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Vol. III, No. 18

Politics   The Candidates’ Views on Kyoto   As a resource to our readers, the Cooler Heads newsletter is providing the views of the presidential…

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Vol. III, No. 17

Politics Clinton’s Biomass Program In an obvious attempt to buy support from farmers for its global warming policies, the Clinton Administration has unveiled its latest…

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Vol. III, No. 16

Politics Knollenberg Language Strengthened Congressional attempts to limit federal agencies’ efforts to implement or promote the Kyoto Protocol have intensified during the current appropriations cycle.

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Vol. III, No. 15

Politics   Early Action Credits: Road to Kyoto Early action crediting is being promoted as a way to protect industry in the event that the…

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Vol. III, No. 14

Politics Court Ruling Defeats Kyoto In May the federal appeals court invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for ozone and particulate matter on the grounds…

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Vol. III, No. 13

Politics Bill to Ban Early Action Crediting Recent attempts to implement the Kyoto Protocol have come under the guise of giving emission credits to companies…

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Vol. III, No. 12

Politics Implementation Sans Ratification   A leaked EPA document dated April 23, describes an April 7 meeting between EPA and White House staffers, and private…

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Full Briefing available in PDF format.   Preface   Good afternoon. What I would…

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Vol. III, No. 11

Politics Texas Governor Declares Belief in Global Warming Theory The GOP presidential frontrunner, George W. Bush, may have conceded the global warming debate to Vice…

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Vol. III, No. 10

Politics New Bill to Implement Clinton-Gore Agenda Just when it looked like the Clinton Administration’s global warming agenda was…

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Vol. III, No. 9

Politics Senate Bill Would Spend $2 Billion to Prevent Global Warming On April 27 Senators Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman…

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Vol. III, No. 8

Politics Green Activists Criticize Gores Environmental Record If Al Gore wants to become the next president of the United…

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Vol. III, No. 7

Politics Senators Hagel and Murkowski to Introduce Global Warming Bill Senators Frank Murkowski (R-AK), Chairman of the Senate Energy…

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Vol. III, No. 6

Politics New Early Action Bill Introduced The latest attempt to smooth the way for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol is…

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Vol. III, No. 5

Politics Iceland Will Not Sign Kyoto The first major defection from the Kyoto Protocol comes from an unlikely source.

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Vol. III, No. 4

Politics Greens Oppose Early Credit Bill Several Green groups, including the Center for International Environmental Law, Greenpeace, National Environment…

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Vol. III, No. 3

Politics Clinton Asks for $4 Billion to Prevent Global Warming In a blatant attempt to implement the unratified Kyoto…

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Vol. III, No. 2

Politics Greens Criticize Early Emissions Bill A bill introduced by Sens. John Chafee (R-RI), Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Connie…

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Vol. III, No. 1

Politics Debate Over Early Credits Heats Up Support is steadily building for proposed legislation that, if passed could seriously…

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Vol. II, No. 26

Politics GAO Report on Voluntary Emission Crediting A new attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol without Senate ratification is underway. A…

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Vol. II, No. 25

Politics Early Credit for Emissions Reductions The latest attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol without Senate ratification is a scheme to use the threat of…

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Vol. II, No. 24

Politics Combining Montreal with Kyoto Many issues were discussed at the climate change talks in Buenos Aires this month, but one of the most disturbing…

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Vol. II, No. 23

Politics A Report from Our Team in Buenos Aires   Only 2,000 people reportedly participated in the event’s first week, a far cry from the…

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Vol. II, No. 22

Politics EPA Lacks Authority to Regulate CO2 Following the completion of the Kyoto Protocol, Carol Browner, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), testified before…

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Vol. II, No. 21

Politics Little Progress Expected in Buenos Aires The fourth Conference of the Parties (COP-4) will meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 2-13 to further…

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Vol. II, No. 20

Politics U.S., EU Move Toward Consensus? Following two days of informal ministerial meetings in Tokyo, Japan on September 16-17, negotiators from the United States and…

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Vol. II, No. 19

Politics New Tax Credit Plan Unveiled The Clinton Administration’s tax and spend plan to avert global warming is being resurrected in the form of the…

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Vol. II, No. 18

Politics Energy Secretary: Global Warming Message Not Getting Out The Clinton administration’s new Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recently remarked that the administration has been “out-gunned…

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Vol. II, No. 17

Politics EPA’s Propaganda Machine Rolls On The EPA is “spending untold millions on propaganda about ‘global warming,’” according to Investor’s Business Daily (August 4, 1998).

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Vol. II, No. 16

Politics Heated House Hearings On July 29, the House Committee on Small Business became the scene of a heated debate about the science of global…

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Vol. II, No. 15

Politics Gore’s Global Warming Sideshow On July 14 Vice President Al Gore took advantage of warm summer temperatures to browbeat Congress into accepting the Administration’s…

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Vol. II, No. 14

Politics Little Progress Made in Bonn The Clinton Administration’s prospects of meeting the conditions set under the Byrd/Hagel resolution diminished significantly at the meeting of…

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Vol. II, No. 13

Politics GAO Critiques Clinton Climate Policy The Clinton Administration’s blueprint for implementing the Kyoto Protocol lacks quantitative goals, specific time frames, and cost benefit analyses,…

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Vol. II, No. 12

Politics Gore Spins El Niño On behalf of the White House Vice President Al Gore announced at a June 8 press conference that each of…

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Vol. II, No. 11

Politics House Version of Ashcroft Drops On May 7 Rep. Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI) introduced a bill (H.R. 3807) that, like the Senate version introduced by…

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Vol. II, No. 10

Politics UN Readies “Buenos Aires Mandate” The UN Conference on Trade and Development has developed recommendations for the proposed Buenos Aires Mandate to be completed…

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Vol. II, No. 9

  Politics Anti-Kyoto Science Petition Tops 17,000 Names A petition circulated to scientists urging lawmakers to reject the Kyoto…

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Vol. II, No. 8

Politics Environmental Ministers Meet Environmental ministers from 29 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the G-8 Ministers (“The Group of…

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Vol. II, No. 7

Politics Electricity Deregulation On March 25 the Clinton Administration announced its Comprehensive Electricity Competition Plan. The plan, according to the Administration will save consumers $20…

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Vol. II, No. 6

Politics Backdoor Implementation Some Senators fear that Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat misled them when he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “We have…

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Vol. II, No. 5

Politics The Administration’s Negotiating Strategy On March 4, 1998, Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat reassured the House Commerce Subcommittee that the U.S. was committed to…

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