The Open Market Blog

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/09/2007

A newish Congressional Research Service report raises some very interesting questions about current proposals that the federal government begin to provide wind insurance. Paired…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/09/2007

Our good friend Tim Carney is in the DC Examiner today on big business opposition to the proposed XM/Sirius satellite radio merger. Among…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/09/2007

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has just declared Washington, D.C.’s gun ban unconstitutional under the federal Constitution’s Second Amendment,…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 03/09/2007

I have a piece in yesterday’s NR Online–my first CEI publication–that may seem a little counterintuative coming from a free market organization like CEI.

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/09/2007

A very interesting story in the Washington Post today notes that China is moving to protect private property. The Communist party apparently realizes that…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/09/2007

February was an interesting month; here in Washington, the media and the new Democratic congress are moving rapidly ahead to push alarmist global warming policies.

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/09/2007

By now, approximately one million people have asked me, “So, have you seen those news reports that organic food is causing a rise in food…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/09/2007

The Nationl People’s Public Radio show “Few All Things Considered” had an interesting segment on daylight savings time last night. As readers should know,…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 03/08/2007

Today’s Globe and Mail reports that a recent study summarizes the “latest scientific evidence” on the dangers of eating too much fish containing trace levels…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/08/2007

Former CEI research associate Achim Schmillen has a great op-ed today in the Detroit News on proposed new “data retention” regulations: Do you remember every…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 03/07/2007

The split among Christians over global warming is growing wider. While it appeared liberal environmentalists had pretty much convinced evangelicals that catastrophic global warming is…

• By: Fran Smith
• 03/07/2007

An article in the Wall Street Journal today (p. B6, subscription required) focuses on the sharp spike in Midwest farmland prices resulting from the ethanol…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/07/2007

Some global warming-related stories you may have missed: British companies involved in the Emissions Trading Scheme enjoy a $1.5 billion profits windfall while energy…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 03/06/2007

A few of us from CEI attended an event today featuring John O’Sullivan, author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister. O’Sullivan…

• By: Cord Blomquist
• 03/06/2007

Wired Blogs reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling which found that Ziinet.com and 700law.com, two sites offering…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/05/2007

CEI and Bureaucrash operatives paid a visit to CPAC 2007 on Friday to take in the annual cavalcade of conservative conferees and the ideas…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/05/2007

Last night’s new episode of “The Simpsons” skewers the No Child Left Behind Act’s testing requirements — in only a few seconds. School district…

• By: Fran Smith
• 03/05/2007

So goes a chart heading in an article on oil production in today’s New York Times. The article points out that new technology, fueled…

• By: Fran Smith
• 03/05/2007

A Sunday New York Times editorial, “The must-do list,” reviews the attacks on civil liberties in U.S. policies since 9/11. Worth a read, especially…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/05/2007

Over at Planet Gore, Iain and our former colleague Peter Suderman have some further commentary on the silly Washington Post article by…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 03/05/2007

Global warming deniers could perhaps dismiss the breakup of the polar ice caps as a far away phenomenon irrelevant to their daily lives. But now…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/05/2007

The Wall Street Journal‘s energy blog is reporting that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating possible insider trading in the TXU takeover deal.

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/05/2007

Lots of global warming-related stories you may have missed: Threat of Kyoto is leading to wholesale deforestation in New Zealand. U.N. climate talks…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/04/2007

Many libertarian economists and commentators have long criticized professional licensing as a protectionist scheme that restricts competition to the benefit of some (licensed) producers and to the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/04/2007

Today’s Washington Post “Outlook” section features an article by science fiction writer Bruce Sterling that needs to be read to be believed. Suffice it…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/03/2007

Today’s Journal also reports that the two environmental groups that endorsed the recent buyout of the utility TXU Corp. after the company agreed to…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/03/2007

Today’s weekend Wall Street Journal‘s lead editorial (available free online at OpinionJournal.com) addresses the Climate Action Partnership, reitarating some of CEI’s arguments against this…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/02/2007

Last summer’s outbreak of E. coli contamination in packaged spinach that killed at least three people and sickened more than 200 others has now…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/02/2007

I noted yesterday that vetoing the Employee Free Choice Act, the mandatory card check bill that the House passed yesterday, would provide President George…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/02/2007

David Ignatius is worried about the planet’s vulnerability to climate change, citing futurist Peter Schwartz. I see David’s Peter Schwartz and raise him an…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/01/2007

The U.S. House of Representatives today approved, by a 241-185 vote, the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800), which would destroy secret ballot protections in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

Behold: two news stories below. The first is from 1978, the second from 2006. I can hardly wait to see what the 2032 headline will…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 03/01/2007

For whatever reason, when then-economic advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Andrei Illarionov, began touting an official 2002 UK document styled “Report of…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

I received a press release this morning from Wind Watch, a group dedicated to opposing the menace of the wind. With windchill-adjusted temperatures in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

Finally, a man who knows how to speak truth to power. Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer has come out with the ideal solution…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

It turns out that the Earth actually is being attacked by cosmic rays. New research is strongly suggesting that warming trends on this planet can…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

CEI’s very own Fred Smith was on Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC show yesterday talking about Al Gore and his notorious carbon footprint. Take it away,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 03/01/2007

The misleadingly named "Employee Free Choice Act" (H.R 800) reaches the House floor today. This bill would essentially do away with secret ballot elections in…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/01/2007

We’ve weighed in on the debate over “e-waste” – discarded electronics and computer parts – before, most notably via the work of our talented and…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 02/28/2007

Yesterday’s New York Times reports on a new study published in the Lancet, which questions those who advise pregnant women to cut back…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/28/2007

Prince Charles made headlines earlier this week when he suggested to the staff of a diabetes clinic in Abu Dhabi that McDonald’s fast food…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/28/2007

In selecting Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” as the winner for best documentary, the Academy Awards sent a disturbing message to aspiring documentary makers. The…

• By: Christine Hall
• 02/28/2007

In the news today, a brilliant idea by Prince Charles — Let’s just ban McDonald’s so that people eat healther! This is what happens…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/28/2007

The issue of global warming has attracted much attention over the past decade. CEI analysts such as Marlo Lewis have argued that regulations aimed at…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/27/2007

On February 26, a Rhode Island court ruled that the paint industry is liable for a statewide "public nuisance" because long ago, paint companies sold…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

Apparently Al Gore now uses Green Power to light and heat his home, so he isn’t entirely hypocritical. However, the issue here is that…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

When I read about sainted Al’s massive power demands I immediately thought, “Surely he must use Green Power from windmills or something like that.”…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/27/2007

Well, the food-or-fuel debate has now been recognized by the mainstream media, previously salivating over the wonderful tax benefits and subsidies for corn…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/27/2007

John Tierney does it again.  In Tierney’s profile today of Stewart Brand — a staunch environmentalist and the man who gave us the…