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Only The Forest Service Can Prevent Forests
Remember,” Smokey Bear likes to remind careless campers, “only you can prevent forest fires.” Only you – and the U.S. Forest Service, which has been…
News Release
Another Smoking Gun: Institute Opposes New Tobacco Settlement
Washington, D.C. November 17, 1998—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today announced its opposition to the latest tobacco settlement, calling it an affront to both individual…
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Kyoto, A Real dodo of a treaty
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Vol. II, No. 23
Politics A Report from Our Team in Buenos Aires Only 2,000 people reportedly participated in the event’s first week, a far cry from the…
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FDA Modernization After One Year: Drug Approval is Still Too Slow
The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997—signed into law one year ago this Wednesday—is under attack. Spurred by the withdrawal of…
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Funding the Lobby of Global Warming
Of all the shocking budget deal capitulations the Republican Congress made to the White House, none is more inexplicable than the decision to provide almost $200…
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DOJ Gets No Credit For Visa Complaint: Case Will Stifle Bank Card Innovation
The specter of the U.S. Department of Justice as "social engineer" — seeking to shape markets into a narrow and static mold of…
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A New Heavy at Food and Drug?
Heartland
News from the Heartland
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Global Warming: Evidence From The Satellite Record
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface The scientific case for an international climate treaty rests largely on predictions generated…
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Climate Change: Insights from Oceanography
Full Document Available in PDF The global warming establishment asserts that the science underlying…
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The Oregon Water Trust
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Vol. II, No. 22
Politics EPA Lacks Authority to Regulate CO2 Following the completion of the Kyoto Protocol, Carol Browner, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), testified before…
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2+2=6
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Emission Credits: The Supply & Demand Gap
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface Last year, some 160 nations negotiated an agreement in Kyoto, Japan, that would require the…
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Encryption Policy for the 21st Century: A Future without Government-Prescribed Key Recovery
Full Document Available in PDF Encryption technology…
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Vol. II, No. 21
Politics Little Progress Expected in Buenos Aires The fourth Conference of the Parties (COP-4) will meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 2-13 to further…
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Temperature Data Still Riddled With Errors.
With the evidence for man-made global warming becoming more tenuous each year, green activists like Vice President Al Gore have been reduced to…
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Regulatory Sprawl: Who Should Decide Where We Live?
View Full Document as PDF On September 9, the Sierra Club released a distraught report on urban sprawl, blaming the spread…
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A National Survey Of Neurologists And Neurosurgeons Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Cars and Communism
The following is excerpted from a forthcoming CEI monograph on mobility and the fall of Communism. Our grandparents told us…
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And Justice for All: The State Experience with Property Rights Legislation
Full Document Available in PDF The ownership…
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Could Kyoto Kill? The Mortality Costs of Climate Policies
Full Document Available in PDF Whether or not the United…
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Doomsday Déjà vu: Ozone Depletion’s Lessons for Global Warming
Full Document Available in PDF The Kyoto Protocol to…
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Vol. II, No. 20
Politics U.S., EU Move Toward Consensus? Following two days of informal ministerial meetings in Tokyo, Japan on September 16-17, negotiators from the United States and…
Heartland
EPA Aided Mill Fighters
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Save Methyl Bromide
A battle is raging in Washington between farmers and environmental regulators. At issue is the chemical methyl bromide, and the outcome could affect…
Heartland
Customers Granted Microsoft its 90 Percent Market Share
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Vol. II, No. 19
Politics New Tax Credit Plan Unveiled The Clinton Administration’s tax and spend plan to avert global warming is being resurrected in the form of the…
Heartland
Global warming hype needs light, not heat
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Vol. II, No. 18
Politics Energy Secretary: Global Warming Message Not Getting Out The Clinton administration’s new Energy Secretary Bill Richardson recently remarked that the administration has been “out-gunned…
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Government Research Funding And Economic Distortion
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Science and technology are good things. Still, there are many good…
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Mandatory Open Access for Electricity: Is there a better way?
“Mandatory open access to the power grid is the wrong paradigm for restructuring. Although open access is advocated by virtually all of today’s reformers, it…
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Kyoto & Our Collective Economic Future: Economic & Energy Underpinnings
Full Document Available in PDF Both supporters and…
Heartland
Deep Pockets, Hot Air
Heartland
Environmentalists’ Racism
Heartland
Toasting the merits of moderate alcohol
Calgary Sun
Global Rivalry at End?
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Federal Government Doles Out Millions in Greenhouse Pork
View Full Document as PDF The Kyoto global warming treaty may pose a threat to the U.S. economy, but it has spawned…
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Why Robert Bork Is Wrong:
Is there a clear legal precedent for the successful prosecution of Microsoft? Robert H. Bork seems to think so. He has stated emphatically…
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 17
Politics EPA’s Propaganda Machine Rolls On The EPA is “spending untold millions on propaganda about ‘global warming,’” according to Investor’s Business Daily (August 4, 1998).
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Hot Times Or Hot Air: The Sun in the Science of Global Warming
PREFACE The global warming scare assumes that human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the dominant driving force in recent…
Newsletter
Vol. II, No. 16
Politics Heated House Hearings On July 29, the House Committee on Small Business became the scene of a heated debate about the science of global…
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Warming Without Regrets: A Free-Market Approach To Uncertainty And Climate Change
Vice President Al Gore proclaims that "people are sweltering," recent hot spells demonstrate that human-induced global warming is here, and the world must adopt…
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Challenging DC Over Potty Politics
Appeared in The Detroit Free Press, The Akron Beacon Journal, The Orange County Register, The Sacramento Bee, and Lima News Of all the bills now…
Comment
Testimony on Why Kyoto Is Not an Insurance Policy, House Small Business Committee
Newsletter
Global Warming And Vector-Borne Disease: Is Warmer Sicker?
PREFACE One of the scarier claims made by supporters of an international climate treaty is that global warming will spawn epidemics of deadly "tropical…
Newsletter
Kyoto Economics: The Costs and Follies of Eco-Energy Planning
Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface If ratified and implemented, the Kyoto Protocol would inaugurate an era of international eco-energy planning.
Comment
Comments Before the Department of Transportation on the Statement of Enforcement Policy Regarding Unfair Exclusionary Conduct in
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Computers and Competition: A Primer for Congress
With a new Microsoft hearing in the Senate on Thursday, legislators should keep in mind some crucial facts that argue against interference in…