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Happy birthday, Smokey Bear! Let’s fight forest fires the right way
Smokey Bear, the famous US Forest Service (USFS) mascot, celebrated his 81st birthday this past Saturday, August 9. Smokey Bear was created in 1944…
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EPA proposes rule to overturn regulatory finding justifying major restrictions on consumer choice: CEI analysis
Today, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s proposed rule that would overturn the 2009 endangerment finding. For 16 years, this finding has been…
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Congress should support the Grizzly Bear State Management Act
Tomorrow, the House Natural Resources Committee will meet to consider 12 pieces of legislation that have been introduced in the 119th Congress. One of…
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Smokey Bear’s Bad Adventure: Bob Nelson Op-Ed in Sacramento Bee
Copyright 2000 McClatchy Newspapers, Inc Published in the Sacramento Bee July 12, 2000 Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune News…
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Foul Water or Foul Science? The EPA Targets America’s Farms
Next up in the regulatory bulls-eye: American agri-culture. Washington’s tool to expand its scope over this sector of the economy comes in the…
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Uncle Sam Gets Burned Out West
Some say the world will end in fire,” wrote the poet Robert Frost, “some say in ice.” But after the wildfires U.S. westerners recently witnessed…
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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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Capitol Hill Briefing on Forest Policy
The Competitive Enterprise Institute<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> invites you to a lunch briefing with Dr. Robert H.
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CEI Scholar Testifies Before Congress on Forest Policy
Full Document Available in PDF My name is Robert H. Nelson. I am a Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Public…
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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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Introduction to ‘Ecology, Liberty, and Property’
The book "Ecology, Liberty, and Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader," edited by Jonathan H. Adler, was published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2000.
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CARA Land Grab a Congressional Wallet Snatch
On May 11 the House of Representatives voted 315 to 102 to pass the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA), which now goes to the…
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Flames at Los Alamos: What Went Wrong?
In December 1999, the Los Alamos National Laboratory identified “wildfire as the greatest threat to Los Alamos operations.” As recently as April, Diana Webb,…
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The Forest Service Plays With Fire: Riggs/Simmons Op-Ed in OC Register
Published in the Orange County Register May 21, 2000<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Do…
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Fueling Los Alamos: Longstanding Federal Land Mismanagement Coupled with Recent Timber Restrictions Create Combustible Mix
Washington, DC, May 11, 2000 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute charged that fires like the one raging at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in…
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House Passes Massive Land-Grab Bill: Majority of Republicans Abandon Private Property and Balanced Budget for Pork
Washington, D.C., May 11, 2000 – In the same week the national laboratories at Los Alamos were evacuated due to out-of-control wildfire on government…
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New Earth in the Balance; Same Old Muddled Thinking
May 1, 2000 — Ah, how the time flies. It’s been 30 years since Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and company sponsored the first Earth…
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Earth Day 2000—A Time For Celebrating Successes
Washington, DC, April 21, 2000 – There will be a lot to celebrate tomorrow when millions of people around the world gather on the 30th…
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CEI/Chamber of Commerce Environmental Summit 2000 slated for April 7
The gloves come off April 7. That’s when Ron Bailey, adjunct scholar at CEI and the editor of Earth Report 2000, squares off…
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New Article Blasts Environmental Myths
Washington, DC, March 6, 2000 – Environmental journalist Ronald Bailey proved Al Gore and his radical Green friends wrong today with his new article…
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Say It Ain’t So, Andy!
The Sobering Scope of EPA’s Total Maximum Daily Load The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not allow California farmers Guido…
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Melting Polar Ice Caps Most Likely Caused By Natural Changes
Washington, DC, February 28, 2000 – The U.S. Global Change Research Program is holding a public seminar today on Capitol Hill, “Climate Change in…
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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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Why the Buffalo Roam
Contrary to popular myth and legend, the fabled American plains buffalo were not saved by the US government. They are not even true buffalo.
