Legacy Newsletters

• 12/26/2013

- This is just the latest incident in which banks and credit unions that issue credit and debit cards have had to step up to…

• 12/24/2013

- We should call it the “Great Fact,” argues University of Illinois at Chicago economist Deirdre McCloskey. “It” is the Industrial Revolution that, starting in…

• 12/20/2013

- “Volcker Rule Quickly Hits Utah Bank,” reads the headline of an NYT article describing how the Volcker Rule forced Salt Lake City-based Zions Bancorporation…

• 12/19/2013

- Should the federal government outlaw rudeness? Some senior Republican lawmakers seem to think so. - An amicus brief filed to the U.S. Supreme Court,…

• By: CEI Staff
• 12/18/2013

- Last week, CEI Senior Fellow Gregory Conko joined two other biotechnology legal scholars in written comments to the Department of Agriculture urging the department…

• 12/17/2013

- Last Friday, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard Griffin said the Board will put forth guidance concerning its Specialty Healthcare decision, which ruled…

• 11/14/2013

- As is now commonplace, American Airlines needed to relent to conditions imposed on the merger with US Airways to secure Department of Justice approval,…

• 11/12/2013

- President Obama has recently acted as if the millions of cancellations were a surprise to him, but that is not the case. - If…

• 11/08/2013

- Twitter likely went public earlier than expected due to the JOBS Act’s regulatory relief provisions. In the “Form S-1” Twitter filed to launch its…

• 10/29/2013

- Increasingly U.S. candy makers are moving their production to other countries because federal price supports keep domestic sugar prices way above the world market…

• 10/23/2013

- A coalition of health advocates are asking Katy Perry to relinquish her sponsorship of Pepsi because, they insist, its deviously effective marketing of soda…

• 10/22/2013

- Increasingly U.S. candy makers are moving their production to other countries because federal price supports keep domestic sugar prices way above the world market…

• 10/21/2013

- A federal judge heard motions Monday morning on a lawsuit that challenges how the IRS will enforce the Affordable Care Act. - Now that…

• 10/18/2013

- Bipartisan opposition to the Obama administration’s reckless assault on the pending merger of American Airlines and US Airways is growing. - The International Monetary…

• 10/17/2013

- The House Natural Resources Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a joint hearing on Wednesday, “As Difficult As Possible: The…

• 10/16/2013

- Myron Ebell testified before the House Oversight Committee and House Natural Resources Committee on the National Park Service's conduct during the shutdown. - The…

• 10/15/2013

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• 10/09/2013

- There is significant misinformation and confusion about genetically modified foods (or GMOs), which now make up a major part of the American diet. -…

• 10/08/2013

- IPCC now believes that in the 21st Century, Atlantic Ocean circulation collapse is “very unlikely,” ice sheet collapse is “exceptionally unlikely,” and catastrophic release…

• 10/07/2013

- Is global warming the planet’s biggest problem? Not even close. Poverty is by far the leading cause of preventable disease and premature death and…

• 10/04/2013

- The JOBS Act was signed by President Obama in April 2012. Twitter is using JOBS Act provisions for its own intial public offering, as…

• 09/30/2013

- Disappointed in results that show the warming trends of the 1990s seem to have ended, the environmental left has stepped up efforts to whitewash…

• 09/27/2013

• 09/25/2013

- FERC nominee Ron Binz could still be confirmed by the Senate, despite his troubling record. - The Obama Labor Department has just finalized rules…

• 09/24/2013

- The Regulatory Improvement Act of 2013, introduced by Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), would establish an independent Regulatory Improvement Commission, which…

• 09/23/2013

- If the carbon dioxide emissions standard for power plants proposed by the EPA last week is enacted, the United States will have built its…

• 09/20/2013

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• 09/20/2013

- The Obama administrations new energy rules will set limits on greenhouse gas emissions from future power plans and imposes costly technology mandates on coal…

• 09/16/2013

- President Obama's controversial nominee to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Ron Binz, has called natural gas a "dead end" and called for…

• 09/03/2013

  from the Competitive…

• 09/03/2013

- The Obama administration is looking to quell labor leaders complaints over Obamacare by offering them taxpayer money. - A new report takes a closer…

• 08/26/2013

- On Sept. 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Verizon’s challenge of the Federal Communications Commission’s…

• 08/23/2013

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• 08/23/2013

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• 08/22/2013

- Last Tuesday, the Department of Justice and six state attorneys general filed suit to block the planned merger of American Airlines and US Airways.

