Heartland Institute
New Study Shows Renewable Energy May Always Need Government Support
The Heartland Institute discusses renewable energy sources inability to be competitive in the marketplace with Myron Ebell. Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy…
One News Now
Labor representative reporting rule burdens businesses
One News Now discusses the Department of Labor's "persuader rule" with Ivan Osorio. Critics refer to this latest effort as “the persuader rule” and…
The Patriot Post
Regulations Are the Ties That Bind
The Patriot Post mentions Wayne Crews's annual report on the number of federal regulations. Just how many regulations are we talking about? As of…
Daily Caller
The EPA Stashes BILLIONS In Slush Fund-Like Accounts
The Daily Caller discusses the Enviornmental Protection Agency's spending and "special accounts" with Myron Ebell. “This is the very definition of an out-of-control…
Heartland Institute
Climate Realists Fight AGs’ Fishing Expedition
The Heartland Institute reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change. …
Forbes
The Sharing Economy For Dummies (Or Politicians)
Forbes discusses what policy makers should keep in mind about the sharing economy with Iain Murray. Iain Murray, Competitive Enterprise Institute:…
Blog
Power Plant Rule: EPA Defies Stay to Develop Legally Dubious Incentive Program
The EPA yesterday took another step to advance the Obama administration’s flagship domestic climate policy, the so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP). As Politico…
Blog
Why Is Employee Involvement an Unfair Labor Practice?
U.S. labor law is largely based on the false narrative of an inequality of bargaining power between employees and employers. The theory goes that an…
Litigation
CEI v. DOT
CEI, the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA), and former CEI employee Gordon Cummings today filed a lawsuit in April 2016 challenging a U.S.
Letters
CEI and 30 Free-Market Groups Support Vote to Block Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule
Full Document Available in PDF Members of Congress: We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, represent millions of Americans in defense of free…
Blog
CEI Supports Vote to Block Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule
Today, Congress has the opportunity to block the costly "Fiduciary Rule."…
Blog
CEI Challenges Illegal “Vapes on a Plane” Regulation
Today, CEI, the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA), and CEI employee Gordon Cummings, as a private individual, filed a lawsuit challenging the…
News Release
CEI Supports Legislation to Protect Free Speech, Prevent IRS Abuse
News Release
CEI Sues Over Illegal “Vapes on a Plane” Regulation
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA), and CEI employee Gordon Cummings today will file a lawsuit challenging a recent U.S. Department of Transportation regulation…
New York Times
Monopolies, Like Google, Are Innovators, Which Is Good for Consumers
Last week, the European Commission brought new antitrust charges against Google, alleging the company unfairly favors its own services on smartphones running its Android operating…
Washington Examiner
Environmentalists’ attack on free speech
The Washington Examiner reports on the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change, and their attack on CEI's First Amendment rights. …
WND
How Dems are Criminalizing Dissent
WND reports on the subpoena that CEI receieved from Attorney General Claude Walker and discusses Sam Kazman's response. One of the members of…
Blog
Congress Must Pass Email Privacy Act
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699) sponsored by Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.). The Competitive Enterprise…
Blog
Wind Energy Industry Suffers Fuel Shortage in 2015
Wind energy can’t compete. Instead, it exists only by the grace of favorable politics. On the supply side, the industry enjoys the federal production tax…
Blog
FSOC Misunderstands Leverage, Threatens Risk Management
The Financial Stability Oversight Council recently released its “Update on Review of Asset Management Products and Activities,” in which it questions “how certain asset…
Blog
The Proliferation of Federal Agency Guidance Documents
Recently we looked at some prominent recent examples of federal agency guidance—costly to-dos for the private sector. Today I wanted to say just a…
Cook County Record
Big Green’s out-sized influence over free speech
The Cook County Record reports on Center for Class Action Fairness's objection of the Southwest Airlines class action settlement. After the deal was…
National Review
A Chance to Stop Obamacare for Your IRA
A few weeks ago I warned about the Department of Labor’s “Fiduciary Rule” – Obamacare for your retirement accounts. Now comes a chance…
Investor's Business Daily
How Overregulation Is Killing The Economy
The Investor's Business Daily highlights Wayne Crews's annual Ten Thousand Commandments report on the costs of federal regulation. The Competitive Enterprise Institute publishes…
Daily Caller
John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Family Trusts Invest Heavily In Fossil Fuels
The Daily Caller discusses John Kerry and Terry Heinz-Kerry's trust investments in compainies closely tied to fossil fuel with Myron Ebell. Myron Ebell, director…
Cook County Record
Judge Awards $450k More to Attorneys Already Paid $1.6 Million for Class Action vs Southwest over Flight Drink Vouchers
After beating back an appeal of the settlement agreement that granted them more than $1.6 million in fees, the attorneys who represented a group of…
Blog
The Chilling Effect of Dark Matter
Here at CEI, we know all about the chilling effect of executive power. We also know quite a bit about the extent to which…
Letters
CEI Joins 11 Organizations Supporting Amendment to Cut Wasteful Spending
Blog
Bureaucratic Double Jeopardy: Feds Order University of New Mexico to Restrict “Unwelcome” Speech
Even if you convince one bureaucratic agency to leave you alone, another may come along and harass you. The possibilities are endless in an age…
The Hill
Department of labor overtime rule is a roadblock to a bright career path
Obama labor regulators are touting a plan to boost wages, but unfortunately for people living in the real world, it’s a bill of false goods.
