For over three decades, CEI has advocated health care reforms that put more power in the hands of consumers to choose their health providers, treatment protocols, and scope of insurance coverage. We have advocated reform of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug and device approval process to allow for greater flexibility and patient choice. And in 2013, CEI organized the court challenges to Obamacare’s exchange subsidies that concluded with the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell decision.
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Rescheduling marijuana to a less restrictive category will benefit liberty and public health
President Trump signed an executive order today intended to fast track the rescheduling of cannabis from a Schedule I substance, the same as heroin,…
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CEI Study: Government laws against pharmacy ownership would increase costs, restrict access for consumers
Innovation is reshaping how Americans get their prescription medications. Whether picking up medications in person, ordering online, or getting same-day delivery from services like Capsule,…
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A Free Market is the Best Medicine
Introduction The pharmaceutical supply market is seeing extraordinarily high levels of innovation and consumer-benefiting evolution. The combination of a competitive market for generic drugs, rapid…
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Science vs. Presumption In Assessing Risk
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format On September 22, 2000, California Governor Gray Davis signed into…
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European move will stifle GMOs
Regulatory officials in the European Union seem to be ignorant of the Rule of Holes: When you're in a hole, stop digging. Repeated analyzes…
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Blessed Are The Poor With Spirit
This year's UN-sponsored World Food Summit just concluded with a grim reminder that the goal of cutting world hunger in half by 2015 set six…
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Biotech Critics Find A Little Goes A Long Way
In the fictional world of James Bond, the criminal group SPECTRE made a big business out of misusing technology to disrupt commerce, make money, and…
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Are Risk Assessment And The Precautionary Principle Equivalent?
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following paper was prepared for the June 20-21, 2002 International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology workshop on the Precautionary Principle,…
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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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Want to Avoid GM Foods? This Regulation Won’t Help
Yesterday, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee voted to expand the EU’s labelling requirement for Genetically Modified foods. The measure, in the form of…
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Worrying About Frankenstein’s Monster
A specter is haunting Europe—called the “precautionary principle”. As generally defined, the precautionary principle states that a product or technology can be banned even if…
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Cancer Doctors on the FDA
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Battling Hunger With Biotechnology
Needless restrictions on agricultural biotechnology would harm the world's ability to battle hunger in the 21st century, say Gregory Conko and C.S. Prakash, co-founders…
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FDA Too Slow to Approve New Medical Drugs and Devices
A new nationwide poll of cancer specialists sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute finds many of them believe the FDA is too slow in approving…
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A National Survey of Oncologists Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
Full Document Available in PDF A National Survey…
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Will California’s Senate Follow Assembly’s Lead And Pass Costly Auto Regulations?
Washington, D.C., April 26, 2002 — The California State Assembly has passed new regulations that could increase the cost of new cars and…
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US Backs Pediatric Tests In Reversal on Drug Safety
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FDA Overreaches
Who could possibly oppose a pediatric-testing rule for drugs? For starters, physicians and parents who realize that while this rule is supposed to protect children,…
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The Need to Test Drugs on Children
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New York Times Attacks CEI On FDA’s Pediatric Rule
Copyright © 2002 The New York Times <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Bush administration senselessly…
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Food Expert Applauds Science Journal’s Recognition Of Flawed Mexican Corn Study
Washington, D.C., April 4, 2002-The Competitive Enterprise Institute is encouraged by an admission today from the science journal Nature that a controversial article on…
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Groups Challenge Ban on Health-Claims Labels
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FDA to Suspend Rules for Testing Drugs on Children
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FDA Says Kids’ Drug Test not Compulsory
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CEI Ad Opposes Robert Redford’s Twisted Logic On Fuel Economy Standards
Full Document Available in PDF Format Summary ROBERT REDFORD,IF YOU’RE GOING TO PUT OUR LIVES AT RISKFOR THE SAKE…
