Gasp!
by: Elizabeth Wright

In April 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Massachusetts v. EPA. The lawsuit's intent was to force the EPA to regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHG) as pollutants because of their supposed contribution to global warming. The basis of the suit was EPA's contention in 2003 that it lacked the authority under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2).

2008 Prime Cuts is a Guide to Cut Spending
by: Sarah Maroney

With the election on November 4th looming, both Presidential candidates have pledged to go through the budget line by line to find wasteful spending. Whoever wins could save a lot of time by reading Citizens Against Government Waste's 2008 Prime Cuts, a list of 700 recommendations that would save $270 billion in one year and $2 trillion over five years. The new President will inherit a $455 billion deficit from fiscal year 2008 and be staring at a possible $1 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2009. There's no room for new programs and plenty of incentive to cut those that are ineffective, duplicative, or wasteful.

European Resource Bank Update
by: David Williams

Since 2004, Citizens Against Government Waste has been attending the European Resource Bank (ERB) Meeting. This year's annual meeting of free-market think tanks was held in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, hosted by the New Economic School in the Republic of Georgia. Even though the ERB was originally planned to be held in Georgia because of the free-market reforms pushed by the country's prime minister and president, Mikheil Saakashvili, events preceding the meeting (the Russian invasion) gave it even more urgency.