The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. ENVIRONMENT

Student groups poke fun at the global warming alarmism of Al Gore’s new documentary with snow cone stands and beach parties.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy & Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell presents a video feature on Al Gore’s “carbon footprint.”

2. INTERNATIONAL

Japan and China clash over a proposed power plant on an island subject to international legal disputes.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Jeremy Rabkin on the story behind the UN’s Law of the Sea Treaty.

3. HEALTH

A university epidemiologist challenges conventional wisdom and backs smokeless tobacco as an alternative to cigarette smoking.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Regulatory Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter on the advantages of tobacco harm reduction and her response to critics.

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