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Hanging Onto the Trash
One would think we were dealing with a major national security issue considering how worked up New York politicians get about garbage. But that's…
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Irrationality of Mandated Recycling
I’ve said it a million times: Recycling isn’t environmentally beneficial if it uses more resources than it saves. That is why many government-mandated recycling programs…
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National Geographic Cover Story on Malaria
The July issue of National Geographic features an excellent cover story on malaria. It notes the importance of DDT, highlights many problems with relying…
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Sprawl: The Next DDT?
The Business and Media Institute reports that the greens are trying again to use the nation’s national symbol—the Bald Eagle—to undermine free-markets. The Bald…
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AEI Panel Discussion about the bipartisan trade deal – Continued
Kimberly Ann Elliot, senior fellow with the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, contended that labor and environmental standards do have role to play,…
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AEI panel discussion about FTAs in the aftermath of the bipartisan deal
In the aftermath of the bipartisan deal between the Democrats and the Bush Administration, the question is whether the new enforceable environmental and ILO labor…
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A Plea for the Victims of Malaria
Today on CEI’s Rachelwaswrong.org blog, Barun Mitra of the Liberty Institute (New Delhi, India) makes a plea for greater awareness about malaria’s victims…
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Shining a Spotlight on Anti-DDT Activists
A story in today’s Mail and Guardian, an online African newspaper, highlights First Lady Laura Bush’s trip to Africa, where she is “shining a…
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Never Green Enough
Everywhere businesses are going green, but no firm will ever be green enough for the greens. According to an article in today’s New York…
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Free NYC Garbage!
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Ugandan Official Takes on Greens
In today’s Wall Street Journal Uganda’s director of Health Services Sam Zaramba points out the perils of anti-DDT campaigns to his country. He notes: “Misguided…
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Green State of Denial
John Tierney’s excellent article on Rachel Carson’s legacy published in yesterday’s New York Times is under attack on the comments section of Tierney’s blog. The responses…
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NYT on Carson
Today, columnist John Tierney takes on the legacy of Rachel Carson in the New York Times Science section, offering a critique of Carson’s alarmism and…
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Greens Attack Rather than Debate
Environmental activists from Environmental Defense, the Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA), and the Silent Spring Institute refuse to debate me (and probably anyone…
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At the Mercy of Regulators
After a seven-year policy battle, Europe’s new chemical law takes effect today. The law is known as REACH—the acronym for the bureaucratic name Registration, Evaluation…
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Rachel Carson’s Deadly Legacy
This week, the world celebrates the 100th birthday of environmental icon Rachel Carson, author of the 1962 book, Silent Spring . To mark the…
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Millions Dead
Millions dead and that’s still not enough for environmental activists to change their colors. Last September, Dr. Arata Kochi, Director of the World Health Organization’s…
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Coburn Right — Rachel Wrong
Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) stands largely alone in efforts to stop congressional initiatives to honor the environmental movement’s icon the late Rachel Carson, whose…
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A Colossal Tragedy
A story on today’s front page of the Washington Post highlights the life of Rachel Carson. While largely praising Carson, the author does note…
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The Real Risk is to Our Freedom
News stories about the “toxic” chemicals seem to appear daily in the press. These stories say our health is at risk, but the real risk…
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Even a Caveman…
A Canadian news site notes that activists have recently formed a new “lobby” group called “Prevent Cancer Now.” They want to alert the world…
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Behind the Times
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Federal Regulators Are Risky “Designers”
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In “Biological and Chemical Safety Nets” (editorial…
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Mind Your Own Turf
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Foolish and Dangerous Advice
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Minorities Suffer from Green Hype
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Lead-Pipe Rip-Off
California recently lifted its silly and expensive state ban on residential use of vinyl plumbing pipes. New York City should follow suit. In 2004,…
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Yet Another Reason to Ignore Fishy Federal Advisories
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Skip the Green Fuzzy Feeling
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Much Toxic Ado About Nothing
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Please Don’t Eat the Roses
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Wrath of the Regulators: The Burdens of Big Government
Last month, the National Research Council (NRC) — an affiliate of the National Academies of Sciences — rebuked the White House for trying to…
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Wal-Mart’s Green Miscalculation Costs Low-Income Customers
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Free to Chooseâ€â€Your Plumbing Pipes
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Another Hazardous Rulemaking
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Green for the Holidays?
