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Radon
Full Document Available in PDF The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to promulgate a drinking water…
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Chlorine and the Disinfection Byproducts Rule
Full Document Available in PDF For many years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has attempted to develop standards to regulate disinfection…
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Arsenic
Full Document Available in PDF The debate over whether to tighten the drinking water standard for arsenic highlighted…
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Safe Drinking Water Act Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Since passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)…
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Pesticides in Schools
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, policymakers have been confronted with claims that children…
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Pesticides and Public Health
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, public health authorities have expressed serious…
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Pesticides and Agriculture
Full Document Available in PDF In 1989, environmental activists claimed that a chemical called Alar…
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Food Quality Protection Act
Full Document Available in PDF In 1996, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) amended the two…
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Pesticide Regulation Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Pesticide residues found on domestic and imported produce pose little, if…
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Measuring the Scope of Federal Land Ownership
Full Document Available in PDF During much of American history, landuse regulation was…
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International Fisheries
Full Document Available in PDF The history of fisheries management in the United States largely…
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The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
Full Document Available in PDF The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management…
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REACH – The EU’s Chemical Policy
Full Document Available in PDF Regulations enacted in the European Union (EU) increasingly are having…
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The Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Full Document Available in PDF In 2001, the Bush administration signed the United…
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Population
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International Policy Overview
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An Issue of Science and Economics
Full Document Available in PDF Abundant and affordable energy is one of the great boons of…
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Accessing Energy Resources on Public Lands
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Automobile Fuel Economy Standards
Full Document Available in PDF The federal government’s fuel economy standards for new cars are…
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Mercury Pollution and Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF Health issues related to methylmercury in fish—which are discussed…
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The Clean Air Act and High Gasoline Prices
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Clean Air Act Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Enacted in 1970, the Clean Air Act (CAA) is the…
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Methylmercury Science
Full Document Available in PDF During the past few years, environmental activists, public health…
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Endocrine Disrupters
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The True Causes of Cancer
Full Document Available in PDF Environmental activists have long claimed that man-made chemicals are…
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Cancer Trends
Full Document Available in PDF In recent decades, many have claimed that cancer is rising…
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Chemical Risk Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Worldwide, the average human life span has increased from about…
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Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF For conventionally bred plants, regulators rely on plant breeders to…
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Agricultural Biotechnology Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Every year, millions of people worldwide die from starvation and…
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Environmental Trends
Full Document Available in PDF For the past 30 years, prognosticators have predicted an imminent environmental…
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A Vision for Environmental Policy
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Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom
Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute Written Remarks For the…
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The 2010 Union Pension Bailout Bills
Get ready to give some of your hard-earned cash – again – to the cronies of Congress who are pushing for yet another bailout. Two…
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Colorado’s Clean Air Clean Jobs Act Will Accomplish Neither
Government Officials and Special Interests Pushed HB 1365 on a Foundation of Fallacies…
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Is Wind the Next Ethanol?
One “Renewable” Energy Source Follows another’s History of Failure…
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H-1B Visas: A Case for Open Immigration of Highly Skilled Foreign Workers
To bring workers they need into the United States, American companies sponsor their H1-B work visas. The rapid pace of technological and scientific development is…
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Reforming Michigan’s Auto Insurance Industry
Michigan auto insurance premiums are among the highest in the nation. Rather than attempting to regulate insurance company and individual behavior, Michigan legislators would much…
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Joint Letter to DOE on Transferable Credits
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Persuasion and Issue-Framing
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Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB: Narrow Separation-of-Powers Ruling Illustrates That the Supreme Court Is Not ‘‘Pro-Business’’
Full Document Available in PDF Chief Justice John Roberts has often been depicted as an advocate of narrow rulings and a judicial philosophy…
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Are Corporations Suicidal?
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Al Gore’s Crony Capitalist Crusade
Full Document Available in PDF Al Gore’s crusade for carbon emission controls is poised to enrich those with a vested…
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Cap-and-Trade Schemes are Not Markets
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BONG HiTS 4 JESUS: The First Amendment Takes a Hit
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Colorado’s Great Green Deception
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Who Should Pay for the Gulf Oil Spill?
Liability and Incentive Issues Raised by the Deepwater Horizon Incident…
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The Nation’s Worst State Attorneys General
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Union Pensions in Crisis
Full Document Available in PDF Union pensions are in trouble, and financial watchdogs such as Moody’s…
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Florida’s Reedy Creek Improvement District
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A Drought of Reason and Investigation
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Extreme Refreshment Crackdown
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Overturning EPA’s Endangerment Finding Is a Constitutional Imperative
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The Department of Defense Should Assess the Security Risks of Climate Change Policies
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2010
Full Document Available in PDF President Barack Obama’s federal budget for fiscal year (FY) 2011 proposes $3.83 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and…
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Truth or Consequences
The Benefits of Off-Label Drug and Device Promotion…
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Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America
Horner's new book coming out Monday, April 19, from Regnery Publishing.
