Marlo Lewis, Jr. is a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he writes on global warming, energy policy, and other public policy issues. Prior to joining CEI in April 2002, he served as Director of External Relations at the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles, California. During the 106th Congress, Marlo served as Staff Director of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs.
His interests include the science, economics, and politics of global warming policy; the precautionary principle; environmentalism and religion; and the moral basis of free enterprise. Marlo has been published in The Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, TechCentralStation, National Review, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. He has appeared on various television and radio programs, and his ideas have been featured in radio commentary by Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy.
Before joining CEI for his first tenure with the organization in 1993, Marlo served as Research Director for the grassroots organization, Citizens Against Government Waste. Earlier, he was a Staff Consultant to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, a Special Assistant at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs and Bureau of International Organization Affairs, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Claremont McKenna College. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and a B.A. in Political Science from Claremont McKenna College.
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recent op-eds & articles
EPA’s Endangerment Finding: Legislative Hammer or Suicide Note?
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., April 22, 2009
Granting Emissions Waiver Will Lead to De-stimulus
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., February 2, 2009
Indefensible Biofuels
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., William Yeatman, July 23, 2008
Food for Fuel Is No Laughing Matter
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., May 5, 2008
European Railroads Not a Model for U.S. April 23
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., April 23, 2008
recent studies
Free Market Coalition Letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on EPA’s Endangerment Finding
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., April 15, 2009
A Joint Letter to the U. S. House of Representatives on H. R. 6 and Other Legislation to Raise Energy Prices
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., July 30, 2007
A Joint Letter to the U. S. Senate on S. 1419, the Making Energy Less Affordable Act
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., June 15, 2007
Al Gore's Science Fiction: A Skeptic's Guide to An Inconvenient Truth
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., March 16, 2007
Some Convenient Distortions
By Marlo Lewis, Jr., March 16, 2007
recent citations
Marlo Lewis, Jr. on When Does an Infant Industry Stop Needing Its Taxpayer Allowance?
ReasonOnline, Nov. 21, 2008
Marlo Lewis, Jr. on greenhouse gas regulations
Environmental Finance, Aug. 28, 2008
Marlo Lewis, Jr. on cap and trade legislation
Orange County Register, Jul. 24, 2008
Marlo Lewis, Jr. on Biofuels Mandates
EnergyBiz Insider, May. 14, 2008
Marlo Lewis, Jr. on Ethanol and Bio-fuel Mandates
EnergyBiz Insider, May. 14, 2008