Daily Caller
Coal Company Sues EPA To Stop A Regulation That Will Close More Coal Plants
The Daily Caller discusses the Enviornmental Protection Agency's mercury rule with William Yeatman. “These benefits are so miniscule because they are based on…
Daily Caller
Coal Company Sues EPA To Stop A Regulation That Will Close More Coal Plants
The Daily Caller discusses the Enviornmental Protection Agency's mercury rule with William Yeatman. “These benefits are so miniscule because they are based on…
Comment
CEI and Tech Freedom Comments to the FCC on “Set-Top Box” Regulations
Full Document Available in PDF The FCC claims it is trying to “Unlock the Box” to “empower consumers to choose how they…
Blog
When Bureaus Attack: Recent Examples of Federal Regulation by “Guidance Document”
In the recent paper “Why Congress Must End Regulation by Guidance Document,” I described the rise of federal agency regulatory dark matter and…
Blog
RealClear Radio Hour: State Budget Maven & Climate Show Trials
Blog
A Diverse Collection of Stakeholders Oppose the DOL’s Overtime Rule, Really
The Huffington Post recently ran a piece entitled, “Who Opposes Overtime Pay Increase, Really?” The author, Harlan Green, publisher at PopularEconomics.com, says, “That’s a…
Blog
TSCA “Reform”: Consensus May Again Prove Toxic
According to a story in Bloomberg BNA, a final vote on legislation to reform the nation’s chemical law—the Toxic Substances Control Act—may be imminent. The…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
The number of new final regulations in 2016 passed the 1,000 mark on Friday. Last week’s new rules cover everything from semipostal stamps to vapor…
CQ Magazine
14 Influencers: A Thorn with a Smile
Argus Leader
Online sales tax coming to your inbox
Argus Leader discusses the online sales tax with CEI's Jessica Melugin. In a letter to Congress in 2013, groups such as Americans for…
The Times
Climate change lobby wants to kill free speech
The Times reports on the subpoena CEI recieved from an attorney general as part of the intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change.
Financial Times
Climate change skeptics must be able to speak out
Financial Times discusses the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change. The…
Daily Caller
Opposition Grows To Liberal AGs Targeting Global Warming Skeptics
The Daily Caller mentions Kent Lassman and Sam Kazman's oped in the Washington Post on the subpoena CEI recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker. …
The Hill
Court holds fate of Obama’s climate legacy
The Hill discusses Obama's consideration of Judge Sri Srinivasan to replace Justice Scalia with CEI's William Yeatman. In private practice, he defended ExxonMobil…
The Washington Post
The Environmental Campaign that Punishes Free Speech
With seven state attorneys general and Al Gore sharing a New York City stage, there was no doubt about it: It was showtime for…
Forbes
Celebrating International Mother Earth Day With A Normal Western Civilization Gas Can
It’s the weekend after International Mother Earth Day 2016, and the United States signed the Paris Climate Agreement. To President Barack Obama, the…
The Hill
Palestine is latest GOP offensive in climate change wars
The Hill discusses GOP efforts to dismantle the Paris climate agreement with Myron Ebell. Myron Ebell, who leads the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
Blog
175 Countries Sign Paris Climate Treaty at UN Headquarters on International Mother Earth Day
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition to Oppose Taxpayer Bailouts for Government-Run Insurance Schemes
Full Document Available as PDF Dear Representative, On behalf of the millions of citizens represented by the undersigned groups, we write in…
Blog
Give Job Seekers a Break: Get Government Out of the Licensing Business
Public policy easing union organizing is not an economic cure-all, and really wouldn’t help at all—no matter how many times union-backed politicians say so (see…
Blog
Labor Department’s “Persuader Rule” Gives Unfair Advantage to Unions
The Department of Labor’s “persuader rule,” which is set to go into effect on Monday, April 25, will give unions a new tool to…
Daily Caller
Be The Earth Day You Want To See
With Earth Day upon us, millions of Americans will be looking for a way to observe the event and celebrate the planet’s bounty and resources.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta streetcar ridership takes a plunge in 2016
The Alanta Journal-Constitution quotes Marc Scribner on recent developments with the Atlanta streetcar: But Marc Scribner, who tracks streetcar projects across the country as…
