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Publications All Publications Ten Second Response Global Warming Earth Day Environmental Justice Forest Policy Smart Growth Fuel Economy Nuclear Policy Resources Subscribe Donate Blog About Us Search Environment Home National Center Home         Blog: Congress Investigates EPA for Following the Rules on Clean Water Act Enforcement Blog: Congressman Paul Broun Fights for Property Rights Blog: On Climate, A Little More Washington Post Bias Blog: In Making Hurricane Predictions, NOAA Aims for Broadside of a Barn Blog: Drill National Policy Analysis: Just Say "Drill" Ten Second Response: Clean Water Restoration Act Could Trigger Largest-Ever Expansion of Federal Powers Over Private Property Blog: Weyrich: Congressional Hearings on Land Trusts Needed National Policy Analysis: Ethanol: A Burden on the Poor, by David Ridenour National Policy Analysis: Ethanol: The Fuel to Nowhere, by David Ridenour Blog: America Only Oil-Producing Nation That Severely Limits Its Production Press Release: Farm-Belt Voters Favor Eliminating or Scaling Back Corn Ethanol Mandate, New Poll Finds Blog: Lieberman-Warner Spin Tornado Ensnares Journalists Blog: What John Warner Doesn't Know Can Cost You Press Release: Senator Dole Out of Step with North Carolinians, Poll Shows Press Release: Senator Byrd In Step with West Virginians, Poll Shows Press Release: Senators Collins and Snowe Out of Step with Maine, Poll Shows Press Release: Poll Shows Senator Baucus Out of Step with Montana Blog: Media Double-Standard on Global Warming "Censorship" Blog: Rush Limbaugh's Take on NCPPR's Lieberman-Warner Poll National Policy Analysis: The Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade Bill: Quick Summary and Analysis, by Casey Lartigue and Ryan Balis Blog: Poll Shows Little Public Enthusiasm for Lieberman-Warner Blog: Government Land Acquisition on the Sly Press Release: Overwhelming Majority of Americans Oppose Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Proposal, New Poll Suggests Blog: Senator John Warner: Do As He Says, Not As He Does Press Release: Landowners Beware - The Government's Found a New Way to Control Your Land National Policy Analysis: Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Dana Joel Gattuso Press Release: Comment by National Center President Amy Ridenour on Announcement Regarding Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act Blog: Should Earmarks be Spent on Lobbying? Should Lobbyists Represent Congressmen? Blog: NCPPR's Almasi Comments on CAFE in National Review National Policy Analysis: An Earmark + “K Street” Lobbyist = Massive Federal Land Grab, by David Ridenour Blog: Flaws in Clean Water Restoration Act Exposed in Congressional Hearings Blog: NCPPR Senior Fellow Helps Clear the Air on Clean Water Blog: Biofuel-Fueled Food Crisis Requires Dramatic Response, Senator Says Blog: Every Day is Arbor Day for Private Conservationists Blog: Project 21's Bob Parks Finds Hippie Ethic Alive and Well in Eco-Philosophy Press Release: Green Politicization of Iwo Jima Photo Condemned by Black Veteran Earth Day 2008 Fact Sheet: The History of Earth Day Earth Day 2008 Fact Sheet: Environmental Progress Earth Day 2008 Fact Sheet: Quotes About the Environment Blog: Congressional Energy Diet Also Reduces Waistlines and Pocketbooks (Don't Even Ask About Global Warming!) Press Release: Americans Reject Proposed Expansion of Clean Water Act, Poll Shows Press Release: EPA Sludge Tests a "Modern-Day Tuskegee Experiment"; Children in Poor Black Neighborhoods Potentially Imperiled by EPA Studies Press Release: Sportsmen Should Beware the Clean Water Restoration Act Press Release: Representatives of 53 Organizations Warn Congress, Public about Oberstar/Feingold Clean Water Restoration Act Coalition Letter: Letter to Congress on the Clean Water Restoration Act National Policy Analysis: Sportsmen: Beware the Clean Water Restoration Act, by Peyton Knight New Visions Commentary: When Good Intentions Go Bad, Or Worse Blog: National Wildlife Federation's Global Warming Expert Calls for Voluntary Action Blog: If Animals Ran Political Ads, What Would They Look Like? Press Release: Parody Ad Takes Up Cause of Ringed Seals, Says Polar Bear Populations are Prosperous and Growing Video: Don't List the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act National Policy Analysis: Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act Because of Projected Global Warming Could Harm Bears and Humans Alike, by Peyton Knight and Amy Ridenour Blog: Fox News Reports on New Anti-Global Warming Gas Tax Poll New Visions Commentary: Global Warming Policies Cool Minority Economic Engines Press Release: Americans Cool to Global Warming Action, New Poll Finds New Visions Commentary: Politicians Prescribe Aspirin to Treat Economy They Poison Blog: Project 21 Helps Expose Hypocrisy of Environmental Elite in the Third World Blog: CNN's O'Brien Telepathic - Or Conspiring to Mislead? Press Release: 54% of Americans Reject Oberstar-Feingold Proposal to Expand Clean Water Act, New Poll Finds Blog: Project 21's Parks on Environmental Alarmism Blog: Peyton Knight on Eco-Terrorism Blog: Listing the Polar Bear Under the ESA Could Spell Disaster Blog: Another Ethanol Problem: Fire Press Release: Wayne Gilchrest Finds It's Not Easy Being Green Blog: Congressional Love Affair with Ethanol Leaves Others Cold Blog: Mom & Pop Pay When Corporations Play Green