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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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Laboratories of Bureaucracy
Introduction The United States faces significant challenges in modernizing its infrastructure and meeting evolving energy needs. One of the obstacles is the complex and time-consuming…
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Baptists, Bootleggers and Wind Power
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Have you ever heard of Baptists allying themselves with bootleggers? It actually happened…
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Epidemiology Beyond Its Limits
In 1995, science writer Gary Taubes warned that the science of epidemiology (tracing the source and causes of disease) was reaching a crisis…
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Patent Nonsense on GMOs Should Be Debunked
It may now seem daring to say, but in a decade's time GM foods are likely to be as widely accepted in kitchens…
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Competitive Outsourcing in the National Parks
The National Academies’ Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Internship Program presents a seminar on:Competitive Outsourcing in the National…
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CEI Does Cancún
From September 10 through September 14, the World Trade Organization will hold its fifth Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be…
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Medicare Reform Unfair Burden on America’s Youth
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