• 08/20/2013

- Marlo Lewis exposes misleading polling put out by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and the American Lung Association. - Though some have…

• 08/19/2013

- On August 13, the Department of Justice, six states, and the District of Columbia filed suit to block the planned $11 billion merger of…

• 08/16/2013

- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might be using secret and personal email addresses "in bad faith" to flout public records laws, a federal judge…

• 08/13/2013

- People who don’t do their jobs are usually held accountable, right? Not if you work for Miami-Dade County. - A new study says global…

• 08/09/2013

- The fiscal crisis that has hit all levels of the U.S. government represents a failure of political leadership, CEI analysts say. - If you…

• 08/08/2013

- CEI's Christopher Horner is named one of The Hill's 100 people to watch. - Support for reforming the sugar program is growing on both…

• 08/07/2013

- Does calorie labeling on restaurant menus encourage healthier eating? A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health suggests not, concluding that…

• 08/05/2013

- The House voted on an amendment offered by Representative Steve Scalise (R-La.) that would require congressional approval before the executive branch could implement a…

• 08/01/2013

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• 08/01/2013

- The REINS Act would force a Congressional vote before any agency regulation costing $100 million per year becomes binding. - A Dodd-Frank court ruling…

• 07/29/2013

- IRS employees aren’t big fans of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—at least, not as far as it concerns their own healthcare plans. - In…

• 07/25/2013

- Climate activists increasingly invoke "social cost of carbon" estimates to justify the imposition of carbon taxes, fuel economy mandates, Soviet-style production quota for wind…

• 07/23/2013

- CEI has responded to a story by Politico which takes issue with an earlier CEI review of documents produced after CEI filed suit under…

• 07/16/2013

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• 07/16/2013

- CEI filed suit today in federal court to force the EPA to turn over phone bills for the EPA-issued PDA issued to Gina McCarthy,…

• 07/15/2013

- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is resigning to become president of the University of California system. - These days, it seems not a week…

• 07/09/2013

- Last week marked the seventy-eighth anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt signing the National Labor Relations Act into law. - A new ALEC report reveals…

• 07/05/2013

- The Congressional Budget Office released an updated estimate of how the Senate immigration bill (S. 744) will affect flows of illegal immigration. - Supporters…

• 07/03/2013

- We have much to be grateful for in the U.S.A., but we’re a long way from grasping the impacts of government intervention on our…

• 06/26/2013

- President Obama’s climate agenda is being executed without public or congressional support and is being pursued in this way because he knows the peoples’…

• 06/24/2013

- Rand Paul gave the keynote address at the annual Competitive Enterprise Institute dinner last Thursday night in Washington DC. The event's theme was James…

• By: CEI Staff
• 06/19/2013

- The House is expected to vote this week on the five-year farm bill. - Obamacare will soon dramatically affect businesses' size, as many medium-sized…

• 06/13/2013

- Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne wrote in a recent column that if true small-government, libertarian policies are the best way to organize society, then…

• By: CEI Staff
• 06/10/2013

- The individuals and small business owners who are suing the federal government over a major IRS regulation imposed under the Affordable Care Act filed…

• 05/31/2013

- Profits do not equal pollution, but still environmentalists carry on a green jihad for increased state control of businesses. - As part of its…

• 05/24/2013

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• 05/24/2013

- Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., surprised the Senate with their introduction of legislation to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act on…

• 05/20/2013

- The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general will review claims the EPA refuses to waive public records fees for conservative groups while granting the waivers…

• 05/13/2013

- The IRS has acknowledged that it had wrongfully targeted Tea Party groups for heightened scrutiny. - The Heritage Foundation’s new report on the fiscal…

• 05/07/2013

- Senators crossed a dangerous line today when they voted to approve the dubiously named Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 743). - Exaggerated pesticide warnings could…

