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Vol. IV, No.19
Europe’s Anti-Fuel Tax Protests Truck and taxi drivers across Europe and Great Britain have…
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A Scorched-Earth Debate Hits West
Smoke still is rising from vast scorched acreage in the Rocky Mountain West, and fire continues ruthlessly to consume the tinderbox that much of the…
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Abolish The Forest Service: Bob Nelson in Forbes Magazine
Thin out small trees to protect forests from fire. Not a bad idea, as recently floated by the U.S. Forest Service, but too late when…
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Western Wildfires: Seeing the Forest Through Dense, Dead, and Diseased Trees
This year’s forest-fire season in the West may be the worst in 50 years. An area larger than Maryland-6.5 million acres-has burned, and…
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Foreign Policy a Crucial Issue: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer September 13, 2000 As the presidential campaign heads into…
News Release
Gattuso/Singleton Letter to Rep. Tauzin on Reciprocal Compensation
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> September 11, 2000…
Study
Ignorance Is Us: Toys, Music, and Antitrust Regulations
Decades ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had a reputation for using the antitrust laws to defend mom-and-pop stores against the retailing…
Comment
Restoring Forest Health and Avoiding Catastrophic Fire on Federal Lands
Comment
Restoring Forest Health and Avoiding Catastrophic Fire on Federal Lands, Part II
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Nader Has the Courage to Fight a Totem
The vice president is worried about Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Robert Kennedy Jr. summed up his concern nicely: “Nader’s candidacy could siphon votes…
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Punish Ford-Firestone, But Don’t Reward NHTSA: Kazman WSJ Op-Ed
Published in the Wall Street Journal September 12, 2000 This year’s worst tire disaster claimed more than 100 lives. It came after scores of documented…
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Got a Computer? More Power To You: Mills/Huber Op-ed in Wall Street Journal
It takes electrons to move bits Published in the Wall Street Journal September 6, 2000 It takes electrons to move bits. The…
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Got a Computer? More Power To You: Mills/Huber Op-ed in Wall Street Journal
It takes electrons to move bits Published in the Wall Street Journal September 6, 2000 It takes electrons to move bits. The…
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Weed Control has Caused Skylark’s Decline (Letter to the Editor)
From Mr Gregory Conko. Sir, Your article “Bird numbers `under threat’ from GM crops” (September 1) reported on a study in the current issue of…
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Effects of GM Confused with Those of Farming Practices: Conko Letter to Financial Times
Published in The Financial Times Published in The Financial Times September 6, 2000, Wednesday London Edition 1 …
Newsletter
Vol. IV, No. 18
Expectations Lowered for Lyon and the Hague In preparation for the Sixth Conference of…
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Classroom Warfare
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Study Calls for EPA to Get Out of the Brownfield Business
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All the News That’s Fit to Make Up: The New York Times Eats Its Words on Global Warming
Finally someone has brought the climate change debate back down to earth Global Warming Fibbing Inspires David Letterman Mockery …
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The Winds Of Global Change: Which Way Are They Blowing?
