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Auto Bailout Still Looms over Taxpayers
As the White House today offered assurance to Detroit auto makers that U.S. taxpayers would be made to bail them out of their financial woes, a government watchdog…
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Statement on Obama Energy Nominees
President-elect Barack Obama today named Carol Browner and Dr. Steven Chu for top energy policy posts in his administration. That’s the wrong direction for America, explains Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and…
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Congress Probes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
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Internet Poker Cheating Is Government’s Fault, CEI Says
A Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow says that the recent 60 Minutes reports about online poker cheating scandals show the foolishness of efforts to…
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Ten-Year Anniversary of Dirty Tobacco Deal
The notorious tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was signed 10 years ago this month by 46 state attorneys general and major tobacco companies. The deal imposed a…
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Sarbanes-Oxley Case to Be Appealed to Supreme Court
In a 5-to-4 split decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit this week declined to review a constitutional challenge to the Public Company Accounting…
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CEI Expands Insurance Project in Florida
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Nov. 18 Event Targets Ethanol Subsidies
ETHANOL SUBSIDIES TURN 30 Food Before Fuel Campaign Urges Obama, Congress to End Ethanol Subsidies Washington, D.C.,…
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CEI Blasts New Banking, Internet Gambling Regulations
Washington, D.C., November 13, 2008—In its final weeks, the Bush administration is trying to rush through ill-considered regulations aimed at preventing Internet gambling. Two Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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An Agenda for the Obama and Bush Meeting
Since the President and President-elect start spending quality Oval Office time together today, and since the incoming administration’s advisors can’t settle on either pushing a…
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CEI Attacks Auto Industry Bailout Bonanza
Washington, D.C., November 7, 2008— Auto executives yesterday huddled with House Democrats to discuss a possible $25 billion loan to the industry, this on top of…
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Conservation and Free-Market Groups Call for Regulation Moratorium
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Ethanol Fuel Mandates Cause Massive Food and Land Costs, Says New Report
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Free Market Groups Launch BeyondBailouts.org
As the economy continues to adjust to the credit crunch, CEI and NTU partner to fight for real financial reforms, not reckless spending.
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Campaign Targets Unfair Political Assault on Bottled Water
A new petition drive demands that politicians not continue plans to ban the product for safety workers and consumers. The campaign comes in the wake of…
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World Retreats from Energy Alarmism
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CEI Urges House to Vote No on Bailout Bill
The bailout bill that passed the Senate is no improvement over the bill the House rightly rejected on Monday.
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CEI Criticizes Center for American Progress on Community Reinvestment Act
Washington, D.C., October 2, 2008—A policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, today harshly criticized the supposed “myth-busting” of the Center…
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Senate Hearing Examines Possible EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Washington, D.C., September 23, 2008— The U.S. Senate on Tuesday is slated to hear testimony on possible regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, part of…
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Walk in the Rain for World ‘Car-Free Day’
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T. Boone Pickens Touts Windwill in Nat’l. Press Club Speech Today
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Pelosi’s Anti-Energy Bill Hits House Floor
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CEI & South Carolina Department of Insurance Host Major Conference
Washington, D.C., September 16, 2008—The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank often skeptical of government action, is joining with the South Carolina Department of Insurance to host a…
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CEI Launches YouTube Contest for Video Critiques of ‘World Car-Free Day’
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House Energy Plan Would Raise Gas Prices and Lower Domestic Production
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Public Funding for Stem Cell Research: Boon or Boondoggle?
Debates over the ethics of research using human embryonic stem cells continue long after the Bush Administration’s ban on federal tax-funding for such research. But,…
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Appeals Court Rules on Federal Accounting Board
In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected a constitutional challenge to the Sarbanes-Oxley Public Company…
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Climate Report Held Following Exposure
A government climate change panel agreed, after an onslaught of critical public comments, to reconsider their latest report. This move, though likely only temporary, is…
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CEI Praises National Wildlife Federation Report
A Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market group critical of many of the environmental movements’ views on global warming, today endorsed…
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Environmental Policies Need Overhaul, Says New Study
A new book scrutinizes crucial environmental policy areas in need of change, from global warming to free-market environmentalism, biotechnology, chemical risk, and more.