Blog: Earthjustice's Clean Water Poll Comes Up Short Blog: Global Warming Alarmists Question the Value of Liberal Democracy Blog: Critics of Global Warming Agenda are Motivated by a Love of Freedom, Borelli Says National Policy Analysis: Hurricane Forecasters' 0 for 2 Record Reveals Limits of Climate Science, by David Ridenour New Visions Commentary: Global Warming Statists Threaten Our Liberty Blog: A New Environmentalist Manifesto Blog: Wolf-Protecting Oil Drilling Opponent Rep. George Miller Stands Squarely on Both Sides of the Caribou-Protection Issue Blog: Corporate CEO or Environmental Advocate? Blog: Ten Myths About Nuclear Power Blog: 100 Prominent Scientists Disagree with UN Secretary General on Global Warming National Policy Analysis: Thanks to Congress, Ethanol and Biofuel Mandates Cause Food Prices to Soar, by Dana Joel Gattuso National Policy Analysis: Gifts to Special Interests Should Not Be Included in Energy Bill, by Peyton Knight Blog: On Cap and Trade, Senators Advised to Learn from 'Europe's Dirty Secret' Blog: For Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Cap and Trade, Anyone? Blog: Palm Beach Post Attacks Rush Limbaugh & National Center Press Release: NOAA Inflating Storm Numbers and Aiding Political Campaign for Carbon Restrictions, Group Says; End of 2007 Hurricane Season Shows NOAA Forecasts Wrong for Second Year in a Row Blog: Australia's John Howard a Global Warming Victim? No. Blog: Time Magazine on Drought, 2007 Versus 1974 Blog: Some of Us Support Species, While Others Support the Endangered Species Act Blog: Auto Efficiency Standards Change Little; Auto Efficiency Changes Much -- and New York Times Doesn't Notice Blog: Senate Hears Testimony on the "Hurt America's Poor Act" Blog: Fake Global Warming Study Fools Four, Reuters Runs Wire Story Blog: Think Progress Slams Conservative Bloggers for Citing a Mere Weatherman on Climate Issues, Yet It Cites a Politician Over a Climatologist Blog: "Global Warming is a Non-Event, a Manufactured Crisis and a Total Scam" Blog: America's Historical and Natural Legacy Study Act: Congress Continues to Feed Overstuffed Park Service National Policy Analysis: Things the Nobel Committee Doesn't Want You to Know, by David A. Ridenour New Visions Commentary: Why Migrate South? New Visions Commentary: Congressional Black Caucus Shortchanging Poor and Minority Energy Consumers Blog: Environmentalists Seek to Protect Environmental Degradation Blog: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty Blog: New Gingrich's Contract with the Earth Blog: House Passes Massive Heritage Area Bill, But Not Without Controversy Press Release: Congress Votes to Line Special Interest Pockets, Threaten Local Rule Blog: Environmental Groups, Lawsuits and Wildfires New Visions Commentary: Is Congress "Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" Blog: John Stossel on Global Warming Blog: Behind Gore's Nobel Peace Prize Press Release: Oberstar and Feingold Bait-and-Switch: Deceptively-Named "Clean Water Restoration Act" Would Expand, Not Restore Federal Powers Coalition Letter: Coalition Letter on the Clean Water Restoration Act Blog: Gore Tells Bush to be More Reaganesque Blog: Celebrating America's Heritage Act Wins in House Committee in Mostly Party Line Vote Blog: National Review Institute Hosts Energy Policy Debate Blog: Pushing Pork Blog: "Above Normal" Hurricane Forecast is in a Race Against the Clock Press Release: Hypocrisy Watch: Congress Expands Opportunity for Self-Dealing While Claiming Historic Progress on Government Ethics Regulations Rob Black Americans by Stella Dulanya Car-Crazy Congress Set to Break the American Auto Industry by Kevin Martin Anti-DDT Policies Are Deadly for Africa by Thompson Ayodele and Adegoke Anthony CAFE Tab Too Expensive for America by Deneen Borelli National Policy Analysis: Maybe It's Time for A Law Against Price-Gouging After All National Policy Analysis: The "Energy Bill" That Isn't: Rep. Nick Rahall's Energy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act of 2007 Press Release: Group Applauds FCC Letter on Fairness Doctrine Blog: Senate Committee Passes a Parade of Pork - Threatens Property Rights Press Release: Hispanic Group Calls for New "Fairness Doctrine"; Blacks Support Free Market Press Release: Black Group Slams Proposed Resurrection of Radio "Fairness Doctrine" Blog: Barbara Boxer's Mean Left Hook Blog: Climate Change is a Human Issue Blog: CAFE Standard Profiteering Blog: The Senate's Fuel Economy Standard: Incredibly Tough, Probably Impossible & Enormously Expensive Blog: CAFE Standards Hypocrite Ten Second Response: CAFE Kills, and Then Some: Six Reasons to Be Skeptical of Fuel Economy Standards National Policy Analysis: No to New Fuel Economy Standards: Consumer Choice, Not Congress, Should Drive Detroit’s Decisionmaking, by Eric Peters Press Release: Caterpillar CEO Confronted at Company Stockholder Meeting for Joining Environmentalist Lobbying Group Blog: Global Warming Alarmism and Religion - Together at Last? Press Release: Activists to Demand Explanations from Caterpillar at Stockholder Meeting Wednesday Press Release: 70-Plus Groups Confront Caterpillar on Eve of Shareholder Meeting Letter: Letter to Caterpillar CEO James Owens Commentary: What People Are Saying About Caterpillar’s Support of Carbon Caps… Press Release: Think Tank Challenges Greenpeace to Meet Transparency Standards Blog: More Journey Through Hallowed Ground