The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

 

1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce renewed efforts toward forcing cable companies to provide “a la carte pricing.”

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Technology Counsel Braden Cox on why legislating business models is antithetical to free markets.   

 

2. HEALTH AND SAFETY

The European Parliament reaches a compromise on a set of chemical regulation guidelines known as REACH.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on how the EU proposal is all cost and no benefit.

 

3. NUCLEAR POWER

Greenpeace protestors disrupt British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s plans for a speech about nuclear power, forcing a last minute venue change.    

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Steven J. Milloy says radical environmentalists have a chokehold on energy policy.

 

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