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A Burning Issue
This book argues that the U.S. Forest Service has outlived its usefulness. It should be abolished. Founded in 1905,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Poisonous Propaganda: Global Echoes of an Anti-Vinyl Agenda
Full Document Available in PDF Led by Greenpeace,…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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CEI Scholar Testifies Before Congress on Forest Policy
Full Document Available in PDF My name is Robert H. Nelson. I am a Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Public…
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Death By Caution: Fuel Economy Standards Cost Lives
The Precautionary Principle has become the rhetorical war-horse of the global warming movement. With the Earth's survival at issue, environmentalists claim, it's surely…
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Labelling And Risk: The Case Of Bioengineered Foods
More and more, consumers are basing their food purchases on individual preferences about food content. For many consumers this means a focus on nutrition or…
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NEW CEI BOOK: Free Market Environmental Reader Now Available
Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Jonathan H. Adler, Editor Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Click here to order Ecology, Liberty…
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Ecology, Liberty & Property
Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Are free markets and environmental protection compatible? Is…
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Introduction to ‘Ecology, Liberty, and Property’
The book "Ecology, Liberty, and Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader," edited by Jonathan H. Adler, was published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2000.
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Pollution Lawsuit Overkill
Nearly every day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces a new lawsuit or administrative action against an alleged industrial polluter. Many people, especially those…
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CARA Land Grab a Congressional Wallet Snatch
On May 11 the House of Representatives voted 315 to 102 to pass the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA), which now goes to the…
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Flames at Los Alamos: What Went Wrong?
In December 1999, the Los Alamos National Laboratory identified “wildfire as the greatest threat to Los Alamos operations.” As recently as April, Diana Webb,…
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EPA Rule Places Americans at Risk
June 1, 2000 – “Americans may face increased risks of contracting potentially deadly and debilitating diseases under a recently proposed rule,” said Jennifer…
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Climate Change Panel Produces Unlawful Report
Washington, DC, June 1, 2000 – A meeting today of the U.S. Global Change Research Program should raise concerns among global warming and legal experts,…
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Proposed EPA Rule Would Assist Terrorists
Washington, DC, June 1, 2000 – Activist groups will likely post information on the Internet that would help terrorists select targets and maximize…
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James Gattuso Reviews “Winners, Losers and Microsoft”
Artemus Ward once remarked that the problem with the world isn’t what we don’t know: “It’s the things we know that just ain’t…
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Monomania
While on a recent trip to Seattle, I was tempted to ride on the local religious icon – the monorail relic from the…
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The Peaceable Kingdom
A recent meeting between Christian Right leader, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, and gay rights activists, the Reverend Mel White, suggests that America may…
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Free Trade Is Green Trade
Environmentalist objections to trade and proposals for the “greening” of trade are a fundamental assault on free trade principles. They also threaten environmental quality. Free…
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Utility Futility at the EPA
Last November, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wave of lawsuits against 17 electric power plants in the Midwest and South. The agency claims…
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Thoughts on the Passing Scene
From the Editor Protesting Without a Clue It’s been two months since Washington, DC, was overrun with mobs…
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Odds & Ends: Hot XXX Insider Trading; Paul Newman’s Own Green; Gilder’s Wisdom; A Sunny Mourning
50 EGGS IN AN HOUR 50 EGGS IN AN HOUR? UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED! Hollywood legend Paul Newman hosted a fundraiser in…
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CEI Book Review: The Way the World Works
The Way the World Works 20th Anniversary Edition by Jude Wanniski Introduction by Robert Novak Gateway Books…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released last month, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and use…
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The Risks of Risk Regulation
Portions of the following are adapted from “Deadly Fallout of Too Many Rules” and “Regulated…Out of this World” in the Washington Times, June 2 and…
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Vol. IV, No. 11
House Rejects CAFE Increases The annual fight over whether U.S. auto companies should be forced…
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“Precautionary Principle” Stalls Advances in Food Technology
Reprinted with permission by the Washington Legal Foundation. For more information, please see www.wlf.org. Agricultural biotechnology…
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Institute Blasts Global Warming Misinformation
Washington, D.C., May 25, 2000 – The claims that global warming would harm agricultural productivity are contradicted by a wealth of scientific and…
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Empowering Consumers on the Internet: How Privacy-Protecting Technologies Have Rendered Regulation Unnecessary
The Federal Trade Commission’s latest online privacy report, released earlier this week, calls for federal regulation of the way Internet companies collect and…
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Global Warming Briefing: What’s Wrong with UN Climate Science?