Conflicts of Interest Blog: Frank Wolf's Journey Through Hallowed Ground Proposal Draws Criticism from Heritage Foundation; Lashes Out at Principled Critics Press Release: On the Consumer Alliance on Energy Security and the OCS Blog: Censoring Global Warming Skeptics Blog: RealClimate's Touchy Censors II Blog: Sheryl Crow's Toilet Paper "Spoof" National Policy Analysis by Dana Joel Gattuso: Chilling Intolerance for Free Speech on Global Warming Blog: The Global Warming Argument: Win It, Don't Spin It (If You Can) Blog: Birds 'Struggle to Cope' ...With More Plentiful Food? Blog: Newt Gingrich on the Environment Press Release: Support Eroding for Rep. Frank Wolf's Journey Through Hallowed Ground Heritage Area; Alternative Measure Gains Backing of Two Congressmen in Affected Area Press Release: Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Global Warming in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency Blog: New Phrase: "Fuel Poverty" Blog: Thank God for Senator Inhofe II Blog: Good for Pete Domenici Blog: Good for Mitch McConnell Blog: Fighting Environmentalists to Use DDT to Fight Malaria in Africa Blog: When the Debate is Balanced, Skeptics Win, Alarmists Lose Blog: The Human Cost of Climate Change Policies Blog: Thank God for Senator Inhofe Blog: Al Gore's Climate Class War Blog: Global Warming Scaredy Cats IV Press Release: Officials Urged to Grill Al Gore About His Rich-Get-Warmer, Poor-Get-Colder Global Warming Offset Proposals at House and Senate Hearings Wednesday Blog: Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act Adopted by House Resources Committee Despite Unresolved Problems National Policy Analysis: March of the Lemmings: Media Shuns Climate Change Report's Good News on Sea Levels by Dana Joel Gattuso Blog: The Royal Society's Credibility Gap Blog: RealClimate's Touchy Censors Blog: Tim Ball, DeSmogBlog & Me Blog: Sir Humphrey Appleby's Climate Change Pact Blog: Environmentalists are Hypocrites Blog: Enron's Green-Fingered Successors Blog: Environmentalism versus Poor (Again) Blog: Social Security: A Quick Definition Blog: Global Cooling Again Blog: If You Think the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Presents Objective Science... Blog: Global Warming Scaredy Cats II National Policy Analysis: Science Puts the Chill to California's Global Warming Hot Air by Bonner Cohen Blog: The Source of Global Warming Alarmism Blog: John Dingell's Plans Blog: Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act Dies - For Now Blog: Media Coverage of Global Warming Climate Change Debated Blog: Green Europe Has Red Face Blog: Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act Dies - For Now Blog: Smart Growth Legislation Discriminates Against Less Affluent Homeowners Blog: Post and Olbermann v. NSTA: In Good Journalism, Fact-Checking Is Everything Blog: DeSmogBlog: A Wrecked Train Under the Big Top, Or Why I'm Not Taking Twenty Bucks from an Anti-Skeptic Attack Site Blog: Kyoto Costs Examined, Succinctly Blog: Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post Team Losing to a Bunch of Teachers? Blog: When It Comes to Hurricanes and Global Warming, Rhetoric Was the Only Thing that Grew in Intensity in 2006 Blog: Congress May Be a Lame Duck, But National Heritage Area Proposal Still Lives Press Release: Did Frank Wolf Earmark Funds to Aid His Own Legislative Initiative? Blog: An Inconvenient Truth in the Classroom: Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" Declined to Distribute Gore's Movie to Teachers Blog: Global Warming Consensus: Folks Who Believe There is One Can't Tell you What It Is Blog: Everyone's a Skeptic: Sir Nicholas Stern Concedes Uncertainties Blog: Senators and Theft Blog: Climate Change Press Conference: The Atmosphere is Complex; Media Coverage, No Blog: COP-12 Report: U.S. Climate Policy Puts Action Over Image Blog: Kofi Annan Apparently Uncertain About Global Warming Blog: COP-12 Report: Fear From Crime Trumps Fear from Climate Change Blog: Peer-Reviewed? Blog: COP-12 Report: Environmentalists in Nairobi Issue Dire Predictions of Drought Even as Rain Falls on Conference Blog: COP-12: Surviving the Carbon-Neutral Life Blog: Don't Worry, Mr. Minister, It Doesn't Much Matter Blog: Environmentalists Run from Their Own Issues Blog: Inside the Beltway on Defunding the Mysteriously Anonymous Front Groups Blog: Senators Ask ExxonMobil to Cut Funding to 29 Unspecified "Climate Change Denial Front Groups" Blog: Rationing Goods and Services to Fight Global Warming? Blog: British Foreign Secretary Compares Global Warming Theory Skeptics to Islamic Terrorists Blog: Ted Haggard on the Environment: No Conservative Blog: Partying with the Global Warming "Deniers" Blog: Talk Is Cheap Blog: Mass Delusion Blog: Censoring Climate Change, the Stormtrooper Way Blog: Nuremberg Trials for Global Warming "Skeptics"? Blog: Scientists Whine, Humorously Blog: We'll Know Global Warming is No Longer a Problem When All the Clouds are Gone Blog: Real Men Don't Sell Out Blog: Defamation as Tactic: Promoting Global Warming Alarmism by Misleading Readers Blog: Think Progress Libel Update Blog: Al Gore's Do As I Say, Not As I Do Philosophy Blog: Global Warming's Chilling Effect Blog: Journey Through Hallowed Ground Debated in House Committee Press Release: Senator Allen's National Heritage Area Threatens to Disproportionately Harm Minorities Press Release: New Report Warns Against Expansive New Regulation of 'Invasive