The Open Market Blog

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

There is considerable confusion among the Democratic Senators as to whether or not the U.S. has signed Kyoto. Senator Lautenberg stated the U.S. has not…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Bill Lash admitted in answer to a question from Sentor Klobuchar that an upstream cap and trade system is just like a cap. He did…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Senator Klobuchar has just suggested that we might not be getting “the truth” out of Government scientists. If she is so concerned about politicization of…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Senator Carper asked the PG&E spokesman what his motivation was. He replied that because PG&E’s business model “decouples” its revenues from its sales, cap and…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Fred is speaking now, underlining that CEI is pro-market, not pro-business necessarily. He is warning against the carbon cartel, the creation of a rationing sytem…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Kevin Hook, an energy analyst speaking in a personal capacity, points out that some of the CAP’s suggestions could raise national gasoline bill by over…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

Steve Elger from BP America is now speaking. I wonder if he’ll mention BP’s safety record while it has been saving the planet?…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

At the EPW hearing on the Climate Action Partnership, Jonathan Lash of the World Resources Institute talks about how his group’s target is 450 –…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

The CEO for energy company PG&E, a company that does not use any significant amounts of coal, is setting out an admirable program of efficiency…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/13/2007

At a Senate hearing today to discuss the rent-seeking cartel masquerading as the Climate Action Partnership, Fred Smith will present the testimony here. Senator…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 02/13/2007

CEI President Fred Smith is testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee this morning on the Climate Action Partnership and the effects…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/12/2007

This week’s new episode of  the Fox animated series”King of the Hill” centers around a great — and hilarious — illustration of the public…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Ivan has an excellent take on the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage (below), so I’ll limit myself to highlighting a recent…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/12/2007

Open Market readers may have seen this already, but I wanted to point out one interesting development from last night’s Grammy awards. The award for…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/12/2007

It shouldn’t be surprising. In Arizona, the state’s minimum wage hike, which went into effect last month, has led to teenagers being laid off,…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/12/2007

So, as I ponder the massive pressure group assault against passenger aviation and comparative per capita emissions (the city of Aspen having wonderfully shown us…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/12/2007

At a Capitol Hill policy briefing on February 9 for congressional staff and media, sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Dennis Avery of the Hudson…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/11/2007

In the least surprising headline of the weekend, Drudge alerts us: “Socialist candidate in France unveils far-left platform…” Je suis l’état…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/11/2007

In the weekend Wall Street Journal, Stephen Moore, quotes former CEI Warren Brookes Fellow Tim Carney from his book The Big Ripoff: How…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/09/2007

My good friend and fellow radical for capitalism — and former Warren Brookes Fellow — Brian Doherty (now with Reason magazine) will discuss his new…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/08/2007

On February 6, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart in…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 02/08/2007

The growth in air travel is one of the culprits behind the alleged global warming crisis. (See, for example, Cheap Air Travel Adding to…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/07/2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a woman so passionate about the cause of global warming that she created a new select committee dedicated exclusively to…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 02/07/2007

Deroy Murdock writes about ethanol in National Review Online today, specifically on the effect on food prices, as the Mexican tortilla crisis illustrates: Existing…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 02/07/2007

Pollster Michael McKenna just released his latest survey on what Americans think about enviro issues, particularly global warming. Some interesting findings: 1.  Environmental issues as…

• By: Jody Clarke
• 02/07/2007

Robert Samuelson has a great column on the global warming issue in today’s Washington Post. He hits the nail on the head when it…