Category: Environment and Enterprise Institute

Maybe It’s Time for A Law Against Price-Gouging After All

National Policy Analysis #559 /
A Personal Reflection Free market advocates have long opposed price gouging laws on the grounds that such laws interfere with market forces and ultimately lead to shortages.  But I'm now rethinking this position. It is getting increasingly difficult to ignore ...
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Amazonian Tribal Art or Endangered Species?

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While secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lawrence Small violated federal bird protection regulations when he imported Amazonian tribal art that, unbeknownst to him, contained feathers of endangered birds. Amazonian Tribal Art or Endangered Species? The government entrusted Lawrence M. Small, ...
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The “Energy Bill” That Isn’t: Rep. Nick Rahall’s Energy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act of 2007, by Peyton Knight

National Policy Analysis #558 /
It is no secret that congressmen frequently take liberties when assigning their bills attractive names that are not representative of the contents within.  The "Energy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act of 2007" (H.R. 2377), sponsored by Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), ...
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CAFE Tab Too Expensive for America, by Deneen Borelli

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Proposed legislation to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards - the federally-mandated fuel efficiency rules for cars, light trucks and SUVs - will likely cause more harm to the American people than good. Our nation's dependency on foreign oil ...
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Anti-DDT Policies Are Deadly for Africa, by Thompson Ayodele and Adegoke Anthony

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Anti-DDT Policies Are Deadly for Africa by Thompson Ayodele (bio) and Adegoke Anthony Last year, one of our colleagues, his wife and their two children were diagnosed with malaria.  In an instant, their lives were turned upside down.  All other ...
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Car-Crazy Congress Set to Break the American Auto Industry, by Kevin Martin

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Car-Crazy Congress Set to Break the American Auto Industry by Kevin Martin (bio) Barack Obama wants you to drive a car that gets over 40 miles per gallon, but it's a case of "do as I say and not what ...
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CAFE Standard Profiteering

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Timothy Carney, writing in the Examiner, on the corporations and lobbyists who are profiteering from Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards, and how much money some of their PACs give to House and Senate candidates: While ratcheting up CAFE won’t ...
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Climate Change is a Human Issue

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From Stella Dulanya and Peyton Knight, a report on the latest Senate global warming hearing: Yesterday, National Center Senior Fellow Thomas J. Borelli, Ph.D., testified on behalf of the Free Enterprise Action Fund before the U.S Senate Committee on Environment ...
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The Senate’s Fuel Economy Standard: Incredibly Tough, Probably Impossible & Enormously Expensive

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Gary Witzenburg, writing on The Car Connection, explains the difficulties car manufacturers and consumers will have if Congress adopts into law the Senate Energy Bill's requirement that Corporate Everage Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, reach 35 mpg by 2020 for ...
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CAFE Standards Hypocrite

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was the prime sponsor of legislation adopted by the Senate Thursday that will require automakers, under Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE), to drastically increase fuel economy to 35 mpg for cars and SUVs over ...
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