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The Skeptical Environmentalist Vindicated
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April/May Issue of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “The Day After Never,”…
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Stop FCC Unbundling Laws
Full Letter Available in PDF Mr. President, in your recent speech in Albuquerque, you championed “the…
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Economists Urge President to Support Investment in Telecommunications
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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Soso’s receipts
Proof that Soso is adhering to her all McDonald's diet.
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From the Pumps to the Polls
Does the high price of gasoline hurt Bush or Kerry? It hurts both of them.<?xml:namespace prefix = u1 /> <?xml:namespace prefix = o…
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EIN WG10 dinner Brussels March 04
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Vol. VIII, No 7
Politics Connecticut Bill Aims at Slowing State Economy The Connecticut state legislature is currently considering SB.595, which aims to reduce the…
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March Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “To Panic or Not to Pan? Farmed…
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USDA and the Peterkin Papers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's biotechnology regulations have been a shambles for more than fifteen years. Its compulsory case-by-case review and costly field…
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Filmmaker to Challenge Fast Food Perceptions
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Audrey Mullen, 202.861.5677…
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Failed Global Warming Policy Returns to Congress
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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Government Wants to Make Internet Phone Calls Wiretap-Friendly
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Federal Regulations Pump up Gasoline Prices
The stage is set for sky-high gasoline prices this summer. We probably won't threaten the inflation-adjusted record of $2.90 per gallon set in 1981,…
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Kyoto Contingencies Confound Commissioner
Commissioner Margot Wallstrom insists that the Kyoto Protocol is “the only existing effective international framework for combating global warming.” This questionable argument –…
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Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Consumer Alert to the United States Department of Transportation, National
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A Green Discourse: Blaming Civilized Society for Human Suffering.
Mark Jerome Walters's book Six Modern Plagues: and How We Are Causing Them is relatively new, but its ideas are far from original.
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Why We Need Sound Science Rules
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />United Kingdom, the Sir…
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Frankenfood, Pro and Con
David Bowe writes in “Consumers Love Frankenfood” (editorial feature, Feb. 27) predicts that consumers will make their decision about genetically modified food…
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Baptists, Bootleggers and Wind Power
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Have you ever heard of Baptists allying themselves with bootleggers? It actually happened…
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An Open Letter to Randy A. Daniels, Secretary of State
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A Cast of Thousands
In <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Hollywood's glory days, studios peppered movie posters with the words “cast of thousands” in bold…
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The New Reason For Pain at the Pump
Everyone knows that the recent rise in the price of oil has had an effect at the pump, but something less well known…
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Culture Wars
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> When Americans hear the word “outsourcing,” they typically imagine the movement of <?xml:namespace prefix =…
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VoIP–Why it’s not (and shouldn’t be regulated like) your parents’ Plain Old Telephone Service
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January-February Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF “The European Constitution Falls Apart,”…
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An Open Letter to Members of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, Committee on the Judiciary,
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Perils of Cultural Protectionism
Attention all European firms that export to the U.S.! Thanks to a protectionist political project run by Canada and France, you…
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Protecting our Exports
Auto parts, precious metals, lumber—Canadians have found many ways to export their way to success in the global economy.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
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Our Science Can Beat Up Your Science: Playing Politics with Data.
A new front in the war over “sound science” opened on February 29, with the publication of a Washington Post op-ed by former American…
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The Fog of Warming: Dated Scripts on the Hill.
On Wednesday and for the fourth time in the past two years, John McCain's Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation staged a platform…
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Cooler Heads Vol VIII, No 5
Politics Alarmists Allege Pentagon Worried by Global Cooling Although the story broke in Fortune magazine on Jan. 26, it was not…
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Greenpeace, Earth First!, PETA
Greenpeace The grand-daddy of environmental direct action is Greenpeace. This organization has long functioned as a kind of protest “skunkworks,” dedicated to finding ever-more-unorthodox strategies…
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Supreme Court Rules EPA Can Override States on Environment
In an ongoing fight between states and the federal government over control of environmental policy, the federal government has notched an important victory…
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Greenpeace, Earth First!, PETA: Radical Fringe Tactics Move Toward Center Stage
Full article available as a pdf. Greenpeace<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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Creating Cow Concerns Should Make Mad Consumers
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. consumers are known for their affection for food, so it's a wonder most Americans…
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The Unthinking in Pursuit of the Unthinkable: Disingenuous global-warming nonsense
When a “scandalous” story breaks in the United States, makes no waves, resurfaces a few weeks later in the left-wing British press, and only then…
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Clinton’s Midnight Madness vs. the Bush Administration
Remember all those “<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />midnight regulations” finalized by outgoing Clinton administration officials during their final two months…
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Vol. VIII, No. 4
Politics British Government Continues Attacks on U.S. on Climate Change Following up his attacks on President Bush’s position on climate change…
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Taming the NGOs: An Epic Fight
NGOs are strong – so strong that some commentators call them the “second superpower.” Over the last 10 years, the NGO movement has become so…
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Epidemiology Beyond Its Limits
In 1995, science writer Gary Taubes warned that the science of epidemiology (tracing the source and causes of disease) was reaching a crisis…
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No, Not the NHS!
