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Issues in the News
1. ENVIRONMENT
University of Colorado biologists install an “early warning system” in the Rocky Mountains to detect global warming.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on What Every Citizen Should Know About Global Warming:
“Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by the agreed science or economics of the issue. Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it. Yet this does not mean that global warming will cause enough damage to the Earth and humanity to require drastic cuts in energy use, a policy that would have damaging consequences of its own. Moreover, science cannot answer questions that are at heart economic or political, such as whether the Kyoto Protocol is worthwhile.”
2. HEALTH
Mosquitoes in Virginia test positive for the West Nile virus.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk and Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on how environmental activists are opposing vital efforts to combat the deadly West Nile virus:
“Anti-pesticide campaigns and subsequent government regulations are adversely impacting the ability to control emerging diseases. Activists’ extreme views are coupled with alarmist rhetoric that is designed to scare public officials and others into opposing any chemical use even when such use could save lives.”
3. ENERGY
Analysts question the current boom in stock values for alternative energy companies.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Journalism Fellow Timothy Carney explains how big government artificially inflates demand for alternative fuels in his new book The Big Ripoff : How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money:
“Federal ethanol mandates require us to use a costly fuel that is facing a shortage, but the mandates also enrich Archer Daniels Midland, a giant corporation controlling 25% of U.S. ethanol and richly funds Washington politicians.”
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