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Vol. V, No. 11
Bush May Propose Kyoto-lite While the Kyoto Protocol looks dead at the moment, it might be…
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Spence Abraham Remarks at CEI Annual Dinner
Remarks of Spencer Abraham<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> United States Secretary of Energy At the Competitive…
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Statement from CEI President Fred Smith Regarding New CBO Report on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Washington, DC, May 23, 2001 – The latest figures from the Congressional Budget Office indicating that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac receive more than $10…
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CEI To Honor Free Market Economist Julian Simon
Washington, DC, May 22, 2001—The late free market economist Julian L. Simon will be honored at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Seventh…
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CEI Comments to NRC on Arsenic
Competitive Enterprise Institute Competitive Enterprise Institute Comments to the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology National Research…
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Report Shows a Stricter Arsenic Standard Could Harm Public Health
Washington, DC, May 21, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Director of Risk and Environmental Policy and author of a new…
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The Hon. Spencer Abraham to Speak on Energy Crisis
Washington, DC, May 21, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute will feature the Honorable Spencer Abraham as keynote speaker at the 2001 Warren T. Brookes…
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Washington’s 10,000 Commandments Place Heavy Burden on American Families
Washington, DC, May 21, 2001 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released the study 10,000 Commandments: An Annual Policy Maker’s Snapshot of the…
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Bush Administration Says “Yes” to Affordable Energy for America
Washington, DC, May 17, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute commends the Bush administration’s energy plan announced today for emphasizing the need for plentiful,…
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Global Warming Games: Big Business Schemes with Environmentalists
Recently, an executive of an aging, coal-burning utility appeared before a Senate committee to testify regarding the possible threat of catastrophic man-made global…
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Arsenic and Old Politics
View Full Document as PDF President George W. Bush has been taking a lot of heat for his decision to review the…
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Latest Global Warming Report Already Obsolete
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is conducting a campaign of fear to convince us that energy suppression is our…
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Curbing Nature’s Destruction: Man-Made Chemicals Should Be Embraced Rather Than Vilified
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her, modern society embraces the idea that all things “not natural”…
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Vol. V, No. 10
Pro-Kyoto Amendment Passes House On May 16 the U.S. House of Representatives passed the State Department Budget Authorization (H.R. 1646)…
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Packing Heat: Will the Supreme Court Do Its Part for Energy Conservation?
TESTIMONY OF THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE From the May 2001 CEI UpDate The question on so many lips…
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Energy Anorexia
By now everyone (save perhaps those fateful few interviewed on the Jay Leno show) knows California has an electricity crisis From…
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Hypocrisy Highlights: John McCain and Tom Daschle
John McCain From the May 2001 CEI UpDate John McCain Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has waged an all-out…
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UN Report Blasted By One of its Own Authors
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is coming under heavy criticism from various directions From the May 2001…
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Secretary Norton Highlights Private Conservation Day
Ffteen years ago Dr From the May 2001 CEI UpDate Fifteen years ago Dr. A. G. “Skeet”…
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Surveys of Consumer Privacy Poor Foundation for Policy
Washington, DC, May 8, 2001— Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Solveig Singleton and Privacilla.org editor James Harper today released a…
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CEI Comments Before FDA on Bioengineered Foods
COMMENTS OF THE COMMENTS OF THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE TO THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION REGARDING THE…
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Bush Administration Backs Roadless Rule, Proposes Amendments
Washington, DC, May 4, 2001- The Competitive Enterprise Institute is urging the Bush administration to set a tight timetable for local forest review…
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Bush, Court to Consider “Roadless Rule” for National Forests
Washington, DC, May 3, 2001- The Competitive Enterprise Institute is urging the Bush administration to revoke the controversial “roadless rule” for national forests,…
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Vol. V, No. 9
Bush Administration Seeks Advice The New York Times reported on April 28 that the White House has held a number of high-level briefings on…
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Privacy in a Free Country: In Search of Reasonable Principles