Whenever I hear the words “universal health care” — as I did during Sunday night's Democratic debate in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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Warming Warning off Message in America
The Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government, Sir David King, was in Washington DC this week trying to persuade America to act on global…
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Vol. VIII, No. 3
Politics Illarionov Explains Russian Position on Kyoto Protocol in Washington Andrei Illarionov, chief economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir…
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Regulating Genetically Modified Foods: Is Mandatory Labeling the Right Answer?
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End Subsidies for Nanotechnology
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NGOs: Dependent ‘Independents’
Curious exhortations last week by crusading Commissioner David Byrne elevated questions over the deceptive role played by the Commission funded, yet purportedly “independent”…
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Technology for Life: How Biotech Will Save Billions from Starvation
Full article available in pdf format Today, most people around the world have access to a greater variety of nutritious…
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Science and Public Policy
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Tying Down a Cultural Giant
There’s an amusing scene in Gulliver’s Travels in which the protagonist awakens from a nap and has his first encounter with the tiny…
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Common Sense Environmentalism
Over the past 30 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped more than a few species to survive. Unfortunately, it has taken a toll on…
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UN-Dermining the Net
There's mounting evidence that the Internet's good old days as a globalcyberzone of freedom—where governments generally take a “hands off” approach—may be numbered. [Last year] delegates from 192 countries met in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Geneva to discuss how the Internet should be governed and what steps should be taken to solve the global “digital divide” and “harness the potential of information” onbehalf of the world's poor. Also on the table at the session—the UnitedNations World Summit on the Information Society—was the question of domainname management and how much protection free speech and expression shouldreceive on the Net. The real issue, however, is whether a “United Nations forthe Internet” is on the way. The great advantage of the Net is precisely the ability to reach as many peopleas possible and overcome artificial restrictions on trade or communications attraditional geographic boundaries. The Web, whatever problems it has raised,has provided far more opportunity and freedom to mankind. The United Nationsappears eager to assume greater control over the Net, not because of itsfailures, but because it undermines members' authority. That sounds like thebest reason ever to make sure a United Nations for the Internet never becomes areality. …
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“Direct Action” The Tactics of Radical Activism: Part I
July 8, 2000 – Kwajalein Atoll, U.S. Marshall Islands – American scientists stationed on this tiny Pacific island are making last minute preparations before testing…
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“Direct Action” The Tactics of Radical Activism: Part 1, How Environmental Groups Use Violent Tactics to Advance their
Full article available as a pdf. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />July 8, 2000 –Kwajalein Atoll,…
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Everybody Wants to Rule the Web
There’s mounting evidence that the Internet’s good old days as a global cyberzone of freedom—where governments generally take a “hands off” approach—may be numbered.
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Turmoil at the Sierra Club?
The Sierra Club is one of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's wealthiest tax-exempt organizations. In fiscal 2002, the Club…
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Driving Away Pollution
Your next new car or truck will be the cleanest-burning one you've ever owned. And it means the end to the already-diminishing problem…
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Even Trade Politics Can Be Local
Mark Vaile, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Australia's trade minister, is in town this week asking an uncomfortable question: “Will the…
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The Global Network of Snobs
Cultural creativity is big business in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. According to the most recent data from Economists Incorporated, U.S.
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GMO Patent Nonsense
One of the most contentious issues in the debate over GM crops and foods is the existence of intellectual property protection and patents…
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Field Guide for Effective Communication
Full Text in PDF For many years, conservative and classical liberal groups have struggled to market their ideas to the…
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Extreme Measures
James Hansen, one of the fathers of global warming theory, commented in the online journal Natural Science in September last year, “Emphasis on…
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Taxing Fat, Killing Jobs
Dark clouds of uncertainty now hover over the future of some 26,000 European companies and their 2.6 million employees. These firms represent Europe’s food…
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Higher Energy Tax is the Answer
Sir, Your editorial “Cutting carbon” (January 20) misstates the efficacy of carbon cap-and-trade schemes as “the most cost-effective way of reducing pollution.”<?xml:namespace prefix…
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France Launches Global Culture War
Cultural creativity is big business in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America. According to the most recent data from Economists Incorporated, U.S.
