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Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for Congress
Forward Kent Lassman, President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute President Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Reorganization Plan No. 3 of…
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Why Carbon Taxes Are Anti-Growth, Anti-Consumer, and Politically Dangerous for Conservatives
A tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, contrary to its advocates’ claims, is a market-rigging policy, not a free market one. Its purpose is to…
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Lift #NeverNeeded Regulations that Make Energy More Expensive
Low-income households, which are more likely to suffer from unemployment and other stresses during the COVID-19 crisis, spend much more of their household budget on…
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A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change
Climate change is not a hoax, but as a political matter, it is a persistent pretext for expanding government control over the economy, redistributing wealth,…
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A Policy Maker’s Guide to Climate Change
Thanks to the ingenuity of U.S. businesses, but also to the Republican rollback of the prior administration’s anti-energy policies, America is positioned to be a…
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Dirty Dozen
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The Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Climate Treaty
Failure to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty would entrench a constitutionally damaging precedent, set President Trump’s domestic and foreign policies in conflict, and ensure…
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Running Drivers into the Blend Wall
View Document as PDF A bipartisan group of 39 Senators is trying to make it more expensive to fill up your car—effectively…
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The Paris Climate Agreement Is a Treaty Requiring Senate Review
Why and How Congress Should Fight President Obama’s Power Grab…
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Environmental Disaster: The Renewable Fuel Standard
View PDF here The bipartisan disaster called the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has all the usual characteristics of bureaucratic central planning: It…
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Time for a Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on Climate Change
Read the full OnPoint here: During Senate debate on the Keystone XL Pipeline, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced an amendment affirming that…
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Obama’s Climate Trick
Read the full study here In a rush to end the production of inexpensive electricity from coal—a policy that would hamstring the…
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Why British Columbia’s Carbon Tax Is Not Applicable to America
A carbon tax does not boost growth. It does not lower the tax burden, but merely shifts it around—and can even open the door to…
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Capitol Research Center: The Social Cost of Carbon
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All Pain and No Gain
The MACT Rule supposedly reduces risk to unborn children by lowering methylmercury concentrations in non-commercial fish. But the EPA provides no empirical evidence that any…
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EPA Regulation of Fuel Economy: Congressional Intent or Climate Coup?
Full Document Available in PDF In May 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a rule setting standards for motor vehicle…
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The EPA Runs Amuck
Full Document Available in PDF On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives…
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Reef Madness: The Next Big Green Litigation Campaign?
Now that Russia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Australia is the only industrialized country besides the United States to reject the U.N.-sponsored climate treaty. However,…
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Cap-and-Trade Schemes are Not Markets
Cap-and-trade supporters are trying to get Republican lawmakers on board a new cap-and-trade policy, this time it's "market-based."…
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Overturning EPA’s Endangerment Finding Is a Constitutional Imperative
By Marlo Lewis and Former Gov. George Allen…
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The Department of Defense Should Assess the Security Risks of Climate Change Policies
Full Document Available in PDF The Pentagon is perhaps the most influential…
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Some Convenient Distortions
Full Document Available in PDF Former Vice President Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient…
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Al Gore’s Science Fiction: A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth
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Al Gore’s Science Fiction
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A Skeptic’s Primer on Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Full Document Available in PDF Former Vice President Al Gore’s…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 1: Pollution
“We have vastly increased the amount of carbon dioxide—the most important of the so-called greenhouse gases.” (AIT, 25) Hold on a minute…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 2: Hurricane Katrina
“Textbooks had to be re-written in 2004. They used to say, ‘It’s impossible to have hurricanes in the South Atlantic.’ But that year, for…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 3: Warming Rate
“And in recent years the rate of increase has been accelerating." (AIT, 72) That’s just plain wrong. Over the last…
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Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore – Episode 4: Moulins
"When the [melt-]water reaches the bottom of the ice, it lubricates the surface of the bedrock and destabilizes the ice mass, raising fears that…
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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Full Document Available in PDF An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), former Vice…
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A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth
Executive Summary An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), Vice President Al Gore’s book on “The planetary emergency of global warming and what can be…
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CEI to FactCheck.Org: Re-Check Your Facts
Earlier this week, FactCheck.Org published a critique of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI’s) global warming ads. In this press release, CEI responds…
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Stay Cool; Stay Very Cool: A Commentary on Time’s “Special Report” on Global Warming
The cover of Time magazine’s April 3, 2006 issue tells readers to “be very worried” about climate change. The issue features a “special report” on…
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Reviving Regulatory Reform: Options for the President and Congress
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Kyoto-by-Inches Is Just as Foolish
Full Document Available in PDF All economic pain for no environmental gain! That’s…
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Comments on New Jersey Rule
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Ms. Previte: On behalf of the…
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Launching the Counter-Offensive: A Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on Climate Change
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Rulemaking on the Proposed Regulations to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Motor Vehicles
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DOE’s Legal Authority Regarding Transferable Credits
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The Anti-Energy Litigation Of The State Attorneys General: From Junk Science To Junk Law
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Does the Bush Administration Have Legal Authority to Award Regulatory Credits for Greenhouse Gas Reductions?
Full Document Available in PDF This paper examines the Electric Power Industry Climate Initiative’s (EPICI’s) attempted rebuttal of the Natural Resources…
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Does The Bush Administration Have Legal Authority To Award Regulatory Credits For Greenhouse Gas Reductions?
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Get Your Money For Nothing And Your Credits For Free
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The Anti-Energy Manifesto Of The State Attorneys General
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“Multi-Pollutant” Regulation Of Carbon Dioxide: Shrewd Politics, Bad Policy
Full Document Available in PDF Although President Bush…
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Early Action Crediting: Growing the Kyoto Lobby at Small Business’ Expense
View Full Document as PDF “Credit for early action” – a policy proposal developed by the Environmental Defense Fund and warmly…
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Credit for Early Implementation: Kyoto Through the Front Door
Last year, in an attempt to safeguard the Senate’s constitutional prerogatives in treaty-making, Congress barred the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on…
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Is the Kyoto Protocol Dead?
View Full Document as PDF Is the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty negotiated in December 1997, any closer to being…
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Clinton-Gore and the Costs of Kyoto: Numbers Out of Thin Air
View Full Document as PDF How does the Clinton-Gore Administration arrive at its estimate that the Kyoto climate treaty would cost…
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Seizing the High Ground: Cautionary Notes on the Rhetoric of Climate Change Policy
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Soft Targets for Elimination at Energy, Interior, & EPA
Full Document Available in PDF The November 8 elections were a resounding call for smaller, less-intrusive government. The Contract with America – advertised…