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Microsoft Deal to Restart Three Mile Island Could Be a Game-Changer
Microsoft and Constellation Energy, the utility that owns Three Mile Island, announced a new deal on September 20th that will lead to the restart of…
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The Social Cost Of Carbon Is A Flawed Metric For Policy Decisions
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is updating its social cost of carbon (SCC) estimate as part of a proposed rulemaking setting energy…
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Bees are flourishing again. Thanks, capitalism!
You can relax, everyone: The honeybees are back. As Andrew Van Dorn of the Washington Post reported recently, America suddenly now has a record…
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The Really Inconvenient Truths
From the Inside Flap Al Gore is bad for the planet… Talk about really inconvenient truths–that's one of the many you'll find in Iain Murray's…
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Bush’s Climate Plan, Carcinogens in Plastic and Free Trade
President Bush outlines a new plan for national climate policy. A new study raises concerns about a connection between plastics and cancer. Democratic leaders in…
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Looming Lightbulb Liability
The speeding freight train carrying toxic waste liability for makers, sellers and purchasers of compact fluorescent lightbulbs, or CFLs, was only faintly audible in the…
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Living up to green ‘standards’
In his HGTV show “Living with Ed,” actor and environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. shows his viewers how to live green. Begley certainly more…
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Al Gore and the Mission of the Nobel Prizes
In just a few hours following publication of this article, at approximately 9AM Eastern time this morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce its selection…
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The Green Regulatory State
Full Document Available in PDF Over the years, the environmental lobby has advanced a considerable…
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The Church of Rachel Carson
One hundred years after her birth in May of 1907, it’s difficult to underestimate Rachel Carson’s influence. Unfortunately, it’s all bad. That hasn’t stopped…
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Silent Alarmism: A Centennial We Could Do Without
Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, the 1962 book that launched the modern environmental movement, was born a century…
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Rachel Carson’s Deadly Legacy
This week, the world celebrates the 100th birthday of environmental icon Rachel Carson, author of the 1962 book, Silent Spring . To mark the…
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Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize
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Rachel Carson’s legacy nothing to celebrate
Today is the centenary of Rachel Carson’s birth, which has been noted by many environmentalists who cherish her legacy. However, what has been little…
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Rethinking the Rachel Carson Legacy
Washington, D.C., May 21, 2007—As environmentalists around the world prepare this week to celebrate the 100th birthday of author Rachel Carson, the Competitive Enterprise…
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The Case of the DDT Deniers
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Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes?
Last week’s announcement that the World Health Organization lifted its nearly 30-year ban on the insecticide DDT is perhaps the most promising development in…
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Europe’s Global REACH: Chemical Regulations in Europe Promise Worldwide Costs
This month, the European Parliament voted in favor of a massive new expansion of the European Union's (EU) chemical regulations. Known as REACH—which stands for…
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The Long REACH of the EU
The European Union's Council of Ministers is expected to vote soon on the proposed chemicals regulation called REACH, an acronym for Registration, Evaluation, and…
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Europe’s OverREACH
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Europe’s Global REACH: Costly for the World; Suicidal for Europe
Full Document Available in PDF Regulations enacted in the…
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The REACH of a European Chemicals Proposal: New Study Uncovers Emperor With no Clothes
Washington, D.C., November 7, 2005—A proposed program in Europe to massively expand chemical regulations would be too costly with no benefit, and also have…
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Natural Repellents Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off (Letter to the Editor)
Despite the way it was cast in the story (“Natural Repellents Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off,” Aug. 18), insect repellants containing DEET have the longest…
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Natural Repellents Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off (Letter to the Editor)
Despite the way it was cast in the story (“Natural Repellents Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off,” Aug. 18), insect repellants containing DEET have the longest…
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REACH and Risk
One of the key reasons the European Union’s proposed constitution was rejected by French and Dutch voters is that they dislike having their lives…
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The Politics Behind Pesticides and the West Nile Virus
In a new study published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, author Angela Logomasini exposes how environmental activists are opposing vital efforts to combat the deadly…
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The Green Inquisitor
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Europe’s REACH Exceeds Its Scientific Grasp
European regulatory officials have raised hostility to technological innovation to an art form. Their current medium of choice is the Precautionary Principle, which holds…
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CEI’s Angela Logomasini Testifies Before The Consumer Product Safety Commission On The Use Of Chromated Copper Arsenate In
Comments of Angela Logomasini, Director of Risk and Environmental Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute Before the Consumer…
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West Nile Wakeup Bites
It became common in Washington’s parks during the summer to see mothers rubbing their children’s arms, faces, and legs with wipes pulled from…
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To Beat West Nile, Kill The Carrier
It is common in Washington’s parks these days to see mothers rubbing their children’s arms, faces and legs with wipes pulled from brightly…
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Senators Attempt Balancing Security And “Right to Know”
View Full Document as PDF The Department of Justice (DOJ) warned in year 2000 that the risk of a terrorist attack on…
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The Precautionary Principle: Protectionism and Environmental Extremism by Other Means
The Precautionary Principle: Protectionism and Environmental Extremism by Other Means …
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Deploy DDT To Fight Malaria
Thirty years ago this month, the government launched an assault on a basic liberty – the liberty to protect one’s own health using a pesticide.
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Don’t be too Quick to Condemn Lifesaving Pesticides (Letter to the Editor)
Dear Editor: People certainly should be concerned about the declining lobster population in New York, (“A deadly mosquito cure,” Aug. 1) But we should not…
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Poisonous Propaganda: Global Echoes of an Anti-Vinyl Agenda
Full Document Available in PDF Led by Greenpeace,…
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Pests in Congress
On August 2, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new restrictions and. bans on the use of methyl parathion and azinphosmethyl, two pesticides used widely…
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Ignore the Pesticide Scare Du Jour
“Public advocate” reports on the supposed dire consequences of pesticide use seem to come out almost daily. According to news reports and environmentalist “studies,” if…
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Chemically Speaking (Letter to the Editor)
It is ironic that environmental groups and others jumped ship from the Environmental Protection Agency’s food-quality advisory panel on the same day that President Clinton…
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The Mismeasure of Man
The environmentalist assault on chlorine has taken a recent turn. Organochlorines, we are now told, not only cause cancer, they are capable of altering human…
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Rachel Was Wrong
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ushered in an era of national concern over the potential effects of synthetic chemicals. Published in 1962, Carson's book suggested that…
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Rachel’s Folly: The End of Chlorine
Full Document Available in PDF The environmentalists are right about one thing: Dirty…