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Throwing Precaution to the Wind: The Perils of the Precautionary Principle
From the August/September issue of CEI UpDate Mom always said, “Better safe than sorry.” Dad, on the other hand, believed…
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Dana Joel Gattuso Brownfields Op-Ed in Washington Times
If egotism is “the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see,” Vice President Al Gore is a master. He is…
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Pesticides and You, Puhfect Together? The Garden State’s Hands-Off Policy in Dealing with Deadly Mosquitos
In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues surrounding the America Online/Time Warner merger From the August/September…
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Fannie and Freddie: Fiscal Frauds
From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate Those who fear that undue accumulations of power are destabilizing the American economy always…
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Let’s Go to the Videotape! Documentary Provides Balance to Save-the-Rainforest Celebs
From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate Two cute tamarinds, perched on a branch, appear to frown and furrow their brows with…
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Prohibition, Privacy & Protection: The Real Online Gamble
From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate. On August 10, Jay Cohen was sentenced to 21 months in prison and a $5,000 fine. His…
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Clearing the National Forests’ Underbrush: Freeman/Simmons Op-Ed in Raleigh N-O
Published in the News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune News…
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From the Pumps to the Polls
WILL THIS SUMMER’S HIGH GAS PRICES HELP SHAPE THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS will this summer’s High Gas Prices help shape the November…
Products
An Instant Message to AOL’s Competitors
From the August/September 2000 issue of CEI UpDate In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues…
Study
The Clean Air Act’s Contribution to Higher Gas Prices
Labor Day weekend will bring the 2000 summer driving season to a close, and it has been an expensive one for America’s car owners. Federal…
Study
Publicity Value of Having Someone Do a Take-Off on Your Commercial: Priceless
Last week, MasterCard filed a $5 million law suit against Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign for piggybacking on its “Priceless” ad series. …
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Kemp — A Decade Lost: 10 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, What Went Wrong?
In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues surrounding the America Online/Time Warner merger From the August/September…
Op-Eds
Resistance Dropping Toward Biotech Foods
In spite of an ill-considered, anti-progress publicity campaign from left wing self-appointed consumer and environmental groups, the New Green Revolution based on genetic engineering is…
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Resistance Dropping to Biotech Foods: Kemp Op-Ed in Chicago Tribune
Published in the Chicago Tribune Published in the Chicago Tribune August 25, 2000 In spite of an ill-considered,…
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Odds & Ends: Hannibal Regulator; Greenpeace Hitting Bottom; Nutty for Nader; Cabbage or the Gettysburg Address?
In late July, the Federal Communiations Commission held a hearing on issues surrounding the America Online/Time Warner merger From the August/September…
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Stick to the Facts, Mr. President: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 23, 2000, Wednesday Vice…
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Class Clash and Fabrication
Vice President Al Gore and President Clinton not only took sole credit for today’s splendid economy in their speeches last week at the Democratic National Convention,…
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Privacy Precepts Learned the Hard Way: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
For recently bankrupt Toysmart.com, trying to liquidate its customer information database has been more like playing with matches than children’s toys. Last week’s…
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Don’t be too Quick to Condemn Lifesaving Pesticides (Letter to the Editor)
Dear Editor: People certainly should be concerned about the declining lobster population in New York, (“A deadly mosquito cure,” Aug. 1) But we should not…
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Internet, EPA and Terrorism? Logomasini Op-Ed in Washington Times
You know things are seriously wrong when taxpayers underwrite the costs of collecting and disseminating information that will Published in the Washington…
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Lieberman Makes Good Republican: Kemp Op-Ed in Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 16, 2000 A couple of weeks ago in this…
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Is Your Washer Politically Incorrect
The federal government thinks your clothes washer is contributing to global warming and is going to make you do something about it. Over the past few…
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Western Fires: How Much Longer Until Feds Will Listen?
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The Hidden Burden
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Republicans Reclaiming Blacks: Kemp Op-Ed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
…And The Party Is Doing It By Reclaiming The Legacy The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln …And The Party Is Doing It By…
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Cooler Heads Coalition Files Lawsuit Against USCGRP’s “National Assessment” on Global Climate Change
Full Document Available in PDF Format Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. App. Section 10, the Federal Advisory Committee Act (“FACA”), and toward…
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Blood Supply Besieged: Logomasini Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times Published in the Washington Times August 10, 2000 In a recent letter to the…
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On Importance of Vector Control: Zambone Letter to the Editor on the West Nile Virus
Published in The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Published in The Record (Bergen County, NJ) August 10, 2000 …
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Fires By Design: Bob Nelson Op-Ed in Washington Post
Published in the Washington Post Published in the Washington Post August 9, 2000 This year's forest fire season in the West may…
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Congress Supports EPA’s Biased and Politicized Environmental Education: Sanera Op-Ed
Published in various regional papers Published in various regional papers August 2000 Do you know that your children…
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Swap New For Old: Congress Shouldn’t Impose Tired Rules On OTC Derivatives — Sheehan in IBD
Published in Investor’s Business Daily Published in Investor’s Business Daily August 9, 2000 America's continued financial leadership…
Newsletter
Vol. IV, No. 16
U.S. Proposes Carbon Sinks for Kyoto The U.S. filed a proposal on August 1 to the…
Study
A Burning Issue
This book argues that the U.S. Forest Service has outlived its usefulness. It should be abolished. Founded in 1905,…
Op-Eds
Opening Supply Side Doors: Kemp on Dick Cheney
Published in The Washington Times Published in The Washington Times August 3, 2000 Richard B. Cheney, George…
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With Cheney, Smart Economics in Supply
Richard Cheney, George W. Bush’s choice for running mate, understands that this marvelous “new” economy we enjoy today began with the across-the-board tax-rate reductions…
Newsletter
Vol. IV, No. 17
The Candidates and the Platforms The Kyoto Protocol and global warming are not, or…
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Double-Click For Consumers: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> August 1, 2000 “We…
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Free Money: Campaign Finance “Loopholes” are the Best Part of the System: DeLong Article in Reason Magazine
Published in Reason Magazine Published in Reason Magazine August 2000 Once again we are preparing to choose federal, state,…
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Spending on Red Tape is Rising
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Aren’t High Gas Prices Part of What Gore Believes In?–Kemp in IBD
Published in Investor's Business Daily Published in Investor’s Business Daily July 26, 2000 Surging oil prices, combined with new Environmental Protection…
Newsletter
Vol. IV, No. 15
The NACC’s Compliance Problems Continuing White House stonewalling on the National Assessment on Climate…
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Lessons From the Western Fires: Colorado Can Learn From Los Alamos — Nelson Op-Ed in Denver Post
Published in the Denver Post Published in the Denver Post June 25, 2000 You may have seen the…
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Canada Misses a Fat Chance: Henry Miller Op-Ed in the National Post
Published in the National Post (Canada) July 25, 2000 Canadian regulators’ decision to ban the fat substitute olestra runs against both…
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Child Online Protection Act Won’t Protect Our Children: Alban Op-Ed in Idaho Statesman
Published in The Idaho Statesman July 20, 2000 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Who could be…
Study
Poisonous Propaganda: Global Echoes of an Anti-Vinyl Agenda
Full Document Available in PDF Led by Greenpeace,…
Study
Revitalizing Urban America: Cleaning up the Brownfields
Full Document Available in PDF Despite Washington’s…
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Protecting Privacy on the Internet: Melugin Op-Ed in Washington Times
Published in the Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> July 5, 2000 The…
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Greenhouse Policy Without Regrets: A Free Market Approach to the Uncertain Risks of Climate Change
Full Document Available…
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Smokey Bear’s Bad Adventure: Bob Nelson Op-Ed in Sacramento Bee
Copyright 2000 McClatchy Newspapers, Inc Published in the Sacramento Bee July 12, 2000 Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune News…
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Vol. IV, No. 14
Politics White House Rebuffs Congressmen on National Assessment The stench of the National Assessment has reached Congress. Representatives James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the…
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Apocalypse Soon: Climate Assessment is Based on Fear
“Many statements in the Overview Document have a rather extreme/alarmist tone and do not appear to fairly reflect the scientific literature, the historical record, or…
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Lights Out on Subsidies: Why We Need to Turn Off the Switch on Federal Subsidies for Energy
This article is excerpted from Greenhouse Policy Without Regrets: A Free Market Approach to the Uncertain Risks of Climate Change, a new study…
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A Plague of Regulators
A new regulatory plague is descending upon the land. While we as a nation have become more accomplished at fighting the plagues of…
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Running on Empty: Demagoguery the Price of Lack of Real-World Experience
With the price of a gallon of gas shooting up to nearly $2.50 in parts of the Midwest, and near-record highs in other…
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Precautionary Foolishness
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Airline Mergers: What to Fear
Sometimes it seems that if you stick around Washington long enough, you start to see policy issues repeat themselves, coming around for a…
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Foul Water or Foul Science? The EPA Targets America’s Farms
Next up in the regulatory bulls-eye: American agri-culture. Washington’s tool to expand its scope over this sector of the economy comes in the…
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Kemp — Real Tax Reform First: Don’t Tackle Net Taxation until We Overhaul the System
More than 100 million American adults now use the Internet, up from 65 million in mid-1998 and 84 million at the end of 1998. …
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Politics & Privacy
New developments in the online-privacy debate are threatening to push federal and state bureaucrats’ desire for regulatory control to critical mass. Not only…
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Say Goodbye to Your Washing Machine
The federal government thinks your clothes washer is contributing to global warming, and the feds intend to make you do something about it. …
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CEI Bookshelf: Political Environmentalism
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM Going Behind the Green Curtain Edited by Terry Anderson Hoover Institution Press (2000) Softcover, $19.95…
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Odds & Ends: PETA Notes; Government Gaffes; High Tech Divorce?
PACKING IT IN The sensitivity monitors at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are taking their crusade to the world of…
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Vol. IV, No. 13
Gore Plans to Implement Kyoto Protocol If Elected President…
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Phillips Petroleum Company Funds the Politicizing of Children on Environmental Issues
Phillips Petroleum Company provides the funds for the distribution of the “Wild About Life: Activity Guide” to the nation’s middle and high schools. …
Op-Eds
Gas Price Scapegoating: Lieberman in the Chicago Sun Times
Published in the Chicago Sun Times Published in the Chicago Sun Times June 25, 2000 The White House…
Washington Times
Fed Up. . . or Well Served by Fannie and Freddie?
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Gas Price Scapegoating in Washington
Federal regulators held an emergency meeting Monday, June 12, in an effort to find out who is behind the recent surge in gasoline prices, particularly…
Comment
CEI Expert Testifies on Trade and International Environment
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, thank you for the invitation to testify here today on the important topic of the connections between international trade and…
Comment
Fred Smith Supplemental Remarks
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Lawmakers Should Consider Outcomes When Micromanaging Fuel Supplies
Federal regulators held an emergency meeting last week in an effort to find out who is behind the recent surge in gasoline prices, particularly in…
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Uncle Sam Gets Burned Out West
Some say the world will end in fire,” wrote the poet Robert Frost, “some say in ice.” But after the wildfires U.S. westerners recently witnessed…
News Release
Kemp on Clinton and Global Warming
June 15, 2000 – With gas prices surging, and EPA responsible for up to 40 cents of the record-high price in the Midwest…
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CEI President Testifies on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
Full Document Available in PDF Fred L. Smith, Jr. Testimony Before the House…
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Vol. IV, No. 12
National Assessment: Scientific Fraud, Media Hype, and Legal Problems The U.S. National Assessment on the Climate…
Washington Times
Harsh Change Predicted for California Climate
News Release
Global Warming Study Filled With Junk Science, Political Biases
Washington, DC, June 12, 2000 – The so-called National Assessment on Climate Change (NACC) formally released today by a federal government panel is a…
News Release
CEI Comments to USDA on Proposed Organic Rules
COMMENTS OF THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE,…
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Capitol Hill Briefing on Forest Policy
The Competitive Enterprise Institute<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> invites you to a lunch briefing with Dr. Robert H.
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EPA Limits Consumer Options in Control of Pests
Washington, DC, June 8, 2000 – “Today, EPA has begun its effort to regulate away the public’s ability to protect itself from disease-carrying…
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CEI Statement on the Microsoft Case
Washington, DC, June 7, 2000 – Today’s Microsoft verdict represents an unjustified assault on the information revolution and the welfare of consumers, in favor…