American Enterprise Institute
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AEI compares EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to Clint Eastwood
In a bizarre pop-culture flip-flop, Kenneth Green of the American Enterprise Institute has compared the mild-mannered EPA administrator to Dirty Harry: You can just see Jackson standing there with a .44 magnum in her hand, and a steely glint in her eye, telling industry “You’ve got to ask yourself one question, ‘do I feel lucky?’ […]
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The American Enterprise Institute: Still crazy with denial and delay
Conservative think tanks remain oblivious and impervious to the facts. They cling to global warming denial and delay even in the face of the remarkable advances both in scientific understanding about global warming and in clean technology solutions. We have seen that the Cato Institute remains intellectually bankrupt on both the urgency of the climate […]
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How a conservative think tank’s foray into climate policy stirred up a media hornet’s nest
A conservative think tank attempted to engage the debate over climate policy recently, only to see that attempt explode in its face. The tangled episode, with its combustible mix of sensationalist journalism, public outrage, and the threatened intervention of the federal government, is rich with lessons about the current state of climate politics — lessons […]