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Time to Move on
No doubt trying to distract attention from the recent Bush-Hitler ad controversy and its sponsorship of an event where B-list celebrities used the F-word to…
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An Apple a Day
“Who are those guys?”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> That's the question that keeps popping up…
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Corporate PR Must Reach People as Consumers and Citizens
PR pros have long sought to link their efforts to clients’ return on investment. The planned campaign for the Aluminum Association, detailed in this magazine…
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Eco-Socialism: Threat to Liberty around the World
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Letter to DOE on the Risks of Kyoto Risk Insurance
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A Clear Mistake
The Clear Skies Initiative, President Bush's big environmental bill targeting power plant emissions, appears to be stalled in Congress. In an effort to…
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The Green Machine
Click on pdf link above to obtain full version of article Twenty EU member and accession states labour under a cadre…
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Europe’s Dangerous Over-Precaution
European Union (EU) officials are deliberating on whether to apply the “precautionary principle” to nearly all chemicals in commerce within the EU—a move that could…
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Russian Revolution
On <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />December 2, 2003, Andrei Illarionov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief economic adviser, stunned green activists…
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The Air Gets Cleaner, While Environmental Politics Gets Dirtier
The way the administration’s environmental critics tell it, you can’t see your hand in front of your face anymore because of all the pollution…
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Joint Letter to DOE on Transferable Credits
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December Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition:…
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Virtually Extinct
It seems that virtually every news organ in the English language has carried the story of new scientific claims published in Nature magazine that…
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Vol VIII, No. 1
Politics News of Kyoto’s Death Spreads The realization that the Kyoto Protocol is as good as dead seems to…
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The Cow that Came Home to Roost
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Non-stories are common in the media around the holidays. Last year, we…
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Finding Nemo, Losing Fear
Many thousands of children and their parents were entranced this year by Pixar's excellent movie Finding Nemo, whose combination of inventiveness, comedy, and emotion…
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Vol VII, No 25
Politics Little Happens at Gloomy COP-9 The ninth conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-9),…
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An Improved Climate
Every year, environmental alarmists claim we have taken another step on the road to ruin. This year, they claim 2003 was the third-hottest…
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Is Phone “Competition at the Crossroads?”: An Analysis of the Consumer Federation of America’s Local Competition Study
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Resentment, fear drive U.N. quest for control
There’s mounting evidence that the Internet’s good old days as a global cyberzone of freedom—where governments generally take a "hands off" approach—may be numbered.
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This Christmas, a Red-Green Split?
Europeans often talk about the Red-Green coalition, the coming together of socialists and environmentalists to save the world and its people from the…
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The Infection of Science by Public Choice:
Full Document Available in PDF Most everyone who cares about the environment…
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Patent Nonsense on GMOs Should Be Debunked
It may now seem daring to say, but in a decade's time GM foods are likely to be as widely accepted in kitchens…
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The Green Inquisitor
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Review of the Commission’s Rules Regarding the Pricing of Unbundled Network Elements and the Resale of Service by Incumbent Loca
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The Parade of Imaginary Horribles
I once had a gruff college professor who spiced his lectures with the phrase “imaginary horribles.” I think of him whenever I read…
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Russia Isn’t Bluffing on Kyoto
In late October, Vladimir Putin shocked the environmental movement the world over by announcing doubts over whether <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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DOE’s Legal Authority Regarding Transferable Credits
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Conko and Prakash Guest Editorial from BioScience News and Advocate
The use of bioengineering technology for the development of new plant varieties has been endorsed by dozens of scientific bodies, has increased crop…
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Buy Nothing Day: Sustainable Consumption at the Cost of Sustained Consumption
Black Friday. The term evokes images of crowded malls and families rushing to get through Christmas shopping lists. The Friday after Thanksgiving is…
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New Rules May Give Diesel Vehicles a Needed Boost
The vast majority of Americans are satisfied with cars and sport-utility vehicles powered by gasoline. In contrast to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns…
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Wishful Anti-spam Thinking
Tomorrow, the House is expected to pass new anti-spam legislation. The effort is understandable: The increasingly apparent downside of an Internet on which you…
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The International Green Agenda
Environmental groups were stunned when the cash-strapped Turner Founda-tion—which gave about $28 million to green causes in 2002—announced recently that it would temporarily suspend all…
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Vol. VII, No. 24
Politics Energy Department’s Proposal Omits Transferable Credits On November 26, the Department of Energy unveiled its long-awaited proposals to “enhance” the Voluntary Reporting…
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark
http://www.green-watch.com/news/news.asp?ID=167 Sherlock Holmes typically uses an innocent piece of evidence to solve a mystery. In the Adventure…