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Bush Administration’s First 100 Days: A Report Card on Environmental Policy
Washington, DC, April 26, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released grades for President Bush’s first 100 days of environmental policy. Many of…
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South Korean Scholar Joins CEI as Visiting Fellow
Washington, DC, April 26, 2001- Young-Shin Kim, a scholar with the Center for Free Enterprise in Seoul, South Korea,…
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CEI Commends Bush for Reviewing Drinking Water Rule
Washington, DC, April 23, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute praised the Bush administration for its recent announcement that it will postpone the arsenic…
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A Senate Bill to Clean up Brownfields Also Needs a Clean-Up
Washington, DC, April 23, 2001—As the Senate prepares to debate a brownfields bill, an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute says it…
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Senate Brownfields Bill Needs a Clean-Up
If there has been one lesson learned concerning government’s ability to clean up abandoned waste sites, it’s that the states’ efforts have been…
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Vol. V, No. 8
Global Warming’s Budget Blues President George W. Bush’s proposed federal budget for FY2002 begins to…
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Media Advisory: Proponents of “Smart” Environmentalism Available for Earth Day
Washington, DC, April 17, 2001— As people around the world prepare to celebrate the 31st Earth Day, this Sunday, April 22nd, concerned individuals…
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Free Trade, Anyone? (Or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Business Forum)
From the April 2001 CEI UpDate In Calvin Coolidge’s time, the business of America was business. In our time, the…
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Hope, Not Hype, in the Golden Grains
Two years ago, practically no one had ever heard of Ingo Potrykus Two years ago, practically no one had ever heard of…
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Arsenic and Old Lies
From the April 2001 issue of CEI UpDate From the April 2001 issue of CEI UpDate …
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Rescind Clinton’s 58.5 Million-Acre Roadless Designations
In one of his last acts as president, Bill Clinton set aside 58.5 million acres of “roadless” area in the national forests. This…
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Encryption and Health Care Policy
Encryption and Health Care Policy Prepared Remarks of Solveig Singleton of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Before…
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Energy Expert Praises Bush Energy Plan
Washington DC, April 9, 2001 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group, is applauding the Bush White House for…
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Public Interest Groups Demand Real Free Trade in the Americas
Punta del Este, Uruguay, April 5, 2001— In a declaration signed today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute joined representatives…
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Blame EPA for Oil Companies’ “Price-Gouging”: Lieberman Op-Ed
Distributed by Bridge News Service Distributed by Bridge News Service April 5, 2001 WASHINGTON–Last June, drivers in Chicago…
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Vol. V, No. 7
Further Fallout from Kyoto Decision Criticism continues to fly at the United States from the European…
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Environmental Scholar to Testify Before Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Species at Risk
Washington, DC April 4, 2001 – Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Environmental Scholar Robert J. Smith will testify tomorrow on the federal Wildlife Species…
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Dead Wood
The sudden departure late last month of U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck, a Clinton-era holdover, evoked a sigh of relief in parts of the…
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Entrepreneurs and the Environment: Michael De Alessi in The World and I
Encryption and Health Care Published in The World and I April 1, 2001 Despite much ecological pessimism in recent…
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CEI Applauds FTC Report on Midwest Gasoline Price Investigation
Washington, DC, March 30, 2001—For several months, CEI policy analyst Ben Lieberman has pointed out that Environmental Protection Agency regulations helped to cause…
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Public Interest Group To Monitor FTAA Meeting in Buenos Aires
Washington, DC, March 30, 2001—When the countries involved in the Free Trade Area of the Americas process meet the first week of April,…
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CEI Applauds End of US Support for Kyoto Protocol
Washington, D.C., March 27, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Todd Whitman's…
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Clinton’s Last-Minute Environmental Regs: More Targets for the Congressional Review Act
Bill Clinton’s end-of-administration pardons and other scandals have garnered considerable attention over the past two months. However, they are not the most regrettable things the…
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Rescind the Clinton 58.5 Million Acre Roadless Designations
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Environmental Risk Expert Responds to PBS Documentary on Chemicals
Washington, DC, March 27, 2001—The director of risk and environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute is criticizing PBS for its…