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Robert Redford’s Latest ‘Role’ Misleads Americans About Dangers of Fuel Economy Standards
Washington, DC, March 20, 2002—Robert Redford may have given the most incredible performance of his career when he narrated radio ads recently for…
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New Fuel Economy Ad Campaign Misleading
Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002 — With the future of one of the federal government’s riskier regulations currently being debated in Washington, a…
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CAFE’s Yearly Death Toll: State By State
Full Document Available in PDF CAFE’s death toll figures broken down…
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February 2002 Edition of CEI Update
Full Document Available in PDF Articles in this edition: “Poised For A Broadband…
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CAFE Kills Both Jobs and Motorists
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Bailouts: Picking Winners and Losers
Last September, after barely two weeks of debate, Congress enacted legislation to bail out the nation's airlines. Intended to help repair the economic…
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Financial Aid For Airlines Calls For Careful Decision
Last September, after barely two weeks of debate, Congress enacted legislation to bail out the nation's airlines. Intended to help repair the economic…
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Greenpeace on the Defensive
After years of playing offense, Greenpeace is now finding itself on the defensive. In addition to pulling much of the anti-Bush administration propaganda from its…
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WHO Cares? World Health Organization Cares More About Its Own Life Than The Lives Of The Poor
Paul Dietrich was visiting Mozambique’s capital city, Maputo, during its civil war in 1984, when an educational billboard taught him a lesson he never…
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Airport Insecurity
DeLong Op-Ed in National Review Online Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge recently told Chris Matthews that airplane security ultimately depends on the passengers,…
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Uncle Sam’s Vaccines
Miller and Kazman Op-Ed in National Review Online The recent germ-warfare attacks are cause for concern, but so is one proposed government response:…
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Private Sector Is Better At Providing Airline Safety
Today, after weeks of stalemate in Congress, President Bush will sign the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. On the key sticking point, federalization…
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Armed Crews Can Protect Airliners
DeLong Op-Ed in The Providence Journal <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Senate recently passed an airport-security bill that contains…
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Precaution (Of A Sort) Without Principle
Miller and Conko Article in Priorities For Health: Volume 13, Number 3 Published by The American Council…
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Beware “Simple” Solutions
Gattuso Op-Ed In The USA Today<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Everyone agrees that action is needed to improve…
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If Pork Had Wings
Horner Op-Ed in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> That didn't…
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Fear of Federalizing
Gattuso Op-Ed In The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Less than a month after…
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Is Bailout The Best Remedy?
Gattuso Op-Ed in The Washington Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Before the tragedies of Sept.
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A Crashing Failure: The Stupid Tragedy of CAFE
Provided courtesy of www.nationalreview.com/ If the National Academy of Sciences discovered that a certain chemical was killing several…
USA Today
Resort to False Fuel Savings
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Dangerous GM Gets Off Scot-Free
Conko and Miller Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal Europe<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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Life, Liberty, And Cell Phones
From the August 2001 Edition of CEI Update A car speeds down a busy highway, zigzagging unpredictably from lane to…
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Cutting Regulation From the EPA: Gene-splicing Policy Should Be Excised
Miller Op-Ed in The Washington TImes Miller Op-Ed in The Washington Times A persistent criticism of the…
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Plants Are Not Pesticides
Miller Op-Ed in The National Post<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> A New U.S. EPA…
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The Leaked Study on CAFE: Why It Doesn’t Justify Higher Fuel Economy Standards
This past Monday, the New York Times carried a front-page story on the National Academy of Sciences’ auto fuel-economy study.[1] The…
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Massachusetts: Go Slow on Disconnecting Drivers
Gattuso and Rupert Op-Ed in The Lowell Sun<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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CEI Criticizes FDA Delay In Approving New Heart Valve
Washington, DC, July 27, 2001—The Food and Drug Administration acted far too slowly in approving the Omnicarbon heart valve, the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
USA Today
Fatal Mileage Rules
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Federal Court Dismisses Alcohol Advertising Case
