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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Researchers find new growth in forests around the world. CEI Expert Available…
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America’s Lights Go Out?
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was established, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes for grim…
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Election Wins for Sarbanes-Oxley Reform
Washington, D.C., November 14, 2006—Reform of the onerous Sarbanes-Oxley accounting mandates was a winning issue for Democratic and Republican candidates in the election of 2006,…
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An Assessment of Kyoto and Emerging Issues for the 12th Conference of the Parties
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS Representatives of corporate America convene in New York to talk about “social responsibility.”…
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What will we do when America’s lights go out?
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was etablished, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes…
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Lifestyles of the Ethical Consumer
Recently, the celebrity gossip blog, DMZ, took a swipe at celebrities “who claim they’re green, but guzzle gas”. George Clooney, among others,…
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The Fat Acceptance Movement Needs You
Jacob Sullum over at Reason reviews two of the latest books on weight loss industry and the obsession with the obesity “epidemic” in…
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Internet Medicine: Does that Make Al Gore My Family Physician?
A new study finds an increasing number of doctors using information from Internet searches to help diagnose illnesses: The internet search engine Google…
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Samuelson on Stern: “…a masterpiece of misleading public relations”
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson has a bracing take on the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change today: [Based on the report’s…
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Warming Watch in the Senate
Barbara Boxer is slated to replace James Inhofe as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, and she’s got big plans for…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), the new chair of the Environment & Public Works Committee, has…
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Thank Goodness for California
One of the least mentioned election day stories is that California – yes, California – rejected a punitive tax on oil production that would have…
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Taking Reagan’s Advice
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Trans Fat Hysteria Could Be Lawsuit Bonanza
The takeover of Congress by Democrats could result in a big payday for trial lawyers at the expense of the feckless food industry.
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Enviro fog calculus
A new report by the World Wildlife Fund says if current trends continue, the Earth will be too small to sustain humanity. “Pressures on the…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Michigan voters approve Proposal 2, a ban on race and gender-based affirmative…
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Oh, the Humanity!
Perhaps the most amusing moment of last night’s election coverage came from Chris Matthews, while he was interviewing congressional has-been Dick Gephardt. Let’s go…
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Mixed Signals from the Grand Canyon State
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Two Victories for Taxpayers
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It’s a Landslide!
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Gambling with freedom
Your after-tax income belongs to you. You are free to spend it, invest it, waste it, burn it, or tithe it away—and none of…
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Issues in the News 1. POLITICS Democrats win control of the House of Representatives. CEI Expert Available…
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Midterm Nailbiting
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Kyoto Conference Reveals Disagreements
For all the supposed consensus on global warming, every time the Kyoto parties get together, there are disagreement s about what to do. The latest…
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Talking Back to the ‘Environmental Headbangers’
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is legendary for telling it like he sees it, rhetorical propriety be damned. He’s now reacting to the Stern report…
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Staying Cool
The National Climatic Data Center reports that in October, “All regions [were] near to or below normal temperature (first time since February 2003…
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When Your Home Is Not Your Castle
Craig Bannister emails this morning with more debate over the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court decision on the power of eminent domain. It…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Verizon and YouTube near a deal to bring web videos to cell…
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Schumer’s Sarbanes-Oxley Surprise and Frank’s Frankness
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Fighting Racism with Super Powers
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Saving Antiquities by Selling Them
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Are Republicans and Democrats Really That Different?
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Delegates to a United Nations global warming conference defend the U.S. record…
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Empowering Green Bureaucrats
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Trade-environment linkages: U.S. perspective
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America Works
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Amici Curiae Brief of Economists and Scholars Marcus Cole, Christopher Demuth, Richard Epstein, Robert Litan, Michael Staten, Pe
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Delegates to a United Nations conference on Internet governance complain of “too much”…
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Bastiat Lives!
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New Scientist: Skeptics are Meanies
The current issue of New Scientist magazine has a truly strange article on the impending release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest…
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Lomborg on the Stern Review: “…selective…flawed…sloppy…one-sided…”
Our friend Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, has an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal (subscription only) today taking on…
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Trans-Fatty Criminals
Elizabeth Whelan of ACSH has a great article on National Review Online today about the stupidity of banning trans-fats, as New York City and…
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So the Government Dictating Broadcast Content is ‘Fair’?
Fans of free expression should hit up a piece in Human Events, by our very own John Berlau, on those misguided souls who…
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The Snowe-Rockefeller Road to Kyoto
In a recent letter to ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and John Rockefeller (D-WV)…
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Voters don’t care about the environment
Barring the invention of a time machine, no one can know exactly what will happen on election day. The best that experts can do is…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH A study in mice suggests health benefits from consuming a chemical commonly found…
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The Future: Filthy Rich or Stinking Rich?
The New York Sun has an editorial on the Stern review on the economics of global warming which includes a mention of our very…
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The ADA Meets Cyberspace
BNA is covering the recent district court ruling that Target can be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind: In this class…
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Taking Tobacco to Court
In case you missed it, the Supremes are tackling a major tobacco/tort reform liability case this week. AP’s Mark Sherman has the story: The…
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Celebs Mislead Californians on Air Pollution Threat
What do Bill Clinton and Julia Roberts know about air pollution and health in California? The answer can only be “not much,” based on…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL The Supreme Court agrees to examine whether public employee unions must obtain permission from members…
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Turning Free Speech Upside Down
Thomas Jefferson once wrote that “to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and…
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The Sweetest Urban Legend of All
Keeping the holiday theme going, we now turn to the perennial Halloween boogieman, the anonymous candy poisoner. For decades, parents have been warned to…
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What Is All the Hyperventilating About?
