners Leery of DOE Greenhouse Gas Program

    Published January 6, 2003
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    In November and December 2002, the U.S.
  • November Elections A Victory for Common-Sense Environmentalism

    Published January 1, 2003
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    At both the federal and state levels, the November 2002 elections revealed voters are no longer swayed by the scare tactics and anti-business rhetoric of the country’s leading environmental advocacy groups.
  • Open Letter on Credits for ‘Voluntary’ Greenhouse Gas Reductions

    Published January 1, 2003
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    October 2, 2002 The Honorable George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr.
  • Saving Prairie Dogs … to Kill Them

    Published January 1, 2003
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    Phillips County, in north-central Montana along the Canadian border--an area once described as “an almost mythical place, a world of savage blizzards and withering droughts in a geography too vast to comprehend”--contains miles of sparse scrub grass,
  • EPA Restores Flexibility to New Source Review

    Published January 1, 2003
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    Aging power plants, refineries, and factories will have greater flexibility in updating their equipment and meeting Clean Air Act requirements, the Bush administration announced November 22.
  • Media Spin Obscures Improvement in Air Quality

    Published January 1, 2003
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    The Environmental Protection Agency's recently released Latest Findings on National Air Quality confirms the good news that America's air quality is improving.

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