The Open Market Blog

• 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…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2007

Some global-warming related stories you may have missed: The EU’s rapidly rising transport emissions mean that they won’t meet their Kyoto targets “without additional…

• By: Christine Hall
• 02/27/2007

Does Al Gore believe energy conservation is for the little people, the hoi polloi? The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, as reported by the…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/26/2007

How cute, Environmental Defense is declaring that “news just broke”—wink, they just now heard of it too!—that Texas Utilities (TXU)…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 02/26/2007

I recently testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. One of the other witnesses was Peter Darbee, CEO and President of PG&E Corporation.

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 02/26/2007

On C-SPAN last night, I was watching “Prime Minister’s Questions”—the wonderful British institution in which the Prime Minister answers questions, both from his sometimes…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/26/2007

Americans eat more junk than many other peoples, although the gap is diminishing, and many other Western countries are beginning to catch up to the…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/26/2007

In the latest installment of what has become an increasingly sorry drama, the European Union's Ambassador to the United States, former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton,…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 02/26/2007

Today’s Globe and Mail reports that Canadian environmental groups may soon succeed in getting the Province of Ontario to ban the use of lawn…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/25/2007

Freeborn John (good name for a good blog) has a post up remembering the excesses of British labor unions before Thatcher. As he notes,…

• 02/23/2007

A story in the Washington Post sports section points out that General Motors VP Brent Dewar is pushing NASCAR to switch from gasoline to…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/23/2007

Tyler Cowen has a good piece in the New York Times today about American cultural exports. He makes one particularly imprtant point: “Culture is…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/23/2007

Steve McIntyre finds something fishy happening with NASA’s records of historical temperatures. This deserves investigation.

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/23/2007

In the Wall Street Journal today (subscription required), Dorothy Rabinowitz takes a probing look at a recent “Law and Order” episode that transforms…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/23/2007

Otherwise quite-sound South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has weighed in on the political “global warming” sweepstakes with an op-ed in today’s Washington Post. To…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/23/2007

Fred Smith’s presentation at Guatemala’s Universidad Francisco Marroquin on how markets can help protect antiquities is now available online.

• By: John Berlau
• 02/22/2007

Intrepid Journalist Kevin Mooney of CNSNews.com just filed a can’t-miss story on Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. On the verge of the Academy Awards,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/22/2007

A Guardian correspondent attempts to defend his admitted alarmism over global warming. In the comments, climate change economist Richard Tol dismantles his arguments: First,…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/22/2007

First we had anti-globalization activists calling for “fair trade.” Now it seems not just trade is the problem but capitalism itself. Harold Meyerson in…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/22/2007

There are signs that caring about the environment is becoming a little passe. This is from an uber-cool British gossip email: Having nearly as bad…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 02/21/2007

Editorial writers in today’s Orlando Sentinel say they oppose Department of Homeland Security regulations that attempt to beef up security at the nation’s chemical…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/21/2007

Have you got a minute for Greenpeace’s youth wing? [youtube]BY7875_rv1s[/youtube] I think he wants your lunch money as well.

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/21/2007

The endless list of calamities laid at the feet of global warming just got a little longer – witness the invasion of France by…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 02/21/2007

The Contra Costa Times reports today that minorities in the San Francisco Bay area suffer disproportionately from air pollution coming from industrial plants. The…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/21/2007

British web-based advocacy group/ think tank/ TV station has released an ad on ‘A World Without America.‘ It makes the case for technological adaptation…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/21/2007

I listened to this podcast on my way in today and I don’t think there’s a better introduction to our regulatory issues, especially to…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/21/2007

I’m quoted in today’s Investor’s Business Daily on organized labor’s struggle to remain relevant in the private sector, where its numbers have been declining…