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Lomborg on the Stern Review: “…selective…flawed…sloppy…one-sided…”
Our friend Bjørn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, has an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal (subscription only) today taking on…
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Trans-Fatty Criminals
Elizabeth Whelan of ACSH has a great article on National Review Online today about the stupidity of banning trans-fats, as New York City and…
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So the Government Dictating Broadcast Content is ‘Fair’?
Fans of free expression should hit up a piece in Human Events, by our very own John Berlau, on those misguided souls who…
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The Future: Filthy Rich or Stinking Rich?
The New York Sun has an editorial on the Stern review on the economics of global warming which includes a mention of our very…
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The ADA Meets Cyberspace
BNA is covering the recent district court ruling that Target can be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind: In this class…
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Taking Tobacco to Court
In case you missed it, the Supremes are tackling a major tobacco/tort reform liability case this week. AP’s Mark Sherman has the story: The…
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The Sweetest Urban Legend of All
Keeping the holiday theme going, we now turn to the perennial Halloween boogieman, the anonymous candy poisoner. For decades, parents have been warned to…
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What Is All the Hyperventilating About?
If you haven’t read it already, treat yourself to a radically reasonable op-ed by Prof. Richard Lindzen of MIT on why global warming is…
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Better Halloween Through Science
It turns out that Monsanto, the occasionally controversial biotech company, is hard at work on more than just wheat and maize. They’re also experimenting with…
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The U.S. Secretary of Shady Land Deals
Judith Burns of Dow Jones’ MarketWatch reports on the latest shareholder activism from our friends Steve Milloy and Tom Borelli over at the…
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The UK Takes An Alarmingly Stern Look at Global Warming
The international media is in a tizz this morning (afternoon in the UK) over the release of the Stern Review on the Economics…
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Another American Bird Species Faces Extinction
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I’d Have Settled for a Statue in Antwerp
According to The Wall Street Journal this morning, Al Gore and his take on global warming have become all the rage in…Belgium. It’s seems…
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Bean Counters Caucus in DC
The American Financial Services Association is holding its 90th annual meeting here in Washington this week, and attendees are tackling a number of challenges…
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SEJ 2006: Marc Morano Takes on Alarmist Reporting
We’ve known that Marc Morano was a brave man for some time, but he proved it again last night at the Society of Environmental Journalists’…
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SEJ 2006: Open Source Journalism
There was yet more cool action from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this afternoon as Amy Gahran and Adam Glenn explained…
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SEJ 2006: Across the Web
As CEI’s presence at the 16th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists continues, I’ve noticed that the event’s blogosphere presence has grown…
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SEJ 2006: Energy Companies Try to Out-Clean Each Other
Energy companies, both new and old, are crowded into the Society of Environmental Journalists conference here in Burlington, Vermont, all playing up the environmental profile…
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SEJ 2006: Battle of the Automakers
The Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference this week is in full swing, with panels and exhibits on everything from sustainable forestry to avian flu.
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No Unnecessary Travel Allowed in the War on CO2
I’m going to be flying to Vermont tomorrow, and some of my colleagues are also taking airline trips soon, including a few to far off…
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Does Gulfstream Make a Hybrid Jet?
In a shocking development, we find out this morning that environmentally fixated, hybrid-loving celebrities don’t necessarily live the green dream that they preach…
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The Newest Cell Phone Accessory: Lead Underpants
A new study out of the UK suggests that mobile phone radiation may be responsible for increased infertility in men. This observed decline in…
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Ted Kennedy, Hero of Socialist Labor
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Politics Nerds Rejoice
Students at my alma mater, Claremont McKenna College, have created a very wonky alternative to the season’s popular fantasy football leagues: fantasy Congress.
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Maybe That’s Why the Lacrosse Scandal Disappeared from the News
Scientists at Duke University and Imperial College London have reportedly developed a cloaking device for solid objects. All of the relevant Romulan and Harry…
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“The politics of relative position is the egalitarian welfare statist’s new favorite game”
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The Latest Wal-Mart Scandal
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Ralph Harris, RIP
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Cars, Women and Minorities
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News of YouTube’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
An argument from Peter Hartlaub of the San Francisco Chronicle on why big business can never be cool, even when it acquires something that…
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Small Government Hate Speech?
Craig Bannister of CNSNews just passed on a story out of Marquette University in which graduate student Stuart Distler was banned from displaying the…
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Frank Luntz, Save Us!
