Dear Friends & Supporters of CEI,
Thank you very much for your support throughout our 25th anniversary!
When considering your end of year giving, I hope you’ll choose to support individual liberty and economic freedom with a gift to CEI.
We have enjoyed an immensely successful year thanks to your dedicated support. To recap just a few of our accomplishments:
- CEI had a constitutional challenge to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act heard by the United States Supreme Court on December 7th
- CEI brought to light the saga of Dr. Alan Carlin, a whisteblower and veteran analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency, who wrote a crucial climate change study that was suppressed by the EPA because it contradicted the agency’s decision to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant. In the EPA’s own words, the study’s public release had “a very negative impact on our office.”
- CEI’s Freedom of Information Act requests exposed internal Treasury Department documents on cap-and-trade legislation, revealing that the scheme would cost up to $300 billion per year – far more than the postage-stamp-a-day figure that President Obama has touted.
Equally impressively, CEI’s analysts have appeared in an average of 5 media outlets a day throughout 2009!
Don’t take our word for it – read what others have said about CEI this year:
- Fortune: “While many on the right are lying low while the free market implodes, the Competitive Enterprise Institute isn't backing down, fighting on fronts from the bailout to green energy.”
- The Business Insider: CEI’s “Myron Ebell may be enemy #1 to the current climate change community.”
- Steve Forbes: “Over its 25-year history, CEI has played a critical role in preventing the worst of the left's utopian nightmares from becoming reality, and in undoing some of the damage those policies have created.”
In 2010, CEI’s exciting pace will continue. We will soon be taking the EPA to court to challenge the agency’s destructive plans to regulate carbon emissions and ration energy. (You can read our full announcement here: http://cei.org/news-release/2009/12/07/cei-will-file-suit-block-epa-endangerment-finding)
Early next year, some in Congress will try and push through legislation that would greatly expand the role of government in the health care market. CEI will continue to push back against these efforts, and we will make the case that government control of health care hinders the advance of medicine, hurting not only our freedom but also our well-being.
Your support plays a crucial role in sustaining our important efforts in the fight for economic freedom. You can support us easily by visiting www.cei.org/support or by calling Al Canata at CEI at 202-331-1010.
Thank you again for your support, and have a great holiday season!
Best wishes,
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
President
