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• CEI Staff
• 02/25/2003

Washington, D.C., February 26, 2003 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute is filing comments with the National Highway Traffic Safety…

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• CEI Staff
• 02/24/2003

Washington, D.C., February 25, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute and seven other groups are requesting that the Consumer Products Safety Commission delay its…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/23/2003

Washington, D.C., February 24, 2003— The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled in favor of the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 02/19/2003

Washington, D.C., February 20, 2003—As seven attorneys general reportedly prepare a lawsuit to coerce EPA to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act, the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 02/09/2003

Washington, D.C., February 10, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute and 13 other public policy groups are urging President Bush to drop a scheme…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 02/06/2003

Washington, D.C., February 7, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is launching a new online feature, the "e-class" quiz, this week. The quiz, developed by CEI’s…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 01/26/2003

Washington, D.C., January 27, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute and 13 other public policy groups are urging President Bush to drop a scheme…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 01/21/2003

Washington, D.C., January 22, 2003—On issues ranging from arsenic in drinking water to chemical plant security, a Competitive Enterprise Institute policy analyst…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 01/13/2003

Washington, D.C., January 14, 2003—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is celebrating the success of its latest book on environmental issues,…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 01/05/2003

Washington, D.C., January 6, 2003—This Wednesday, January 8, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold hearings on a proposal that would limit carbon dioxide…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/19/2002

Washington, D.C., December 20, 2002—From energy conservation standards for washing machines to labels on genetically modified food, many federal regulations are coming…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/10/2002

Washington, D.C., December 11, 2002—The Canadian House of Commons voted its approval of the Kyoto Protocol this week, paving the way for full…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 05/09/2002

Washington, D.C., May 8, 2002— The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to announce Robert L. Bradley Jr. as the recipient of the second annual…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/26/2002

Washington, D.C., April 25, 2002 — The energy bill passed by the Senate today will do nothing to increase energy supplies but will…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/26/2002

Washington, D.C., April 26, 2002 — The California State Assembly has passed new regulations that could increase the cost of new cars and…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/24/2002

Washington, DC, April 24, 2002-Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) may support provisions being debated and voted on the Senate floor on Thursday that would…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/24/2002

  Washington, D.C., April 24, 2002 — Senate staffers cite Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins as supporting legislation calling…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/23/2002

Washington, D.C., April 23, 2002 — With the summer travel season approaching, many Americans are asking themselves what is responsible for the sharp…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/18/2002

Washington, D.C., April 18, 2002—“The Senate has rejected opening ANWR to oil and gas exploration on the basis of utterly dishonest arguments from Senators Kerry,…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/16/2002

Statement of Myron Ebell<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Director of Global Warming Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute  …

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/11/2002

Third AnnualPrivate Conservation DaySaturday, April 13, 200211:00 a.m. – noonNatural Bridge of Virginia Please join the Center for Private Conservation to…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/09/2002

Washington, D.C., April 9, 2002 — This Thursday scholars from the Competitive Enterprise Institute and American Enterprise Institute will examine the implications of…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/08/2002

Washington, D.C., April 8, 2001—The issue of whether to allow oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is expected to be…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/31/2002

Washington, D.C., April 1, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce that Marlo Lewis has rejoined its team of policy analysts as…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/06/2002

Washington, D.C., March 7, 2002 — Our disappointment was so thick we could almost eat it.  In a recent interview, the NRDC Climate…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/06/2002

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />Washington, D.C., March 7, 2002 — In a Capitol Hill conference today, several experts in security,…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 10/10/2001

Washington, D.C., October 10, 2001—As Congress holds hearings on the security of our nation’s infrastructure, the Competitive Enterprise Institute warns that certain federal…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 10/02/2001

Washington, D.C., October 2, 2001—Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish professor of statistics whose new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 09/06/2001

Washington, DC, September 5, 2001—“The idea that Mother Nature always has our best interests in mind has suffered a bit lately.  That viewpoint,…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 08/08/2001

Washington, DC, August 8, 2001 – The frequency and number of shark attacks have been on the rise in recent years, reaching record…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 08/02/2001

Washington, DC, August 2, 2001 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute commends the positive developments on energy policy this week in both the House…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 07/27/2001

Washington, DC, July 27, 2001-Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted on an amendment to the appropriations bill to force the Environmental Protection…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 07/24/2001

Washington, DC, July 24, 2001 – The U.S. House Committee on Resources is expected to vote this week on a bill that would…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 07/23/2001

Washington, DC, July 23, 2001—An 11th-hour compromise on how to address climate change reached among 178 countries in Bonn, Germany is a major…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 07/13/2001

Washington, DC, July 13, 2001 — The upcoming UN global warming negotiations in Bonn, Germany will be a vital test of United States…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 07/09/2001

Washington, DC, July 9, 2001— After only a few weeks of expanded price caps, what was once the California energy crisis is already spreading…

Energy

• CEI Staff
• 06/26/2001

Washington, DC, June 26, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a study today revealing how pending legislation will continue federal funding of environmental activism. …

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/20/2001

Washington, DC, June 20, 2001 – The House Natural Resources Committee is today hearing testimony on a bill that would massively increase government…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/15/2001

Washington, DC, June 15, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute is urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to reconsider its plan to set…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/13/2001

Washington, DC, June 13, 2001—Competitive Enterprise Institute senior policy analyst Ben Lieberman will appear before the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform Thursday,…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/11/2001

Washington, DC, June 11, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes President Bush’s recognition that a great deal of scientific uncertainty remains over questions surrounding…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/11/2001

Washington, DC, June 11, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes President Bush’s recognition that a great deal of scientific uncertainty remains over questions surrounding…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/07/2001

Washington, DC, June 7, 2001— The National Academy of Sciences report, released today, has already been characterized as offering further confirmation of…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/07/2001

Washington, DC, June 7, 2001— The National Academy of Sciences report, released today, has already been characterized as offering further confirmation of…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/04/2001

Washington, DC, June 4, 2001— With the nation’s energy crisis deepening and summer travel season beginning, many Americans are asking themselves what…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/30/2001

Washington, DC, May 30, 2001 — Competitive Enterprise Institute President Fred L. Smith, Jr., will speak to the National Economists Club of Washington,…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/30/2001

Washington, DC, May 30, 2001—As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to review the science behind its proposed rule to regulate fine particles…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/26/2001

Remarks of Spencer Abraham<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> United States Secretary of Energy   At the Competitive…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/21/2001

Washington, DC, May 21, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Director of Risk and Environmental Policy and author of a new…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/17/2001

Washington, DC, May 17, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute commends the Bush administration’s energy plan announced today for emphasizing the need for plentiful,…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 05/04/2001

Washington, DC, May 4, 2001- The Competitive Enterprise Institute is urging the Bush administration to set a tight timetable for local forest review…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/03/2001

Washington, DC, May 3, 2001- The Competitive Enterprise Institute is urging the Bush administration to revoke the controversial “roadless rule” for national forests,…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/26/2001

Washington, DC, April 26, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released grades for President Bush’s first 100 days of environmental policy. Many of…

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