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Wishful Anti-spam Thinking
Tomorrow, the House is expected to pass new anti-spam legislation. The effort is understandable: The increasingly apparent downside of an Internet on which you…
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The International Green Agenda
Environmental groups were stunned when the cash-strapped Turner Founda-tion—which gave about $28 million to green causes in 2002—announced recently that it would temporarily suspend all…
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark
http://www.green-watch.com/news/news.asp?ID=167 Sherlock Holmes typically uses an innocent piece of evidence to solve a mystery. In the Adventure…
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Rescuing Free Trade From the Bureaucrats & Special Interests
Full article available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> In the aftermath of the…
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Eroding U.S. Sovereignty: POPs Implementation
Full article available as pdf. Article appeared originally in December 2003 edition of the Monthly Planet. In…
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Who Should Have Air Supremacy?
The Clean Air Act (CAA), perhaps the federal government's most powerful environmental tool, concedes in its very first section, “air pollution control at…
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Baptists and Bootleggers
If politics makes strange bedfellows, then the coalition of the Baptists and the bootleggers has to be one of the oddest. In the early part…
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Kyoto Through the Back Door? A Debate on the Lieberman – McCain Climate Stewardship Act
Denounced by its critics as an energy-rationing scheme, and hailed by its supporters as a measure to counteract the dire consequences of global warming, the…
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United Nations Day of Shame
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much…
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Lewis Letter to DOE
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Sam Kazman: Too Tough on SUVs, Too Soft on Mini-Cars
Official traffic statistics are one of the last things that you'd expect to find distorted by political correctness. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,…
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Russia Could Sink Kyoto — and McCain-Lieberman
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The Climate Stewardship Act (S. 139), introduced by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and…
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CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. Cited in Novak Column
To read Robert Novak’s October 16 column, please click here.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />…
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Russia Buries Kyoto ‘Consensus’
The most momentous event in the politics of climate change since <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America's decision to shelve the Kyoto…
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Vox Populi and Public Policy
“How can you tell whether a whale is a mammal or a fish?” a teacher asks her third-grade class. “Take a vote?” pipes…
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McCain’s Nose-Under-the-Tent Strategy
Who does Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) think he is fooling? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> …
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The Poor Suffer as UN Wages War on Science
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently declared that the global pursuit of scientific endeavors is marked by inequality. Noting that developing countries invest much less…
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Adrift on the Seas of Knowledge
Senators John McCain (R., Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.) are deeply concerned about the issue of global climate change. So much so that…
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Genetically Modified Foods Are Nothing New
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Children as Policy Pawns
Americans take nothing as seriously as the need to protect the health and safety of our children. Public concern about environmental harms has intensified…
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Ozone Depletion’s Lessons for Global Warming
Depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer is slowing, according to a study scheduled for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At a press conference,…
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Are Small Particles Such a Big Problem?
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, small particles in the air pose the greatest threat that it or any other regulatory agency is…
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Running Away From Safety
Remember Jim Fixx? Not many people do, and that's a shame. Fixx was a jogging guru who ran 60 miles a week. He…
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Science Rejects Anti-Pesticide Claims
Public health officials across the country are considering widespread spraying of pesticides to control the mosquito-borne <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West…
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Voting the Easy Way
The Ninth Circuit's controversial decision to delay the California recall election, likely to be overturned today, is just the latest in a series of…
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Are We All “Damn Fools”?
The accomplished British humorous songwriters <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Flanders and Swann (Donald Swann put JRR Tolkien's various Middle Earth…
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D.C. Air Quality Levels
Another Washington summer is over, as is another season of Washington smog. While this summer's air quality was typical of recent years, many residents…
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Fixing the Game
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Environmental Scientists Must Stop Crying Wolf
There is a crisis emerging in the scientific community. The ideals of science are being sacrificed to the god of political expediency. Environmental scientists are…
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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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‘I’m Mo Green!’
CANCUN, Mexico — “I’m Mo Green!” bellowed the casino owner, suggesting that his uninvited but insistent suitor Michael Corleone appreciate their relative stations in the…
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Precaution without Principle
The European Parliament voted earlier this summer to change the way it regulates gene-splicing, or genetic modification (GM) technology, possibly opening the way…
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EPA Uses Superfund Tax to Target the Innocent
Advocates claim that the Superfund tax is a moral imperative because they say it's based on the “polluter pays” principle. This tax is really a…
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EU Over-REACH
The latest mutation of the Precautionary Principle–which would heavily regulate, if not prohibit, any product, technology or activity that is in any way incomplete–is…
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Son et Lumière Over French Heat Wave
With over 10,000 deaths ascribed in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />France to the recent European heat wave, the finger-pointing has…
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Greenhouse Hot Air
“Can This Man Save the World?” (Aug. 11, p. 54) first assumes there is a problem associated with greenhouse gas emissions that…
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Down the Tube
The first elected Mayor of England's capital city, Ken Livingstone, has seen his transportation policy descend into chaos in recent weeks. Londoners regularly…
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ABOGADO GIGANTE!
In the October 2000 stretch run for the presidency, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Representatives Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO)…
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Bush administration’s rule changes on the Clean Air Act (Letter to the Editor)
To the Editor: The Bush administration’s rule changes on the Clean Air Act’s new source review program should be judged in context (news article, Aug.
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Europe’s REACH Exceeds Its Scientific Grasp
European regulatory officials have raised hostility to technological innovation to an art form. Their current medium of choice is the Precautionary Principle, which holds…
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Stockholm Syndrome
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a United Nations Environment Programme Convention, which bans or regulates industrial chemicals and pesticides. The…
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Europe ‘Reaches’ for Disaster
European regulatory officials have raised hostility to technological innovation to an art form. Their current medium of choice is the Precautionary Principle, which…
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FT Summer School – A Risky Weapon in the Corporate Armoury-
“Derivatives have become associated with recklessness following several high-profile bankruptcies, but they can be an effective way of managing risk,” says Christopher Culp.In…
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The Scapegoat Utility Vehicle
Reprinted with permission from Foundation for Economic Education, http://www.fee.org First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy. For owners…
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A Bright Idea: Deregulate
The massive blackout that shut off lights along the East coast, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Midwest and Canada need not…
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Environmentalists for Enron
CERES, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, is terribly concerned about corporate governance. Worried by the recent corporate scandals, this coalition of environmental groups and…
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Is Big Bad?: SUV Critics Hold Consumers in Contempt
Reprinted with permission from the August/September issue of Reason magazine. High and Mighty: SUVs: The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got…
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The Future’s Electric: Beware Bad Energy Policy.
Whenever I needed to buy an obscure book as a student at the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Newcastle Royal Grammar School…
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Brussels’ Bad Science Will Cost the World Dear
Regulatory officials in the European Union seem to be ignorant of the rule of holes: when you are in one, stop digging. Numerous analyses…
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Pots and Kettles
“The Administration's political interference with science has led to misleading statements by the President, inaccurate responses to Congress, altered web sites, suppressed agency…