The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. AUTOMOBILITY

Anti-car activists sponsor the 2005 observance of “World Car-Free Day.”

CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on why a car-free future is not a thing to celebrate.

2. LABOR

Unions fight the Bush administration’s post-Katrina suspension of federal labor regulations.

 CEI Expert Available for Comment: Editorial Director Ivan Osorio on why repealing federal labor restrictions is a good thing for hurricane recovery.

3. ENVIRONMENT

International representatives gather at a United Nations-sponsored conference in Vienna to assemble a plan for global environmental regulation.

 CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on why the UN plan is starting to sound like Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance.