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Consumer Reports, “National Snitch”?

This week, CEI criticized Consumer Reports for reporting a high-performing shower head to federal authorities-not because it is defective or fraudulently advertised, but because it exceeds government limits on shower head water flow.  CEI General Counsel, Sam Kazman had this to say about the review:

“Consumer Reports has it backwards, [...]Its duty is to consumers, not bureaucrats. It should not be acting as a nosy bathroom cop, trying to toss good products in the slammer just because they violate some intrusive federal…

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EPA Whistleblower’s Office May Get Shut Down

EPA Whistleblower’s Office May Get Shut Down

Following a whistleblower report that criticized a global warming rule, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly considering shutting down the agency office in which the critical report originated.  Dr. Alan Carlin, the senior analyst whose report EPA unsuccessfully tried to bury, worked in EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE).  According to a story in last Friday’s Inside EPA, the agency is now considering shutting that office down.

The Washington Times ran an editorial yesterday, critical of the potential shut down…

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Policy Peril Segment 7: Fuel economy standards

Policy Peril Segment 7: Fuel economy standards

Today’s excerpt from CEI’s film, Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself, is on two global warming policies Congress has adopted: fuel economy standards and biofuel mandates.

Here are my previous posts in this series:

Policy Peril: Looking for antidote to An Inconvenient Truth? Your search is over.
Policy Peril Segment 1: Heat Waves
Policy Peril Segment 2: Air Pollution
Policy Peril Segment 3: Hurricanes
Policy Peril Segment 4: Sea-Level Rise
Policy Peril Segment 5: Is the Science Debate Over?
Policy Peril…

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Bailout on Wheels Rolls Down Slippery Slope

Ah, that slippery slope. All of a sudden, Nancy Pelosi has come to the conclusion that ensuring union retirees receive large amounts of taxpayers’ money is central to the country’s financial stability. And after all, it’s only $25 billion (or maybe $50 billion, still nowhere near $700 billion, or maybe $2 trillion). As my colleague Sam Kazman commented, even though multi-billion dollar bailouts may no longer be the rarity they once were, that does not entitle either the auto industry…

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