Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Trade Association Supplanting Government Regulators in Restricting Access to Retail Products and Creating New Barriers to Entry

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Push for So-Called "Sustainability" in Retail Industry is An Overt Attack on Free Market Capitalism New Paper Calls the Retail Industry Leaders Association, "A Cartel Masquerading as a Trade Association" Washington, D.C. - The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) is ...
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The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA): A Cartel that Threatens Innovation and Competitiveness

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The rise of the administrative regulatory state over the past several decades has prompted George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley to speak of a de facto fourth branch of government, characterized by "sprawling departments and agencies that govern with ...
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Look Who’s Complaining About Google Making a Donation to the Competitive Enterprise Institute

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I don't know why I was amazed, given their track record, but I was amazed to read on Steve Milloy's JunkScience.com (here and here) that green theologian Jim Ball and Penn State Professor Michael Mann are whining because Google made ...
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Big Apple “Voluntary” Composting Idea Stinks; Carries Health Risks, Says New York-Based Risk Expert

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New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg is planning on creating a "voluntary" composting program that will eventually become mandatory, the New York Times reported on Sunday. "This is a rotten idea for the Big Apple,"says Jeff Stier, the New York ...
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Rogue GMO Wheat Mystery: Did Greens Do It?

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In a piece for Rare, I address the mystery of rogue GMO wheat found in Oregon. Environmental activists, food police, and now even class action lawyers are trying to sow fear based on ideologically driven speculation to advance their battle against ...
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Environmental Working Group Seemingly Accuses Our Jeff Stier of Mental Illness on GMO Unauthorized Release

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I see on Twitter that Don Carr, Senior Advisor to the Environmental Working Group and a former Communications Director at the Democratic National Committee, has referred to my colleague, Jeff Stier, as being a member of the "tin foil hat ...
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Free Market Profit Driven Environmentalism

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The government spends a lot of our money trying to reduce pollution. The Solyndra debacle was just one high profile example that illustrated why the government shouldn’t be in the green business. So if the government can’t clean the environment ...
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National Center for Public Policy Research Completes Activity at 32nd Shareholder Meeting of 2013

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Group Holds Corporate CEOs Who Support the Left Accountable - and Supports Those Who Defend the Free Market Dallas, TX / Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research completed activity at its 32nd corporate shareholder meeting of ...
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Huffington Post: Ignore the Environmental Activists

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Sometimes, you have to take the battle to their turf. In a piece for the Huffington Post today, I make the case that while green groups seek to ban newer and better pesticides because they allegedly harm bees, the groups ...
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Exposed: Obama Administration’s Selective Law Enforcement

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In a piece for the Hoover Institution’s journal, Defining Ideas, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I highlight yet another abuse of power in the Obama Administration. As questions swirl around the IRS scandal, we expose the administration’s selective law enforcement. Why is ...
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