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A Letter from Seoul: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Distributed by Copley News Service Distributed by Copley News Service March 26, 2001 The world economy is caught…
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Environmental Policy Expert to Testify Before Government Reform Committee on Roadless Plan for National Forests
Washington, DC, March 26, 2001 – In testimony tomorrow before the House Committee on Government Reform, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow…
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CEI Scholar to Address Congressional GOP on Brownfields
Washington, DC, March 23, 2001 – In comments before the House Republican Conference today, Competitive Enterprise Institute Adjunct Scholar Dana Joel Gattuso discussed…
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Vol. V, No. 6
Bush Decides Against Regulating CO2 President George W. Bush announced on March 13 that his administration…
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CEI’s Myron Ebell Named “Villain of the Month”
Washington, D.C., March 22, 2001—In recognition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cooler Heads Coalition’s efforts to help prevent the regulation of carbon dioxide…
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CEI Joins Energy Stewardship Alliance, Supports Oil Exploration in ANWR
CEI supports policies that will bring affordable and abundant energy to American consumers. Therefore, we are pleased to join many other organizations in the Energy…
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From Waste to Wilderness: Maintaining Biodiversity on Nuclear-Bomb-Building Sites
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Federal Government Should Abandon Current Nuclear Cleanup Program
Washington, DC, March 20, 2001—The federal government spends around $6 billion a year to clean up Department of Energy nuclear sites from World…
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Double the Tax Cuts! Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Distributed by Copley News Service Distributed by Copley News Service March 19, 2001 Sen. Tom Daschle and…
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Bush Shows Needed Leadership in Stopping Costly CO2 Plan
Published in the Detroit News Published in the Detroit News March 18, 2001 Title: Was Bush right to halt…
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Bush-Cheney Administration Makes Right Decision on Energy Policy
Washington, D.C., March 14, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group, is praising President Bush for his decision not to…
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Consumer Coalition Petitions Department of Energy to Reconsider Washer Rule
Washington, DC, March 13, 2001 – Today a coalition of public policy and consumer groups announced its plans to…
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Public Interest Group Criticizes Attack on OMB Nominee
Washington, D.C., March 13, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is accusing critics of the Administration’s new Office of Management and Budget nominee, John D.
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Don’t Give Up the SS Bully Pulpit: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Distributed by Copley News Service Distributed by Copley News Service March 12, 2001 President Bush's approach to tax cutting…
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Bush Administration Poised to Propose Hike in Electricity Costs Larger than Tax Cut
Washington, D.C., March 9, 2001—Senior Bush Administration officials are pushing regulatory energy policies that will cost Americans more than they will gain in…
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Vol. V, No. 5
The wrongheaded policies of the Clinton-Gore Administration have found new and perhaps more vigorous life within the Bush Administration. Recently, senior officials have made several…
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United Nations Perverts Science for Political Advantage
Washington, D.C., March 7, 2001 – The release this week of the United Nations’ latest summary reports on global warming have many of the scientists…
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Why the War on Money Laundering Should be Aborted
Dr. Richard W. Rahn, Chairman of Novecon Financial, was one of the contributors to The Future of Financial Privacy: Private Choices versus Political Rules (2000). He…
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Jack Kemp Speaks Out on High Tech Regulation
Tyson’s Corner, VA, March 6, 2001- Jack Kemp, former GOP vice presidential candidate, Distinguished Fellow of the Washington, D.C. based Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
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CEI Statement on Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve
Washington, DC, March 6, 2001 – Today in a press conference at the headquarters of the Department of Energy, Senator Bob Smith (R-NH),…
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The United Nations’ Global Warming Slapshot
California Governor Gray Davis and the state’s Democratic legislature are starting to seize control of the energy industry in To great fanfare, on…
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When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story
A recent New York Times article unveiled an interesting archaeological discovery: the earliest genetic evidence of malaria infection. According to the February 20…
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Another Attack on the Economy: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Distributed by Copley News Service Distributed by Copley News Service March 5, 2001 As if we haven't already had…
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Powerful Arguments
California Governor Gray Davis and the state’s Democratic legislature are starting to seize control of the energy industry in A…
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Now, Who’s to Blame?