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Reform Needed at the Food and Drug Administration
Washington, D.C., August 14, 2008—In order to best serve the interests of the nation’s patients and doctors, the structure of the…
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SEC Commissioner Earns Praise for Service to Investors, Entrepreneurs
On Aug. 1, Paul S. Atkins ended his six-year term as Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Competitive Enterprise Institute President Fred…
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Congress Examines Burdens of Federal Regulation
Today members of the House Small Business Committee are hearing testimony on the burdens of federal regulation and the need for reform. Wayne Crews, Vice…
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FCC Stages Broadband Power Grab
Washington, D.C., July 28, 2008—The Federal Communications Commission is preparing this week to expand its control over how telecom firms manage…
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Clean Air Act All Wrong for Greenhouse Gases
This morning the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be investigating the White House’s strategy on the regulation of greenhouse gases and, in…
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Burned Investors Call for Government Bailout
With the recent collapse of IndyMac bank in California and billions in losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac piling on top of the existing…
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Cost of Gov’t Day Includes $1.16 Trillion in Regulations
What goes up and doesn’t come down? The federal budget and the cost of federal regulations. A new report finds that the cost of federal…
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EPA Draft CO2 Emissions Regulations Headed Toward Regulatory Train Wreck
Washington, D.C., July 11, 2008—The White House announced today that the Environmental Protection Agency’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on regulating carbon dioxide emissions…
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Cost of Federal Regulation Grew to $1.16 Trillion
What goes up and doesn’t come down? The federal budget and the cost of federal regulations. A new report finds that the cost of federal…
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G8 Summit Leaders Wish For Painful 50% Emissions Reduction
Leaders of the G8 Summit indicated today they will seek at least a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, as part of a…
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Free Trade with Colombia Deserves a Vote
Congress should stop stalling and move quickly to approve the pending free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia, according to a…
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Housing Bill Provision Harms Privacy, Says Diverse Coalition
Leaders of liberal, conservative, and libertarian policy groups – from the American Conservative Union to the American Civil Liberties Union – have banded together…
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CEI Mourns the Passing of George Carlin
Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute mourns the loss of one of America’s greatest comedic talents, George Carlin. Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, remarked…
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Cell Phone Fees – Fair or Unfair? The FCC Decides
Today the Federal Communications Commission will hear testimony on “early termination” fees for customers who cancel their mobile phone, cable or Internet service contracts…
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CEI Commends Insurance Reform Hearings
The House of Representatives today convenes its first hearings on proposals to create a first-ever federal insurance overseer, an Office of Insurance Information. That’s…
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Senate Rejects Energy-Rationing Bill
The Competitive Enterprise Institute congratulates the Senators who successfully defeated the global warming legislation sponsored by Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) and championed…
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Senate Should Say ‘No’ to Ending Debate on Energy-Rationing Legislation
The Competitive Enterprise Institute urges Senators to vote no on a motion to end debate on the global warming legislation sponsored by Joseph Lieberman (I-CT)…
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Senate Poised to Debate Lieberman-Warner Energy-Rationing Bill
The U.S. Senate on Monday will likely start debate on energy-rationing legislation that would raise energy prices dramatically for American consumers, while benefiting big business…
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Is Environmentalism a Bigger Threat than Global Warming?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to announce a provocative new book on environmental policy, Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Václav Klaus, President of…
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“Politics of Pain” Campaign to Defend Patients’ Rights
CEI fighting for millions of Americans who live in pain because their doctors are afraid of being harassed or arrested by the DEA.
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Interior Declares Polar Bears ‘Threatened’ by Global Warming
Activist Empowered by New Backdoor for Cap-and Trade Legislation…
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Farm Bill Vote a Loss for Consumers and Taxpayers
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Farm Bill, signaling a major loss for consumers and taxpayers.
