Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Urging Georgia Senate to Reject H.B. 225
View Full Document as PDF Dear Georgia Senator, On behalf of the millions of members of the undersigned organizations, including thousands of…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Urging the Hawaii Legislature to Reject S.B. 620’s Unconstitutional Tax Grab
View Full Document as PDF Dear Hawaii Legislator, On behalf of the undersigned organizations, including Hawaii residents and taxpayers, we write in…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Urging Kansas Legislature to Reject H.B. 2400’s Unconstitutional Tax Grab
Study
A Case for Property Rights in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
View Full Document as PDF The air that surrounds us may appear empty, but it is full of information that travels across…
Blog
Increasing Worker Satisfaction Shouldn’t Be an Unfair Labor Practice
Companies should be permitted to establish a system so they can receive feedback from employees and remedy worker dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, national labor law generally prohibits…
Blog
For Virgin Islands Climate Subpoena, A Not-So-Happy Birthday
One year ago, on April 7, 2016, CEI received a memorable, hand-delivered envelope from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker.
Bloomberg BNA
Senate Prospects for Class Action Bill Still Murky
Bloomberg BNA discusses the future of the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2017 with CEI’s Center for Class…
Boston Globe
Lawyer in Dunkin’ butter case: $90,000 payout ‘not actually profitable’
“In general, this is a systemic issue with class actions, where lawyers structure settlements to benefit themselves rather than the class,” said Ted Frank…
Blog
White House Reiterates Support for Air Traffic Control Reform
It’s time for members of Congress to set aside their petty differences and get to work on something truly transformative.
Blog
National Security Is No Argument against Regulatory Reform
On the Lawfare blog, Professor Ganesh Sitaraman of Vanderbilt Law School and the Center for American Progress offers an argument about regulatory reform that…
Blog
CEI Praises Trump Signature of Broadband Privacy Rule Repeal
President Trump signed a Congressional Review Act resolution yesterday repealing the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband privacy rule. The FCC’s privacy rule, adopted by the agency…
National Review
‘The Greatest Deregulatory Endeavor’
National Review highlights Iain Murray’s study on the United Kingdom’s split from the European Union. Iain Murray, co-author of “Cutting the Gordian Knot”…
News Release
CEI Petitions EPA on Endangerment Finding
On February 17, 2017, CEI petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin a reevaluation of its 2009 “Endangerment Finding.” This finding is EPA’s formal ruling…
News Release
Delaying the Fiduciary Rule will be a Big Reprieve for Savers
The Trump Labor Department on April 5 sent the Office of Management and Budget its final rule requesting a 60-day delay for the Obama fiduciary…
News Release
Court Injunction on Unionization for Rideshare Companies Wins Praise From CEI Labor Expert
Today, a federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary injunction against a Seattle law on unionization for rideshare companies. CEI labor policy expert Trey Kovacs praised…
Forbes
Happy 5th Birthday, JOBS Act! — Celebrate By Expanding Deregulation
After the recent failure of the Republican-sponsored “repeal and replace” health care bill, it’s hard to imagine members of this Congress coming to consensus even…
The Hill
Judge rail industry by performance, not processes
The Hill speaks with Marc Scribner on performance-based regulation as an alternative to inflexible standards for freight rail. As one example, the agency…
Blog
Congress Should Reject CFPB Prepaid Card Rule
One reason why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has engendered such controversy is because it was set up on a false premise. As I…
Blog
Time to End Official Time
The Official Time Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 1364) would prohibit federal employees from conducting political activity on union official time. Union official time…
Blog
SEIU Spending Big on Fight for $15
Why has the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) spent at least $19 million last year and $90 million since 2012 financing the Fight for…
Blog
Non-Profits and Litigation: When Ideas Get Judged
If you support nonprofit policy groups, you understand that ideas matter. They matter in education, in public discourse, and in the halls of government. But…
Blog
This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
There were 63 final regulations and 28 proposed regulations last week, but again, few of them amounted to much. We’ll have more to say on…
News Release
CEI Objects to Quorn Foods Settlement that Benefits Attorneys, Not Class
News Release
CEI Gets $405,000 Win for Class in Citigroup Case
In a victory for class action fairness, Citigroup Inc. shareholders will now receive an additional $405,000 in settlement funds thanks to an objection by the…
American Legislative Exchange Council
Gaming – It’s a Matter of State Sovereignty
During the last Super Bowl, as many as half of the 113 million viewers made some kind of a wager on the outcome…
Blog
FTC Launches Economic Liberty Task Force to Fight Overregulation
Federal agencies have a well-deserved reputation for issuing regulations, publishing guidance documents, and bringing enforcement actions against American businesses. But when the stars align, agencies…