Species' Blog: We'll Know Global Warming is No Longer a Problem When All the Clouds are Gone Blog: Real Men Don't Sell Out Press Release: Response to Senator Allen Regarding Property Rights and the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area National Policy Analysis: Invasive Species: Animal, Vegetable or Political? by Dana Joel Gattuso Press Release: Anti-Property Rights Initiative Gets Boost from Unlikely Source: Senator George Allen National Policy Analysis: Oil Addiction Fiction: Bush's "Addiction" May Be Rational Choice by Dana Joel Gattuso Blog: Defamation as Tactic: Promoting Global Warming Alarmism by Misleading Readers Blog: Think Progress Libel Update Blog: Al Gore's Do As I Say, Not As I Do Philosophy Press Release: Law of the Sea Treaty Could Prevent U.S. from Stopping Terrorists National Policy Analysis: Ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty: A Not-So-Innocent Passage by David Ridenour Blog: Think Progress Libels Us Blog: How the Media Enables Climate Change 'Geniuses' National Policy Analysis: Assertions vs. Reality: The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act of 2006 by Peyton Knight Blog: Hockey Stick Denial: This Time, at the Post Blog: California Outlawing Dissent? The Galileo Precedent Blog: Energy Realities Blog: Hockey Stick Hearings -- This Time, It's Personal Blog: Evangelical Leaders Say Carbon Dioxide Caps Would Harm Poor Blog: Think Progress's Double-Standard Blog: Global Warming and Censorship, Part III Blog: On Global Warming: Censorship, or Diversity? Blog: On Global Warming: Who's Censoring Now? National Policy Analysis: Claim of Record High Gas Prices Tanks Under Scrutiny by David Ridenour Blog: National Heritage Areas: A Debate Among Virginians Blog: When Regulating Wetlands Means Ruining Lives National Policy Analysis: The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area: An Example of How Pork-Barrel Politics Can Threaten Local Rule and Property Rights by Peyton Knight National Policy Analysis: "Smart Growth" Policies Hurt by Ryan Balis Blog: Center for American Progress Helps Imaginations Run Wild on Global Warming Blog: Global Warming Policy: Who Decides? Blog: And From Such Intrepid Reporting, a Consensus is Born Press Release: Policy Groups to Congress:  Lift Federal Ban on Offshore Energy Production Coalition Letter: Rising Energy Cost are Taking Their Toll on American Households (pdf copy) Blog: Some Global Warming Scare Tactics are So Dumb, They're Funny Blog: Los Angeles Times Says Paulson Critics Dislike His "Hobby" Blog: Henry Paulson on Cap and Trade Blog: Weekly Standard: Adrift? Blog: Whole Foods Founder: Freedom Movement Needs to "Re-Brand" Itself Blog: Media Matters Misleads on CEI's Horner, Kyoto & Global Warming Blog: Galileo's Interrogators had a Consensus Blog: For Al Gore, the Truth Really Is Inconvenient Blog: Wayne Hage: A Defender of Rights Moves On Blog: "Hallowed Ground": A National Heritage Area History Lesson National Policy Analysis: The "Collaboration for the Recovery of Endangered Species Act": An Analysis of the Senate Proposal to Reform the Endangered Species Act by Peyton Knight Blog: AP Reports Study Saying Carbon Dioxide Boosts Poison Ivy's Itchiness, But Skips Study Saying CO2 Lowers Nicotine in Tobacco Blog: Global Warming Activists Fret: Why Aren't We Winning? Blog: Global Warming Theory Proven Blog: CEI's Global Warming Ad Campaign Blog: Oil Prices and the Media: Don't Believe the Hype Blog: ExxonMobil on Gas Prices: We Couldn't Manipulate the Price Even If We Wanted To Blog: Seven Degrees of ExxonMobil Blog: National Fuel Economy Standards to be Raised by Some Guy in California Who Thinks He Knows Best Press Release: Earth Day Information Center Cites Environmental Progress Earth Day Information Center: The History of Earth Day Earth Day Information Center: Quotes About the Environment Earth Day Information Center: Environmental Progress Earth Day Information Center: Three Things to Know About... Global Warming, Endangered Species, ANWR, Wetlands and Pollution Blog: Biblical Environmental Stewardship: Defining the Mandate Blog: Vanity Fair's Environmental Silliness Blog: Save the Planet: Drive an SUV Blog: Panel Not Happening: Is the Mandatory Program Necessary? Press Release: Improve the ESA with Property Rights Protections Blog: Global Warming and Polar Bears: One Sound Decision Deserves Another Blog: Global Warming Research Fears: Galileo Would Have Recognized the Feeling Press Release: Protect Private Property Rights 85 Groups Tell Senate, in Endangered Species Act Reform; Signers Include Two Former Reagan Administration Cabinet Officials Letter: Text of Letter by 85 Groups to Senator James Inhofe and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Blog: We Are a Hotbed of Raving Trotskyist Revolutionaries Blog: Alan Caruba: Environmentalist Sports and How They Harm Us Blog: Brannon Howse: Christian "Leaders" Drinking Leftie Kool-Aid National Policy Analysis: Kyoto's Anniversary: Little Reason to Celebrate by Dana Joel Gattuso Blog: Pollute the Bible to Save the Earth National Policy Analysis: The Anti-Capitalism Virus by Thomas J. Borelli, Ph.D. Blog: lIndependent Finds Yet Another "Unprecedented" Global Warming Challenge Blog: Climate Change Hypocrites v. the U.S., China, India, Japan, Australia and Much of the Developing World Blog: Global Warming Conference Report: Logging Old Growth Forests to Stop Global Warming Blog: Climate Change Report: Do We Have a Right to Be Cold? Blog: Climate Change Conference Report: Agence France-Presse Freaks Out Blog: The Empire Strikes Back: U.N. Disrupts Distribution of Toilet Paper Emissions Credits, Seizes National Center Literature Blog: Global Warming Conference Report: The Bear Truth About Emissions Credits Blog: Global Warming Briefs Blog: COP-11 Global Warming Conference Report: Pew Center Admits Kyoto is Dead... Sort of Press Release: Policy Group Distributes Toilet Paper 'Emissions Credits' at U.N. Global Warming Conference Blog: One the One Hand, the Earth Needs Kyoto; On the Other Hand, Kyoto Barely Makes a Dent in the "Problem" Blog: Global Warming Causing Global Cooling Blog: Killing Rainforests -- Kyoto Style Blog: Nobby Zoologists, Climate Change and American "Loonies" National Policy Analysis #533: Global Warming Joke of the Day Blog: Five Best Books on Environment National Policy Analysis #533: Global Warming-Hurricane Link Just Hot Air by David Ridenour Blog: Bugs, Songs and Global Warming Blog: Katrina, Global Warming and Honest Disagreement Blog: Arianna Huffington is Deeply Sincere Press Release: Cap-and-Trade is More Pain Than Gain; Early Credit Proposal to Stem Climate Change Would Create Special Interest Lobby While Doing Little for the Environment Ten Second Response: Small Group of House Republicans Derails ANWR Drilling Blog: Historic Preservation v. Property Rights Blog: Global Warming Joke of the Day National Policy Analysis: Global Warming-Hurricane Link Just Hot Air by David Ridenour Press Release: Government Playing with 'Corked Bat' in Stadium Game - National Center Cites Need for Eminent Domain Reform Press Release: Ideologues Hinder Environmental Clean-up Press Release: Environmental Activists Target Small Property Owners While Calling the Fifth Amendment a “New Entitlement” Press Release: Hostility Toward Key Provision of Pombo Endangered Species Reform Bill Shows Environmentalists Aren't Committed to Public's "Right to Know" Blog: "TESRA" Endangered Species Act Reform Update Blog: Katrina, Global Warming and Honest Disagreement Blog: Arianna Huffington is Deeply Sincere Press Release:Wake Up, Republicans: Endangered Species Act Reforms Should Protect Property Rights and Species, Not Harm Both; 80+ Groups Send Letter to House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo Calling GOP Reform Draft "Extremely Disappointing" Press Release: The National Center for Public Policy Research Announces Two Staff Additions to Boost Free Market Environmental and Regulatory Affairs Work Press Release: Rep. Pombo's Endangered Species Act Reform Proposal Would Do More Harm Than Good, Analysis Says National Policy Analysis #531: "TESRA" Endangered Species Act Reform Proposal Would Do More Harm Than Good by David Ridenour Blog: U.S. Fish and Wildlife's Service's New Math Blog: Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers' Excellent Timing Blog: Endangered Species Reform and Immigration: When Travel is Illegal, Only Illegals Will Travel Press Release: Pombo Proposal Wouldn't Gut the Endangered Species Act: It Could Give it Formidable New Teeth Press Release: Property Rights Advocates Brace for Another Betrayal; Like Kelo Decision, ESA Reform May Place Special Interests Above Property Rights Press Release: Endangered Species Act Can't Work Without Property Rights Protections; 53 Groups Outline Reform Principles in Letter to Resources Chairman Pombo Blog: Protecting Property Rights Protects Endangered Species Press Release: Cap-and-Trade is More Pain Than Gain; Early Credit Proposal to Stem Climate Change Would Create Special Interest Lobby While Doing Little for the Environment Blog: Global Warming Insurance Policy Blog: David Bellamy Challenges Global Warming Orthodoxy National Policy Analysis #526: Europe's Airbus "Megaplane" Fails to Earn Green Stripes by Ryan Balis White Paper: LWR Recycle: Necessity or Impediment? by George S. Stanford (pdf file) National Policy Analysis #523: Spinning Global Warming by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #524: Michael Crichton's State of Fear: Climate Change in the Cineplex? by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #522: Meeting the Climate Challenge: Left-of-Center Groups Warn of Impending Doom by Amy Ridenour Blog: Washington Post on Kyoto: Three Sentences, None Accurate Blog: Pew Center: Kyoto is Merely Symbolic Blog: Kyoto: At Least We're Honest Blog: Associated Press Watch: Channeling Jan Egeland TSR020905: Associated Press & Global Warming: Never Let Facts Get in the Way of a Good Theory - 2/9/05 Blog: Containing Sprawl: The True Cost Blog: Environmental Movement Has Lost Its Way National Policy Analysis #521: World Heritage Areas: A Critical Analysis by Ryan Balis Blog: Michael Crichton Bribed by Rupert Murdoch to Question Global Warming, Privacy Group Says Blog: Gerald Marsh: CO2 No Pollutant Blog: Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" Takes on Global Warming Alarmists National Policy Analysis #520: Bush's Second Term Agenda by Amy Ridenour Blog: Putin, the EU and Kyoto: A Double-Cross in the Making? by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #519: Playing Games With SUV Safety Statistics by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #518: Time to Out the Real Outsourcers by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #517: Russia Better Off Without Kyoto by Amy Ridenour Blog: Global Warming