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Blame EPA for Oil Companies’ “Price-Gouging”: Lieberman Op-Ed

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 04/05/2001

Distributed by Bridge News Service Distributed by Bridge News Service April 5, 2001   WASHINGTON–Last June, drivers in Chicago…

Energy and Environment

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Midnight Madness — Washington Style: Lieberman SD Union Tribune Op-Ed

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 01/09/2001

The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Press of Atlantic City They’re called midnight regulations — the flood of federal regulatory activity occurring in the closing…

Energy and Environment

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Gas Prices: Gore’s Achilles’ Heel — Lieberman Op-Ed in NY Post

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 10/03/2000

Published in the New York Post Published in the New York Post October 3, 2000 Headline: Gas Prices: Gore’s Achilles’…

Energy and Environment

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Is Your Washer Politically Incorrect

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/16/2000

The federal government thinks your clothes washer is contributing to global warming and is going to make you do something about it. Over the past few…

Energy and Environment

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Gas Price Scapegoating: Lieberman in the Chicago Sun Times

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/25/2000

Published in the Chicago Sun Times Published in the Chicago Sun Times June 25, 2000   The White House…

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Gas Price Scapegoating in Washington

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/23/2000

Federal regulators held an emergency meeting Monday, June 12, in an effort to find out who is behind the recent surge in gasoline prices, particularly…

Energy and Environment

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Lawmakers Should Consider Outcomes When Micromanaging Fuel Supplies

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/20/2000

Federal regulators held an emergency meeting last week in an effort to find out who is behind the recent surge in gasoline prices, particularly in…

Energy and Environment

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EPA’s Gas Price Contribution

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/09/2000

  Last December, when the Environmental Protection Agency announced a tough   new standard for sulfur content in gasoline, few seemed concerned that the supposedly cleaner-burning fuel…

Energy and Environment

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Law Deserves to be Flushed Away

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 07/31/1999

In one of the silliest ideas yet to come down the pike (or pipe), Congress entered the plumbing fixture design business in 1992, mandating strict…

Energy and Environment

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Politically Incorrect Washing Machines

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 06/10/1999

Federal government officials think your clothes washer is contributing to global warming—and they are going to do something about it. Over the past few years,…

Energy and Environment

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Send Regulations Back to Congress (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/27/1999

The Post is correct that substantial delegations of legislative authority to federal agencies, notably those involving “complex technical judgments,” have been upheld by the courts…

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Mandates on Energy Boost Use

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/26/1999

With the price of gasoline inching up (though still at historic lows), we are once again being hectored to save energy. Few aspects of our…

Energy and Environment

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Standing Up to EPA (Letter to the Editor)

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/25/1999

Re “Bad Decision on Clean Air” (editorial, May 19) : The Clean Air Act gave the Environmental Protection Agency a vague mandate to protect public…

Energy and Environment

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Clearing the Air on Regulatory Excess

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/19/1999

  The Clinton EPAs biggest regulatory victory was turned into its biggest legal defeat last Friday, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of…

Regulatory Reform

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Challenging DC Over Potty Politics

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 08/02/1998

Appeared in The Detroit Free Press, The Akron Beacon Journal, The Orange County Register, The Sacramento Bee, and Lima News Of all the bills now…

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Wasting Energy on Appliances

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 05/20/1997

Uncle Sam is designing your next refrigerator, whether you like it or not. The humble refrigerator, an all-American invention that had become — without government…

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