The New York Times reports today that Boston has announced a plan to comply with “green building” codes for city projects. And, no, we are…
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REACH and the Perils of Precaution
Today, the European Parliament voted a final time on the new regulation of Europe’s chemical industry. With this vote the proposal is almost certain to…
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Enviro fog calculus
A new report by the World Wildlife Fund says if current trends continue, the Earth will be too small to sustain humanity. “Pressures on the…
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Business Bankrolling of the Left
Big business primarily supports right-wing advocacy groups, right? Think again. A recent report from the Capital Research Center shows Fortune 100 corporate foundations…
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If Current Trends Continue …Environmentalists Will Continue to Be Wrong!
In a changing world, it seems that at least one thing is certain: If current trends continue, environmentalist predictions about the future will continue to…
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Registering Some Problems With REACH
The Wall Street Journal reports today that U.S. and European firms were unsuccessful in an attempt to make the proposed chemicals policy in…
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Pesticide Bans No Minor Mistake
Tina’s Rosenberg’s article in today’s New York Times addresses the devastating impact that misguided bans of the pesticide DDT have had on…
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The New York Times Gets Chemical Plant Security Wrong
Why do liberals always assume that the solution to every problem is regulation and yet more regulation? That’s the thrust of an editorial…
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REACH: Coming to a Shore Near You
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Public Comment Regarding Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin
June 15, 2006 Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Office of Management and Budget 727 17th Street, N.W. New Executive Office Building, Room 10201 Washington,…
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Homeland Bureaucracy?
Writer P.J. O'Rourke once quipped: “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” It seems…
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Greening a Homeland Bureaucracy: Chemical Plant Security Issue Hijacked by Green Activists
Full Document Available in PDF Nearly…
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The U.N.’s Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management Program
Full Document Available in PDF In February 2006, at…
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Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations in Europe Promise Worldwide Costs
This month, the European Parliament voted in favor of a massive new expansion of the European Union's (EU) chemical regulations. Known as REACH—which stands for…
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Security rules for chemicals are absurd
Writer and humorist P.J. O'Rourke once said, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”<?xml:namespace prefix…
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EU Oks chemical safety controls
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Europe’s OverREACH
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Europe’s Global REACH: Costly for the World; Suicidal for Europe
Full Document Available in PDF Regulations enacted in the…
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The Truth about Human Testing
“It’s time for the Bush Administration to realize that children shouldn’t be used as guinea pigs,” says a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) press release…
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West Nile virus fight best done by spraying
One California resident says she packed her bags and is ready to flee at a moment’s notice. Another lamented at a recent public meeting, “Do…
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Natural Repellents Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off (Letter to the Editor)
Despite the way it was cast in the story (“Natural Repellents Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off,” Aug. 18), insect repellants containing DEET have the longest…
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Natural Repellents Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off (Letter to the Editor)
Despite the way it was cast in the story (“Natural Repellents Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off,” Aug. 18), insect repellants containing DEET have the longest…
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REACH and Risk
One of the key reasons the European Union’s proposed constitution was rejected by French and Dutch voters is that they dislike having their lives…
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Pesticide Spin Belies Safety Record
If you read the recent press the press reports, you might believe that returning your children to school this fall will place them…
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Environmentalism, RIP? Not So Fast
Full Document Available in PDF Is environmentalism dead? Yes, say environmental activists…
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Red & Green: Is the President Cutting Enough Environmental Fat?
If you believe the rhetoric from environmental activists about the Bush-administration budget, you would think that the world would come to an end if…
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Six Tsunamis
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Imagine that every year the world suffered from six or more tsunamis producing…
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The Environmental Source
NOTE: A new edition of The Environmental Source has been published. The new version of this essential reference book on environmental policy is available in…
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A Green Push to Keep Projects Safe for Vermin
The next time you see rats roaming around public housing units in New York City, think of Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He and a handful…
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Back to School for Pests
As students return to school this fall, parents will again worry about new illnesses as kids come in contact with more cold and…
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Ratification without Representation?
Full Document Available in PDF In 2001, the Bush Administration signed the United Nations Environment…
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Ratification Without Representation: Making a Joke out of the Constitution
“Why don't we just give them ours?” Jay Leno asked last summer as the Bush administration was helping <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =…
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Visions of “Ecodemics”
In Six modern plagues, veterinarian and journalist Mark Jerome Walters, like many modern-day greens, deems humankind the source of many of the world’s problems. He…
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Statement of Angela Logomasini: Before the House Committee on Government Reform
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Sympathy for the Mosquito?
