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EPA Considers Closing NCEE – Dr. Alan Carlin’s Unit
Dr. Carlin is the senior EPA analyst who authored a 100-page study last March, which severely criticized the scientific basis for the agency’s position on…
Washington Times
Bury the Messenger
Environmental Protection Agency officials consider scrapping the agency’s economics office after receiving a report critical of current global warming policy.
Detroit News
Transparency Apparently Not on EPA’s Agenda
San Francisco Gate
It’s Getting Cold Out There
Wall Street Journal
The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic
Washington Examiner
Suppressed EPA Scientist Breaks Silence, Speaks on Fox News
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Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on Proposed Endangerment Finding
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit, free-market public policy organization, hereby submits these…
Washington Examiner
EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study, CEI Says
National Review
Regulated to Death
May 19 was a perfect day for a White House photo op. The sun was out, the Rose Garden was full, and everyone was…
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Obama CAFE kills
President Obama unveiled Tuesday a plan to sharply increase federal gas mileage rules for vehicles sold in the United States, eventually bringing the requirement up…
Wall Street Journal
Small Cars Are Dangerous Cars
How Fuel economy zealots can kill you.
Tulsa Business
Latest Study, Again, Shows Small Car Safety Risk
Human Events
Horse Corral
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Maryland’s March Madness: First Baltimore Colts, Now Maryland Preakness
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Tobacco Settlement Challenge to Be Argued in Court
A lawsuit challenging the 46-state tobacco “Master Settlement Agreement” (MSA) will be argued today in federal district court in Shreveport, Louisiana, amid fresh reports of states misspending settlement…
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Obama’s New Appliance Efficiency Mandates, Consumers Better Run For Cover
President Obama today announced that he is pressuring the Department of Energy (DoE) to speed up some long-delayed efficiency standards for appliances. His move…
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Clinton: World “Exhaling” Under Obama?
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Obama Carbon Dioxide Plan Would Wreck Economy, Auto Industry
President Obama today announced he would seek to allow states to restrict tailpipe emissions and order the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop higher fuel-efficiency standards. Both are disastrous for…
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HIGH NOON PASSES–Global Warming Doesn’t Show Up At The Inaugural
Well, the noon temperature in Washington DC at the President Obama’s swearing-in was 28 degrees F., eight degrees colder than when Bush…
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HIGH NOON–Inauguration Global Warming Temperature Watch
When President Bush leaves office today, will the capital be warmer or colder than when he was sworn in eight years ago? It’s not scientifically…
Detroit News
The Damage of Fuel Economy Standards
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Vladimir Putin: Chevron’s Man of the Year?
What does Chevron think of Vladimir Putin's recent cut-off of Russian gas to the Ukraine and beyond? Looking at their recent ad campaign, it seems…
News Release
Ten-Year Anniversary of Dirty Tobacco Deal
The notorious tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was signed 10 years ago this month by 46 state attorneys general and major tobacco companies. The deal imposed a…
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Chevron’s Orwellian Crude Discovery
Chevron has unveiled a revolutionary new way of finding oil. It doesn’t involve satellite telemetry or seismic imaging or someother high-tech means of exploration. It…
Business Week
Automakers’ $25 Billion Fast-Track Bailout
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CAFE Oh Nay, Standard Has Hurt
The Detroit auto industry is clearly a victim of CAFE. But it’s not the only victim, and it’s not even the most prominent one.
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CEI Launches YouTube Contest for Video Critiques of ‘World Car-Free Day’
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“Cruising in Loving Memory of Cheap Gas”
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Oil Addiction
When cocaine prices shot up last year, White House Drug Czar John Walters touted it as "the best evidence" that the War on…
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The Rhetorical Impact of the Global Warming Bandwagon
Op-Eds
Somewhere, Mr. Edison Gently Weeps
A New Yorker cartoon from several years ago shows a vast, cubicle-filled office, with a manager explaining that the "dim fluorescent lighting is meant to…
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An Immaculate Smithsonian
The Smithsonian isn't going far enough in returning oil industry donations for its ocean exhibit [“Smithsonian Questions $5 Million in…
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Regarldess of whether you believe it’s a crisis or not, it’s called Global Warming, not California Warming
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Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
Full Document Available in PDFs Dear Representative: We are writing to express our concerns…
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My Green Rosh Hashanah
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1998’s Lowered Status, and the Supreme Court’s Global Warming Decision
NASA’s recent downgrading of 1998 as the warmest recorded year in the US should automatically overturn the Supreme Court’s global warming decision, no? …
Study
First, Do No Harm to Motorists
Sam Kazman explores why Congress should focus its attention not on making C.A.F.E. standards more stringent, but on scrapping them and, at a minimum, avoid…
News Release
Send Your Underwear to the Undersecretary
Sending real underwear to the Undersecretary can be a bit of a hassle, so we've provided a way for you to email a "virtual…
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The Year’s Worst Use of a Figure of Speech by a Bureaucrat?
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An Idea So Good, It Must Be Mandated
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Toronto Ice Sheet Decimated by Global Warming
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The Duke of Wellington, Climatologist
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Let Them Use Solar
It’s a heart-warming ad, literally. A poverty-striken mother and daughter sit freezing in their unheated home in the dead of winter, trying to warm themselves…
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The Global Warming Case–the cataclysm question
One comment from yesterday’s Supreme Court hearing that’s getting a lot of press is Justice Scalia’s question to the attorney for the petitioning states about…
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Global Warming Hearings & Hurricanes
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard argument in the global warming case. Today is the last day of the 2006 hurricane season, the quietest…
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How Milton Friedman Made Me Buy A New TV
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Accountability, Power, and Our CAP Project
Violations of the Constitution come in all shapes and sizes. Many of you may be familiar with the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), which CEI…
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New fuel standards unnecessary
Once again, the government has issued what it claims is a “win-win” fuel economy mandate— yes, it will raise the prices of new SUVs and…
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The Tale of a Medical Device
Senator Hillary Clinton traveled 6,000 miles to dramatize the need for faster medical device approvals. Hard to believe, isn’t it? In fact, Sen. Clinton…
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Cardiac arrest at the FDA
The photograph on your Tuesday front page headlined “Hillary health care” shows Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, in Jerusalem holding a CardioPump—a device…