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Byline: Greg Pierce, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Environmental hero
Traditional environmentalists are expected to be scarce tonight when Bjorn Lomborg, a hero to free-market environmentalists, receives the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award at the Competitive Enterprise Institute's ninth annual dinner at the Capitol Hilton.
Mr. Lomborg, seen as a traitor of the traditional environmental movement, authored "The Skeptical Environmentalist," a book that originally set out to disprove the free-market theories of Mr. Simon, the late economist.
"Instead, Lomborg discovered that Simon was right about his central point things are getting better all the time," the CEI said in announcing the award. "The air we breathe is cleaner; the water we drink is cleaner; our forests aren't dying out; and perhaps the most controversial global warming isn't as bad as some environmentalists would lead us to believe."
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican, will be the featured speaker at the event.
Said CEI President Fred L. Smith Jr.: "As a former businessman, DeLay knows firsthand what kind of detrimental impact the regulatory state can have on businesses and all Americans. Congress is attempting to rein in the costs, but it will be a huge undertaking to conquer...
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