News Release
CEI Blasts EPA’s “Worst Case Scenario” Info Release: Proposed Amendment Can Deter Terrorists, Extremists Groups Want I
Washington, DC, May 6, 1999 – The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee may consider an amendment today to the federal Clean Air Act…
Op-Eds
Suburbs Enter the Presidential Race (Letter to the Editor)
To the Editor: Re “Two Parties Seek to Exploit a Relentless Boom in the Suburbs” (news article, May 4): Vice President Al Gore and…
Orange County Register
Garages: Good for Business
News Release
VP Gore’s “Town Meeting” Is Mostly Government, Not Much Town: EPA Spends Taxpayer Money to Honor Grant Recipients, Its
Washington, DC, May 3, 1999 – “Organizers of the National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America, meeting this week in Detroit, MI, describe it…
Op-Eds
Enemies Of The Stasis
Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Virginia Postrel's excellent book “The Future and Its Enemies” details the…
Op-Eds
Enemies of the Stasis
Virginia Postrel’s excellent The Future and Its Enemies (Free Press, 1998, 265 pages) details the many ways in which the forces of dynamism conflict with…
News Release
CEI Attacks New EPA Auto Emissions Proposal: A Black Hole, Sucking In Money While Emitting Zero Health Benefits
Washington, DC, April 30, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today denounced the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) forthcoming auto emissions proposal as an incredibly…
News Release
Jack Kemp Named Distinguished Fellow At Competitive Enterprise Institute
Washington, DC, April 29, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce that the Honorable Jack Kemp has been named CEI’s first…
Orange County Register
A Look at Resourceful Earth Day
April 22, once associated with the optimism of revolutionary Marxism (as the birthday of Lenin) and then with the pessimism of modern Malthusianism (as the…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 9
Politics Senate Bill Would Spend $2 Billion to Prevent Global Warming On April 27 Senators Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman…
News Release
Administration Honors Scientist, But Ignores His Work
Washington, DC, April 27, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today congratulates Dr. Bruce Ames for his receipt of the National Medal of…
News Release
The Case Against The Case Against Microsoft: New Study Criticizes DOJ Case
Washington, DC, April 27, 1999 – Are Microsoft’s current business practices hurting consumers? A new study by Barry Fagin, Senior Fellow in Technology Policy…
News Release
“A celebration of human ingenuity”: Resourceful Earth Day
CEI joins many different groups in celebrating Resourceful Earth Day on April 22. In memory of Julian Simon, Resourceful Earth Day celebrates and debates…
Orange County Register
Coming Down to Earth Day
Today is Earth Day. Every year since 1970, environmental activist groups have used this day to warn of “impending environmental catastrophe and advocate new government programs,…
Study
The Anti-Environment Estate Tax: Why the “Death Tax” Is Deadly for Endangered Species
View Full Document as PDF The economic and social benefits of repealing the “death tax” are well known. Repeal of the…
Comment
Testimony on the Bank Secrecy Act and Privacy Policy
News Release
Fact And Fiction On “Smart Growth” & “Urban Sprawl”
Vice President Al Gore and environmental activists argue that suburban development, pejoratively called “urban sprawl,” is destroying the environment. Loss of farmland and open…
News Release
Earth Day Is A Time To Remember The Proud History Of Private Stewardship, Says Conservation Group
April 22 should be a time of reflection on the great efforts by the thousands of people who work diligently to preserve some small…
Newsletter
The Sovereignty Implications of the Kyoto Protocol
I understand you have already heard a number of talks about the Kyoto Protocol, and a lot about the economics, and the science of…
News Release
Dan Quayle To Address Institute Dinner: Former Vice President Will Offer Assessment of Environmental Issues
Washington, D.C., April 15, 1999 – Former Vice President Dan Quayle will give the keynote address at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Warren T. Brookes…
News Release
Risk And Environmental Information: Federal Data Mandates, Mandates to Misinform
Information is a valuable tool, but sometimes misinformation is more powerful. As we approach Earth Day 1999, CEI observes the state of environmental information…
Orange County Register
High Price of Regulations
Energy Central
CEI Analyst Says Scrap Open Access Legislation
News Release
Where’s the Warming? Unusual Weather Does Not Equal Climate Change
The debate over human-induced global warming is far from settled. Listening to radical environmental activists and Vice President Al Gore, however, would give one…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 8
Politics Green Activists Criticize Gores Environmental Record If Al Gore wants to become the next president of the United…
Comment
Testimony Of James M. Sheehan Before the House Of Representatives Committee On International Relations Subcommittee On Internati
News Release
Media Advisory: Earth Day Experts
Most Americans want a clean environment. That is no surprise. What surprises traditional environmental activists is that most people don’t support extensive federal regulation.
