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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…
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Time to Put Auntie Beeb Out to Grass
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Activists More to Fear than Pesticides
As public health officials consider spraying pesticides to control the mosquito-borne <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West Nile virus, anti-pesticide activists…
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Analysis: Running Out of Energy
Last week saw some extraordinary scenes in the Senate as this year's energy bill died, only for last year's bill to rise, vampire-like,…
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Developing World’s Moral Voice Absent in Bilateral Agreements (Letter to the Editor)
Sir, Daniel Griswold (“Bilateral deals are no threat to global trade”, July 27) raised several valid points in the defence of bilateral trade agreements. However,…
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Regulations Are Hidden Tax on Energy
It’s a good thing Congress is increasing the amount of money it spends to help the poor pay for energy, because these same legislators are…
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Los Beneficios de la Biotecnologa
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The Brundtland Legacy
The five-year tenure of Gro Harlem Brundtland as head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has just come to an end. She leaves behind…
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The Benefits of Biotech
Click pdf link above for full text of article Ever since the publication of Rachel Carson’s…
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Thank You, Pew!
You've got to hand it to the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Pew Center on Global Climate…
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Misfires in Biotech Trenches
Agricultural biotechnology suddenly is headline news—the focus of a vitriolic trans-Atlantic trade squabble, and even the subject of pointed public comments by President…
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Killing Energy: Beware the “Soft Kyoto” Strategy
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Here’s the Plan
On Thursday Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans released the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) strategic plan. According to…
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Much Ado About Nothing?
The last year has been a bad one for future AIDS victims. The U.N. AIDS conference in Barcelona was an activist circus. U.S. Secretary…
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West Nile Virus: A Public Health Crisis?
Full article available in pdf format Public health officials can only hope that this summer doesn't see a repeat of last year's…
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Pollsters: A New Danger in Baghdad
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Recent Research Suggests…
There has been a great deal of ballyhoo this week over the decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require food products…
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Taxing Times in California: The Depths to which his California has Fallen.
Stories of taxpayer abuse at the hands of the IRS were once so common as to be cliché, but Gil Hyatt recently discovered that…
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How to Cripple an Economy
Energy, as the late Julian Simon said, is the “master resource.” It enables virtually all the activities that make modern life possible. It…
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‘Spammers’ Ignoring Anti-Spam Legislation
Dear Editor: If you look closely at the spam filling your inbox, you might notice one or two…
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Tackling Junk Science
Environmental activists and their allies in the media, like The New York Times, are up in arms over the Bush Administration’s latest outbreak of good…
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Junking Junk Science
The term “junk science” has been one of the most powerful tools in ensuring that political and legal decisions are taken based on…
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Rules May Save Fuel but Won’t Save Lives
When it comes to saving fuel, federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations are expensive, cumbersome and insidiously deadly. They force new technologies…
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Manager’s Journal: What Media Monopolies?
AN ODD-BALL COLLECTION of special interests are patting themselves on the back this week after convincing the House of Representatives to scale back…
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Biotech Woes…and the Culprits
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />America learned long ago that what's good for General Motors isn't necessarily good for the country.
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Wish Fulfillment: The EU Constitution Lays Down NGOs’ Ideals in Stone
When former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing was first minted as President of the European Constitutional Convention, he suggested that he might be <?xml:namespace…
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
The British newspaper The Independent warns us of a serious threat to our aesthetic appreciation of the world. “Global warming may…
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Stop This Today! Unsolicited E-mail vs. Unsolicited Legislation
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Analysis: Two worlds
We live in a divided world. The division, however, is not between north and south, East and West or First World and Third World…
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Protecting the Environment (Letter to the Editor)
SIR – Your article about the resignation of Christine Todd Whitman as head of America’s Environmental Protection Agency suggests that the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s opposition…
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Biotech and Baby Food
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Warnings about one societal danger or another often portray children as the likeliest or…
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Common Sense
Recently, the House International Relations Committee approved a “Sense of Congress” resolution, introduced by Rep. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), that embraces the Kyoto Protocol's…
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The EU’s Anti-Biotech Protectionist Weapon (Letter to the Editor)
America’s challenge to EU policies toward agricultural and food biotechnology is far more complex and subtle than is conveyed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert…
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The Democrats’ History Mystery: Candidates’ Environmental, Diplomacy Rhetoric is Knowingly False
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> The front pages blare, margin-to-margin, “Europe-U.S. Rift Widens,” bemoaning <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns…
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Letters to the Editor: We Must Address the Root Problem of Spam
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Much of the Internet industry's newfound support of e-mail spam legislation seems…
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OMB OTL? What good is a sleeping watchdog?
What would you do if federal lawmakers proposed increasing annual taxes by $8,000 per household? You, and many other taxpayers, would likely retaliate in…
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Avoid More Mandates
As more and more Americans become investors, paternalistic regulators are demanding greater disclosure by mutual funds to protect consumers from excessive brokerage commissions…
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West Nile Virus: Squashing those Myths Regarding Pesticide Spraying
With the mosquito-transmitted <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />West Nile virus in the news again, so too are many myths about…
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Consensus Cons
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> It is a regrettable fact that most of the public is ignorant about science—not…