Washington Post
Scientific silencers on the left are trying to shut down climate skepticism
The Washington Post reports on Attorney General Claude Walker's issue of a subpoena for CEI documents, part of the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the…
Heartland Institute
Obama Administration Disregards Congress, Gives $500 Million to U.N. Climate Fund
The Heartland Institute discusses White House reprograming of other funds for the Green Climate Fund with Myron Ebell. “The Obama administration’s action is…
The Atlanta Jornal-Constitution
Atlanta streetcar ridership takes a plunge in 2016
The Atlanta Jornal-Constitution discusses streetcar ridership with Marc Scribner. But Marc Scribner, who tracks streetcar projects across the country as a research fellow…
Daily Signal
Victim of AGs’ Climate Change Inquisition Fights Back
The Daily Signal reports on CEI's response to the subpoena they recieved from the attorney general for the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Competitive Enterprise…
Real Clear Politics
Climate Alarmism Muzzling Independent Science
Real Clear Politics reporst on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the capaign launched by attorneys general to silence the debate on climate change.
Blog
Easing Union Organizing Won’t Fix the Economy
Most progressive policy makers view labor unions as the panacea that would address the problem of stagnate wages and disappearing middle class. A proposal to…
Blog
The Senate Must Confront the President on the Paris Climate Treaty
On Friday April 22, Earth Day, the White House will purport to commit the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement. The Obama administration claims…
Blog
Free Market Road Show: The Sharing Economy
Blog
CEI to AG Walker: Withdraw Un-American, Unlawful Subpoena or Expect a Fight
Yesterday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute responded to U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, who recently sent us a subpoena demanding we turn over…
Daily Caller
Five Climate Lies The Attorneys General Aren’t Investigating
The Daily Caller reports on the attorneys general attack on CEI's free speech to silence the debate on climate change. The attorneys general…
Daily Caller
Wasserman Schultz Slammed For Opposition To E-Cigarettes
The Daily Caller discusses with CEI's Michelle Minton, the Democratic National Commitee chair's criticism of the e-cigarette industry. “The industry exists because smokers…
Bloomberg
As Dodd-Frank Fight Continues, the Resistance Scores Some Victories
Bloomberg discusses the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with CEI's Sam Kazman. That fact, combined with the CFPB’s independence from the congressional appropriations process,…
Blog
The Devil, the Details, and “Consensus” for “TSCA Modernization”
For some reason, there’s always near “consensus” when Congress passes environmental laws that later become controversial (for data, see my study from 2008 on…
Products
First Amendment Fight: CEI’s Climate Change Subpoena
“Attorney General Walker’s subpoena of us is an outrageous violation of our First Amendment rights, and its sole purpose is to shut down debate.” -…
The Hill
Crunch time: Will Congress rescue America from the Paris Agreement?
Time is running out for congressional leaders to rescue America from the Paris Agreement, the capstone of President Obama’s agenda to kill off affordable…
Washington Times
Think tank calls on V.I. prosecutor to pull ‘unlawful’ climate-change subpoena
The Washington Times reports on CEI's response to the subpoena sent by an attorney general as part of the intimidation campaign to silence the climate…
Politico Pro
CEI formally objects to Virgin Islands’ climate change subpoena
Politico Pro reports on CEI's formal objection to the subpoena from Attorney General Claude Walker. A lawyer representing the Competitive Enterprise Institute today…
Detroit News
NLRB rule threatens worker right to privacy
The National Labor Relations Board, charged with conducting private-sector union elections, is now implementing an “ambush election” rule overhauling the union election process. The rule…
The Des Moines Register
AGs’ climate change coalition threatens free speech
The Des Moines Register reports on the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change and an attorney general's issuing of a…
Washington Times
Prosecuting climate change ‘deniers’
Washington Times reports on the subpoena sent to CEI as part of the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change.