Quiz National Policy Analysis #516: Eight States Decide to Set National Global Warming Policy by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #072104: Now They Want to Be Caesar: Eight State Attorneys General Decide to End-Run Legislatures, Set National Global Warming Policies Themselves Blog: Cold Global Warming Blog: Extreme Weather & Global Warming National Policy Analysis #513: Time to Clean Up the Asbestos Mess by Dana Joel Gattuso National Policy Analysis #512: Don't Trust Hollywood Science: Global Warming Wouldn't Cause a New Ice Age by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #511: The Endangered Spices Act: Bad for People, Bad for Wildlife by Bonner Cohen Ten Second Response #042204: Environmentalists Make Last Gasp Attempt to Kill America's Most Environmentally-Friendly Major Energy Source by Amy Ridenour Press Release: Black Activists to Expose Environmental Policies that Harm Minority Advancement at National Press Club Earth Day Press Conference; Policies That Inadvertently Encourage Segregated Housing Among Those Cited as in Need of Reform New Visions Commentary: Elitist "Environmental Justice" Bad News for Minorities by David Almasi New Visions Commentary: Elitist Environmentalists Say "No Thanks" to New Jobs by Kevin Martin From our Blog: Clarity Needed on Clear Skies by Eric Chapman Center for Environmental Justice: New Website Unveiled From our Blog: Senator Kerry, Please Respond Press Release: Black Activists Condemn Elitist "Earth Day" - April 2004 Press Release: Earth Day Experts and Facts Available National Policy Analysis #508: MoveOn.org: Wrong on Terrorism, Wrong on Mercury by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysys #507: Continental Shelf's Energy Riches a Potential Bonanza for Cash-Strapped States by Bonner Cohen Ten Second Response #032904: Clinton's EPA Chief Springs the Mercury Trap She Left for Bush - 3/29/04 National Policy Analysis: Regulations: The Untold Story by Dana Joel Gattuso Ten Second Response #032204: Global Warming: Why Can't the Mainstream Press Get Even Basic Facts Right? by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #031904: Justice is Due to the Accused: If Bush Genuinely is Bad on the Environment, Why Can't the Left Critique Him Fairly? by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #031204: Ten Second Response: Superfund: Polluters Already Pay by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #503: For Security's Sake, D.C. Government Should Ignore Greenpeace on Homeland Security by Bonner Cohen Ten Second Response #022704: Dangerous Cargo Proposal Contains Hidden Perils by Amy Ridenour What Conservatives Think #012304: Environment: Are Conservatives "Un-American" on Global Warming? What Conservatives Think #012904: Political Philosophy: Are Americans More Liberal Than They Realize? Press Release: Al Gore's January 15 Speech on Bush and the Environment: Demagoguery Ten Second Response #011504: Honest Al He Isn't: Don't Trust Al Gore on the Environment by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #010204: Washington Post Slams Bush Global Warming Policy, But There's More to the Story by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #111803: The National Aviation Heritage Act: No Way to Celebrate the Wright Brothers by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #497: Hispanic Economic Progress Endangered by McCain-Lieberman by David Almasi Ten Second Response #102703: Hispanics Would Be Hard-Hit by McCain-Lieberman Global Warming Proposal by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #492: Dioxin Shenanigans: Why the is EPA Afraid of Independent Peer Review? by Bonner Cohen Ten Second Response #102103: Senators McCain and Lieberman Propose Energy Tax by Christopher Burger National Policy Analysis #491: Signs of New Growth in the Forest Fire Debate? by Dana Joel Gattuso Press Release: Black Group Opposes Civil Rights Commission Environmental Justice Report National Policy Analysis #494: Civil Rights Report Wrong on Environmental Justice Priorities by David Almasi National Policy Analysis #490: Tnkering With Energy is Playing With Fire: Cap and Trade Schemes are Regressive, Placing Burdens on Low-Income Communitie by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #485: Leavitt Versus the Leviathan: Not So Much the Confirmation Process, But the EPA Itself by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #482: Environmental Litigation Threatens Endangered Species by Dana Joel Gattuso National Policy Analysis #483: An Rx for Our Ailing Health Care System: Caps on Lawsuit Awards by Amy Ridenour and David Ridenour Ten Second Response #92103: Ecoterrorist Hate Crimes on the Increase by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysi #488: Eco-Terrorism a Real Threat to Homeland Security by Bonner R. Cohen Ten Second Response #82703: New Source Review: What the Fuss is About by Amy Ridenour and Christopher Burger Press Release: It is Time for the People's Media -- Talk Radio, the Internet, Blogs and Editorial Pages -- to Force a Permanent Solution to the Asbestos Crisis; Congress Must Act Before Special Interest Lobbying Scuttles Plan to Compensate the Sick While Ending Bankruptcies and Job Losses National Policy Analysis #481: Anti-SUV Activists Versus the American Family by Matthew Craig National Policy Analysis #479: Reducing Tobacco Risks With Smokeless Tobacco by James P. Gelfand Ten Second Response #81503: Dark