What:<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> A 1-day conference on global warming science during which climate experts from around the globe will…
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The Forest Service Plays With Fire: Riggs/Simmons Op-Ed in OC Register
Published in the Orange County Register May 21, 2000<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Do…
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Vol. IV, No. 10
Politics EPA Blasts the National Assessment The National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Change is under attack from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,…
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The Washington Post Magazine
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Stock Market Roulette or Fiscal Snobbery?
One of the great debates of our time is whether it is possible for America to become a shareholder democracy, in which all workers can own assets and…
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Internet Taxation: Why Wyden Won’t Wash
View Full Document as PDF After only three weeks of what apparently passes for congressional deliberation these days, the Internet tax…
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Fueling Los Alamos: Longstanding Federal Land Mismanagement Coupled with Recent Timber Restrictions Create Combustible Mix
Washington, DC, May 11, 2000 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute charged that fires like the one raging at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in…
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House Passes Massive Land-Grab Bill: Majority of Republicans Abandon Private Property and Balanced Budget for Pork
Washington, D.C., May 11, 2000 – In the same week the national laboratories at Los Alamos were evacuated due to out-of-control wildfire on government…
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Mosquitos and Misinformation Surround Malaria Scare
During this spring and summer, you will hear the sounds of many insects: the buzz of the bee, the chirp of the cricket, the…
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10,000 Commandments — New Report Details REAL Cost of Government
Washington, DC, May 9, 2000 – As last minute filers rushed to finish their taxes and write their checks to the government recently, Congress…
Washington Times
EPA’s Gas Price Contribution
Last December, when the Environmental Protection Agency announced a tough new standard for sulfur content in gasoline, few seemed concerned that the supposedly cleaner-burning fuel…
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Internet Taxation: Controversy Likely to Continue
Less than a month after the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC) delivered its report to Congress, the House Judiciary Committee has passed a…
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Global Warming Petition Project (Letter to the Editor)
To THE EDITORS: John B. Judis attacks as “patently false” the statement in our radio ads that “thousands of scientists agree that there’s no solid…
Washington Times
Show of Force vs Law
Reasonable people might be able to disagree on whether 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be granted asylum in the United States or placed in the sole custody…
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End the “Bank Anti-Secrecy” Assault on Financial Privacy
View Full Document as PDF Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers recently announced plans to ask Congress to greatly expand the powers of the…
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Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee Statement on Regulatory Restructuring
Washington, DC, May 5, 2000 – The Shadow Insurance Regulation Committee concludes that the two main objectives of any restructuring of insurance regulation…
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New Smart Air Bag Rule as Bad as the Original Mandate
WASHIGNTON, DC, May 5, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that NHTSA’s new smart air bag rule could be a potentially deadly replay…
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Vol. IV, No. 9
Politics New Jersey/Seattle Guinea Pigs? No, this story is not about how global warming is harming guinea pigs in New Jersey and Seattle.
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Biker Chicks
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Thumbs Down On FDA Rules For Biotech Food
Washington, D.C. May 3, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today issued a strong condemnation of proposed new regulations for genetically-engineered foods expected…
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Judge Greene of the 21st Century?
The Justice Department’s plan was simple. Just break up the company into separate firms, based upon product lines. The parts with monopoly or bottleneck…
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New Earth in the Balance; Same Old Muddled Thinking
May 1, 2000 — Ah, how the time flies. It’s been 30 years since Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and company sponsored the first Earth…
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Unwisdom From the Academy
A long-awaited report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation of recombinant DNA-manipulated plants that was released last month…
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Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Linked—Again
The latest government press conference on the ozone layer, held on April 5th, announced that this protective shield had been eroded over the Arctic…
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Development Bankruptcy
World Bank/IMF Protestors Had the Right Idea, But For the Wrong Reasons The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are…
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Dazed and Confused: Protestors Blame the Market for Government Abuses
The protests in Washington, DC, ignited by the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attracted a wide array of…