Washington Examiner
Groups liken Dems’ climate attacks to the tyranny of King George
Washington Examiner reports on a letter CEI and other free-market groups sent in response to the Senate Democrats' attack on those who disagree with their…
News Release
Partial Ruling in Dodd Frank Case Confirms that Cordray 2012 Appointment was Illegal
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia confirmed that Richard Cordray’s 2012 recess appointment to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Opposing the Senators’ “Web of Denial” Resolution
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Primer on the Separation of Powers Restoration Act
The House today will vote on H.R. 4768, the Separation of Powers Restoration Act (SOPRA). This bill would direct courts to stop giving controlling respect…
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The Climate Change Debate and the Alarmists’ Addiction to Tobacco Analogies
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Opportunities for the Environmental Entrepreneur
I had the honor to chair a panel and speak at the 10th ICREI conference in France on environmental issues last week. This year’s conference…
The Hill
Big Brother? How SOPRA can help restore proper authority
The Internet as we know it may soon become unrecognizable. That’s because the freewheeling “network of networks” soon will be regulated by bureaucrats. The D.C.
Watchdog.org
Conservatives fire back at climate-change senators’ ‘coordinated attack’ on speech
Watchdog.org reports on a letter CEI and other free-market groups sent in response to the Senate Democrats' attack on those who disagree with their stance…
Letters
CEI and 16 Organizations Sign Letter Supporting the Separation of Powers Act
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NLRB Overturns Precedent, Makes Organizing Two Workplaces At Once Easier
In a case involving Browning-Ferris Industries, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision overturned longstanding precedent regarding joint employer status—when two employers in a contractual…
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House Judiciary Subcommittee Assesses OMB Review of Federal Regulations
Last week on July 6, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Sub-Committee Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law conducted a hearing on…
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RealClear Radio Hour: War on Cancer
In this week’s episode of RealClear Radio Hour, we tackle the war on cancer. Disruptive innovators, Stephen Bonner and Paul Davies, confront bureaucracy and big…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
It was a short work week due to the Fourth of July holiday, but agencies still managed to issue new rules covering everything from stormwater…
Forbes
Here’s How Financial And Other Regulators Are Issuing Rules Without Writing Them
At the end of June I testified in a U.S. Senate Homeland Security Regulatory oversight subcommittee hearing on Examining the Use of Agency Regulatory…
Foundation for Economic Education
Fear Not Malevolent AI Robots
I’ve recently become hooked on Michael Solona’s new podcast series, “Anatomy of Next: Utopia,”a fascinating analysis of our most advanced and rapidly developing technologies…
Heartland Institute
Teflon, Other Chemicals Receive Greater EPA Scrutiny
The Heartland Institute discusses the EPA's new health advisory for chemicals with Angela Logomasini. Angela Logomasini, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise…
Washington Examiner
Fed agency OKs unions including temp workers
The Washington Examiner discusses with Trey Kovacs the National Labor Relations Board's decision to force businesses to allow unions to include temporary workers.
The Hill
Overnight Energy: Senate deal clears path for energy bill
The Hill discusses with Kent Lassman a resolution in Congress to shame individuals and organizations that disagree with their stance on climate change. …
News Release
CEI Response to McCarthy-style Tactics by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
News Release
FAA Extension Buys Time for Big Reforms
Daily Caller
Green Attorney Says Virgin Island AG Was In ‘Way Over His Head’ With ExxonMobil Investigation
The Daily Caller dicusses Attorney General Walker's withdrawal of his subpoena against CEI with Kent Lassman and Sam Kazman. Walker also subpoenaed free…
Daily Caller
Weekend Circuit: More Private Email Servers, Fake Diplomats
The Daily Caller discusses the court ruling in CEI's FOIA lawsuit against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The D.C.
Blog
Obama Officials Spin Paris Treaty as Done Deal
Two prominent Obama administration officials tried to spin the Paris climate treaty as a done deal this week. In an interview with ClimateWire ($) on 5th…
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House Science Committee Presses Climate Inquisitors
House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) on 6th July sent follow-up letters to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Massachusetts AG Maura Healey, and eight…
Blog
House Appropriations Bills Try To Block Obama’s Anti-Energy Climate Agenda
The Interior-EPA appropriations bill, which the House of Representatives is scheduled to consider on the floor next week, contains a number of riders that if enacted…
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Southern Company Power Plant Investigation Misses Larger Policy Scandal
The New York Times this week released the results of an investigation of Southern Company’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) power plant in Kemper, Mississippi.