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And Now for a Word from the Critics
We’ve just heard that our friend Marc Morano will be one of the panelists at the upcoming Society of Environmental Journalists conference in…
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They’re Coming to Audit Your Avatar
Fox News this morning raises the alarming prospect of the IRS taxing financial transactions taking places in online virtual communities like Second…
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Vote for Alternative Energy with Your Feet
Tokyo rail users will now be expected to not only pay for their own tickets, but also to power the machines that sell them.
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Decoy Files on P2P Sites Become Ad Vehicles
From The Wall Street Journal, via \. The unusual alliance demonstrates a new tack being taken by the music industry to deal with…
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Revisited
Marc Morano over at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is drawing our attention today to an op-ed in L’Express last month…
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Do Something for Africa: Stop Foreign Aid Now
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The Newest/Oldest Lesson: Why Energy Is Bad
In reference to my previous post about morally righteous (anti-) global warming celebrities, I suggested that those who are horrified by CO2 emissions should…
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It’s Tough Out There for a Morally-Consistent Performer
Tired of loosely-informed celebrities nagging you about global warming? It’s beginning to look like the most hard core among them could end up taking themselves…
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Europe Takes a Stab at the Multimedia Revolution
Sometimes, a regulatory idea comes along that is so stupid and offensive, one assumes it couldn’t actually be real. “Who could possibly think this is…
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A Storm of Scientific Controversy on Capitol Hill
The CEI email server is abuzz this morning with news of an upcoming briefing on global warming and hurricanes being put on by the…
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Great Modern Economists, Podcast Style
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When Cosmic Rays Attack
Our friend Steve Milloy has an excellent column on a new global warming study out of Denmark, and the unsurprising reasons it doesn’t seem…
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She’s Huge in Europe
More fame for Angela! Her concise and pithy assessment of the EU’s proposed chemical regulations made it as environmental news service Greenwire’s…
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Why All of Human History Has Been Leading Toward Google
Former Random House editorial director Jason Epstein has an interesting take on Google’s place in history, and how the Google Library project could…
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Making Decisions on the Fly
Our occasional journalisitic nemesis George Monbiot, as part of the promotional flurry surrounding his new book, is taking the presidents and directors of big…
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Libertarians Know How to Swing
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Assessing the Content of Google’s Character
To continue the Google-YouTube discussion begun by Peter, take a look at what some /. folks are saying about Google’s potential exposure to…
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Google Gets Good Marks as Internet Librarian
Google raised some doubts (some even from CEI) about copyright protection when they launched Google Library, but now the project is having just the…
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Big Money Loves Big Government
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CBO Speaks: Deficit Slightly Smaller, Still Huge
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Update: Foley to Move to Amsterdam, Run for Parliament
News out of the Netherlands this week is bearing an odd parallel to DC’s most talked about scandal involving a now-former Congressman from…
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Free Government Cash: Mixed News From Germany
It seems that German welfare queens have been enraging their hard working fellow citizens by driving expensive cars while on the dole. The Christinan Democrats…
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Let It Ride While You Can
Sad news for online poker fans: Congress has effectively outlawed Internet gambling, as part of legislation widely expected to be signed into law by…
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Masters of their own Domains
ICANN is moving toward greater autonomoy and away from direct ties to the U.S. Department of Commerce. As long as it doesn’t end up…
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Rachel Carson Lied, Millions Died
We were all happy to see the World Health Organization finally take steps to embrace wider anti-malarial deployment of DDT, but our…
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The Bureau is Exactly 37.1973% Incompetent
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Lockyer: SUVs Don’t Kill People, Car Companies Kill People
California’s attorney general has sued carmakers DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Ford and subsidiaries of Honda, Nissan and Toyota for global warming impacts…
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Sound Suggestion on Social Security Security
In what, for now at least, seems like good news, the president’s Identity Theft Task Force has recommended that the federal government…
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There Was a Farmer Who Played a Game…
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Don’t Tax My Timber
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DDT to the Rescue
In an extraordinarily good development, the World Health Organization has officially called for greater use of DDT around the world in order to combat…
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Here He Is, Your Komodo Dragon…
There’s a new book for anyone ever frustrated by the bureaucratic enforcement of the Endangered Species Act: The Hunter’s Guide to Endangered Species by…
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Take Your Dirty Economic Development Elsewhere
It’s only been a couple weeks since the state of California decided to create a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, and some businesses are…
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Trading Up to Free Global Markets
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Meet the New Change, Same as the Old Change?
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Beyond Accountability
Our friend Steve Milloy is back on the shareholder activist battleground, with a petition before the SEC to change the rules…
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E Pluribus Equine
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IPN to UNFPA: Drop Dead
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A Backyard Texas Tea Party
Despite recent good news on the oil front, some people are still upset with current energy prices. Louisiana oilman Steve Jordan has even decided…
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