CEI Celebrates Earth Day
Free Markets Help Advance Environmental Quality

Washington, D.C., April 18, 2008—On Tuesday, April 22, environmentalists will gather in different locations around the world to observe Earth Day, originally a 1970 teach-in on environmental issues. The sustained popularity of Earth Day events reflects the desire of people everywhere for clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat and other environmental benefits.

But instead of a Great Society era, command-and-control approach to environment issues, the Competitive Enterprise Institute observes Earth Day by publicizing the real catalyst for improvements in environmental quality over the past three decades: the institutions of a free society. For almost a quarter century, CEI has worked to show how free markets and limited government can continue to create a healthier, cleaner world.

Read recent commentary from Competitive Enterprise Institute analysts on prominent environmental issues.

• Energy Policy Analyst William Yeatman on the empty promise of green jobs.
• Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner on the alleged consensus on global warming science.
• Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the problems with implementing fuel economy regulations.
• Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on what recent studies tell us about global warming and hurricanes.
• Senior Fellow Gregory Conko on the debate over genetically modified foods.
• General Counsel Sam Kazman on the effort to ban incandescent light bulbs in the name of energy efficiency.
• Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on the activist campaign against bottled water for producing too much solid waste.

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