Washington, DC, June 26, 2001— A federal district court last week dismissed a challenge to a federal agency’s ban on advertising the medical…
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Public Interest Group Welcomes CDC StarLink Report
Washington, DC, June 14, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes a report by the Centers for Disease Control that finds…
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Benefits of Moderate Alcohol Consumption to Get Their Day in Court
Washington, DC, June 11, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Consumer Alert will present their case for freedom of speech in alcohol labels…
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The Perils Of Precaution
Miller and Conko Article Published In Policy Review<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Environmental and public health activists have clashed with scholars…
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A Real Bill Of Rights For Passengers
Well, the sure signs of summer are upon us once again. The temperature is rising, there are tourists everywhere, and things are slowing down to…
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CEI Weighs In On Drycleaning Zoning Proposal
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> TESTIMONY OF THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE…
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CEI Comments Before FDA on Bioengineered Foods
COMMENTS OF THE COMMENTS OF THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE TO THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION REGARDING THE…
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Hope, Not Hype, in the Golden Grains
Two years ago, practically no one had ever heard of Ingo Potrykus Two years ago, practically no one had ever heard of…
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Designer Jeans from Designer Genes: Henry Miller National Post Op-Ed
California Gov Published February 12, 2001 The National Post (Canada) Self-styled environmentalists have been virtually unanimous in opposing biotechnology,…
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FDA Fails to Give Olestra Fair Weight: Henry Miller LA Times Op-Ed
Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times February 4, 2001 The sad…
USA Today
Will Last-Minute Flood of FDA Rules Keep New Drugs, Foods off Market?
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Thumbs Down On FDA Rules For Biotech Food
Washington, D.C. January 17, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute issued a strong condemnation of proposed new regulations for genetically-engineered foods released today…
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Organic Food Standards May Violate First Amendment
WASHINGTON, DC December 20, 2000—New standards for organic foods may violate First Amendment free speech rights, the Competitive Enterprise…
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FDA’s Pediatric Rule Challenged in Federal Lawsuit
A physicians’ association and two public interest groups today filed suit in federal court challenging the validity of the Food and Drug Administration’s “Pediatric Rule.”…
USA Today
A Turkey of a Regulation
Corn — or maize as the Indians called it — has always been part of Thanksgiving tradition. But this year, many Americans have found that…
USA Today
Our Phoniest Drug War
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Biotech Food Labeling is Regulatory Overkill: Henry Miller Op-Ed in LA Times
Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times October 27, 2000 Headline: Biotech Food Labeling…
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Cracking Up Over Taco Shells; Why is the EPA Shelling Biotech Food? Henry Miller in Washington Times
Distributed nationally by Copley News Service Published in the Washington Times October 12, 2000 Kraft Foods has…
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A Much Higher Standard for Gene-Spliced Foods: Miller Op-Ed in SD Union-Tribune
Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune October 5, 2000 Headline: A Much Higher…
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If Auto Safety Defects Are Criminalized, Shouldn’t Ralph Nader Be in Jail?
Washington, DC, October 2, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that congressional proposals to criminalize auto safety defects failed to…
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Punish Ford-Firestone, But Don’t Reward NHTSA: Kazman WSJ Op-Ed
Published in the Wall Street Journal September 12, 2000 This year’s worst tire disaster claimed more than 100 lives. It came after scores of documented…
USA Today
Weed Control has Caused Skylark’s Decline (Letter to the Editor)
From Mr Gregory Conko. Sir, Your article “Bird numbers `under threat’ from GM crops” (September 1) reported on a study in the current issue of…
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Effects of GM Confused with Those of Farming Practices: Conko Letter to Financial Times
Published in The Financial Times Published in The Financial Times September 6, 2000, Wednesday London Edition 1 …
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Throwing Precaution to the Wind: The Perils of the Precautionary Principle
From the August/September issue of CEI UpDate Mom always said, “Better safe than sorry.” Dad, on the other hand, believed…
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Resistance Dropping Toward Biotech Foods
In spite of an ill-considered, anti-progress publicity campaign from left wing self-appointed consumer and environmental groups, the New Green Revolution based on genetic engineering is…
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Resistance Dropping to Biotech Foods: Kemp Op-Ed in Chicago Tribune
Published in the Chicago Tribune Published in the Chicago Tribune August 25, 2000 In spite of an ill-considered,…
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Canada Misses a Fat Chance: Henry Miller Op-Ed in the National Post