Blog
The Great Greenhouse Rollback Begins
On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump signed his Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth. The E.O. directs agencies to suspend, revise,…
InsideSources
Counterpoint: Abolishing the CFPB Will be Good for Consumers – and the Constitution
Editor’s Note: For an alternative viewpoint, please see: Counterpoint: Abolishing the CFPB Will be Good for Consumers – and the Constitution Access to capital…
One News Now
Just when you think you’ve heard the last …
One News Now speaks with William Yeatman on President Trump’s Executive Order withdrawing much of Obama’s climate policies. “I strongly doubt that the…
Politico
Prospect of Paris withdrawal splits coal industry
Politico’s Morning Energy discusses CEI’s petition arguing the EPA should revoke its 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding. COLLISION COURSE: A petition, filed last…
The Hill
Conservatives fear EPA chief going soft on climate science
The Hill reports on CEI’s petition asking the EPA to review their greenhouse gas endangerment finding. In addition, the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Newsmax
We Can’t Afford Cordray’s, CFPB’s Opulence
Even before its namesake ran for president, Trump Tower was seen as a symbol of the ultimate in opulence. Since the election, some have quipped…
Litigation
Arkansas Teacher Retirement System v. State Street
In November 2016, a Boston Globe’s Spotlight team reporter contacted Theodore H. Frank, director of CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) concerning double-billing the…
Litigation
Birbrower v. Quorn Foods, Inc.
The CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) represents an objector to a settlement over allegedly mislabeled food that proposes to pay class counsel over…
Blog
Seattle Forced Union Dues Scheme Faces Legal Challenge
In 2015, the City of Seattle enacted a misguided ordinance that allows Uber and Lyft drivers, who operate as independent contractors, the privilege to collectively…
Blog
Lessons from a Humble Pencil about Economics and the World
On National Pencil Day, we salute this marvel of capitalism and Leonard Read’s classic story about an everyday object.
Daily Signal
First Amendment Rights Still in Peril Following Climate Change Probes
The Daily Signal discusses with Sam Kazman what has happened in one year since a coalition of Attorneys General tried to silence those who disagreed…
InsideSources
Striking a Balance Between Small Businesses and Regulations
InsideSources highlights a CEI’s coalition letter to the Senate. President Donald Trump has promised to help businesses struggling with burdensome regulations. He has…
Politico
The hidden impact of Trump’s energy executive order
Politico speaks with William Yeatman on the impact of President Trump’s Executive Order withdrawing much of President Obama’s climate policies. Both liberal and…
InsideSources
Letter Pushes Restrictions on Taxpayer-Funded Union Work
InsideSources reports on CEI’s coalition letter urging Congress to limit the practice of union official time. The practice of letting federal officials conduct…
Watchdog.org
First Amendment rights still in peril following climate-change probes
Watchdog.org speaks with Sam Kazman on what has happened in one year since a coalition of Attornerys General attacked the free speech of groups that…
American Legislative Exchange Council
End the Madness by Letting States Legalize Sports Betting
With the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Men’s Basketball Championship in full swing, sports fans around the nation eagerly follow the action not just to…
Letters
Letter to Speaker Ryan and Leader Pelosi on the Official Time Reform Act
Letters
Letter to the Senate Urging Nomination of Acosta for Secretary of the Department of Labor
Blog
Top Three Silliest Reactions to Trump’s Climate Executive Order
#3 Silliest Reaction: Red Scare! According to Nathan Richardson at Resources for the Future, the big problem with Trump’s Executive Order is what it signals…
Blog
Raiders’ Vegas Move Signals NFL Warming to Legal Sports Gambling
Next to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), there has been no greater opponent to legalizing sports gambling in the U.S. than the National Football…
Blog
Columnist Misrepresents Civil Service Reforms
In a recent column, The Washington Post’s Joe Davidson presents a gravely distorted view of Republican civil service reform efforts, which seek to save…
Blog
Transportation Safety Best Ensured by Performance Goals, Not Micromanaging
Transportation safety is a top priority in America, whether it’s passenger travel by air, rail, or vehicle or moving commercial freight where it needs to…
News Release
Report: Transportation Safety Gains Held Back By Red Tape
Transportation safety is a top priority, but future safety gains are held back by government red tape that stifles innovation and improvement, according to a…
News Release
One Year Later AGs United for Clean Power has Fallen Apart
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman commented on the one year anniversary of “AGs United for Clean Power,” a coalition of Attorneys General lead by New…
Fortune
Privacy Advocates Pour Hate on Vote To Repeal Internet Privacy Protections
Fortune discusses the Federal Communication Commission’s broadband privacy rules with Ryan Radia. For the pro-business think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute, however, the…
Bloomberg BNA
Pruitt’s Not Talking ‘Public Health’: Is It Dangerous or Rhetoric?
