News Release
CEI Launches Radio Campaign Against CAFE
Washington, DC, August 26, 1999 – Federal regulations that mandate fuel efficiency for new cars are also making them less safe, contributing to thousands…
News Release
Babbitt Endangers Facts as Peregrine Falcon Soars from Federal Shackles
Washington, DC, August 23, 1999 – The Peregrine Falcon – renowned for its 200 mph dives when it attacks prey – has been removed…
News Release
Babbitt Endangers Facts as Peregrine Falcon Soars from Federal Shackles
Washington, DC, August 23, 1999 – The Peregrine Falcon – renowned for its 200 mph dives when it attacks prey – has been removed…
Op-Eds
Market Strategies Beneficial to Nature
There is a growing consensus among academics and policy makers that U.S. environmental policy needs dramatic change. While environmental reform remains at a standstill, there is a…
Washington Times
A DOT Driving Record
Washington Times
Naysay Now, Pay Later
Study
Jack Kemp: Closing Down the Hard Times CAFE
Congress soon will decide whether to continue the “freeze” on existing CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards that have been in place for…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 17
Politics Clinton’s Biomass Program In an obvious attempt to buy support from farmers for its global warming policies, the Clinton Administration has unveiled its latest…
Op-Eds
New Pricing Plans Are Good
This isn’t your father’s telecommunications market. Long-distance pricing was once onesize-fits-all, with high, distance-sensitive rates cast in stone by regulators. Now that is changing, as…
Study
Microsoft Trial: The Heat is On
View Full Document as PDF This summer, the heat is on Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson even more than the rest of…
Study
Anti-“Sprawl” Policy: Congested Thinking and Dense Logic
“Urban sprawl” has morphed into a catchall phrase that describes the cause and consequence of any social deviation related to the suburbs, including, and…
Washington Times
Tyranny of the Unelected Regulators
Congress passed and the president signed into law 241 bills in 1998. Meanwhile, federal agencies were far busier: They issued 4,899 rules and regulations — 315…
Op-Eds
Regulations Stunt the Growth of Agricultural Biotech
Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman gave what he intended to be a strongly pro-biotechnology speech July 13, predicting that biotechnological solutions would help to “create…
Washington Times
America’s Flushing Crisis
Washington Times
Misguided Measures Would Make Poor and Elderly Feel the Heat
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 16
Politics Knollenberg Language Strengthened Congressional attempts to limit federal agencies’ efforts to implement or promote the Kyoto Protocol have intensified during the current appropriations cycle.
Washington Times
Toilets as conservation tools
Op-Eds
Third Way Route Jams Trade: Kemp Op-Ed in Financial Times
There is an international movement hard at work to concentrate power over economic decision-making–public, private, and across national boundaries–in a “global elite” that is unaccountable…
Comment
Compassionate Conservatism” — The Feminization Or The Liberalization Of Republican Policy?
Study
Lawmakers Trashing the Poor?
Full Study Available In PDF Format For more than two decades, various states have battled…
Washington Times
Unchecked Regulatory Creep
Op-Eds
Law Deserves to be Flushed Away
In one of the silliest ideas yet to come down the pike (or pipe), Congress entered the plumbing fixture design business in 1992, mandating strict…
Comment
A Federal Catastrophe? Testimony of Tom Miller on Reinsurance Coverage for Catastrophic Losses
Washington Times
Down With the Potty Police
Op-Eds
Corporate Welfare: Bad Business All Around
The stock market is at record highs. The economy has been booming. So why are many of America’s largest corporations still receiving handouts from Uncle Sam? The Budget…
Washington Times
Feeding the Green Money Tree
The Clinton-Gore administration continues to thumb it nose at the Constitution by trying to implement a global warming treaty (the Kyoto Protocol) that has not…
News Release
Flushing Federal Regulations Down The (Low-Flo) Toilet
Washington, DC, July 27, 1999 – Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) policy analyst Ben Lieberman, representing CEI and 8 other members of the National Consumer…
News Release
Congress To Reconsider Ban on High Capacity Toilets
Washington, DC, July 27, 1999 – Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Ben Lieberman, policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
News Release
Congress To Reconsider Ban on High Capacity Toilets
Washington, DC, July 27, 1999 – Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Ben Lieberman, policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Comment
Testimony of Ben Lieberman on The Plumbing Standards Improvement Act
Study
Speedbumps, Potholes, and Detours on the Road to Social Security Reform
As Yogi Berra once said, “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ’cause you might not get there.” This year’s…
Human Events
Lazio Opens Backdoor to Global Warming Treaty
Study
Electricity Deregulation: Wired or Tangled in the 106th Congress’s Committees?
When policymakers embark upon restructuring as opposed to deregulating a heavily regulated industry, they risk creating more regulation than existed before. This is…
Study
Electricity Reform in Colorado: A Resource Guide for Citizens & Policymakers
Executive Summary ·Deregulation of telecommunications, natural gas, and transportation saved American consumers billions of dollars, created new choices among sellers and spurred numerous…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 15
Politics Early Action Credits: Road to Kyoto Early action crediting is being promoted as a way to protect industry in the event that the…
Washington Times
One More Consumer
Citation
Global Warming Heats Up in the House
News Release
EPA to Release Data on Worst Case Scenarios
Washington, DC, July 20, 1999 – “Unless the House of Representatives acts immediately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon release information that essentially…
Citation
Regulatory ‘Right to Know’
Citation
CEI: Emissions Trading Doesn’t Work
Study
Dumb and Dumber: Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Patients’ Bill of Rights
This week, the Senate considers legislation to impose a lengthy laundry list of new federal regulations and accompanying costs on employer-insured health plans. The…
Study
The Data Access Law: Promoting Accountability and Privacy
With the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1966, our society decided to promote government transparency: what is done in government’s name…
News Release
Kemp to Testify Before Congress Against Early Action Legislation
Washington, DC, July 13, 1999 – “Will corporations fall for global-warming trickery?” asked the Honorable Jack Kemp, Distinguished Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
News Release
Institute Opposes “Patients’ Bill of ‘Wrongs'”
Washington, D.C., July 13, 1999 – This week the United States Senate is considering the “Patients’ Bill of Rights,” an amalgam of various mandates…
Comment
Federal Standards for Internet Privacy: A Skeptical Approach
Op-Eds
When Auto Safety Is Against the Law
In 1997, between 20 and 40 Connecticut residents were killed by a defective product. The dangers ofI this product have been documented for more than…
Washington Times
Superstores Helpful (Letter to the Editor)
The article ” ‘Good simplicity’ falls by the wayside” by reporter Craig Wilson asserts that “shopping at the mall or Wal-Mart or a fast food…
Study
The SAFE Bill: Keying in on Encryption Reform
View Full Document as PDF Despite Clinton Administration steps towards liberalizing American encryption policy, some members of the House of Representatives…
Newsletter
Vol. III, No. 14
Politics Court Ruling Defeats Kyoto In May the federal appeals court invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for ozone and particulate matter on the grounds…
Study
Market-Based Chimera: Emission Trading Fails to Deliver
View Full Document as PDF The Clinton-Gore Administration is trying to persuade the American people that the Kyoto Protocol, the most ambitious…