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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 12/17/1997

Politics What Have We Done? In November the Clinton Administration announced its negotiating position for the upcoming Kyoto conference. It proposed stabilization of emissions at…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/09/1997

Industrialized nations have tentatively agreed to a global warming protocol covering six “greenhouse gases” — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/07/1997

Kyoto Gets Gored Al Gore flew into Kyoto this morning — allegedly not to solicit funds at the more than 100,000 Buddhist temples…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/04/1997

Third World Fumes COP-3 in Kyoto is the culmination of earlier summits — the Rio Conference in 1992, the implementation of energy curtailment…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/03/1997

Poor Countries Still Oppose Energy Starvation Diet Developing countries continue to signal their unwillingness to sign binding emissions reduction targets in Kyoto. The…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/02/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, December 3, 1997 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) began an ad campaign this morning attacking the proposed climate treaty being negotiated…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/02/1997

Many at COP-3 are behaving as if the Clinton-Gore administration speaks for the U.S — as if the eager quest for an aggressive global…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/01/1997

COP-3 opened as a Victorian drama, with the U.S. position in imminent peril as its prime defender, Undersecretary of State Tim Wirth, suddenly abandoned…

Climate

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 12/01/1997

History doesn’t repeat itself, but the machinations of big-government politicians are vexingly repetitious. Perhaps nothing better illustrates the plus ca change, plus ca meme…

Climate

• By: Jesse Walker
• 12/01/1997

In November, Seattle voters elected Paul Schell mayor. Few were surprised. Schell was the anointed candidate, the establishment favorite. Populist challenger Charlie Chong, by contrast,…

Lands and Wildlife

• CEI Staff
• 11/30/1997

(Kyoto, December 1, 1997) Japan’s Foreign Minister opened the UN climate conference, known as “COP-3,” by calling it “an event that could change the…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 11/26/1997

Politics Europe May Compromise The European Union’s chief negotiator, Jorgen Henningsen, has conceded that the EU may be willing soften its stance on climate change.

Climate

• By: Ben Lieberman
• 11/01/1997

The Congressional leadership is unwilling to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s new air quality standards. But this does not mean the standards will last. As…

Water and Air Quality

• By: Robert H. Nelson
• 11/01/1997

Suburbanites have long benefited from the control over their immediate surrounding environment that they get from the system of land use controls in their areas.

Lands and Wildlife

• By: Hugh Morley
• 11/01/1997

In the later stages of the application process for Australia’s foreign service, candidates are provided with an armful of documents detailing the nation’s foreign policy.

Climate

• By: Michael Sanera, Ph.D.
• 11/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Wisconsin is known nationally as a leader…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 10/29/1997

Politics U.S. Position Revealed On October 22, after months of speculation, the Clinton Administration finally announced its official negotiating position for the upcoming climate change…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/22/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, October 22 , 1997 — President Clinton’s long awaited announcement today that he will officially propose reducing greenhouse gas emissions to…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 10/15/1997

Politics White House Climate Change Conference On October 6, 1997 the White House hosted a conference at Georgetown to “educate” the American people about the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/09/1997

Anticipation Builds for Kyoto Finale The mood of the climate conference turned positively euphoric with US lead negotiator Stu Eisenstat’s proposal to create…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/07/1997

UN Corruption Exposed in Kyoto P.J.O`Rourke suggests that everybody wants to save the planet; nobody wants to help wash the dishes. UN employees…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/06/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1997 — Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that its president and founder, Fred L. Smith, Jr. will testify before the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/03/1997

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 3, 1997 — Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) announced today that they will run an advertisement in the Sunday Outlook section of the…

Climate

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/01/1997

Nine out of 10 Americans don’t know anything about U.S. global climate policy, according to a poll released in June 1997 by the Small Business…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 09/26/1997

Monday, September 29 11:00am- 1:00pm 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building RSVP – Nicole Hamilton, 202-331-1010, x 239…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/17/1997

