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Alcohol Rules Disrupt Holiday Cheer
Appeared in: The Providence Journal You might want to send a beautifully packaged wine and cheese gift basket to friends in New York State.
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Wine and Cheese Gift Baskets: Illegal in New York State
Here’s a whole new spin to “assembly required.” It is against New York State law to ship wine and cheese in one box, basket, or…
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Can EPA Regulators “Solve” the Obesity Problem?
Your New Year resolution might involve diet and exercise but according to news sources, that might not shrink your waistline. They say man-made chemicals called…
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Safety of receipts at issue
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Alcohol Industry Infighting Leads to Wacky and Costly Regulation
If the ban on alcohol-containing energy drinks tells us anything, it’s that American alcohol policy continues its tradition of being very wacky. If you…
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Electronic Waste
Full Document Available in PDF Increasingly, news reports and environmental activists are claiming that we are facing a…
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Solid Waste Management
Full Document Available in PDF Americans like to recycle, and recycling is indeed an important part…
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Toxics Release Inventory
Full Document Available in PDF Several states and the federal government have in place various “right-to-know”…
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Interstate Waste Commerce
Full Document Available in PDF For more than two decades, various states and localities have battled over…
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Brownfields
Full Document Available in PDF U.S. cities are home to hundreds of thousands of old, abandoned commercial and…
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Superfund
Full Document Available in PDF Perhaps no other environmental program has been cited more often as a failure…
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Solid and Hazardous Waste Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Federal regulation of solid and hazardous waste…
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Lead in Drinking Water
Full Document Available in PDF During the winter of 2004, the District of Columbia discovered…
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Rural Drinking Water
Full Document Available in PDF Rural communities face heavy burdens under uniform federal drinking water standards…
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Radon
Full Document Available in PDF The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to promulgate a drinking water…
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Chlorine and the Disinfection Byproducts Rule
Full Document Available in PDF For many years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has attempted to develop standards to regulate disinfection…
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Arsenic
Full Document Available in PDF The debate over whether to tighten the drinking water standard for arsenic highlighted…
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Safe Drinking Water Act Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Since passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)…
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Pesticides in Schools
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, policymakers have been confronted with claims that children…
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Pesticides and Public Health
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, public health authorities have expressed serious…
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Pesticides and Agriculture
Full Document Available in PDF In 1989, environmental activists claimed that a chemical called Alar…
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Food Quality Protection Act
Full Document Available in PDF In 1996, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) amended the two…
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Pesticide Regulation Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Pesticide residues found on domestic and imported produce pose little, if…
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Measuring the Scope of Federal Land Ownership
Full Document Available in PDF During much of American history, landuse regulation was…
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The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
Full Document Available in PDF The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management…
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REACH – The EU’s Chemical Policy
Full Document Available in PDF Regulations enacted in the European Union (EU) increasingly are having…
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The Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Full Document Available in PDF In 2001, the Bush administration signed the United…
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Population
Full Document Available in PDF In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus argued…
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Accessing Energy Resources on Public Lands
Full Document Available in PDF Federal land ownership affects the ability of energy developers to…
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Endocrine Disrupters
Full Document Available in PDF Having largely…
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The True Causes of Cancer
Full Document Available in PDF Environmental activists have long claimed that man-made chemicals are…
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Cancer Trends
Full Document Available in PDF In recent decades, many have claimed that cancer is rising…
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Chemical Risk Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Worldwide, the average human life span has increased from about…
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Environmental Trends
Full Document Available in PDF For the past 30 years, prognosticators have predicted an imminent environmental…
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Be Thankful for BPA-Lined Canned Goods this Thanksgiving
Well-meaning environmentalist Mindy Pennybacker, author of Do One Green Thing: Saving the Earth Through Simple, Everyday Choices, offers some sagely foolish advice…
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WHO Study on BPA: No Measurable Risks
The American Council on Science and Health has a great post on bisphenol A (BPA), noting yet another study that exonerates the chemical,…
Canada Free Press
Greenwashing America
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Greenwashing America
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Non-Partisan Victory: Dallas Eliminates “Dry” Areas
Cheers to Dallas voters who supported an initiative to eliminate “dry” areas (aka areas where alcohol was completed banned) of the city, which passed with…
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Alcohol Bureaucracy Prevails in Washington State
Washington State voters rejected an initiative that would have re-organized this industry simply to make it more rational, market-based, and fairer. The initiative,…
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Washington State Ballot: Cracking Open the Wine and Spirits Market
This election day, Washington State voters will have to decide on two different ballot initiatives dealing with alcohol regulation (#1100 and #1105). The first will…
Renew America
Angela Logomasini On The Risk of BPA
CEI Director of Risk and Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini discusses the risks and…
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Over-indulging Alcohol Regulators
A new study on alcohol consumption raises questions about government attempts to protect adults from “over-drinking.” It is particularly relevant as citizens debate privatization…
Organic Wine Journal
Why Is Congress So Afraid of Mail Order Wine?
Organic Wine Journal
Spirits Industry Engaging in Special-Interest Manipulation
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told the Salt Lake City Tribune that a representative of the National Beer Wholesalers Association drafted his recent congressional…
Canada Free Press
In Defense of Plastic
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Wholesale Special Interest Manipulation
Sometimes politicians say things so dumb that no one could have made them up. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told the Salt Lake City…
Canada Free Press
Why Is Congress So Afraid of Mail Order Wine?
The quest by wine and beer wholesalers to maintain their “middleman” role within the liquor industry is simply bad news. A bill making its way…
Washington Examiner
Big Green: Don’t Get Hit on the Campaign Trail by This Environmental Wrecking Ball
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