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IPCC’s ex-“Political” Scientist
Environmental activists are attacking the Bush administration for orchestrating the ouster of an American scientist, Robert Watson, as chairman of the…
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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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Clearing The Air On Industrial Plant Emissions
The federal permit program that governs industrial emissions is seriously broken. Within the next few weeks, the Bush administration will release its plan for revamping…
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Forced Recycling Is a Waste
As New York City faces the possibility of painful cuts to its police and fire department budgets, environmentalists are bellyaching over garbage. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s…
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Uncle Sam’s Killer Cars
WHOM can you trust more — an old-time tobacco salesman, or a modern proponent of higher federal fuel-economy standards? If you ask Dr. Leonard Evans,…
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Energy Bill That’s Not So Cool
With summer not too far away, we should all be thankful for affordable air conditioning, but a little-noticed provision in the Senate version of the…
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Authoritarianism Is Not A Gadget, It’s A State Of Mind
The two dark-skinned young men, unshaven and heavily muscled, looked ominously foreign. No doubt more than one airline passenger breathed deeper in relief when security…
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Unfocused Federal Wildfire Effort Draws Fire From States
Following the lead of New Mexico — which not long ago declared mismanaged federal lands in the state to be disaster areas and threatened intervention…
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Unfocused Federal Wildfire Effort Draws Fire From States
Following the lead of New Mexico — which not long ago declared mismanaged federal lands in the state to be disaster areas and threatened intervention…
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Fools Rush In
The Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) just issued its annual “Economic Report of the President,” including a chapter on environmental policy. The report's language sent…
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Boeing Earnings At Risk In Europe Tax Fight
The European Union has won its case against the United States in one of the longest running trade disputes in international trade law. On…
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New Laws are Unnecessary
Politicians of all stripes are rushing into the Enron fray, eager to use this event as the pretext for enacting new regulations and laws against…
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New Laws Are Unnecessary
Politicians of all stripes are rushing into the Enron fray, eager to use this event as the pretext for enacting new regulations and…
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Outside View: Caught En Flagrente Kyoto
It was the Washington Post that was first to expose internal Enron Corp. documents revealing the failed energy giant's disturbing relationship with one of the…
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Rush Hour
In a June 11 Rose Garden speech, President George W. Bush detailed his plan to address the perceived threat of man-made global warming. Wisely, the…
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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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Kyoto Through The Backdoor
Desperately seeking their Sally Field moment (“You like me! You really like me!”), with the likes of the New York Times and environmental pressure…
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Assisted Economic Suicide
A White House proposal under final consideration, for possible imminent release, would create a national inventory of certain naturally occurring gases — such as carbon…
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IMF Helped Sink Argentine Economy
When democracies create economic calamity, free markets get blamed. In today's world that means the International Monetary Fund, with U.S. backing, bails out lenders on…
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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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Outside View: The choice: Kyoto or WTO?
Mid-November brought us reports from two international negotiations, whose sole common thread appeared to be each took place amid tight security in Muslim countries. These…
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Fight Rages Over Fate of Deadwood And Timber Sales
How much wood should a woodcutter cut if a woodcutter could cut wood? That debate has been raging in the western United States for more…
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Model Behavior: EPA Promotes False Climate Scares
Horner Op-Ed in Tech Central Station: The Environmental Protection Agency is telling the Northeastern United States to be very afraid. “Climate change” will…
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Red Tape and Tech
Lieberman Op-Ed in National Review Online During the tragedies of September 11th, our new technologies delivered extraordinary value. E-mails sent to handheld devices…
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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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Breathe Easy, But Not for Long
America's air quality continues to get better. A recently released Environmental Protection Agency report concludes that "since 1970, aggregate emissions of six principal pollutants tracked…
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Insecurity Blanket: Greens Preparing Kinder, Gentler Guilt Campaign
Horner Op-Ed in Tech Central Station September 11 brought to the fore numerous realities that in our comfort we had sublimated, including the…
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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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Punxsutawney Protocol: “World Reaches Warming Pact” Again, Only Not Really
Establishment-press reporting of Kyoto “global warming” treaty negotiations would embarrass even Bill Murray's character in the movie Groundhog Day. They laughably trumpet the same nonachievement,…
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Energy-Policy Jujitsu: Using 9-11 To Block Bush’s Proposal To Increase Our Energy Security
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is using the September 11 terrorist attacks to block President Bush's proposal to increase our energy security. (If this sounds…
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Let’s Clear The Air About Air Pollution Levels
America's air quality continues to get better, with particularly strong progress in the Chicago area. A recently released Environmental Protection Agency report concludes that…
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Settlement Implications For Microsoft
The settlement that Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice presented to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last Friday is good for the parties and represents…
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Government Goes Too Far On Microsoft Case
The 5 days since the release of the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice have seen a barrage…
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U.S. Shouldn’t Seek Energy Independence
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have raised fears about U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil. It seems that nearly everyone believes that if the United…
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A “Hole” Lot of Alarmism Should Be a Lesson in Marrakech
Scary autumn tales about the Antarctic ozone “hole” have become an annual media ritual that treats the phenomenon of ozone thinning as an ominous threat…
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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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Under Seige: One Reason Our Military Readiness Is Down: We Won’t Let Them Train
As it prepares sailors, soldiers, and airmen to face enemies abroad, the U.S. military also finds itself under new pressure on the homefront.
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Environmental Terrorists Deserve No Special Treatment
There is no shame in believing that those among the Left who most profess their “caring”, for animals, the environment, and other non-human “causes” are…
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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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Energy Independence: It Doesn’t Work
The Sept. 11 attacks have raised an old idea: By reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil, can we reduce America’s vulnerability to oil shocks that…
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FlashPoint #4: CEI Dispatch on Anti-Terrorism and Civil Liberties
FlashPoint #2: CEI on Anti-Terrorism and Civil Liberties Singleton Dispatch on Terrorism and Civil Liberties This is the fourth…
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Anonymity in America: Does National Security Preclude It?
Anonymous speech has proud roots stretching to the origins of America. Gentlemen calling themselves “Publius” wrote the Federalist Papers. Thomas Paine's Common Sense…
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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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Liberty And Order: A Clear But Delicate Balance
In Defense of Freedom, an ad hoc group ("coalition" was thought to imply too much chumminess) of 130 organizations of wildly v Delong…
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Regulating CO2 As A Pollutant: Costly In More Ways Than One
Mallinger Op-Ed in Heartland Environment and Climate News Mallinger Op-Ed in Heartland Environment and Climate News President George W. Bush has taken…