Ages Redux: Will America Meet Her Future Energy Needs? National Policy Analysis #484: "Blackouts" Today, "Greenouts" Tomorrow: America Needs a Pro-Production Energy Policy by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #480: Nuclear Power: Clean, Safe and Needing a Level Playing Field by Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford National Policy Analysis #477: No Excuse for Natural Gas Shortage by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #475: Rules Protecting Endangered Species Endanger Defense Readiness Instead by Dana Joel Gattuso Ten Second Response #TSR72903: Inhofe Challenges Colleagues to Understand Basic Facts About Climate Change Debate by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #473: This Land is My Land: How United Nations Claims of World Heritage May Swipe America's Past by Ryan Balis National Policy Analysis #474: Inhofe Makes "Chemical Security" From Terrorists a Top Priority by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #471: New York Times' Latest Attack on White House Shows Arrogance of Blair-Raines Era Lingers by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #470: On Global Warming, the New York Times Spins Bill O'Reilly's "No Spin Zone"... and the Rest of Us by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #468: No to the Yosemite Plan: Don't Restrict Public's Access to National Parks by Bonner Cohen National Policy Analysis #466: The Car They Want You to Drive by Amy Ridenour and Eric Peters National Policy Analysis #465: Rolling Over the Facts on SUV Safety by Amy Ridenour and Eric Peters Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Praises Bush for June 23 Demand that European Leaders Step Up International Fight Against Hunger; Renews Call for End to European Ban on Genetically Modified Foods Ten Second Response #62003: The EPA Global Warming Report, the Bush Administration and the News Media: Cooking the Books or Cooking Up Stories? Special Report: Climate-Gate: What Is the President Being Accused Of, Exactly? by Michael Catanzaro Ten Second Response #TSR6203: Feed the World: Bush Challenges European Ban on Genetically-Modified Foods by Amy Ridenour Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservative Group Urges Bush to Press European Leaders to Join Fight Against Hunger in Africa; Calls for End to European Ban on Genetically Modified Foods Ten Second Response #5803: Murkowski Expected to Offer ANWR Amendment - by Christopher Burger Ten Second Response #5703: It's Time to Debate Global Warming Again by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #5103: American Lung Association 'State of the Air' Report is Designed to Scare National Policy Analysis #463: A Federal Asbestos Trust Fund: Better for Victims, Better for the Economy by Amy Ridenour New Visions Commentary: The Case for Sport Utility Vehicles: It's the Economy, Stupid by Geoffrey Moore National Policy Analysis #462: Celebrate Earth Day by Taking Environmental Issues Seriously by Christopher Burger Ten Second Response #42103: Another Earth Day is Celebrated, Yet Environmentalists Continue Supporting Failed Programs by Christopher Burger New Visions Commentary: The Case for Sport Utility Vehicles: It's the Economy, Stupid by Geoffrey Moore National Policy Analysis #461: Protesters Oppose War, Yet Support Deadly Policies at Home by Amy Ridenour Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservative Group Urges Bush to Press European Leaders to Join Fight Against Hunger in Africa; Calls for End to European Ban on Genetically Modified Food Ten Second Response #5803: Murkowski Expected to Offer ANWR Amendment - by Christopher Burger Ten Second Response #5703: It's Time to Debate Global Warming Again by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #5103: American Lung Association 'State of the Air' Report is Designed to Scare National Policy Analysis #463: A Federal Asbestos Trust Fund: Better for Victims, Better for the Economy by Amy Ridenour New Visions Commentary: The Case for Sport Utility Vehicles: It's the Economy, Stupid by Geoffrey Moore National Policy Analysis #462: Celebrate Earth Day by Taking Environmental Issues Seriously by Christopher Burger Ten Second Response #42103: Another Earth Day is Celebrated, Yet Environmentalists Continue Supporting Failed Programs by Christopher Burger New Visions Commentary: The Case for Sport Utility Vehicles: It's the Economy, Stupid by Geoffrey Moore National Policy Analysis #461: Protesters Oppose War, Yet Support Deadly Policies at Home by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #460: SUV Owners Deserve Tax Audits, Sierra Club Says by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #459: Peace Marchers Make Strong Case - for Bush by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #458: Nonsense By Any Other Name: Calling Carbon Dioxide A Pollutant Doesn't Make It A Pollutant by Gerald Marsh National Policy Analysis #457: Overzealous Environmental Rules Impede U.S. Military Training by David Almasi Ten Second Response #33103: 'No Blood for Oil!' The Dolphins Cried... And Other War Stories by Amy Ridenour - 3/31/03 Ten Second Response #32303: Protesters Claim War is About Oil, Yet Oppose Safe Nuclear Energy & Domestic Energy Alternatives by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #31503: Hans Blix Worries... About Global Warming by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #455: Winter Weather