Blog
The Custody Battle for Your Internet Privacy
Google, Facebook, and YouTube; how do these large websites stay free? Internet advertising is part of a huge economy of $27.5 billion that allows the…
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Bringing Transparency to Union Subsidies
Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL) and Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) have co-sponsored legislation this session to ensure reporting of federal employees using “official time,” the practice…
Blog
Dear RegBlog: Special Interests Can Capture Agencies, Too
Regulatory capture occurs when special interests coopt the power of the state in order to advance their narrow interests at the expense of the public…
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The Military and ATC Corporation? No Big Deal
Guest post by Robert Poole Robert Poole is Director of Transportation Policy at Reason Foundation and a member of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) National…
Blog
Another Reporter Revises History of Congressional Climate Policy
Over at BNA Energy and Environment Blog, Dean Scott has an interview with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). At one point, the discussion turned to a…
Blog
Minimum Wage Increases Inequality, Decreases Labor Force Participation
The minimum wage actually increases inequality. It helps some workers, but only at others’ expense.
Christian Science Monitor
Senate passes GMO bill. Will labels ease Americans’ food-related fears?
The Christian Science Monitor discusses a GMO labeling bill passed by the Senate with Greg Conko. Others fear it will raise new, and…
Blog
Testimony on Regulatory Budgeting before the House Budget Committee
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee conducted a hearing on An Introduction to Regulatory Budgeting, and I was invited to testify by Chairman…
Blog
Obama Finally Campaigns on Climate Change (for Someone Else)
A theme that I’ve visited frequently in the past is the illegitimacy of President Obama’s climate agenda. To recap, Obama ran away from climate change…
Blog
Food Safety Experts Critical of GMO Labeling Bill
In an open letter released today, several food safety experts warned of the problems with a new Senate bill that would regulate the labeling of…
Comment
CEI and Tech Freedom Comments to the FCC on Protecting Broadband Customers’ Privacy
Full Document Available in PDF Chutzpah, wrote Leo Rostein in his 1968 classic, The Joys of Yiddish, is “that quality enshrined in a…
Blog
My One Agreement with Sen. Warren: Federal Rulemaking Should Be Transparent
In my two previous posts, I picked apart Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s allegation that notice and comment rulemakings are unfairly tilted in the favor of regulated…
Forbes
Manage Water Like Oil To Increase Supply
Some of the natural resources we use every day are traded freely in the market economy, while others are heavily regulated and controlled by government…
Wall Street Journal
The Climate Police Crack-Up
Free-speech advocates have reason to cheer as two state attorneys general have walked back their subpoenas against Exxon Mobil Corp., tacitly admitting that their climate-change…
Coalition to Save Local Businesses
Feds Threaten the Independence of Small Business Owners
We value our independence in the country, and not just from imperial foreign governments like the British 240 years ago. Americans love independence from the…
Blog
More Wrongheadedness from Sen. Warren on Notice and Comment Rulemakings
Under the Administrative Procedure Act, federal agencies are required to undertake certain procedures when they promulgate rules of general applicability.
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[AUDIO] WMAL Interviews Iain Murray on Brexit
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Sen. Warren’s Baseless Criticism of Notice and Comment Rulemaking
In a recent blog post about “regulatory capture,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed that notice and comment rulemaking is unduly biased towards regulated parties.
Associated Press
Court Rules Against White House Science Office in Email Case
Associated Press reports on CEI's court victory in their FOIA case against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. A federal…
Washington Times
Science Groups Blasted For Crossing Line into Activism with Climate-Change Letter to Congress
The Washington Times discusses with Myron Ebell a letter written to Congress by science associations advocating for climate change policies. Myron Ebell, director…
Bloomberg BNA
Holdren’s Secondary E-Mail Subject to FOIA: Appeals Court
Bloomberg BNA reports on CEI's FOIA lawsuit against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian…
Newsmax
Court Rules Against White House Science Office in Email Case
Newsmax reports on the court's rulin in CEI's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The…
Blog
Court Rejects Government Transparency Loophole Manufactured by Obama Administration
Do federal agencies have the right to shield their records from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) just by transmitting work-related documents via private email?…
Blog
‘Crexit’ Votes Will Help U.S. Entrepreneurs and Investors
In yet another blow against the Brexit chicken littles, not only have the large British companies comprising the FTSE 100 gained back all the losses…
Blog
Another Anti-Union Conservative Swings at Air Traffic Control Reform and Misses
Most free market and libertarian researchers—at least those familiar with what the House’s AIRR Act (H.R. 4441) actually does and doesn’t do—are…
Litigation
Allen v. Similasan Corp.
CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) filed an objection on July 1, 2016, to the proposed settlement in Allen v. Similasan, which proposed to…
Washington Times
Court rules government can’t use private emails to hide from transparency
The Washington Times reports on the court's ruling in CEI's FOIA case against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The case of…
E&E News
White House loses fight over science adviser’s emails
E&E News reports on the court's ruling in CEI's Freedom of Information Act case against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. …
Politico
Congress is back!
Politico's Morning Energy mentions Wayne Crews's report on a federal regulatory budget. The House has all the committee action on the energy front,…
Washington Post
Private email accounts are not exempt from FOIA
The Washington Post reports on CEI's victory in their Freedom of Information Act case against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Crowdfund Insider
The Fix Crowdfunding Act Passes House & Heads to the Senate
Crowdfund Insider discusses bills to expand the JOBS Act with John Berlau. John Berlau, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, described…
Politico
Court: Private-account email can be subject to FOIA
Politico discusses CEI's victory in their FOIA case against the White House Office of Science and Technology with Marlo Lewis. After the free-market-oriented Competitive Enterprise…
The Hill
Court: Officials can’t use private email accounts to evade records laws
The Hill discusses CEI's victory in their FOIA case against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with Marlo Lewis. The…
The Detroit News
Obama’s new overtime rule could sting workers
The Detroit News discusses the impacts of the overtime pay rule with Trey Kovacs. Obama may be touting the raises he hopes his rule…
Law.com
Fees Could Become Bone of Contention in Aftermath of VW Accord
Law.com discusses the settlement in the Volkswagen defeat device case with CEI's Center for Class Action Fairness founder Ted Frank. Volkswagen, by contrast,…
News Release
CEI Court Victory has Implications for Agency Emails
News Release
CEI Expert Comments on Expected House Crowdfunding Vote
News Release
CEI Challenges Settlement in Similasan Corp. Case where Lawyers get Payday and Class gets Nothing
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is asking the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California to reject a settlement in Allen v.
Blog
RealClear Radio Hour: Jobs, Stats, and Monetary Machinations
This week we go behind the scenes: gathering Federal employment numbers, uncovering the relationship between inflation and jobs, and debating the apparent impotence of central…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
Maybe the recently-passed Congressional Review Act deadline we wrote about earlier hasn’t had much effect on midnight regulators.
Blog
Feds Threaten the Independence of Small Business Owners
We value our independence in the country, and not just from imperial foreign governments like the British 240 years ago.
Blog
Five Freedoms We Defend This Fourth
How are you celebrating Independence Day? Whether your plans involve a fireworks display or a barbecue with friends, we hope that this 4th of July…
Blog
Exxon Mobil Is Lobbying for a Carbon Tax
Exxon Mobil has begun pushing actively for a carbon tax on Capitol Hill and with other oil companies, according to a story by Amy Harder and…
Blog
EPA Inserts Central Planning into VW Settlement
EPA on Tuesday announced the final details of its settlement agreement with VW, the automaker that had illegally equipped 11 million diesel cars with software—known…
Blog
Chicago Home-Sharing Rules a Loss for Residents
Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel negotiated an armistice with the sharing economy last week. Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb have promised comply with the new rules, which…
Blog
Congress on the Verge of Lowering Beer Taxes
By today’s standards, the Founding Fathers were outright lushes. Ben Franklin was apocryphally known for his love of beer (although it turns out wine was…
Blog
Senate Gazes at Regulatory Dark Matter
The Senate Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management held a hearing yesterday, Examining the Use of Agency Regulatory Guidance, Part II, featuring testimony from…
Blog
Toward a Regulatory Budget
How much should the U.S. government spend on defense? How much on health care? Or energy, or technology?…
Blog
The Fight for Union Dues Independence
This holiday weekend, we celebrate the birth of our great country. Two hundred and forty years ago, the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence…
Blog
Shake Up in Subpoena Land
This week turned out to be a momentous one in the saga of the climate change subpoenas.