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This Land Ain’t your Land; this Land Is my Land
A Primer on Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and Entrepreneurship…
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Copenhagen Climate Conference
Full Document Available in PDF Green activists are appalled that last December’s UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, did not produce…
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Shackling Innovation
The Regulation of Industry-Supported Clinical Trials…
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Celling Fear: The Cell Phone Scare that Refuses to Die
Soon would-be cell phone buyers in Maine might be checking out the latest models, only to find a jarring red box on each unit…
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The Ultimate Payoff
Full Document Available in PDF The December issue of Labor Watch looked at the growing influence of the 2.1-million…
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Congressional Misdiagnosis
Why Repealing McCarran-Ferguson Will Harm Competition in Health Insurance Markets…
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Payment Card Networks Under Assault
How Capping Interchange Fees Will Hurt Consumers, Charities, Community Banks, and Credit Unions…
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Organization Man
How Andrew Stern Plans to Transform the Union Movement…
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A Cure Worse than the Disease
Obama Care Won’t Cut Costs, But May Cut Quality…
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FDA and Internet Advertising
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Your Retirement or Our Political Agenda
How Politicized Investment Strategies Threaten Workers’ Pensions…
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The Politicization of the FAA Reauthorization Act
It is hard to imagine Congress looking for ways to saddle a key sector with new taxes and restrictions. But that is exactly what Rep.
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The Geopolitics of Climate: Cutting Through the Spin on International Climate Agreements
Full Document Available in PDF With the G20 group in Pittsburgh discussing global warming negotiations at President Obama’s insistence, the public needs to…
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Restoring the Private Property-Insurance Market to Reduce Florida’s Risk of Financial Insolvency
Full Document Available in PDF Foreward by Robert F. Sanchez, Policy Director, The James Madison Institute As Florida faces a…
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Political Malpractice
Most Americans agree that our health care system is broken. But it is increasingly clear that what ails health care is not too little, but…
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Principles for Property Mitigation Discounts
Legislators should be wary of efforts to mandate specific mitigation discounts without paying attention to the myriad other factors that can play a major role…
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Free Market Strategies for Insurance Reform
Two major proposals to regulate insurance federally have appeared. The first, the National Insurance Consumer Protection Act. The second proposal stems from the Obama administration.
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A Primer on the Employee Free Choice Act’s Arbitration Provision
EFCA clause allows government power to forcefully impose contracts on parties…
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California’s New Diesel Regulation Is All Pain for No Gain
California's new diesel truck regulations would drive business out of the state…
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National Regulatory Modernization for Insurers
Frequently Asked Questions on Standardizing National Insurance Laws…
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Hurricane Damage and Global Warming
How bad could it get and what can we do about it today?…
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Ten Thousand Commandments 2009
Wayne Crews' annual accounting of the hidden taxes of regulation.
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Property and Casualty Insurance 2009 Report Card
Full Document Available in PDF For the second year in a row,…
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SERFF Liberation
The System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing Needs Competition…
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The Case for Compensating Live Organ Donors
Full Document Available in PDF Conflicting opinions on the ethics of organ…
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Why Florida Should Not Receive a Pre-Funded Federal Bailout
Full Document Available in PDF Since early 2009, Florida state…
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Pharmaceutical Evolution
Albert I. Wertheimer and Thomas M. Santella explain the advantages of incremental innovation in drug development. Photo: CC <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joethorn/86495698/">Joe Thorn</a>.
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The Five Dumbest Product Bans, 2009
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Card Check Double Standard
Unions’ Hypocrisy on the Secret Ballot…
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The Employee Free Choice Act Is Anything But
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Restoring the Private Property-Insurance Market To Reduce Florida’s Risk of Financial Insolvency
Eli Lehrer examines why Florida could very well become financially insolvent.
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Black Box Panic
How the FDA’s Bad Science Leads to More Teen Suicides…
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The Truth About Online Gambling
Michelle Minton explores why government shouldn't treat gambling as if we lived in the Old West.
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Poker as a Game of Skill
Full document available in pdf It’s two minutes before the cards are…
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Bottled Water and the Overflowing Nanny State
In her study Angela Logomasini's analyzes how misinformation about bottled water erodes consumer freedom…
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Let Credit Unions Lend More
Eli Lehrer makes the case for expanding credit union business lending, which would unlock otherwise idle capital and thereby help create jobs.
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Dr. John P. Holdren
William Yeatman explains why the U.S. Senate should not confirm Dr. John P. Holdren's nomination for White House Science Adviser.
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The Railroad Competition and Service Improvement Act
Why Government-Enforced “Competition” Will Not Work.
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The Case for Reforming U.S. Guest Worker Programs
Arin Greenwood's Study explores why guest worker programs are important and how we can make them better.
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Compounding Catastrophe
Why Federal Involvement in State Catastrophe Insurance Is a Bad Idea…
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Catastrophe Funds and Reinsurance
Eli Lehrer answers and explores the most frequently asked questions about catastrophe funds and reinsurance.
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Massive Food and Land Costs of US Corn Ethanol
Biofuels have made the world use more corn than it can sustainably produce, creating massive food price hikes.
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How EESA Might Impact Property and Casualty Insurance
Full Document Available in PDF This paper explores the ways…
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Facts About the AIG Collapse: A Response to the NAIC
Full Document Available in PDF Following the collapse…