Advisory: Snowstorms Aren't Evidence of Global Warming by David A. Ridenour Press Release: Statement of The National Center for Public Policy Research on the March 5 Asbestos Hearing in the U.S. Senate - 3/5/03 National Policy Analysis #453: SUVs: How Safe Are They? by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #451: Say "No" to Terrorists By Saying "Yes" to ANWR by Amy Ridenour Shattered Dreams: 100 Stories of Government Abuse - PDF copy Press Release: Shattered Dreams - New Book Details 100 Stories of Regulatory Abuse - March 2003 Ten Second Response #21703: Representative Markey and Supporters: Wrong on ANWR by Christopher Burger - 2/17/03 Ten Second Response #21303: Sierra Club Calls on IRS to Audit SUV Owners by Amy Ridenour - 2/13/03 National Policy Analysis #452: Climate Change 2001: A Critique by Gerald Marsh (Note: This critique of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report "Climate Change 2001" is a PDF file and an update of "Global Warming Primer" by the same author. The "Global Warming Primer" is available at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA420.pdf. New Poll: Vote and Comment - Should We Raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards? National Policy Analysis #449: A Transparent Free Market is Our Best Corporate Cop by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #448: I'll Have Fries With That... Next Spring by Amy Ridenour National Policy Analysis #447: Asbestos Litigation: It Costs as Much as War by Amy Ridenour Ten Second Response #TSR12203: Liberal Senators Critique Bush Environmental Policy by Amy Ridenour - 1/22/03 Press Release: National Center for Public Policy Research Responds to DaimlerChrysler - January 2003 Press Release: Daimler-Chrysler Should Apologize, Says Conservative Group - January 2003 Ten Second Response #TSR1803: McCain and Lieberman Push for New Anti-Global Warming Legislation by Amy Ridenour - 1/8/03 Press Release: Detroit Project is Hypocritical, Muddleheaded - 1/03 National Policy Analysis #446: McCain and Lieberman Join the Ranks of Ecoactivists With New Legislation on Global Warming by Amy Ridenour -1/03 Ten Second Response #TSR1303: New Year Likely to Bring Another ANWR Showdown by Christopher Burger - 1/3/03 Papers before 2003 New Environmental Justice Study Released: Smart Growth and Its Effects on Housing Markets: The New Segregation - November 2002 (full text) Press Release: New Study Says Minorities and Poor Harmed by Anti-Sprawl Policies - November 21, 2002 Press Release: Environmental Justice Study to Be Released November 21 - November 2002 Ten Second Response #103002: League of Conservation Voters Makes Traditional Misleading Attack on Republicans; Promotes Democratic Party Candidates by Tom Randall - 10/30/02 National Policy Analysis #444: Government "Scrooge" Ruining Breast Cancer Victim's Christmas bby Chris Burger - December 2002 Ten Second Response #101102: Radanovich and Allen Introduce Bills to Keep Sludge Out of the Potomac, Bring Endangered Species Act Enforcement to East Coast by Tom Randall - 10/11/02 Ten Second Response #10402: House Rejects Senate's Greenhouse Gas Provisions in Energy Bill by Tom Randall - 10/4/02 National Policy Analysis #436: When It Comes to Safeguarding Chemical Facilities, the EPA is No Defense Department by Amy Ridenour - October 2002 National Policy Analysis #434: Wildfires Should Motivate a New Century of Forest Restoration by Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D.- September 2002 Ten Second Response #92002: Senate Continues to Bicker Over Forest Health Amendment by Gretchen Randall - 9/20/02 Ten Second Response #90402: Congress Considers Expanding Daschle's South Dakota Forest Provisions to Nation by Gretchen Randall - 9/4/02 National Policy Analysis #429: Growth Often is Not the Sole Culprit When Affordable Housing Disappears by Eric Peters - August 2002 Ten Second Response #82602: President Bush Offers Plan To Protect Homes and the Environment From More Catastrophic Wild Fires; Environmental Extremists Counter With Plans to Continue the Disasters by Tom Randall - August 26, 2002 National Policy Analysis #428: Kyoto: Good Reviews for Bad Rubbish by Amy Ridenour - August 2002 National Policy Analysis #427: Fuel Efficiency Regulations Save Gas But Cost Lives and Money by Mary Katherine Ascik - August 2002 Ten Second Response #82202: Environmental Groups Use Smokescreen to Dodge Responsibility for Wildfires by Tom Randall - 8/22/02 Ten Second Response #82002: New York Times Sounds False Climate Alarm Once Again: Bush, Not Times, Has It Right On Global Warming by Tom Randall - 8/20/02 Ten Second Response #81602: Four American Eco-Terrorists Indicted in Oregon by Tom Randall - 8/16/02 Ten Second Response #81502: Senator Joe Lieberman Says Property Belongs First To Government, Not The People by Tom Randall - 8/15/02 National Policy Analysis #426: EPA's Regulatory Turnaround an Example of Compassionate Conservatism in Action by Syd Gernstein - August 2002 National Policy Analysis #425: Daschle's Election Year Ploy May Open Door for Return of Sound Forest Management Policies by Tom Randall - August 2002 National Policy Analysis #424: Tree-Huggers or Fire-Huggers?: The Environmental Movement's Confused Forest Policy by Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D.- August 2002 Ten Second Response #72602: Where is the Sierra Club's Condemnation of Senator Daschle? by Christopher Burger - 7/26/02