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Politically Incorrect Washing Machines
Federal government officials think your clothes washer is contributing to global warming—and they are going to do something about it. Over the past few years,…
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Vol. III, No. 12
Politics Implementation Sans Ratification A leaked EPA document dated April 23, describes an April 7 meeting between EPA and White House staffers, and private…
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David Riggs Joins CEI
Washington, D.C., June 8, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is pleased to welcome economist and policy analyst David Riggs to its environment…
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The Data Access Law: Decreasing Secret Science While Increasing Accountability
As the federal bureaucracy grows and Congress delegates more of its power to the agencies, the need for agency accountability increases. In October…
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Constitutional Integrity (Letter to the Editor)
A May 24 editorial, “A retreat on clean air,” suggests that holding Congress to the Constitution will make solid environmental protection a “hazy, distant prospect,”…
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Alternative to Kyoto Protocol Concedes Too Much
View Full Document as PDF The Energy and Climate Policy Act of 1999, S. 882, has been introduced as an alternative…
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Books Celebrating Capitalism Should Have Made the Cut
In the contest between freedom and the state, freedom won. Capitalism triumphed both here and abroad, while statism failed in Cuba, Russia, England, Sweden, North Korea…
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Who Makes Our Laws? (Letter to the Editor)
Surely Cass R. Sunstein is right that “greater respect for democratic government” is urgent (“The Courts’ Perilous Right Turn,” Op-Ed, June 2). But in his…
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Water Everywhere
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NATO Raison D’Etre
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In a Washington Post op-ed supporting the bombing of Serbia, Bill Kristol…
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Guilt By Association With Bill Bennett
Ralph Raico’s Reflection “Won’t You Go Home, Bill Bennett?” (April) on the Center for Individual Right’s challenge to race-based student admission policies suggests…
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New Protection Against Natural Disaster Losses
It’s time to rewrite the script for that long-running disaster movie – "When Dangerous Public Policies Attack Insurance Policyholders and Taxpayers!!!"…
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15 Years and Counting — Milestones In CEI History
March 9, 1984 — CEI is founded. First offices were in Fred Smith’s kitchen. After the first few months, he’d spent a few thousand dollars,…
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The Deadly Effects of Fuel Economy Standards: CAFE’s Lethal Impact on Auto Safety
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Escaping the Malthusian Trap
On October 12, 1999, United Nations demographers lamented the symbolic birth of planet Earth’s six-billionth resident. The world’s population had doubled from three…
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Send Regulations Back to Congress (Letter to the Editor)
The Post is correct that substantial delegations of legislative authority to federal agencies, notably those involving “complex technical judgments,” have been upheld by the courts…
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Sea-Level Rise: Is Global Warming To Blame?
Washington, DC, May 27, 1999 – A packed house of staff and media gathered today on Capitol Hill to hear about sea-level rise from…
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Sea Level Change
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface Good afternoon. What I would…
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Mandates on Energy Boost Use
With the price of gasoline inching up (though still at historic lows), we are once again being hectored to save energy. Few aspects of our…
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Clean Air, Congress and the Constitution: Why The Delegation Ruling Was Correct
View Full Document as PDF On May 14, 1999, in American Trucking Associations v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Court…
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Vol. III, No. 11
Politics Texas Governor Declares Belief in Global Warming Theory The GOP presidential frontrunner, George W. Bush, may have conceded the global warming debate to Vice…
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Standing Up to EPA (Letter to the Editor)
Re “Bad Decision on Clean Air” (editorial, May 19) : The Clean Air Act gave the Environmental Protection Agency a vague mandate to protect public…
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Sea Level Debate is Flooded with Misinformation: Research scientist is cool to EPA’s global warming claim
Washington, DC, May 25, 1999 – The Environmental Protection Agency continues to peddle unfounded fears about global warming and sea level rise even though…
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Amphibian Warfare
You can understand why they created an environmental panic, those deformed frogs that have starred in media scare stories since 1995, when a group of them…
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Suburban Development Made Scapegoat for Urban Woes (Letter to the Editor)
The national debate about suburban development spawns many misunderstandings about the real issues. The recent USA TODAY editorial and response by Vice President Al Gore…
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Ruling on EPA (Letter to the Editor)
The front-page story on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to invalidate the Environmental Protection Agency’s new air-quality standards leaves readers with the false…
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The Clean Air Act’s Federal Terrorist Assistance Program
View Full Document as PDF In recent years the United States has experienced the horrors of the terrorist attack of a…
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Hurricane’s a-comin’–Should I Sell My Car? Questions and Answers About Hurricanes and Global Warming
Summer's almost here, and the weather is on everyone's mind. In “hurricane country” that's a very special concern, and last year's devastation from Hurricane…
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Clearing the Air on Regulatory Excess
The Clinton EPAs biggest regulatory victory was turned into its biggest legal defeat last Friday, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of…
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Closing Electronic Frontiers?
On May 6, the world of telecommunications was rocked by the announcement of AT&T’s $54 billion acquisition of MediaOne, the nation’s fourth-largest cable television company.
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Tampon Terrorism
Fear is a sales pitch that has been used for decades to flog everything from alarm systems to underarm deodorant. But just think how it…
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Saying ‘Halt’ to Suburban Sprawl
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Suit Will Hurt Competition
Increasingly, Americans are losing faith in their government. The U.S. Department of Justice’s action against American Airlines on Thursday underscores why. The lawsuit seeks to…
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Change at Helm of Global Economy
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Vol. III, No. 10
Politics New Bill to Implement Clinton-Gore Agenda Just when it looked like the Clinton Administration’s global warming agenda was…
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Ignore the Pesticide Scare Du Jour
“Public advocate” reports on the supposed dire consequences of pesticide use seem to come out almost daily. According to news reports and environmentalist “studies,” if…
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Clearing the Air on EPA’s New Emissions Proposal
Care to spend $2 billion or more a year on a health measure with no detectable health benefits? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
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Chemically Speaking (Letter to the Editor)
It is ironic that environmental groups and others jumped ship from the Environmental Protection Agency’s food-quality advisory panel on the same day that President Clinton…
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Self-Regulation: Regulatory Fad or Market Forces?
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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…
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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…
Washington Post
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
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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…
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Enemies Of The Stasis
Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Virginia Postrel's excellent book “The Future and Its Enemies” details the…
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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…
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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…
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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…