“Save Our Mosquitoes,” isn't a plea one expects to see these days with the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus killing hundreds and making thousands…
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Why the Sympathy for Mosquitoes? Pesticides Get an Undeserved Rap
”Save Our Mosquitoes” isn’t a plea one expects to see these days with the mosquito-borne West Nile virus killing hundreds and making thousands of people…
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Freedom of Information or Right to Terrorize? Limiting the Risks of Government-Mandated Information
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This Should Go over Like a Lead Balloon
Brewing in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington D.C. is a new public health scare that may soon reach beyond the beltway…
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Pesticides and the West Nile Virus: An Examination of Environmentalist Claims
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Sympathy for the Mosquito? Anti-Spraying Hysteria Reaches the Absurd
Full Document Available in PDF “Save Our…
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A Green Discourse: Blaming Civilized Society for Human Suffering.
Mark Jerome Walters's book Six Modern Plagues: and How We Are Causing Them is relatively new, but its ideas are far from original.
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Europe’s Dangerous Over-Precaution
European Union (EU) officials are deliberating on whether to apply the “precautionary principle” to nearly all chemicals in commerce within the EU—a move that could…
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December Edition of the Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition:…
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Eroding U.S. Sovereignty: POPs Implementation
Full article available as pdf. Article appeared originally in December 2003 edition of the Monthly Planet. In…
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Federal Pesticide Law Needs an Overhaul: Anti-Competitive Effects Hit Consumers, A Case Study
Full Document Available in PDF Most Americans believe that the federal regulatory process is simply designed to protect them from fraud and…
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Science Rejects Anti-Pesticide Claims
Public health officials across the country are considering widespread spraying of pesticides to control the mosquito-borne <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West…
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EPA Uses Superfund Tax to Target the Innocent
Advocates claim that the Superfund tax is a moral imperative because they say it's based on the “polluter pays” principle. This tax is really a…
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August Edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: …
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Activists More to Fear than Pesticides
As public health officials consider spraying pesticides to control the mosquito-borne <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West Nile virus, anti-pesticide activists…
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Comments to the European Union on its Proposed Chemicals Policy
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West Nile Virus: A Public Health Crisis?
Full article available in pdf format Public health officials can only hope that this summer doesn't see a repeat of last year's…
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CEI’s Angela Logomasini Debates the Bush Administration’s Environmental Policies with the League of Conservation Voter
On Monday, June 30, on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CEI Director of Risk and Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini debated League of Conservation Voters (LCV)…
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CEI Comments on OMB’s Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations
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OMB OTL? What good is a sleeping watchdog?
What would you do if federal lawmakers proposed increasing annual taxes by $8,000 per household? You, and many other taxpayers, would likely retaliate in…
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April/May edition of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Article in this edition:…
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West Nile Virus: Squashing those Myths Regarding Pesticide Spraying
With the mosquito-transmitted <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West Nile virus in the news again, so too are many myths about…
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Supporting a Risky Water Policy
As <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. environmentalists push policies to phase out use of chlorine gas at water-treatment plants, humanitarians…
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Utopian Policymaking: The Inherent Dangers of “Inherently Safer Technology”
What would you say if the federal government proposed phasing out large commercial airplanes? After all, they could argue that using only small planes with…
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March Edition of CEI Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The Greens’ Federal…
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Written Comments to the Consumer Product Safety Commission Regarding the use of Chromated Copper Arsenate in Playground Equipmen
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CEI’s Angela Logomasini Testifies Before The Consumer Product Safety Commission On The Use Of Chromated Copper Arsenate In
Comments of Angela Logomasini, Director of Risk and Environmental Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute Before the Consumer…
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October 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “The True Scourge:…
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Don’t Go There: Giving The EPA The Chance To Jeopardize Homeland Security
Senator Jon Corzine (D, N.J.) says he may offer his “Chemical Security Act” (S. 1602) this week as an amendment to the homeland-security bill.
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Senators Attempt Balancing Security And “Right to Know”
View Full Document as PDF The Department of Justice (DOJ) warned in year 2000 that the risk of a terrorist attack on…
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Deploy DDT To Fight Malaria
Thirty years ago this month, the government launched an assault on a basic liberty – the liberty to protect one’s own health using a pesticide.