Published in the National Post (Canada) July 25, 2000 Canadian regulators’ decision to ban the fat substitute olestra runs against both…
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Airline Mergers: What to Fear
Sometimes it seems that if you stick around Washington long enough, you start to see policy issues repeat themselves, coming around for a…
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CEI Comments to USDA on Proposed Organic Rules
COMMENTS OF THE COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE,…
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Death By Caution: Fuel Economy Standards Cost Lives
The Precautionary Principle has become the rhetorical war-horse of the global warming movement. With the Earth's survival at issue, environmentalists claim, it's surely…
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Labelling And Risk: The Case Of Bioengineered Foods
More and more, consumers are basing their food purchases on individual preferences about food content. For many consumers this means a focus on nutrition or…
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NEW CEI BOOK: Free Market Environmental Reader Now Available
Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Jonathan H. Adler, Editor Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Click here to order Ecology, Liberty…
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Ecology, Liberty & Property
Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Are free markets and environmental protection compatible? Is…
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“Precautionary Principle” Stalls Advances in Food Technology
Reprinted with permission by the Washington Legal Foundation. For more information, please see www.wlf.org. Agricultural biotechnology…
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New Smart Air Bag Rule as Bad as the Original Mandate
WASHIGNTON, DC, May 5, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that NHTSA’s new smart air bag rule could be a potentially deadly replay…
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Thumbs Down On FDA Rules For Biotech Food
Washington, D.C. May 3, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today issued a strong condemnation of proposed new regulations for genetically-engineered foods expected…
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Developing World Scientists Condemn Anti-Biotech Chefs
Tuskegee, Alabama, April 10, 2000—A group of agricultural scientists from the developing world today condemned the Chef’s Collaborative, a group of celebrity chefs…
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The Protocol’s Illusionary Principle
In an editorial last month, this journal pointed out that the biosafety protocol recently completed in Montreal “violates a cardinal principal of regulation—namely, that the…
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Public Interest Group Hails Supreme Court Snuff-Out of FDA Tobacco Regs
Washington, DC, March 21, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauded today’s Supreme Court invalidation of the Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to regulate…
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Only Smart Air Bag Mandate is No Mandate at All
By the time you receive this newsletter, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) either will have issued its “smart” air bag mandate, or will…
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Opération Déclubage Management of Recreational Fisheries in the Province of Québec
Full Document Available in PDF In the 1974 movie The Apprenticeship…
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CEI Criticizes ATF’s Proposed Ban On Alcoholic Beverage Health Statements
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2000 – CEI today filed comments urging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to withdraw its proposed…
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Most Americans Are “Dirty,” Says Enviro Group
Washington, DC, February 14, 2000 – “According to the League of Conservation Voters’ (LCV) Congressional Scorecard, most Americans are ‘anti-environmental,’” said Angela Logomasini, Director of…
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An Open Letter to Celebrity Chefs Opposed to Biotechnology
Today, a group of some 30 celebrity chefs from around the United States will hold a press conference at the high-priced Philadelphia restaurant Le…
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Institute Attacks FAA Child Restraint Mandate As Deadly
Washington, DC, December 17, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that FAA’s newly-proposed child restraint mandate will actually increase transportation fatalities. The…
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Public Interest Groups File Deceptive Advertising Complaint Against Ben And Jerry’s
Washington, DC, December 16, 1999 – Citizens for the Integrity of Science and the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Trade…
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Public Interest Groups File deceptive Advertising Complaint Against Ben and Jerry’s
Citizens for the Integrity of Science and the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission today, accusing ice cream…
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Institute Releases New Study On “Cars, Women, and Minorities”
Washington, D.C., November 29, 1999 – While grouching over holiday traffic preoccupies much of the nation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute today releases a…
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ER Physicians: “FDA is Too Slow”
WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 1999—A new nationwide poll of emergency room physicians sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) finds that delays in FDA…
