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Buy out the sugar growers, says the LA Times
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Anyone Want to Buy Some Venezuelan Oil Futures Contracts?
Hugo Chavez, celebrating Communist New Year in style, has stripped the world’s major oil companies of operational control of drilling projects in the Orinoco…
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Marlo to appear on climate change panel
If you’re in DC this evening, CEI’s own Marlo Lewis will be a panelist at a climate change discussion sponsored by the World Affairs…
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Carbon Offsets and Snake Oil
EasyJet, one of Europe’s biggest budget airlines, has taken a look at the carbon offset business and doesn’t like what it found: Toby Nicol,…
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A Blow to Privatization and Interstate Commerce
Once again, Justices Roberts and Alito have split over whether federal law preempts a state regulation. In United Haulers Association v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste…
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Incandescent Damsels in Distress
The front page of today's Washington Post breaks the dramatic story I've been waiting to see reported on for some time: U.S. consumers don't care…
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Global Warming Round-up
It’s a while since I’ve done one of these, but here are some global warming-related stories you may have missed. Canada sets own emissions…
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Free Kareem Roundup
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Lewis Black on Eco-celebs
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Enviro kids need counseling?
Richard, your post on angry kids used by enviros reminded me that I showed the Greenpeace ad to a friend who deals with disturbed…
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Getting rid of the sugar program — buyouts looking sweeter
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Supporting Online Gaming Is No Gamble
House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank has proposed repealing last Fall’s ban on Internet gambling, though according to the punsters at the Associated…
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Free Kareem Rally in DC
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ED Ads: Tick’d off By Annoying Child Actors
First came Greenpeace’s Angry Kid: Now come ED’s clock kids: Why do big environmental groups think adults like being lectured by bossy…
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Back to the Paleo Future
The delightful and fascinating blog Paleo-Future has some entertaining video clips up from a short film produced by AT&T in 1993, showing what…
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More on the Neutrality Battle
If this whole net neutrality thing sounds a bit complex, let The Simpleton’s Guide explain it all. Because after all, simple is better:…
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What’s the Gift for a One-Year Lobbying Anniversary?
The inaptly named Save the Internet coalition is celebrating its first anniversary today, and Wayne is on the case: “We all can probably agree…
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Green Spendthrifts, Get a Life!
Christine, I loved your post about the new trendy green fashions. Via Fark I’ve just come across something I think tops it: a…
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Re: The Clothesline
We used a clothesline when I was growing up, but were forever running outside to grab the clothes when the sky darkened. In the North-East…
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Speed Limits. . . Don’t Need ‘Em
Some visitors coming to my home this morning complained of very slow traffic on the beltway at 10:00 a.m. Serious traffic this late in the…
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Clotheslining Progress
It seems recent posts by myself and Fran were all too prescient. The clothesline is apparently merely beginning its green-inspired comeback. Following Kathy…
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“Al Gore trains a global army”
Beware of the storm troopers of global warming alarmism. According to USA Today, they’re on the march.
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How To Go Green For A Gazillion Bucks
The May issue of Vogue arrived on my doorstep this week, filled with all the usual high fashion photos and news. But this issue also…
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From the Mouths of Babes: A Poetic Approach to Recycling
Yesterday's "How Did You Celebrate Earth Day?" post generated an unexpected response from Nishant Magar of the American Chemical Society. Apparently our friends at…
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In Defense of the Bundle
Has everyone been taking French lessons without me? That’s the feeling I get when I see the increasing chatter about “a la carte” for everything.
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Could this be the end
… of a beautiful friendship?…
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Toilet Humor
Sheryl Crow is now claiming that her toilet paper idea was a joke.The reaction to it should tell her something about the environmental movement. …
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Fred Talks Global Warming and Sheryl Crow with Tucker Carlson
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The Latest from Chavezuela
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Re: How Did You Celebrate Earth Day?
I spent the day reading. I did drive my car, though — and it’s not a hybrid.
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Union Decline – It’s not just in America anymore
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Google glacier going, going, gone
For what I only surmise was the observance of Earth Day, Google had a figure of its logo as a melting glacier (which still appeared…
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Careful What you Wish for, Sheryl
Sheryl Crow should be careful what she wishes for. Iain’s post on her green evangelist mission with Laurie David reminds me of a similar…
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Re: You would need a heart of stone
Rationing toilet paper isn’t all that Sheryl Crow is pursuing to save the planet. She recently told People magazine that she intends to…
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Exposing Ethanol in the Centennial State
Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi has an excellent piece today on ethanol and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter’s enthusiastic embrace of it as a solution…
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I’ve Certainly Got Laughter in My Heart
Iain, I agree that only the most humorless wretch could refrain from laughter in the face of the Sheryl Crow/Laurie David juggernaut of pretension.
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You would need a heart of stone
…not to laugh at the sanctimony and earnestness displayed by the Global Warming Sistas Laurie David and Sheryl Crow in their blog. Here’s Crow:…
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Fun with Emissions Calculators
Inspired by John Whitehead, I decided to use the EPA emissions calculator to find out how much CO2 my household emits.Total emissions for…
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How Did You Celebrate Earth Day?
Iain raises an interesting question over at Planet Gore, and it's a good idea to follow up with it here. Yesterday was Earth Day,…
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Commercial Broadcast Radio with…No Commercials?
The New York Times Business section has an interesting story this morning on how one of Clear Channel’s stations in Dallas is eliminating all…
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Africans in DC: Kick Bob Mugabe to the Curb
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CEI Alumnus Superstar
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The Year’s Worst Use of a Figure of Speech by a Bureaucrat?
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Cranky Geek Against SarbOx
John C. Dvorak, long time columnist for PC Magazine and head Crank on Cranky Geeks, a popular podcast, has come out against…
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Regulated to Death
The New York Times has an interesting story on how federal privacy and disability-rights regulations may have helped pave the way for the Virginia…
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I Do
Surfing around, I just came upon AT&T’s “You Will” advertising campaign from the early 1990s. The ads are well-produced and, almost fifteen years after…
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Capitalizing on Patriotism
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Flooded homes vs. stranded fish
In the New York Times today, there was a photo of a submerged subdivision near Wayne, N.J. as a consequence of torrential rain and…
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In Antitrust They Trust
Satellite radio pioneers XM and Sirius are finally going down the long-expected merger path, but not without a fight from the usual suspects. Mel…
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The Collapse of Private Insurance: Part XXVII
A federal jury verdict yesterday in Lousiana requiring Allstate to pay several million dollars it didn’t expect to further underlines the inherent problem with…