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Privacy and Human Rights: Comparing the United States to Europe
One premise shaping the debate about privacy law in the United States is that the European Data Protection Directive is a more advanced…
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First Do No Harm: EPA’s New Rules Will Worsen Smog
On May 13, 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules tightening motor vehicle emissions, including those from light trucks, a category of…
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Federal Reinsurance for Homeowner’s Insurance: Another Capitol Hill Disaster.
Storm clouds over Capitol Hill. House Banking Committee members are teetering on the brink of triggering a mega-disaster this week that is pointed…
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Superfund Legislation: True Reform or a Hazardous Waste?
Given the green light by House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) to produce Superfund reform legislation before the session’s end, House Republicans are racing…
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Cars, Women, and Minorities: The Democratization of Mobility in America
Full Document Available in PDF The central role of…
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Running On MTBE: Closing The Pumps On The Oxygen Content Requirement
Debate is raging in Congress and in many state legislatures regarding the federal Clean Air Act’s reformulated gasoline (RFG) program, which requires the addition…
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Comments Submitted in the FTC/NTIA Workshop on Online Profiling
These comments will address the following questions: I. What are the costs and benefits, to both industry and consumers, of online profiling? II. Are…
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Kemp: On Kyoto, The Issue Is Power
The Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and its underlying premise that the entire world’s energy policies can be regulated pursuant to an international treaty,…
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A National Survey Of Emergency Room Physicians Regarding The Food And Drug Administration
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Capital Markets: The Importance of Lower Taxes
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Facts Not Fear
In schools today, it is typical to see walls covered with posters depicting endangered animals. Students hold tee-shirt sales to raise money to save…
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Jack Kemp: Closing Down the Hard Times CAFE
Congress soon will decide whether to continue the “freeze” on existing CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards that have been in place for…
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Microsoft Trial: The Heat is On
View Full Document as PDF This summer, the heat is on Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson even more than the rest of…
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Anti-“Sprawl” Policy: Congested Thinking and Dense Logic
“Urban sprawl” has morphed into a catchall phrase that describes the cause and consequence of any social deviation related to the suburbs, including, and…
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Lawmakers Trashing the Poor?
Full Study Available In PDF Format For more than two decades, various states have battled…
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Speedbumps, Potholes, and Detours on the Road to Social Security Reform
As Yogi Berra once said, “You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ’cause you might not get there.” This year’s…
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Electricity Deregulation: Wired or Tangled in the 106th Congress’s Committees?
When policymakers embark upon restructuring as opposed to deregulating a heavily regulated industry, they risk creating more regulation than existed before. This is…
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Electricity Reform in Colorado: A Resource Guide for Citizens & Policymakers
Executive Summary ·Deregulation of telecommunications, natural gas, and transportation saved American consumers billions of dollars, created new choices among sellers and spurred numerous…
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Dumb and Dumber: Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Patients’ Bill of Rights
This week, the Senate considers legislation to impose a lengthy laundry list of new federal regulations and accompanying costs on employer-insured health plans. The…
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The Data Access Law: Promoting Accountability and Privacy
With the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1966, our society decided to promote government transparency: what is done in government’s name…
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The SAFE Bill: Keying in on Encryption Reform
View Full Document as PDF Despite Clinton Administration steps towards liberalizing American encryption policy, some members of the House of Representatives…
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Market-Based Chimera: Emission Trading Fails to Deliver
View Full Document as PDF The Clinton-Gore Administration is trying to persuade the American people that the Kyoto Protocol, the most ambitious…
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The Data Access Law: Decreasing Secret Science While Increasing Accountability
As the federal bureaucracy grows and Congress delegates more of its power to the agencies, the need for agency accountability increases. In October…
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Alternative to Kyoto Protocol Concedes Too Much
View Full Document as PDF The Energy and Climate Policy Act of 1999, S. 882, has been introduced as an alternative…
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The Deadly Effects of Fuel Economy Standards: CAFE’s Lethal Impact on Auto Safety
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Clean Air, Congress and the Constitution: Why The Delegation Ruling Was Correct
View Full Document as PDF On May 14, 1999, in American Trucking Associations v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Court…
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The Clean Air Act’s Federal Terrorist Assistance Program
View Full Document as PDF In recent years the United States has experienced the horrors of the terrorist attack of a…
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Clearing the Air on EPA’s New Emissions Proposal
Care to spend $2 billion or more a year on a health measure with no detectable health benefits? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
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Self-Regulation: Regulatory Fad or Market Forces?
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The Anti-Environment Estate Tax: Why the “Death Tax” Is Deadly for Endangered Species
View Full Document as PDF The economic and social benefits of repealing the “death tax” are well known. Repeal of the…
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Electric Chairmen Can Throw Switch on Phony Deregulation
View Full Document as PDF The local electric power monopoly is the only game in town for consumers, something reformers have…
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Free Speech and Alcohol: How Much Is Too Much?
On February 5th, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), approved two wine labels containing the following statements: The proud people…
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INTELligent Lessons from an Antitrust Blunder
View Full Document as PDF The FTC’s approval in March of a settlement with Intel closed an unfortunate chapter in American…
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The Case Against The Case Against Microsoft
Full Document Available in PDF The current antitrust case against Microsoft has…
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The Simple ABC’s of Regulatory Reform
View Full Document as PDF Streaming out of Washington now are sometimes bizarre regulations covering, among other things; workplace ergonomics, flammability…
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Culling To Be Kind: Why This Year’s Ivory Sales Will Help Elephant Conservation
View Full Document as PDF This month, nearly 34 tons of elephant ivory from Namibia and Zimbabwe will be shipped to…
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Passenger Service Regulation: A Placebo for Air Travel
View Full Document as PDF Spurred by several recent travel horror stories, the quality of airline travel has become a hot…
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Conservation and the Public Trust Doctrine
Full Document Available in PDF The public trust doctrine has been evolving since…
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Ending The Forest Fire Gridlock: Making Fire Fighting In The West A State And Local Responsibility
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Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Policymaker’s Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State (1999 Edition)
Full Document Available in PDF The federal government spent $1.65 trillion in 1998 to…
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The Problems With Planning: A Free-Market Guide To Suburban Development & “Urban Sprawl”
A brief overview of…
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The First Family’s Asthma Problems
View Full Document as PDF Both Bill and Hillary Clinton are taking actions that will affect the nation’s six million asthmatic…
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Saving Fisheries without Property Rights: “Surgery with a Baseball Bat”
View Full Document as PDF The collapse of the once-rich fisheries off the coast of New England is testimony to the…
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Early Action Crediting: Growing the Kyoto Lobby at Small Business’ Expense
View Full Document as PDF “Credit for early action” – a policy proposal developed by the Environmental Defense Fund and warmly…
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A Defective Product: Consumer Groups’ Study of Microsoft In Need of Recall
View Full Document as PDF Consumer groups are supposed to be on the side of consumers. But three such groups – the…
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So, What Will This Unfunded Mandate Cost Me?
View Full Document as PDF The $1.77 trillion spending budget President Clinton sent to Congress February 2 tells just part of…
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Credit for Early Implementation: Kyoto Through the Front Door
Last year, in an attempt to safeguard the Senate’s constitutional prerogatives in treaty-making, Congress barred the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on…
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Electricity Reform in Colorado
Full Document Available in PDF Consumers in Colorado pay prices for electricity that are among the lowest in the country. Therefore, indeed they…
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