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• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/01/1997

Bush Administration EPA Administrator William Reilly once quipped that his agency’s standard approach when faced with a policy decision could best be characterized as…

Climate

• 09/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF One of the foremost meccas for…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/20/1997

Politics UN Conference in Bonn The United Nations recently ended a negotiating session in Bonn, Germany to lay the groundwork for the upcoming conference in…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 08/06/1997

Politics Clinton’s Public “Education” Campaign On July 24 President Clinton began his promised campaign to alert the American people to the dangers of climate change…

Climate

• By: Ike C. Sugg
• 08/01/1997

Imagine a federal law that prohibits people from “taking” something. No, it’s not the U.S. Constitution’s forgotten Takings Clause, which states, “nor shall…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 08/01/1997

Most policy disputes are first and foremost rhetorical battles for the moral high ground. Is affirmative action unfair racial preference or justice to minorities?…

Climate

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 08/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF…

Climate

• By: James V. DeLong
• 08/01/1997

Full Document Available in PDF Superfund was created in 1980 when…

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/30/1997

Politics Senate Resolution Passes 95-0 The Byrd-Hagel Resolution (SRes 98) passed on July 25 by a margin of 95-0 (BNA Daily Environment Report, July 28,…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 07/15/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, JULY 15. Over 160 People gathered at the National Press Club today to learn more about the cost and impact of the…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 07/02/1997

Politics U.S. Derided for Failing to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro became a United States bash-fest. This year’s…

Climate

• By: Julie DeFalco
• 07/01/1997

If at first you cannot succeed in pushing a bad idea, try, try again – just use different rhetoric. Twenty years ago, when corporate average…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/19/1997

HARARE, ZIMBABWE, Thursday, June 19, 1997 — The ivory ban has ended for three southern African nations, despite intense opposition from the U.S. government.

Energy and Environment

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/17/1997

Science Fudge Positively Correlated With Higher Temperatures “Climate modelers have been ‘cheating’ for so long it’s almost become respectable,” writes Richard Kerr for the journal…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/07/1997

WASHINGTON, DC June 6, 1997 – Binding limits on greenhouse emissions will be devastating to families in the United States and other countries according…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/05/1997

Washington, DC June 5, 1997 – The fears that hurricanes will increase in both number and intensity as a result of global warming are…

Climate

• By: Paul J. Georgia
• 06/05/1997

Science Climate Change? Not Yet! Finally someone has brought the climate change debate back down to earth. Amidst claims by environmentalists that we are in…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/03/1997

WASHINGTON, DC June 3, 1997 – A proliferation of international treaties aimed at protecting the “global environment” are involving the United Nations increasingly in…

Energy and Environment

• By: Jonathan H. Adler
• 06/01/1997

The Clinton-Gore Administration has seized upon recent weather extremes to promote the fear of global warming. Speaking in North Dakota after this spring's floods, President…

Climate

• By: Ben Lieberman
• 06/01/1997

They are repulsive and annoying, multiply rapidly, scurry off in unexpected directions, and harm human health. Cockroaches and bad federal regulations have more in common…

Energy and Environment

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 06/01/1997

The Precautionary Principle – the proposition that new technologies or products should not be permitted until we know they won't endanger health, safety, or…

Climate