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Earth Report 2000
Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet Date: 1999 Edited by: Ronald Bailey Published by: McGraw-Hill Earth Report 2000 is a…
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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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Al Gore’s Statistical Hocus Pocus On Urban Sprawl: Gobbling Up Numbers, Not Open Space
Washington, DC, December 9, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute charged that Vice President Al Gore’s claim earlier this week of an alarmingly increased…
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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…
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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…
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Cows or Buffaloes?
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Lessons From Cypress Bay
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Forest Fires Rage as Government Fiddles: Bob Nelson Op-Ed in LA Times
Published in the Los Angeles Times Published in the Los Angeles Times October 17, 1999 COLLEGE PARK, MD —…
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Feds Prepare to Gobble Up Land
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Urban Growth Boundaries Not so Smart for Growth (Letter to the Editor)
The Aug. 30 District Forum on revitalizing regional smart growth argued that “the challenges of growth can only be met successfully at the regional level.”…
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Anti-“Sprawl” Policy: Congested Thinking and Dense Logic
“Urban sprawl” has morphed into a catchall phrase that describes the cause and consequence of any social deviation related to the suburbs, including, and…
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Dumb and Dumber: Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Patients’ Bill of Rights
This week, the Senate considers legislation to impose a lengthy laundry list of new federal regulations and accompanying costs on employer-insured health plans. The…
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Institute Opposes “Patients’ Bill of ‘Wrongs'”
Washington, D.C., July 13, 1999 – This week the United States Senate is considering the “Patients’ Bill of Rights,” an amalgam of various mandates…
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Michigan by the Sea: Bob Nelson Article in Weekly Standard
Michigan by the Sea Published in The Weekly Standard July5/July 12, 1999 issue In the 1980s and ’90s,…
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David Riggs Joins CEI
Washington, D.C., June 8, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is pleased to welcome economist and policy analyst David Riggs to its environment…
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Fact And Fiction On “Smart Growth” & “Urban Sprawl”
Vice President Al Gore and environmental activists argue that suburban development, pejoratively called “urban sprawl,” is destroying the environment. Loss of farmland and open…
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Earth Day Is A Time To Remember The Proud History Of Private Stewardship, Says Conservation Group
April 22 should be a time of reflection on the great efforts by the thousands of people who work diligently to preserve some small…
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Media Advisory: Earth Day Experts
Most Americans want a clean environment. That is no surprise. What surprises traditional environmental activists is that most people don’t support extensive federal regulation.
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Pro-Environment, Not Pro-EPA: Americans want environmental protection, but not more federal regulation
America’s support for strong environmental protection does not translate into strong support for heavy-handed federal regulation. CEI’s just released National Environmental Survey demonstrates that…
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Pro-Environment, Not Pro-EPA: Americans want environmental protection, but not more federal regulation
America’s support for strong environmental protection does not translate into strong support for heavy-handed federal regulation. CEI’s just released National Environmental Survey demonstrates that…
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Culling To Be Kind: Why This Year’s Ivory Sales Will Help Elephant Conservation
View Full Document as PDF This month, nearly 34 tons of elephant ivory from Namibia and Zimbabwe will be shipped to…
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Saving Fisheries without Property Rights: “Surgery with a Baseball Bat”
View Full Document as PDF The collapse of the once-rich fisheries off the coast of New England is testimony to the…
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Smart Growth Stupidity
For years, redevelopment has been pushing Austin’s low-income Latinos eastwards. A couple decades ago, the culprit was a highway: IH35, a road that runs…
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Only The Forest Service Can Prevent Forests
Remember,” Smokey Bear likes to remind careless campers, “only you can prevent forest fires.” Only you – and the U.S. Forest Service, which has been…
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FDA Modernization After One Year: Drug Approval is Still Too Slow
The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997—signed into law one year ago this Wednesday—is under attack. Spurred by the withdrawal of…
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Regulatory Sprawl: Who Should Decide Where We Live?
View Full Document as PDF On September 9, the Sierra Club released a distraught report on urban sprawl, blaming the spread…
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Clinical Drug Testing: Will Reform Equal Delay?
Washington, DC, June 11, 1998 — Reports released today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) vastly overstate the need for new…
