The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. ENERGY
The Senate Finance Committee approves a $5 billion windfall profits tax on the nation’s oil companies.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. hosts a congressional briefing on windfall profits in the oil industry.
2. INTERNET
The European Union endorses a proposal which would transfer control over management of the Internet from ICANN and the U.S. Commerce Department to a new, international authority.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. on why the U.S. shouldn’t yield control.
3. GLOBAL WARMING
British Prime Minster Tony Blair tells Parliament that future climate change treaties should include participation by the U.S., China and India.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the six-nation climate agreement reached this summer by the U.S., China, India, Australia, South Korea and Japan.