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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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