Bloomberg BNA discusses tracking the number of times EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has said “public health” with William Yeatman. Will Yeatman, senior fellow…
Bloomberg BNA
Is Pruitt’s 2014 Plan a Blueprint for Carbon Rule Replacement?
Bloomberg BNA discusses EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s plan on carbon dioxide reductions with Marlo Lewis. A plan that Scott Pruitt floated when he…
Daily Caller
Report: Google Forced To Put Mirrors On Self-Driving Cars
The Daily Caller speaks with Marc Scribner on regulators improving transportation safety with safety performance goals rather than stifling red tape. Self-driving autos…
Newsmax
‘It’s About Bloody Time’ Someone Cuts Excessive Government Regulation
Newsmax highlights the cost of regulation from Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandments report. The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates that the total cost of…
The Hill
Obama FCC’s ‘privacy’ rules were a sham
The Hill highlights CEI’s calculation of the Federal Communication Commission’s 2015 regulatory costs. The FCC is no poster child for efficiency for that…
Washington Examiner
Clean Power Plan’s cancellation is a turning point in the battle for free markets
Washington Examiner discusses President Trump’s Executive Order withdrawing much of President Obama’s climate change policy with Myron Ebell. For starters, Trump’s order revokes…
BBC
How will scrapping of US internet privacy rules affect me?
BBC discusses the Federal Communication Commission’s broadband privacy rule with Ryan Radia. The original FCC rule sought to protect customer proprietary information including,…
Voice of America
Trump Environment Order Scorned by Climate Activists and Skeptics
Voice of America discusses President Trump’s Executive Order withdrawing much of President Obama’s climate policy with Myron Ebell. On the other side of…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Urging North Carolina Legislature to Reject S.B. 81’s Unconstitutional Tax Grab
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Urging Minnesota Legislature to Reject S.F. 1164’s Unconstitutional Tax Grab
Blog
United Kingdom Invokes Article 50 to Leave the European Union
In a historic moment, British Prime Minister Theresa May today invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, which formally starts the process…
Blog
Regulations – How Much Do They Cost You?
From the labels on our food to the shoes on our feet, regulations are a part of our everyday lives. And there…
Blog
Two Potential Outcomes for the Office of American Innovation
Yesterday the White House announced the launch of an Office of American Innovation. This is the latest of several moving and overlapping parts to President Trump’s…
News Release
CEI Praises Trump Executive Order on Climate and Energy Policy
“Today’s Executive Order is a positive step toward scrapping President Obama’s climate regime, but there is still work to be done," said CEI's Center for…
News Release
CEI Applauds House CRA to Reverse Broadband Privacy Rule
The Competitive Enterprise Institute applauds the House of Representatives for passing a CRA resolution of disapproval to repeal the FCC’s privacy rule today. The CRA…
Politico
Trump signs order to end ‘crushing attack’ of Obama climate legacy
Politico discusses with Myron Ebell President Trump’s executive order to reverse some of the Obama administration’s climate change policies. But Trump has not ordered…
Politico
Pruitt takes fire from conservatives in climate showdown
Politico speaks with Myron Ebell on President Trump’s executive order to reverse much of the Obama administration’s climate change policies. Trump administration officials…
Daily Caller
Industry ‘Eagerly Anticipating’ Trump Order Trashing Obama’s Green Legacy
The Daily Caller discusses with Myron Ebell President Trump’s Executive Order reversing much of the Obama administration’s climate change policies. “President Trump’s Executive…
Washington Free Beacon
Taxpayers Paid $162.5 Million for Union Work
The Washington Free Beacon discusses the practice of official time with Trey Kovacs. Trey Kovacs, a labor policy expert at the pro-free-market Competitive…
Investor's Business Daily
Trump To Cancel Obama Policies Aimed At Paris Climate Pledge
Investor’s Business Daily discusses President Trump’s Executive Order withdrawing from Obama administration climate policies with Myron Ebell. The news was cheered by some…
Blog
Six Reasons FCC Rules Are Not Needed to Protect Privacy
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been long been skeptical of the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) approach to regulating how Internet service providers (ISPs) use subscriber…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Opposing Prescription Importation Scheme
Blog
President Trump Expected to Block Blacklisting Rule
Today, President Trump is expected to approve a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval to repeal what is known as the Blacklisting rule. Upon signing,…
Blog
March 27 Is International Whisk(e)y Day!
