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    While Increasing Fuel Efficiency is a Positive Step, America is Still Missing the Real Solution

    Just a few days after his State of the Union address, President Obama followed through on his promise to work against climate change.  According to USA Today, he “ordered the Environmental Protection Agency EPA and the Transportation Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA to develop and issue new fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 31, 2016.”  Environmentalists hailed …

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    F.A.Q.
    • September 1, 2013
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    What is NPG? What is overpopulation? What does “negative” population growth mean? Why is population growth a problem in the United States? What size does NPG believe America should be? What about the world? What does NPG propose as a solution to the problem of U.S. population growth? Is NPG in favor of a mandatory one-child family size, like in China? …

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    Jayme Pruett – Hunter $1,000 Winner of the 2013 NPG Essay Scholarship Contest

    Talking about Population Growth:  The First Step to Sustainability

    In the year 2011 the world population exceeded 7 billion, with over 315,000,000 people in the United States alone. These numbers should be alarming, yet overpopulation is still treated like a taboo subject. We need to address the 7 billion “elephants in the room” in order to ensure quality of life for my and future generations. In the United States …

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    NPG Sees Link Between EPA Reports of Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions and U.S. Population Growth

      Alexandria, VA (July 31, 2013) – A recent report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) heralded a slight decrease in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2011.  However, the drop from 2010 was just 1.6 percent – and emissions since 1990 have actually risen by 8.4 percent.  A July report from the Earth Policy Institute found that fossil fuel emissions …

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    NPG Essay Scholarship Contest Winners
    • July 20, 2013
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    Winners of the 2022 Essay Scholarship Contest 2022 Topic: The 2000 United States Census counted a total U.S. population of 281.4 million people. In 2020, just twenty years later, the U.S. population stood at more than 331.4 million people. That increase of 50 million is roughly the population of New York state and Texas combined. Is this growth good or …

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    Wisconsin
    • July 1, 2013
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    RETURN TO MAP Click the links below to view state facts. Wisconsin Population News Articles Population Density Historic & Projected Growth Population by County POPULATION DENSITY People per square mile, 2010:   105.0 People per square mile, 2020:108.8 HISTORIC & PROJECTED GROWTH 1790 TO 2040 Year Population 1790 0 1800 0 1810 0 1820 0 1830 0 1840 30,945 1850 305,391 …

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    West Virginia
    • July 1, 2013
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    RETURN TO MAP Click the links below to view state facts. West Virginia Population News Articles Population Density Historic & Projected Growth Population by County POPULATION DENSITY People per square mile, 2010:   77.0 People per square mile, 2020: 74.6 HISTORIC & PROJECTED GROWTH 1790 TO 2040 Year Population 1790 55,873 1800 78,592 1810 105,469 1820 136,808 1830 176,924 1840 224,537 …

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