Category: Risk Analysis

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Jeff Stier of the National Center and Niger Innis of Project 21 to Appear on Special CPAC Panel on Regulations and Freedom

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At CPAC today at 2:30 PM, Niger Innis of Project 21 and The TeaParty.Net and the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Jeff Stier will appear on a special Washington Times panel, “Regulatory Assaults on Your Freedom You May Not ...
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Bloomberg Soda Ban a Bust, Project 21’s LeBon Comments

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In a devastating blow to the New York City nanny state of former mayor Michael Bloomberg, judges on the New York State Court of Appeals voted to uphold two lower court rulings thus keeping the city government from banning the ...
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Despite Scare Stories, Fears About BPA are Unnecessary, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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As soon as someone mentions BPA (bisphenol A), I recall the glasses and glass containers our family now uses to replace the plastic containers that previously populated our cupboards. Like many moms, my top priority is keeping my kids safe, ...
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Project 21 Members Predicted First Lady’s Food Fanaticism

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Celebrating the fourth anniversary of her “Let’s Move!” kid nutrition and fitness regulatory crusade, First Lady Michelle Obama used last week as a springboard from which she launched more new ways to further regulate away Americans’ food freedom. This sort ...
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NYC Schools to Ban Guns, Drugs, Junk Food and Tsunamis

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Think New Yorkers are tough? Apparently not in the minds of the leaders of the city’s public school system.  These bureaucrats are in the midst of pushing a list of banned words they seem to think will meet the sensibilities ...
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Chicago Teachers Should Have a Beef about LFTB Policy, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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When Chicago schoolteachers recently went on strike, the only city-run schools open were those set up to serve meals to needy students. While striking Windy City teachers screamed about pay and evaluation standards, food was a problem apparently being ignored ...
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Pink Slime and Consumer Choice, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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Recently, we have been besieged with news reports about hamburger. At issue is whether hamburger containing lean finely textured beef (LFTB) is safe and should be part of our diet. As I am a mom, food safety warnings naturally raise ...
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Government Regulation Will Literally Take People’s Breath Away, by Bob Parks

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It's not news that far too many environmentalists prefer trees, animals and insects over people. In 1962, environmentalist icon Rachel Carson — a government bureaucrat at the time — chose nature. She created a stink about the highly-effective pesticide DDT, ...
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Save the Suds from Environmental Extremism, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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Washington is regulating the common light bulb out of existence and raiding America's medicine cabinet. Now, the Obama Administration's EPA is preparing to go after soap! Remember the hand sanitizing gels that were on virtually every countertop, desk and in ...
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The Coming War on Menthol Cigarettes, by Horace Cooper

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Last year, not long after the Food and Drug Administration got legislative authority to regulate tobacco, "flavored" cigarettes were banned — on behalf of the children. This was largely a publicity stunt since Twista Lime, Kauai Kolada and other flavored ...
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