The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. GLOBAL WARMING

National Academy of Sciences agrees to referee climate-change research.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the dubious nature of recent evangelical support for mandated responses to climate change. 

2. BIOTECHNOLOGY

The U.S. may lobby Africa for greater acceptance of genetically modified foods after a WTO ruling lifting Europe’s ban. 

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Food Safety Policy Gregory Conko on why the WTO’s ruling validates the benefits that come from biotech crops. 

3. HURRICANE KATRINA

Senate Democrats point to new evidence that New Orleans levee breaches were reported much earlier than previously thought. 

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Fellow in Economic Policy John Berlau on how environmentalists hindered the development of stronger levees. 

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