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Rethink Water Rights Policies

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Battles over limited water supplies in the United States and…

Energy and Environment

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Recognize the Elitist Nature of “Anti- Sprawl” Measures

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF For the greater part of the last…

Regulatory Reform

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Trash Counterproductive Waste Disposal Policies

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Solid waste. Much of the nation’s current solid waste…

Energy and Environment

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Develop New Approaches to Preserve Ocean Resources

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The world’s fisheries face severe decline. Indeed,…

Energy and Environment

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Clarify the Role of Invasive Species

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF In the past, policies addressing problem plants…

Energy and Environment

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Protect Endangered Species

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 is bad for…

Energy and Environment

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Embrace Private Conservation of Land and Natural Resources

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Private stewardship and markets play a…

Energy and Environment

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Restore the Constitutional Right to Property

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The right to property is an essential part of a free society, and widespread private property ownership…

Law and Litigation

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Facilitate Electricity Competition

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF A fully responsive electricity industry would use active demand and…

Energy and Environment

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Resist New Burdens on the Transportation Sector

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The transportation industries—airline, railroad, shipping, and trucking—are…

Transportation

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Counteract Politicization of Federal Science Policy

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The federal politicization of science in…

Energy and Environment

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Advance a Global Pro-Trade Agenda

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Increasing liberalization of world trade is one…

Trade and International

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Protect Free Speech by Rejecting Content Regulation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, the First Amendment’s…

Tech and Telecom

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Avoid Hampering the Internet through Net Neutrality Regulation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Some observers have speculated that 2009…

Tech and Telecom

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Protect and Enhance Federalism

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/21/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The Framers of the Constitution intended federalism to act as…

Business and Government

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Study and Understand Corporate Social Responsibility

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Congress should study the confusion created in the…

Business and Government

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Clarify the Role of Intellectual Property in the Economy

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Copyright and patent laws protect…

Regulatory Reform

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Keep Government’s Hands off the Net and E-Commerce

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF As a network of networks, the…

Tech and Telecom

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Allow Immigrants to Help Fill America’s Need for Workers

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Congress should implement more flexible, less restrictive immigration laws, with the ultimate goal of an immigration system that lets law-abiding workers from anywhere fill any…

Labor and Employment

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Let Market Forces Regulate Internet Gambling

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Americans like to gamble; in 48 states they…

Consumer Freedom

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Protect Sensitive and Disaster-Prone Natural Areas

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Overdevelopment of wetlands, barrier islands, old growth forests,…

Energy and Environment

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Phase Out the National Flood Insurance Program

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Since it emerged in its current form…

Insurance

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Encourage Competition between Different Types of Depository Institutions

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Three major types of depository institutions—banks,…

Regulatory Reform

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Liberalize Homeowners, Automobile, Life, and Commercial Insurance Regulation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF A confusing patchwork of state-level…

Insurance

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Develop Smart Policies to Help Homeowners Deal With Natural Catastrophes

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Natural catastrophes such as…

Insurance

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Forge a Bipartisan Approach to End Corporate Welfare

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF One of government’s primary current undertakings…

Regulatory Reform

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Avoid Privacy Regulation that Could Worsen Personal Security

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF There are two great ironies in…

Tech and Telecom

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Avoid Extending Antitrust Regulation into New Competitive Realms

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Over the past several decades, until…

Regulatory Reform

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Allow Workers and Employers to Work without Burdensome Regulation

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF One of America’s greatest economic…

Labor and Employment

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Increase Access to Energy

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Economic prosperity and our standard of living depend…

Energy and Environment

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Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose More Risk than Global Warming

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Although…

Energy and Environment

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Liberalize Telecommunications

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/20/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Appeals to the “public interest” and claims of airwave scarcity have long been…

Tech and Telecom

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Encourage Innovation in Credit Availability

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/15/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The abuses of the subprime crisis have made it…

Business and Government

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Recognize the Value of Hedge Funds and Private Equity for Entrepreneurs and Shareholders

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/15/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Hedge…

Business and Government

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Roll Back Burdensome Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Rules

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/15/2010

Full Document Available in PDF “How can we have these levels of fictions…

Banking and Finance

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Make Accounting Regulators Accountable

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/15/2010

Full Document Available in PDF The flawed valuation models for subprime securities have once again…

Business and Government

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Curb and Phase Out Taxpayer-Funded Corporate Bailouts

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/14/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Many Republicans and Democrats…

Business and Government

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Reform U.S. Agriculture Programs

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/14/2010

Full Document Available in PDF With America facing a lengthy and possible deep recession and…

Business and Government

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Rein in the $1 Trillion Regulatory State

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/14/2010

Full Document Available in PDF From transportation to trade, from communications to banking…

Business and Government

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One Nation, Ungovernable?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/14/2010

  Full Document Available in PDF As both political parties wrangle over economic stimulus packages and…

Business and Government

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Championing Economic Liberty in a Time of Crisis

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 12/13/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s incoming…

Business and Government

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A Solid Waste Estimation Procedure: Material Flows Approach

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/03/2010

Energy and Environment

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Electronic Waste

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Increasingly, news reports and environmental activists are claiming that we are facing a…

Transportation

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Solid Waste Management

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Americans like to recycle, and recycling is indeed an important part…

Energy and Environment

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Toxics Release Inventory

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Several states and the federal government have in place various “right-to-know”…

Chemical Risk

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Interstate Waste Commerce

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF For more than two decades, various states and localities have battled over…

Energy and Environment

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Brownfields

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF U.S. cities are home to hundreds of thousands of old, abandoned commercial and…

Energy and Environment

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Superfund

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Perhaps no other environmental program has been cited more often as a failure…

Energy and Environment

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Solid and Hazardous Waste Overview

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF Federal regulation of solid and hazardous waste…

Energy and Environment

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Lead in Drinking Water

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 11/22/2010

Full Document Available in PDF During the winter of 2004, the District of Columbia discovered…

Energy and Environment

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