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Could Congress Cripple the Credit Card Industry?
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An Energy Bill That Puts Consumers Last
As prices for oil and gas rise to record levels, members of Congress have responded with an energy bill that, while ostensibly intended to…
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Farm Bill Deserves a Veto
The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauds Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer’s announcement yesterday that President Bush will veto the Farm Bill that the House-Senate conference…
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Coalition of Free Market Groups Speaks out against Subsidized Wind Insurance
A coalition of free market groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is urging members of the Senate to oppose an expansion of federal insurance subsidies.
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House Investigates Calls for “Net Neutrality”
Today the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Internet will hold a hearing on the Internet Freedom Preservation Act…
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New Video Series on Global Warming Skeptics
Global warming advocates have long argued that the science regarding human impacts on the global climate is clear and settled – that human beings are…
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Are Imports the Solution to High Drug Prices?
With the high cost of pharmaceutical drugs playing a central role in the national debate over health care, many policymakers have endorsed the idea…
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Environmental Disasters and Inconvenient Truths
In the new book The Really Inconvenient Truths, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Iain Murray brings to light an especially inconvenient future: environmental activists…
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CEI Welcomes New State Insurance Rankings
Following the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s lead, the Consumer Federation of America today released its own ranking of state insurance environments. Washington, D.C., April 24, 2008—Following…
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What Should Forests Fear: Global Warming or Global Warming Policies?
Activists who fear catastrophic effects from global warming have long predicted that deforestation would be one of the many impacts. As the Senate Foreign Relations…
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“Future of the Internet” at Stake in Senate
Tomorrow the Senate Commerce Committee assesses “The Future of the Internet.” Among the most controversial issues is proposed federal regulation of broadband network…
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CEI Celebrates Earth Day
On Tuesday, April 22, environmentalists will gather in different locations around the world to observe Earth Day, originally a 1970 teach-in on environmental issues.
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Bush on Global Warming: A Big Mistake that Could Have Been Worse
President Bush's speech on global warming today lays out a blueprint for slow motion economic decline. It legitimizes global warming alarmism and undermines opposition…
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CEI Takes on Unconstitutional Agency in Court
Today, as Americans scurried to get their tax forms into the IRS, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments about another agency that…
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Will Bush Flip-Flop on Global Warming?
News reports this week have indicated that the Bush administration may change its long-standing opposition to mandated restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions and endorse global…
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New Financial Regulations Will Expand Bureaucracy
In a new study released this week, Competitive Enterprise Institute scholars size up the Treasury Department’s recent proposal to restructure the way…
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Will Global Warming Harm Human Health?
This week committees in both the Senate and House of Representatives will be holding hearings on whether global warming will cause future harm to…
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Senators Investigate the Credit ‘Crisis’
Today, Federal officials and the CEOs of Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase will testify before the Senate Banking Committee on recent turmoil in U.S.
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Al Gore PR Campaign Targeted by CEI TV Ad
CEI is re-launches national advertising campaign on the threat to affordable energy posed by Al Gore’s global warming agenda.
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CEI Opposes Broad New Powers for Federal Reserve
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today unveiled a plan for restructuring the federal role in regulating financial institutions. The blueprint contains good recommendations on…
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Statement on EPA Response to Supreme Court Greenhouse Gas Decision
Washington, D.C., March 27, 2008—In response to a major Supreme Court decision concerning regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act,…
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Congress’s Online Gambling Ban: Burden Without Benefit, Says Study
Current laws about Internet gambling have had damaging unintended consequences far beyond their intended target.