News Release
Pro-Environment, Not Pro-EPA: Americans want environmental protection, but not more federal regulation
America’s support for strong environmental protection does not translate into strong support for heavy-handed federal regulation. CEI’s just released National Environmental Survey demonstrates that…
News Release
Pro-Environment, Not Pro-EPA: Americans want environmental protection, but not more federal regulation
America’s support for strong environmental protection does not translate into strong support for heavy-handed federal regulation. CEI’s just released National Environmental Survey demonstrates that…
Study
Electric Chairmen Can Throw Switch on Phony Deregulation
View Full Document as PDF The local electric power monopoly is the only game in town for consumers, something reformers have…
News Release
Politicization Through Fear (Environmental Education): Environmental Education in our Nation’s Schools
Using children to politicize environmental issues is a common tactic of activist environmental groups. Professional environmental educators, however, are more subtle. The North American…
Energy Central
Vice President’s Plan to Change Method to Measure GDP (Letter to the Editor)
Michael Evans’ April 6 commentary “Misguided Solution for debtors” did eh:. excellent job of refuting .Vice. President Al Gore’s plan’ to sell the gold reserves…
Energy Central
Is More Privacy a Good Idea? (Letter to the Editor)
To the Editor: Amitai Etzioni (“Privacy. Isn’t Dead Yet,” Op-Ed, April 6) vastly understates the availability of technologies that provide “cyberspace anonymity.” His worries about…
Study
Free Speech and Alcohol: How Much Is Too Much?
On February 5th, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), approved two wine labels containing the following statements: The proud people…
Study
INTELligent Lessons from an Antitrust Blunder
View Full Document as PDF The FTC’s approval in March of a settlement with Intel closed an unfortunate chapter in American…
Study
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association
Study
The Case Against The Case Against Microsoft
Full Document Available in PDF The current antitrust case against Microsoft has…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 7
Politics Senators Hagel and Murkowski to Introduce Global Warming Bill Senators Frank Murkowski (R-AK), Chairman of the Senate Energy…
Comment
U.S. Perspectives on Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace — Comment, P994312
Comment
The Regulatory Right-to-Know Act: Making Regulatory Disclosure Work
Newsletter
The Ecological Benefits Of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels
Full Briefing available in PDF format. 2325 RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESWASHINGTON, DC I…
Study
The Simple ABC’s of Regulatory Reform
View Full Document as PDF Streaming out of Washington now are sometimes bizarre regulations covering, among other things; workplace ergonomics, flammability…
Energy Central
Congress Reins in Regulatory Beast
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 6
Politics New Early Action Bill Introduced The latest attempt to smooth the way for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol is…
Study
Culling To Be Kind: Why This Year’s Ivory Sales Will Help Elephant Conservation
View Full Document as PDF This month, nearly 34 tons of elephant ivory from Namibia and Zimbabwe will be shipped to…
Washington Times
Keep Your Mittens
Washington Times
Who Should Pay for College Tuition (Letter to the Editor)
As a student I appreciate your call for colleges and universities to ante up more of their own funds to pay for needy students’ tuition…
Study
Passenger Service Regulation: A Placebo for Air Travel
View Full Document as PDF Spurred by several recent travel horror stories, the quality of airline travel has become a hot…
Washington Times
Kyoto Lobby Kills Small Business
Credit for early action — a policy proposal developed by the Environmental Defense Fund, warmly embraced by the Clinton-Gore administration, and championed by. Rhode Island Republican…
Washington Times
Pa.’s Growing Greener Plan Favors Rich Over Poor (Letter to the Editor)
Gov. Ridge calls his Growing Greener Initiative “the most sweeping change in environmental spending policy in 30 years” (Inquirer, Feb. 24). His plan redirects money…
Comment
“Know Your Customer” as Incoherent Privacy Policy
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 5
Politics Iceland Will Not Sign Kyoto The first major defection from the Kyoto Protocol comes from an unlikely source.
Washington Times
Dollar Billed
Study
Conservation and the Public Trust Doctrine
Full Document Available in PDF The public trust doctrine has been evolving since…
Study
Ending The Forest Fire Gridlock: Making Fire Fighting In The West A State And Local Responsibility
Full Document Available…
Study
Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1999 Edition)
Full Document Available in PDF The federal government spent $1.65 trillion in 1998 to…
Study
The Problems With Planning: A Free-Market Guide To Suburban Development & “Urban Sprawl”
A brief overview of…
Op-Eds
The New Trustbusters
Joel Klein is a famous man. The head of the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice usually toils in anonymity, known only…
Study
The First Family’s Asthma Problems
View Full Document as PDF Both Bill and Hillary Clinton are taking actions that will affect the nation’s six million asthmatic…
Washington Times
EPA Can’t Win This Country’s Sprawl Brawl
Last month, the Clinton-Gore Administration unveiled a new multibillion-dollar environmental agenda, including the so-called Livability Agenda and Lands Legacy Initiative, as well as efforts to…
Op-Eds
Anyone Like Emissions Credits?
