The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. ENERGY

The debate over authorizing oil exploration in the Alaskan arctic moves into its final phase in the Senate.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the importance of the nation’s domestic energy resources.

2. TRADE

NPR’s Morning Edition reports onHollywood’s discontent with a UN treaty that threatens to limit the ability of U.S. entertainment companies to market their films abroad.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Policy Analyst Isaac Post on why the UNESCO treaty is a policy of cultural protectionism.

3. TRANSPORTATION

New York City transit workers walk off the job.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on virtues of privatizing transit systems.

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