Marlo Lewis, Jr. is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Lewis writes on global warming, energy policy, and public policy issues.
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.
Prior to joining CEI in 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. Marlo has also 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 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Claremont McKenna College. 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.
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News
CEI supports Rep. Foxx’s amendment to halt OMB’s A-4 rewrite
The House of Representatives will soon consider an amendment from Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) to the 2024 Financial Services and General Government spending bill…
Amendment prohibiting funding for Biden administration fuel economy regulations would benefit consumers
The House is expected to consider an amendment offered by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) to the Transportation and HUD spending bill (H.R.
Biden EPA’s Power Plant Emissions Rule Seeks to Shutter Certain Power Plants without Authorization from Congress
President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new proposed rule today mandating power plants reduce emissions drastically or shut down. The rule has…
Blog
Fueling discontent: Minnesota’s costly push for a low carbon fuel standard
Lawmakers in Minnesota are considering a Clean Transportation Standard (CTS) that would impose increasingly stringent carbon-intensity reduction targets on all motor fuels used in the…
40th Anniversary Commemorative: How CEI killed credit for early action
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) turned 40 this month. I’m proud to have been a CEI scholar for more than a quarter century. Our friends,…
Will EPA empower California to ban gasoline-powered cars?
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Did Congress authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to outlaw the sale of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles? Did it authorize the EPA to…
Op-Eds/Articles
National Review
How Does One-Third the CO2 Emissions Cause Three Times the Climate Damage?
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
This month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published revised estimates of the social cost of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide — the three…
Real Clear Energy
Climate Coup Alert: CEQ Proposes to Transform NEPA
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
In recent comments to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), 24 state attorneys general led by Iowa AG Breanna Bird warn that CEQ’s July…
Real Clear Energy
The DOE’s Press Release on Federal Building Standards Is Inaccurate and Misleading Puffery
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the pre-publication version of a proposed rule to “establish energy performance standards for the construction of new federal…
Studies
Why Carbon Taxes Are Anti-Growth, Anti-Consumer, and Politically Dangerous for Conservatives
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
A tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, contrary to its advocates’ claims, is a market-rigging policy, not a free market one. Its purpose is to…
Lift #NeverNeeded Regulations that Make Energy More Expensive
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Low-income households, which are more likely to suffer from unemployment and other stresses during the COVID-19 crisis, spend much more of their household budget on…
A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Climate change is not a hoax, but as a political matter, it is a persistent pretext for expanding government control over the economy, redistributing wealth,…
Citations
Daily Caller
Here’s Why The Biden Admin’s Multi-Billion Dollar EV Charging Program Has Short-Circuited
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
CEI’s Marlo Lewis was cited on the Daily Caller regarding the Biden administration’s multi-billion dollar EV charging program: Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the…
Daily Caller
‘Big Trouble’: Here’s How Newsom’s California Is Killing The American Auto Industry
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
CEI’s Marlo Lewis is cited in the Daily Caller on the state of the American auto industry: “Considering the losses and layoffs we’ve already…
Fox News
Experts raise alarm after Biden strikes agreement with China to shut down fossil fuels
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Fox news cites CEI’s Marlo Lewis: “The cooperative initiatives outlined by State Department will create make-work for bureaucrats, subsidies for rent-seekers, photo ops for…
Regulatory Comments
CEI Comments on California’s Advanced Clean Cars II Waiver Request
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment[1] on the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB’s) request for a waiver under Section 209(b) of the…
CEI comments on NHTSA’s proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) proposed corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for passenger cars…
CEI Comments on Proposed NEPA Implementing Regulations
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on Phase 2 of the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ’s) proposed revision of its National Environmental Policy Act…