Cheers! It’s International Whisk(e)y Day! Not to be confused with World Whisky Day (May 20). What should you do to celebrate? Anything you like! International…
Blog
New Report: Federal Employee Union Subsidy Costs $162 million
Last Friday afternoon, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released its biennial report, “Official Time Usage in the Federal Government—Fiscal Year 2014.” The survey…
Blog
This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
The Trump administration’s 60-day regulatory freeze is now over, but many of this week’s new regulations are simply extensions of previous delays. So despite a…
Study
Toward Performance-Based Transportation Safety Regulation
View Full Document as PDF Businesses and entrepreneurs have long complained about having to comply with unnecessarily rigid regulations that stress adherence…
Blog
Cheers to the Whiskey-preneurs
On International Whisk(e)y Day, we toast this spirit’s storied history and the countless individuals responsible for its global renaissance today.
The Huffington Post
Resisting Executive Excess Means Relearning Lessons from the Past
Defenders of checks and balances should be happy that a circuit split on President Trump’s executive order on immigration means that the Supreme…
The Hill
Skinny Trump budget has fat omission: NLRB cuts
President Trump has released his “skinny budget” giving a blueprint of where the administration would like to see spending and cutbacks at federal agencies.
Law360
Judge Will Allow Class To Object To $75M State Street Fees
A Massachusetts federal judge credits CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness with helping him “evolve” his thinking on a complicated and controversial class action case.
Investor's Business Daily
Earth Hour: Hey, Let’s Live Like We’re In Venezuela
Investor’s Business Daily highlights CEI’s Human Achievement Hour celebration. Meanwhile, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been encouraging the celebration of Human Achievement Hour…
InsideSources
Taxpayers Spend Millions Providing Unions With Free Labor
InsideSources discusses the practice of official time with Trey Kovacs. Supporters argue that official time allows federal unions to properly fulfill their legal…
Bloomberg
Trump Sweeps Away Climate Rules Vowing `New Energy Revolution’
Bloomberg discusses with Myron Ebell President Trump’s Executive Order reversing many Obama administration climate policies. Trump’s order was cheered by some conservatives who…
Newsmax
If Only Solar Energy Was as Plentiful as Tax Dollars
Newsmax discusses government subsidies of energy companies with William Yeatman. Now you may say there is no way of predicting which new companies…
Blog
Let’s Make a Commitment to Human Ingenuity
Tomorrow, between 8:30 and 9:30 PM, environmental activists will show their commitment to Mother Nature by sitting in the dark for so-called “Earth Hour.” But…
Blog
Capitol Hill Staff Meet the Experts on Policy
News Release
CEI Calls Keystone Pipeline Permit a Triumph of Sanity
News Release
Leading public policy and legal organizations join forces with Red Tape Rollback to roll back excessive federal regulations
RedTapeRollback.com, a project of Pacific Legal Foundation, today announced a new partnership with leading national public policy, legal,…
Huffington Post
Don’t Remain in the Dark: Celebrate Human Achievement
The World Wildlife Fund is calling on people around the world to show their “commitment to the planet” by sitting in the dark for…
The Hill
Hopefully FTC gets to do what it does best: Regulate privacy
The Hill highlights CEI and Tech Freedom’s coalition letter on the Federal Communication Commission’s role in regulating broadband privacy. Of course, the new…
News Release
CEI Applauds Senate CRA Move to Reverse Broadband Privacy Rule
Bloomberg BNA
Environment, Energy Rules’ Delay Raises Concerns: Legal Experts
Bloomberg discusses democratic criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the Administrative Procedure Act But Will Yeatman, senior fellow at the free-market Competitive…
Comment
Testimony of John Berlau to House Oversight Committee
Blog
Human Achievement of the Day: The Written Word
Writing is a classic example of what the economist F.A. Hayek called spontaneous order.
Blog
Mr. Acosta Goes to Washington
Mr. Acosta came off as smart, accomplished, and an individual who will enforce the laws on the books, not pursue a political agenda.
Blog
More Anxiety over White House Budget for EPA
Whatever the administration hopes to accomplish with its budget, it must work with Congress.
Comment
CEI Comments to U.S. Department of Labor in Support of Proposed 60-Day Delay in Fiduciary Rule
View Full Document as PDF Dear Sir or Madam, On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I am pleased to provide these…
Blog
Time to Repeal the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
FATCA amounts to a fine levied by the U.S. on any of its citizens who have the temerity to live abroad.