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Pressure Group Censors Anti-Gore Ad on YouTube
Electric Co-op Group Ignores ‘Fair Use’, Claims Copyright Infringement Over Seven Seconds of Footage (Click Here to View Ad)…
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New Legal Brief Argues Against Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
Washington, D.C., March 21, 2008—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute is filing an amicus brief against a Sierra Club petition demanding…
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House Committee Probes Legal Status of Greenhouse Gases
Should the EPA Regulate Carbon Dioxide?…
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CEI Launches National Ad Campaign on the Impact of Al Gore’s Global Warming Policies
Developing World Most at Risk from Energy Constraints…
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National Ad Campaign to Contrast Al Gore’s Lifestyle with his Calls to Restrict Energy
Washington, D.C., March 7, 2008—The Competitive Enterprise Institute will launch a national ad campaign on Tuesday, March 11, focusing on the threat to affordable…
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CEI Video Asks: Where’s the Warming, Al?
Washington, D.C., February 25, 2008 —The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s new online video spot, Where’s the Warming?, challenges global warming alarmists to justify their calls…
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Economic “Stimulus” Policies Trapped in the Past
Washington, D.C., February 21, 2008 — The economic stimulus package recently passed by Congress and signed by President Bush will do little to improve…
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Supreme Court Rulings Good for Investors
Washington, D.C., February 20, 2008—The Supreme Court this session has made two important decisions that will greatly benefit investors. Both today’s ruling in LaRue v.
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Stimulus Package Not the Path to Economic Recovery
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., February 14, 2008—This week President Bush signed a $168 billion economic stimulus package. Unfortunately for…
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CEI Files Comments on “Net Neutrality”
Washington, D.C., February 13, 2008—Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed public comments with the Federal Communications Commission, urging the commissioners not to regulate the…
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Microsoft Could Go “Hostile” with Yahoo Offer
Washington, D.C., February 12, 2008—Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it “reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps” to present its buyout offer to Yahoo…
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Bush Budget Ignores Hidden Costs
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., February 4, 2008—The White House has released President Bush’s budget for the federal government,…
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FTC Should Keep Mitts Off Microsoft-Yahoo Acquisition
Contact:Christine Hall , 202.331.2258 Washington, D.C., February 1, 2008— Microsoft announced today its offer to buy Yahoo! for $44 billion, a move that…
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Senate Hearing Should Approach Polar Bears Cautiously
Washington, D.C., January 30, 2008—Today the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hear testimony on the whether the polar bear is a threatened…
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CEI Scholars Respond to Bush Budget
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State of the Union: Last Chance for Bush
Washington, D.C., January 28, 2008—As President Bush prepares to deliver his last State of the Union address before Congress, both the White House…
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Cap-and-Trade Scheme Would Deepen Economic Downturn
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Christine Hall, 202.331.2258 As evidence mounts that the U.S. economy…
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House Hearing Should Look at the Facts on Polar Bears
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., January 17, 2008—The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hear…
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FDA Gives a Thumbs Up to Cloned Milk and Meat
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Man Bites Dog – CEI Congratulates EPA On Decision to Deny California Global Warming Scheme
Washington, D.C., December 20, 2007—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday blocked a California law curtailing carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles, a decision drawing…
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Google-DoubleClick Deal Win-Win for Consumers
Washington, D.C., December 20, 2007―Today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved Google’s acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick, allowing the two to collaborate on…
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President Signs Anti-Energy Bill
Washington, D.C., December 19, 2007—Today President Bush signed a major new energy bill that will drive up costs to taxpayers and consumers and increase…
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The Energy Bill with a Body Count
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., December 14, 2007—Yesterday the Senate passed an energy bill that would increase fuel economy…
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Senate Passes Farm Bill
Washington, D.C., December 14, 2007—Yesterday the Senate passed the 2007 farm bill, the first major revision of agricultural policy in five years. "The $286…
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Bush Scheme for Lowering Home Mortgage Payments Could Trigger Credit Crunch
Washington, D.C., December 6, 2007—President Bush today week unveiled a plan to push financial institutions to "voluntarily" agree to freeze interest rates for adjustable-rate…
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Congress Moves Forward with Anti-Energy Plan
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Jody Clarke, 202.331.2252 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1…