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• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/22/1998

Politics Gore’s Global Warming Sideshow On July 14 Vice President Al Gore took advantage of warm summer temperatures to browbeat Congress into accepting the Administration’s…

Climate

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 07/13/1998

View Full Document as PDF How does the Clinton-Gore Administration arrive at its estimate that the Kyoto climate treaty would cost…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/08/1998

Politics Little Progress Made in Bonn The Clinton Administration’s prospects of meeting the conditions set under the Byrd/Hagel resolution diminished significantly at the meeting of…

Climate

• By: Jonathan H. Adler
• 07/07/1998

  The Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution was enacted to secure the rights of Americans. It enumerates several rights that may not…

Energy and Environment

• By: Ike C. Sugg
• 07/01/1998

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is one of the Endangered Species Act’s most aggressive apologists. In the face of almost three decades of abject…

Energy and Environment

• By: Ike C. Sugg
• 06/30/1998

  On May 5, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt made a dramatic and much-publicized announcement which — he claimed — showed that the 1973 Endangered Species…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/24/1998

Politics GAO Critiques Clinton Climate Policy The Clinton Administration’s blueprint for implementing the Kyoto Protocol lacks quantitative goals, specific time frames, and cost benefit analyses,…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/11/1998

Washington, DC, June 11, 1998 — A Clinton Administration ocean conference now under way is a misguided effort to generate controversy and justify unwarranted…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/10/1998

Politics Gore Spins El Niño On behalf of the White House Vice President Al Gore announced at a June 8 press conference that each of…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/05/1998

Washington, DC, June 5, 1998 — The Cooler Heads Coalition, a working group within the broader National Consumer Coalition founded by Consumer Alert, today…

Climate

• By: Dr. David Legates
• 06/05/1998

Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface Predictions of harmful global warming from human-generated greenhouse gases are largely…

Climate

• By: Jesse Walker
• 06/01/1998

The grand cliché of environmental policy, "sustainable development," has migrated into urban affairs, where the native politicians and bureaucrats have made it their own.

Lands and Wildlife

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/01/1998

"If we do it dumb, it will cost a lot; if we do it smart, it won’t cost much." Thus sayeth theKyoto apologists in…

Climate

• By: Ben Lieberman
• 06/01/1998

We have previously reported on CEI’s pending lawsuit with the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) challenging the constitutionality of the agency’s ban…

Lands and Wildlife

• By: James M. Sheehan
• 06/01/1998

The Kyoto global warming treaty may pose a looming threat to the U.S. economy, but it has spawned a cottage industry based in the…

Climate

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 06/01/1998

The Clinton Administration’s "Comprehensive Electricity Competition Plan" announced on March 25, 1998 proposes a Renewable Portfolio Standard that would require 5.5 percent of all…

Climate

• By: S. Fred Singer
• 06/01/1998

Full Document Available in PDF Contrary to President Clinton, the science…

Climate

• By: James D. Riggle
• 06/01/1998

Full Document Available in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/27/1998

Politics House Version of Ashcroft Drops On May 7 Rep. Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI) introduced a bill (H.R. 3807) that, like the Senate version introduced by…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 05/22/1998

Washington, DC, May 22, 1998 — The Cooler Heads Coalition, a working group chaired by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) within Consumer Alert’s broader…

Climate

• By: Dr. Roger Pocklington
• 05/22/1998

Preface Full Briefing available in PDF format. Preface   The global warming establishment asserts that…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 05/13/1998

Politics UN Readies “Buenos Aires Mandate” The UN Conference on Trade and Development has developed recommendations for the proposed Buenos Aires Mandate to be completed…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 05/06/1998

Washington, DC, May 6, 1998 — Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt’s announcement today that some two dozen species will be delisted under the Endangered Species…

Energy and Environment

• By: Sam Kazman
• 05/01/1998

Someone once commented that, if the federal government regulated restaurant fare, there’d be blood in the streets. Vegetarians would be fighting with meat-eaters, Jews…

Lands and Wildlife

• By: Michael De Alessi
• 05/01/1998

Private individuals, groups, and associations provided conservation amenities long before the birth of the environmental movement, but today these efforts are often subsumed by…

Lands and Wildlife

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/29/1998

  Politics Anti-Kyoto Science Petition Tops 17,000 Names A petition circulated to scientists urging lawmakers to reject the Kyoto…

Climate

• By: Julian Morris
• 04/21/1998

After his recent visit to Africa’s Kalahari Desert, President Bill Clinton proclaimed himself “a greener person” and called for Senate ratification of the United…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/17/1998

Washington, DC, April 17, 1998 —Saving the planet is a nice idea, but the focus on Earth Day has for too long been on…

Energy and Environment

• By: Clive Stockil
• 04/17/1998

Full Document Available in PDF To many people the words “conservation” and “commerce” are anathema. And…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 04/15/1998

Politics Environmental Ministers Meet Environmental ministers from 29 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the G-8 Ministers (“The Group of…

Climate

• By: Ike C. Sugg
• 04/10/1998

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPW) is developing a new program known as “the Central Texas Rare Species Conservation Plan.” The plan is…

Energy and Environment