Senate leaders are rushing to push through SB 744, a bill enticingly titled as the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act.” As the title suggests, the bill is a complex blend of interests favored by diverse and at times clashing constituencies.
Alexandria, VA (April 29, 2013) – With the recent draft release of the Senate’s immigration reform bill, Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Donald Mann finds great concern with SB 744 and its effects on U.S. population size and growth. In a new NPG publication, Mann’s organization comments that it “believes that this bill, as drafted, would be a major, transformative …
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version The once-acclaimed program to restore the Chesapeake Bay has fallen short of every hopeful ambition. For three decades the Bay’s fundamental declines have barely budged, despite billions of dollars spent on cleanup efforts by the federal government and six states that share the 64,000-square-mile Chesapeake watershed. And many experts feel that if …
A huge divide is developing across America as citizens are choosing sides on the use of hydraulic fracking to extract huge quantities of oil and gas. If you live in a state where the push is on to embrace fracking as a means to greatly increase output of fossil fuels, you are probably well aware of the pros and cons being advanced …
This Ad appeared in E-The Environmental Magazine in March/April/May 2013
At the end of 2012, the European market boasted 55 offshore wind farms and the U.S. had absolutely none. The question arises: “What’s the holdup?” There are a wide variety of answers to that inquiry. However, many are cleared up by Cleantechnica.com’s new report, titled “Where Do I Put My Offshore Wind Farm?,” a two-page synopsis on the present status …
Unfortunately, NPG’s hopes for dispassionate Congressional debate on immigration reform hit a snag at its very beginning. At the House Judiciary Committee’s first hearings on rewriting our nation’s immigration laws, Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), the Ranking Minority Member, noted: I hope no one uses the term illegal immigrants here today. Our citizens are not – the people in this country are not illegal. They …
This Ad appeared in The Washington Times Weekly & The Washington Times Daily, January 2013
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Those of us familiar with the issue of U.S. population growth are well-acquainted with seeing it summarily ignored by each successive White House administration. Less commonly known are the presidents who initiated studies which led, in some cases, toward policy innovation and broader discussion of the issue of population growth. In this …
Survey Results Show Majority of Legislators Willing to Downplay their Role in Battle Aginst Increasing Population and Immigration Alexandria, VA (December 26, 2011)—Negative Population Growth (NPG) President Donald Mann has called on all of America’s 7,300 state legislators to step up their involvement in helping to gain control of America’s soaring population numbers that threaten the social, economic and environmental …