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Date
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News Source
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Headline
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Summary
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7/31/2005
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Washington Post |
Another Cup of CAFÉ, Another Piece of Lie |
According to a 2004 report from Resources for the Future, gasoline accounts for 43% of U.S. oil consumption and 20% of smog-causing carbon emissions in this country. |
| 7/25/2005 |
PR Week |
Proposed EPA Image Push Draws Fire Over its Funding |
RFF Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick says it's a good thing to have somebody thinking about how to reach the public with research results as long as they are even-handed and reach out with the good research, as well as research that challenges some of the policies that the EPA has. |
| 7/22/2005 |
Environment & Energy Daily
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Appropriations: EPA spending conference to sort out brownfields dispute
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RFF Fellow Kris Wernstedt says that the intersection of two amendments could ensure that EPA-funded projects are the most critical, assuming EPA uses adequate selection criteria. |
| 7/11/2005 |
Environment & Energy Daily
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NOMINATIONS: Peacock, Nakayama, Bodine head to Congress for confirmation hearings |
Given budget constraints and the administration's political priorities, Bodine would be accepting a difficult position, said Katherine Probst, a senior fellow at RFF. "I don't think these programs are of great importance to the White House," Probst said. While the administration recently has requested increased funding for brownfields programs, it has acknowledged that Superfund is underfunded, she added. |
| 7/11/2005 |
The Gazette
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China's boom might spell end of the Oil Age: Increasing demand, dropping supplies means crisis is nigh |
RFF President Paul Portney predicts that what oil is left will become so expensive that North Americans will be pushed into alternative fuels, like corn-based ethanol, or into fuel-efficient cars that run on hydrogen or are electric-gas hybrids.
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| 7/2005 |
Regulation |
Two Very Different Efforts |
Richard L. Gordon, Professor Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University, gives his review of two RFF Press books; Choosing Environmental Policy and New Approaches on Energy and the Environment. |
| 7/2005 |
Issues in Science & Technology |
Future Oil Supplies |
RFF Visiting Scholar Robert Fri, in a response to a previous article on peaking oil production, says the best reasons for getting off the oil roller-coaster have little or nothing to do with geology. Rather, national security and global warming have everything to do with the need to act. |
| 7/2005 |
Foreign Policy |
The State of Nature |
Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope and author Bjorn Lomborg debate the state on the natural environment today.Within the article Lomborg references RFF. |
