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CEI to FactCheck.Org: Re-Check Your Facts
Earlier this week, FactCheck.Org published a critique of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI’s) global warming ads. In this press release, CEI responds…
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Stay Cool; Stay Very Cool: A Commentary on Time’s “Special Report” on Global Warming
The cover of Time magazine’s April 3, 2006 issue tells readers to “be very worried” about climate change. The issue features a “special report” on…
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Response to Questions Posed by Senators Domenici and Bingaman in “Design Elements of a Mandatory Market-Based Greenhouse Ga
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A Windfall of Bad Ideas
In the third-quarter of 2005, the major U.S. oil companies—ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP America, and Shell Oil Company—collectively earned almost $26 billion in profits, an…
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Testimony to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs of the House Government Reform Committee, July 27, 2005
Chairwoman [Candice] Miller [R-Mich]. Ranking Member [Stephen] Lynch [D-Mass] and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you inviting me to comment on congressional regulatory reform initiatives. …
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Energy security and natural disasters
Reps. Jim Saxton and Eliot Engel claim the destruction inflicted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita “has been a jarring reminder of our over reliance on…
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Letter to House Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairwoman Candice Miller
Dear Chairwoman Miller: Thank you again for giving me the opportunity to present testimony on congressional regulatory reform initiatives. After further reflection, I…
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Written Statement of Marlo Lewis: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on Regulatory Affair
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All Cost, No Benefit
Tomorrow, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Sen. Jeff Bingaman's (D-N.M.) Climate and Economy Insurance Act. Originally…
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Reviving Regulatory Reform: Options for the President and Congress
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Kyoto-by-Inches Is Just as Foolish
The current energy-bill debate may be mostly about pork, but vital issues of principle are in play. Real reform would remove political barriers to the…
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The McCain-Lieberman and Bingaman Climate Amendments: Kyoto-by-Inches Is Just as Foolish, by Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Proponents claim that the McCain-Lieberman and Bingaman climate amendments to the Senate energy bill are “modest” steps to address the potential risks of…
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Kyoto-by-Inches Is Just as Foolish
Full Document Available in PDF All economic pain for no environmental gain! That’s…
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Climate Reports, Edited to Fit
To the Editor: Philip A. Cooney crossed out several lines predicting the reduction of mountain glaciers and snowpack in polar regions and “serious…
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EPA, State AGs Argue Climate Change in Appellate Court, by Marlo Lewis, Jr.
On April 8, 2005, the D.C. circuit court of appeals heard oral arguments in Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al. v. U.S. Environmental…
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Crazy on Carbon Dioxide
Full document available in pdf format. On <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />April 8, 2005, the D.C. circuit court of…
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Statement of Marlo Lewis Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Comments on New Jersey Rule
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Ms. Previte: On behalf of the…
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Reef Madness
Full article available as a pdf. Now that <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Russia has ratified the…
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Bigger, “Renewable” Boondoggle
In Washington, sometimes all you need to do to find out lobbyists’ latest schemes to bilk the unwary taxpayer is attend a public meeting. What…
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Launching the Counter-Offensive: A Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on Climate Change
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Air Board’s Greenhouse Rule: Raw Deal for Dealers
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> On September 24, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />California’s Air…
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No to Kyoto Treaty
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />USA TODAY's editorial fails to make an economic case for U.S. ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (“Global…
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Carbon dioxide is your friend
Jeffrey Sparshott’s otherwise excellent article “Putin Cabinet approves signing of Kyoto protocol” (Business, Friday) unwittingly promotes the alarmist view that carbon dioxide emissions…
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Rulemaking on the Proposed Regulations to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Motor Vehicles
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CEI Planet: July 2004
Full Document Available in PDF “Who’s Afraid of RFID?” by Jim Harper…
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McCain-Lieberman: A Regulatory Pandora’s Box
Full Document Available in PDF Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) recently compared his push…
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AB 1493 Draft Proposal Comments
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Junk Law: The CO2 Litigation of the State Attorneys General
On October 23, 2003, 12 states, three cities, and 14 advocacy groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for rejecting an…
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Et Tu, Edison?
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the association of shareholder-owned electric power companies, opposes…
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Letter to DOE on the Risks of Kyoto Risk Insurance
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DOE’s Legal Authority Regarding Transferable Credits
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October Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “On…
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Lewis Letter to DOE
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Russia Could Sink Kyoto — and McCain-Lieberman
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Climate Stewardship Act (S. 139), introduced by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and…
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McCain’s Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy
Who does Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) think he is fooling? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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August Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: …
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Thank You, Pew!
You've got to hand it to the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Pew Center on Global Climate…
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Killing Energy: Beware the “Soft Kyoto” Strategy
<?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml” /><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /><?xml:namespace prefix = w ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word” />The Senate this…
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Common Sense
Recently, the House International Relations Committee approved a “Sense of Congress” resolution, introduced by Rep. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), that embraces the Kyoto Protocol's…
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April/May edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Article in this edition:…
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Marlo Lewis Debates Smog Standards on CNN
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CEI Comments on EPA’s Draft Strategic Plan
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Nix the Energy Bill: Better No Bill than an Anti-Energy Bill
The White House seems to believe that passing an energy bill—any energy bill—will help GOP candidates win in 2004. Because of this, Republicans…
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A Backwards Step in U.S. Energy Policy
Which climate-related initiative poses the biggest threat to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America’s economic future?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office”…
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The Anti-Energy Litigation Of The State Attorneys General: From Junk Science To Junk Law
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CEI Comments On The Department Of Energy’s Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting Proposal
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Does the Bush Administration Have Legal Authority to Award Regulatory Credits for Greenhouse Gas Reductions?
Full Document Available in PDF This paper examines the Electric Power Industry Climate Initiative’s (EPICI’s) attempted rebuttal of the Natural Resources…
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Does The Bush Administration Have Legal Authority To Award Regulatory Credits For Greenhouse Gas Reductions?
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Get Your Money For Nothing And Your Credits For Free
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