Politics Gore Lore Al Gore recently visited Glacier National Park in Montana to heighten fears about global warming. He warned that global warming is causing…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 09/16/1997

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 16, 1997 — Newly introduced GOP legislation to reauthorize the U.S. Endangered Species Act is a disaster for property rights and…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 09/03/1997

Politics “Slouching Towards Kyoto” from Down Under The two most influential lawmakers in Congress on climate change issues traveled half way around the world to…

Climate

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/01/1997

Bush Administration EPA Administrator William Reilly once quipped that his agency’s standard approach when faced with a policy decision could best be characterized as…

Climate

• 09/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF One of the foremost meccas for…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/20/1997

Politics UN Conference in Bonn The United Nations recently ended a negotiating session in Bonn, Germany to lay the groundwork for the upcoming conference in…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/06/1997

Politics Clinton’s Public “Education” Campaign On July 24 President Clinton began his promised campaign to alert the American people to the dangers of climate change…

Climate

• By: Ike C. Sugg
• 08/01/1997

Imagine a federal law that prohibits people from “taking” something. No, it’s not the U.S. Constitution’s forgotten Takings Clause, which states, “nor shall…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 08/01/1997

Most policy disputes are first and foremost rhetorical battles for the moral high ground. Is affirmative action unfair racial preference or justice to minorities?…

Climate

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 08/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF…

Climate

• By: James V. DeLong
• 08/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Superfund was created in 1980 when…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/30/1997

Politics Senate Resolution Passes 95-0 The Byrd-Hagel Resolution (SRes 98) passed on July 25 by a margin of 95-0 (BNA Daily Environment Report, July 28,…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 07/15/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, JULY 15. Over 160 People gathered at the National Press Club today to learn more about the cost and impact of the…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/02/1997

Politics U.S. Derided for Failing to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro became a United States bash-fest. This year’s…

Climate

• By: Julie DeFalco
• 07/01/1997

If at first you cannot succeed in pushing a bad idea, try, try again – just use different rhetoric. Twenty years ago, when corporate average…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/19/1997

HARARE, ZIMBABWE, Thursday, June 19, 1997 — The ivory ban has ended for three southern African nations, despite intense opposition from the U.S. government.

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/17/1997

Science Fudge Positively Correlated With Higher Temperatures “Climate modelers have been ‘cheating’ for so long it’s almost become respectable,” writes Richard Kerr for the journal…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/07/1997

WASHINGTON, DC June 6, 1997 – Binding limits on greenhouse emissions will be devastating to families in the United States and other countries according…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/05/1997

Washington, DC June 5, 1997 – The fears that hurricanes will increase in both number and intensity as a result of global warming are…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/05/1997

Science Climate Change? Not Yet! Finally someone has brought the climate change debate back down to earth. Amidst claims by environmentalists that we are in…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/03/1997

WASHINGTON, DC June 3, 1997 – A proliferation of international treaties aimed at protecting the “global environment” are involving the United Nations increasingly in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Jonathan H. Adler
• 06/01/1997

The Clinton-Gore Administration has seized upon recent weather extremes to promote the fear of global warming. Speaking in North Dakota after this spring's floods, President…

Climate

• By: Ben Lieberman
• 06/01/1997

They are repulsive and annoying, multiply rapidly, scurry off in unexpected directions, and harm human health. Cockroaches and bad federal regulations have more in common…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/01/1997

The Precautionary Principle – the proposition that new technologies or products should not be permitted until we know they won't endanger health, safety, or…

Climate

• By: CEI Staff
• 06/01/1997

The wood duck has long occupied a special place in the hearts of waterfowl fanciers, hunters, bird watchers, and others because of the male’s striking…

Energy and Environment

• By: Julie DeFalco
• 06/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF…

Energy

• By: Brian Seasholes
• 06/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF The wood duck has long occupied a special place in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Ike C. Sugg
• 05/05/1997

  When President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, he inadvertently codified Aldo Leopold’s stylish but stupid aphorism, “To keep every cog and…

Energy and Environment