The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. TECHNOLOGY

Mobile and Internet telephone bills are expected to rise under a new proposal from the Federal Communications Commission.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on why we no longer need the FCC.

2. HEALTH

A new report commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration suggests restaurants should change their menus to fight obesity.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on why obesity is not an “epidemic.”

3. ENVIRONMENT

Environmental activist groups seek to regulate refuse from livestock farms as industrial waste.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on why manure does not make a farm a Superfund site.

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