Watchdog.org
Attorney to climate-change police: Expect a First Amendment fight
Watchdog.org reports on CEI's response to the subpoena they recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker. In a sternly worded letter, the attorney for…
Missoulian
The outrageous campaign against Exxon Mobil
Missoulian reports on the subpoena that CEI recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker. The attorney general of the Virgin Islands, of all places,…
News Release
CEI Scholar Warns: TSCA Reform Promises Higher Prices, Less Choice
As House and Senate members hammer out the final details of legislation to reform federal chemical regulation, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) warns that…
News Release
CEI Strikes Back At Unlawful Subpoena
Study
TSCA “Reform” Is Likely To Do More Harm Than Good
Full Document Available on PDF According to news reports, congressional aides from both houses of Congress are currently engaged in private meetings…
Blog
The Treaty Not to Be Called a Treaty
The recent Paris Climate Agreement is clearly a treaty, but like the fable of the emperor’s new clothes, few people are willing to incur…
News Release
Report: Washington’s “Regulatory Dark Matter” Devours Economy, Jobs
Regulators are imposing new restrictions on American businesses and economic activity through guidance documents, memoranda and even blog posts, with little oversight from Congress or…
TheBlaze
Governing by Blog Post? Report Finds Obama Administration Creatively Imposing New Federal Rules
TheBlaze reports on Wayne Crews's report on agency's regulation through guidance documents. The Obama administration, already under fire for bypassing Congress, is also finding…
Newsmax
Exxon Mobil Besieged Over Climate Change Agenda
Newsmax reports on the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the climate change debate and the subpoena they sent CEI. The attorney general…
Forbes
Exxon And Climate Change: Are State Prosecutors Overly Expansionist?
Forbes reports on the attorneys generals intimidation collusion with enviornmental activist groups and their subpoena for CEI documents. Last week’s episode of “AGs Know Best”…
Washington Times
Policy group warns of secretive ‘regulatory dark matter’ within the federal government
The Washington Times reports on Wayne Crews's research on the practice of federal agencies regulating through guidance documents and blog posts. The government can regulate the…
The Federalist
Bill Nye Epitomizes The Left’s Authority Complex
The Federalist reports on Bill Nye's support of the attorneys general intimidation campaign which resulted in their subpoena sent to CEI. The attorney…
Daily Caller
Feds Using Blog Posts, Informal Docs To Skirt Regulatory Process
Study
Why Congress Must End Regulation by Guidance Document
Regulators are imposing new restrictions on American businesses and economic activity through guidance documents, memoranda and even blog posts, with little oversight from Congress or…
Blog
Employment Lawsuits for Thee, But Not for Me
The New York Times loves legislation that restricts employment-at-will, and it loves to increase penalties for employers who don’t hire and promote in…
Blog
RealClear Radio Hour: Obamacare & Massachusetts Tax Revolt
Blog
Federal Agency “Guidance Document” Disclosure Gaps Show Congress Is in the Dark on Regulatory Overreach
In “A Quick and Dirty Inventory of Federal Agencies' Significant Guidance Documents,” I provided, well, a quick and dirty table depicting “significant” (usually, not always,…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
As the number of new regulations in 2016 threatens the 1,000 mark, new rules cover everything from rural broadband to flatfish. On to the data:…
Washington Examiner
NY atty. general sought to keep lawyer’s role in climate change push secret
The Washington Examiner reports on emails sent between Attorneys General in charge of the intimidation campaign to silence CEI on climate change. The…
The Hill
Modernizing America’s airports a critical step to modernizing our aviation network
The Hill mentions CEI's support of the passenger facility charge. Support for the PFC continues to grow in Washington. The Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Fox News
Email bombshell: Attorneys General worked with Green groups to punish political opponents
Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and those…
Daily Caller
New York AG Tried To Cover Up Activist Involvement In Exxon Probe
The Daily Caller reports on the emails between attorneys general discovered in the wake of the AG Claude Walker's issue of a subpoena for records from…
Bloomberg BNA
Concerns Raised Over Use of RGGI Funds
Bloomberg BNA mentions CEI's case against New York for imposing energy task through Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative rules. New York is unique because it…
News Release
Emails Reveal AGs Colluding with Green Groups to Investigate Climate Skeptics
News Release
CEI Announces Tom Haynes as New Chairman of the Board of Directors
Washington Times
Democratic AGs, climate change groups colluded on prosecuting dissenters emails show
Washington Times reports on emails uncovered between attorneys genearal and climate change activists, and the subpoena CEI recieved. The effort paid off. At the…
National Review
The Left Is Coming for You Next
The National Review reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the attorneys general intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change. …