When President Clinton had the United States sign the Kyoto Protocol on “global warming,” his gesture was widely viewed as PR, pure and simple. After all, the Senate already was…
Study
Saving Fisheries without Property Rights: “Surgery with a Baseball Bat”
View Full Document as PDF The collapse of the once-rich fisheries off the coast of New England is testimony to the…
Op-Eds
Unlivable Communities
Vice President Al Gore recently announced a new “livable com munities agenda,” designed to “ensure a high quality of life” by controlling so-called “urban sprawl.” But…
Washington Times
Mining Law ‘Land Grab’ (Letter to the Editor)
Richard L. Lawson, president of the National Mining Association, is right, and USA TODAY is wrong (“Mining laws cheat taxpayers,” Our View; “Land-grab threatens economy,”…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 4
Politics Greens Oppose Early Credit Bill Several Green groups, including the Center for International Environmental Law, Greenpeace, National Environment…
Study
Early Action Crediting: Growing the Kyoto Lobby at Small Business’ Expense
View Full Document as PDF “Credit for early action” – a policy proposal developed by the Environmental Defense Fund and warmly…
Washington Times
Dump the Politics
Apparently, lawmakers are heartbroken because they think that only ‘99.9992 percent of Virginia is left for lovers. The .0008 percent is for trash — at…
Study
A Defective Product: Consumer Groups’ Study of Microsoft In Need of Recall
View Full Document as PDF Consumer groups are supposed to be on the side of consumers. But three such groups – the…
Telegraph
Never forget the moral of Danegeld
Study
So, What Will This Unfunded Mandate Cost Me?
View Full Document as PDF The $1.77 trillion spending budget President Clinton sent to Congress February 2 tells just part of…
Comment
Testimony Before The House Committee On Appropriations in 1999
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 3
Politics Clinton Asks for $4 Billion to Prevent Global Warming In a blatant attempt to implement the unratified Kyoto…
Times Dispatch
Trash Dumping Praised, Blasted
Times Dispatch
Curb on Foreign Computers Puts Damper on US Climate Modelling
Times Dispatch
Both Sides Hit Report on Global Warming
Times Dispatch
Scientists Warn Against Ignoring Climate Change
Times Dispatch
It’s All About The Money
From pediatric disease to profit center — that, in a nutshell, is how smoking has changed in the eyes of the anti-tobacco warriors. In 1995,…
Op-Eds
Trashing New Yorkers, Trashing Solutions
Some Virginia lawmakers say they are going to “save” state residents from New York City dumping its trash in the Old Dominion. They’re considering…
Times Dispatch
Trash-War Victim (Letter to the Editor)
Liam Callanan is “One Virginian Who’s Ready to Do His Part” (Op-Ed, Jan. 20) about New York’s trash. As a New Yorker now living in…
Study
Credit for Early Implementation: Kyoto Through the Front Door
Last year, in an attempt to safeguard the Senate’s constitutional prerogatives in treaty-making, Congress barred the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 2
Politics Greens Criticize Early Emissions Bill A bill introduced by Sens. John Chafee (R-RI), Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Connie…
Times Dispatch
The Free Enterprise of Trash Management (Letter to the Editor)
In the article “Tons More of N.Y. Trash Headed for Va. Landfills” [front page, Jan. 12], Virginia State Sen. William T. Bolling (R-Hanover) says: “There’s…
News Release
Safety Effects Of Fuel Efficiency Law Shift Public Opinion: Survey Shows
Washington, D.C. January 20, 1999 – A nationwide survey on environmental concerns released this week shows that most Americans oppose automobile fuel efficiency standards…
Times Dispatch
Predatory Pricing Miscues
Op-Eds
Beware of the Kyoto Compromise: Kemp and Smith Op-Ed in NY Times
In November the Clinton Administration signed a treaty, negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, that purports to temper “global warming” by imposing a schedule of emissions reductions…
Op-Eds
Beware of the Kyoto Compromise: Kemp and Smith Op-Ed in NY Times
Published in the New York Times Published in the New York Times January 13, 1999 In November…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 1
Politics Debate Over Early Credits Heats Up Support is steadily building for proposed legislation that, if passed could seriously…
Study
Electricity Reform in Colorado
Full Document Available in PDF Consumers in Colorado pay prices for electricity that are among the lowest in the country. Therefore, indeed they…
Citation
Former Federal Health Expert Weighs In On Moderate Alcohol Consumption
Sierra Club
Billboards on the Garden Wall
Study
National Environmental Survey
Op-Eds
The Dangers Of Precaution
Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Has Europe, long the home of so much scientific and technological…
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 26
Politics GAO Report on Voluntary Emission Crediting A new attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol without Senate ratification is underway. A…
Study
The Exxon-Mobil Merger: The Lessons of History
The proposed Exxon-Mobil merger, the largest merger ever undertaken, has set nervous tongues wagging. Much of the concern stems from the perceived lessons of…
Orange County Register
Life and Death, Medicine and Law
Op-Eds
Free Trade and Idealism
In October, the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 passed through the U.S. Congress with little opposition. The new law enables unilateral export embargoes to be…
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 25
Politics Early Credit for Emissions Reductions The latest attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol without Senate ratification is a scheme to use the threat of…
Study
Wal-Mart: Santa or Satan?
View Full Document as PDF As Christmas shoppers flock to Wal-Mart, filling its parking lots to overflowing, should they feel they’ve…
Study
National Environmental Survey
Study
Is the Kyoto Protocol Dead?
View Full Document as PDF Is the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty negotiated in December 1997, any closer to being…