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Policy Brief: Evaluating the Antiquities Act of 1906

Summary The Antiquities Act, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, allows the president to designate federal lands as national monuments to protect archaeological and historical sites, often...

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January 2025

U.S. Refineries and Canadian Crude Oil

February 2023

The Environmental Quality Index

David Kreutzer
October 2021

Biden's Afghanistan Crisis: Forfeiting U.S. Investment in Critical Minerals to the Taliban

Mary J Hutzler
October 2021

IER’s Mary Hutzler Testifies on Supply and Geopolitical Implications of Taliban Control of Critical, Rare Earth Minerals