The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News
1. TRADE
The director general of the World Trade Organization calls on the U.S. and the European Union to come to an agreement on trade talks stalled over agricultural subsidies.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Fellow Frances B. Smith on the need to lower trade barriers to agricultural products from the developing world.
2. HURRICANES
Gulf Coast residents brace for the impact of the latest tropical storm, Hurricane Wilma.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the questionable science attempting to link hurricanes to global warming.
3. HEALTH & SAFETY
Scientists begin testing migrating birds in the U.S. for signs of the avian flu virus.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller writes in The Wall Street Journal on why we’re not prepared for a flu pandemic.
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