California Governor Gray Davis and the state’s Democratic legislature are starting to seize control of the energy industry in Next to the…
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Half a Yosemite
California Governor Gray Davis and the state’s Democratic legislature are starting to seize control of the energy industry in…
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James Gattuso Digital Television Testimony
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The Fault in Our Stars
George W. Bush’s economic program–focused on tax cuts and (somewhat) restrained spending–has come under criticism from many quarters. The strangest critique, however, came even before…
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Leading Climate Scientist Disputes Global Warming Theories
Washington, D.C., March 1, 2001 – In a briefing before congressional staff, members of the press and scientists, Professor Richard S. Lindzen of the Massachusetts…
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Gattuso Testifies on Future of Digital Television
Washington, D.C., March 1, 2001 – In testimony presented today to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,…
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CEI Expert Testifies Before Congress on Privacy
Washington, D.C., March 1, 2001 – In testimony presented today to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Competitive Enterprise Institute senior analyst…
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Congress Holds Private Conservation Hearings
We expect "firsts" to occur at the beginning of a new legislative session Freeman Op-Ed in Environment and Climate News We expect…
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CEI Disappointed in Supreme Court Clean Air Act Decision
Washington, DC, February 27, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today announced its disappointment with the Supreme Court’s decision concerning the Clean Air…
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Statement on the National Energy Security Policy Act of 2001
Washington, DC, February 26, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute commends Senator Frank Murkowski for introducing the National Energy Security Policy Act of 2001. We…
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Time to End Deflation: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Distributed by Copley News Service Distributed by Copley News Service February 26, 2001 Neither tax cuts nor interest rate…
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When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story
(This On Point is adapted from the paper, “When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story,” published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 2001, and…
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Vol. V, No. 4
IPCC, the Mythmaker In its latest headline grabbing move, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
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Supreme Court Denies Review of Endangered Species Program’s Constitutionality
Washington, DC, February 20, 2001 – The United States Supreme Court today declined to review the constitutionality of a federal endangered species restriction…
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UN’s Global Warming Report: Politics in Scientific Clothing
To great fanfare, on January 20 the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) approved and released the “Summary for Policymakers” of…
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Renewing the Power Supply: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
California Gov Distributed by Copley News Service February 12, 2001 California Gov. Gray Davis and the state's Democratic legislature…
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Designer Jeans from Designer Genes: Henry Miller National Post Op-Ed
California Gov Published February 12, 2001 The National Post (Canada) Self-styled environmentalists have been virtually unanimous in opposing biotechnology,…
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Vol. V, No. 3
UK Conservatives Would Repeal Levy The British Parliament has passed a climate levy on energy use…
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Testimony Before The Transportation Research Board in 2001
TESTIMONY BEFORE THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ON THE EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT OF CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY…
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The Gipper at 90: Jack Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Published in the Los Angeles Times Distributed by Copley News Service February 5, 2001 In his first year as…
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FDA Fails to Give Olestra Fair Weight: Henry Miller LA Times Op-Ed
Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times February 4, 2001 The sad…
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Wall Street Speech Police
Late last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission implemented Regulation FD, a restriction meant to guarantee “fair disclosure” of corporate information to investors in publicly…
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CEQ: Conservation Fund President among top candidates to head council
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Senate Confirms Norton, Whitman
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Kickoff for Economic Growth
Washington, D.C., is a funny place. It’s probably the only place on Earth where a majority of people turn to the editorial page of the newspaper before they…
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Kicking Off a Season of Economic Growth: Kemp Nationally Syndicated Column
Published January 29, 2001 Published January 29, 2001 Distributed by Copley News Service Washington, D.C., is a…