• 05/01/2013

- Remember the White House’s poster child for welfare dependency, Julia? Meet Julius. - The U.S. government is banning a standard, normal-smelling French cheese based…

• 04/24/2013

- OMB just released the new 2013 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations, and the burdens are increasing. -…

• 04/19/2013

- The EU’s biggest joke of a climate policy—by far—has been the Emissions Trading Scheme, a cap-and-trade. It’s actually failed twice - Since the Gang…

• 04/16/2013

- CEI Immigration Policy Analyst David Bier: " Immigration reform should reflect market realities." - The Ecuadorian President is backed by an international green lobby,…

• 04/09/2013

- The late Margaret Thatcher recognized the great error of socialism. As she put it, the trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out…

• 04/05/2013

- Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully seek to impose fee barriers as a means of denying and, at minimum, delaying groups EPA deems…

• 04/03/2013

- Nanny-state warrior New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is now planning a citywide ban on plastic-foam food packaging, including takeout boxes, cups and trays.

• 04/01/2013

- In this era of sequestration, why is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) awarding millions in grants to an organization under Congressional investigation?…

• 03/27/2013

- CEI's Marlo Lewis calls the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) another proud milestone in the glorious history of centralized economic planning. - When Secretary of…

• 03/25/2013

- Dow Chemical has been calling for restricting exports of liquefied natural gas, arguing such a move would add more value to the economy than…

• 03/18/2013

- Since January, the Environmental Protection Agency has provided about 6,000 emails to the Competitive Enterprise Institute as part of a court-ordered plan to comply…

• 03/12/2013

- Small businesses look to self-insurance as way to avoid Obamacare’s costs and mandates. - A state judge in New York has struck down the…

• 03/07/2013

• 03/07/2013

• 03/07/2013

• 03/07/2013

FEATURE: CEI Responds to State of the Union…

• 03/07/2013

FEATURE: FCC Is Third Most Expensive Federal Agency…

• 03/07/2013

• 03/07/2013

- Herb Alpert has the rare distinction of beginning not only a successful career as a musician but a multinational entertainment corporation at the same…

• 03/01/2013

- This week, Sen. Rand Paul introduced the Senate version of the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act. - The state…

• 02/27/2013

- One of the most persistent beliefs among proponents of alternative energy is that we are in danger of running out of fossil fuels. -…

• 02/25/2013

- Europe, which has been enjoying a recent respite from financial chaos, is about to get a rude awakening: Italian elections. - Having had their…

• 02/21/2013

- CEI sent a coalition letter to Congress yesterday opposing E-Verify. Over 40 public policy groups signed onto the letter, including the ACLU. - It…

• 02/13/2013

- On Tuesday evening, Competitive Enterprise Institute staff live-blogged President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address. - John Berlau: Obama is right to…

• 02/12/2013

- Tonight, Competitive Enterprise Institute staff will host a live blog of President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address. - The United Food…

• 02/11/2013

- In a typical year, Congress will pass between 100 and 200 laws, while regulatory agencies will pass more than 3,500 regulations. - In 2012-2013,…

• 02/05/2013

- Over the years, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have repeatedly issued bogus reports claiming that Americans face…

• 02/01/2013

- Cups made with polystyrene foam are disappearing from the marketplace because a bevy of misinformation about their environmental effects, according to Angela Logomasini. -…

• 01/31/2013

- Did spending cuts cause the economy to contract? John Berlau says the 'regulatory cliff' is more likely to blame. - The Virginia Senate Finance…

• 01/29/2013

- The Office of Management and Budget, in its 2011 Information Collection Budget of the U.S. Government, estimates that 8.783 billion hours is required to…

• 01/25/2013

- Matthew Melchiorre: "Prominent economists, politicians, and pundits throw around the term “austerity” as if policies by that name always take the same form." -…

• 01/23/2013

- Hans Bader discusses rising healthcare costs. - Iain Murray reviews FrackNation. - Chris Horner says the Obama Administration broke its promise of transparency.

• 01/18/2013

- On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied by 7-1 a petition for a full-court re-hearing of its 2-1 decision last summer to…

• 01/15/2013

- At about 4:55 p.m. on Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency finally complied with a court order to deliver the first of four sets of…