The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. ENVIRONMENT

A study in the journal Science predicts rapid sea level rise from the effects of global warming on polar ice sheets.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what we know about rising tides and melting glaciers.

2. ENTERTAINMENT

The politics of tobacco regulation gets a clever treatment in the film adaptation of Christopher Buckley’s satirical novel Thank You for Smoking.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Regulatory Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter on how the tobacco debate has changed over the last decade.

3. BUSINESS

Environmental activists attack Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford in the New York Times.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on why trying to appease activist groups is a losing strategy for corporate America.

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