Politico
Virgin Islands AG Bails on CEI Subpoena
Politico's Morning Energy reports on Attorney General Claude Walker's withdrawal of the CEI subpoena. A day after pulling back from a subpoena of…
The Hill
Overnight Energy: Obama toughens rules on fossil fuel royalties
The Hill reports on Attorney General Claude Walker's withdrawal of the CEI subpoena. Walker later told the Competitive Enterprise Institute that he was…
Newsmax
What We Can Learn From Britain’s Exit
Newsmax discusses Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations. Some regulations make sense. Most libertarians could accept the…
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
NLRB Joint Employer Ruling Undermines Small Businesses and IP
The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council quotes Trey Kovacs on labor regulators efforts to expand the joint employer standard. This effort to expand the…
Blog
Will the Sharing Economy Give Us Greater Economic Mobility?
Last night the R Street Institute sponsored a fascinating policy panel here in Washington, D.C., “Boost or Barrier? Upward mobility in the on-demand economy.”…
Blog
Federal Labor Agencies’ Actions Threatens Worker Opportunity
During the course of the Obama administration, federal labor agencies have turned labor and employment policy on its head via a slew of regulations, sub-regulatory…
Blog
Federal Unions’ “Official” Waste of Tax Dollars
While unions representing government employees are still private entities, it is shocking just how much tax dollars they receive for performing union business that does…
Blog
Examining Agency (Over)Use of Regulatory Guidance Documents
Today the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management conducted a hearing on "Examining the Use of Agency…
Blog
Study Finds Non-Greenhouse Role for CO2 in Ice Age Cycles
Ellis and Palmer (2016), a study recently published in Geoscience Frontiers, sheds new light on the role of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in the alternation…
Blog
D.C. Government’s Transgender Guide Pressures Businesses to Violate Free Speech
The District of Columbia is now pressuring businesses to violate free speech in bizarre ways in the name of transgender rights.
Blog
Investors Got into Fiduciary Rule Conversation Months before John Oliver Joined in
“Fiduciary Rule Goes Prime Time,” reads the headline of a recent cover story of the magazine Investment News. The story argues that after political comic…
Politico
Virgin Islands AG withdraws Exxon subpoena
Politico's Morning Energy reports on the Virigin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker's withdrawl of his Exxon subponea and discusses the news with Kent Lassman. …
The American Conservative
An American Brexit?
The American Conservative highlights a report on executive actions by Wayne Crews. Congressional oversight is minimal. There are just too few legislators to…
The New York Times
Costs of Regulations
To the Editor: You criticize our study of federal agencies, “Ten Thousand Commandments,” for analyzing the costs of regulations without adjusting for their alleged benefits…
USA Today
Soda taxes slim wallets, not waistlines
Since Philadelphia’s city council approved a 1.5 cent per ounce tax on soda this month, “public health” advocates, led by former New York City…
Washington Free Beacon
Dem AG Withdraws Subpoena of Libertarian Nonprofit
The Washington Free Beacon reports on Attorney General Claude Walker's withdrawl of the subpoena of CEI. Claude Walker, the attorney general of the…
Washington Examiner
Dem AG withdraws last subpoena in Exxon Mobil climate fight
Washington Examiner reports on Attorney General Claude Walker's withdrawal of the subpoena against CEI. U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker withdrew his…
News Release
Withdrawal of Exxon Subpoena Confirms Unconstitutional Nature of its Attack on CEI
News Release
Virgin Islands Withdraws CEI Subpoena, Bolstering Need for Sanctions Against AG Walker
Blog
Nobel Prize Winners Denounce Greenpeace Opposition to GMOs
For decades, the environmental activist group Greenpeace has been among the most vocal, and oftentimes vicious, opponents of biotechnology and genetically engineered crops.
Blog
Bill Frezza Wins Economic Writing Prize
Bill Frezza, host of RealClear Radio Hour and CEI fellow, was awarded the Foundation for Economic Education’s 2016 Beth Hoffman prize for economic writing for…
Study
‘Release Time’ Forces Taxpayers to Pay for Union Work
Full Document Availible in PDF Taxpayers expect their government to spend their tax dollars only on activities that benefit the public. Yet…
Op-Eds
Britain was always a bad fit for the EU: Think tank
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