If you haven’t read it already, treat yourself to a radically reasonable op-ed by Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT on why global warming is…
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Better Halloween Through Science
It turns out that Monsanto, the occasionally controversial biotech company, is hard at work on more than just wheat and maize. They’re also experimenting with…
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Is Fairness Doctrine on Its Way Back?
This election season, much of the GOP’s difficulties stem from the disaffection of conservative talk radio. For the past two years, while supporting…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY International negotiators continue to spar over the future of Internet governance. CEI…
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What balance?
When a journalist publicly declares he doesn’t believe in balance on a particular issue, you know things are really bad. When I was a journalist,…
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Kazman vs. Cupcake
CEI’s Sam Kazman had the quote of the day. It happened during a debate on CNBC’s Morning Call over whether NYC should ban restaurants from…
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The world will not end tomorrow
Or in a hundred year’s time, for that matter. Today’s Stern Review from the British government has been marketed as saying global warming means…
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The U.S. Secretary of Shady Land Deals
Judith Burns of Dow Jones’ MarketWatch reports on the latest shareholder activism from our friends Steve Milloy and Tom Borelli over at the…
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World Series the model to follow?
George Monbiot — the green activist whose perceived wackiness inspired the label “Moonbat” — is at it again. This time he says sport is…
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The UK Takes An Alarmingly Stern Look at Global Warming
The international media is in a tizz this morning (afternoon in the UK) over the release of the Stern Review on the Economics…
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Another American Bird Species Faces Extinction
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I’d Have Settled for a Statue in Antwerp
According to The Wall Street Journal this morning, Al Gore and his take on global warming have become all the rage in…Belgium. It’s seems…
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Bean Counters Caucus in DC
The American Financial Services Association is holding its 90th annual meeting here in Washington this week, and attendees are tackling a number of challenges…
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And Now a Word From Our Critics
FridayBalance is an important conceit of American journalism. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, previously partisan newspapers edged toward respectability and…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT A government report out of the UK predicts dire economic consequences from global…
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SEJ 2006: Marc Morano Takes on Alarmist Reporting
We’ve known that Marc Morano was a brave man for some time, but he proved it again last night at the Society of Environmental Journalists’…
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SEJ 2006: Open Source Journalism
There was yet more cool action from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this afternoon as Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn explained…
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Vietnam Set for WTO Membership
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SEJ 2006: Across the Web
As CEI’s presence at the 16th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists continues, I’ve noticed that the event’s blogosphere presence has grown…
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SEJ 2006: Energy Companies Try to Out-Clean Each Other
Energy companies, both new and old, are crowded into the Society of Environmental Journalists conference here in Burlington, Vermont, all playing up the environmental profile…
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Bush and Pelosi up the Ante for Sarbanes-Oxley Reform
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SEJ 2006: Battle of the Automakers
The Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this week is in full swing, with panels and exhibits on everything from sustainable forestry to avian flu.
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What’s the Doughboy Afraid Of?
WednesdayVermont is cold. That message will be repeated several times Wednesday night but it's bleeding obvious from the minute I step out of…
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Smoking your way to the presidency?
I was waiting for Reason to blog about this article in The New Republic. It focuses on the fact that presidential maybe-sayer Barack…
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Can money offset venality?
Prizes sponsored by private individuals and organizations seem to be the new way to provide incentives for technological and other advances. Now a wealthy…
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Fencing out emigrants better than building levees?
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Bootsy Collins He Ain’t
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Business Bankrolling of the Left
Big business primarily supports right-wing advocacy groups, right? Think again. A recent report from the Capital Research Center shows Fortune 100 corporate foundations…
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Issues in the News ENERGY Exxon Mobil reports second largest quarterly profit ever for a publicly traded U.S. company. …
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An Ostentatious Display of Escaping Poverty
Statist environmentalists’ stern condemnation of what they consider spendthrift consumption is nothing new in the West—but developing countries unaccustomed to such hectoring might be taken…
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No Unnecessary Travel Allowed in the War on CO2
I’m going to be flying to Vermont tomorrow, and some of my colleagues are also taking airline trips soon, including a few to far off…
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Does Gulfstream Make a Hybrid Jet?
In a shocking development, we find out this morning that environmentally fixated, hybrid-loving celebrities don’t necessarily live the green dream that they preach…
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If Current Trends Continue …Environmentalists Will Continue to Be Wrong!
In a changing world, it seems that at least one thing is certain: If current trends continue, environmentalist predictions about the future will continue to…
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Another doomsday report – Simon redux
Shades of Paul Ehrlich: WWF in a new report says that the earth cannot support its human population, especially those in the developed world…
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COPA: “So Much Easier than Parenting”
The Child Online Protection Act (COPA), signed by President Clinton eight years ago, has yet to be enforced. Kids have grown up waiting to be…
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A funny picture is worth a thousand Chinese proverbs
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The Newest Cell Phone Accessory: Lead Underpants
A new study out of the UK suggests that mobile phone radiation may be responsible for increased infertility in men. This observed decline in…
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Rules of Ridicule
“Ridicule is man's most potent weapon,” says the fifth rule of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky's classic…
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Amici Curiae Brief of Climatologists and Scientists Sallie Baliunas, John R. Christy, Chris De Freitas, David Legates, Anthony L
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Giving Chase in Cyberspace
Full Document Available in PDF In the debate over identity theft and online security, commentators…
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Issues in the News 1. POLITICS State officials accuse Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of undermining recent legislation on greenhouse gas emissions. CEI…
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“Socialism or Death”â€â€Is There a Difference?
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Ted Kennedy, Hero of Socialist Labor
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Going Wobbly at Starbucks
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Politics Nerds Rejoice
Students at my alma mater, Claremont McKenna College, have created a very wonky alternative to the season’s popular fantasy football leagues: fantasy Congress.