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New Study: The Case against Antitrust Law
Antitrust regulation is a complex, multifaceted issue. It brings together insights from law, economics, political science, history, philosophy, and other disciplines. Right now both political…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Regarding EB-5 Visa Program
Comment
CEI Joins Pacific Legal Foundation Comments on EPA/Army Corps 2019 Proposed Regulation Defining “Navigable Waters” under the Clean Water Act
Pacific Legal Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Oregon Cattlemen’s Association, and Washington Cattlemen’s Association are pleased to submit the following comments on the EPA and the…
News Release
CEI Makes the Case against the Use of Antitrust Law
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released a report making the case that government use of antitrust law to break up big companies has a chilling…
Study
The Case against Antitrust Law
Politicians and pundits across the ideological spectrum often call for greater competition in the marketplace. While their favored means vary widely, the view that current…
Eno Transportation Weekly
Airport Investments Discussed in House Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing
Eno Transportation Weekly cited Senior Fellow Marc Scribner’s testimony on infastructure funding. Compromise arose both in the sense of considering a variety of revenue…
AASHTO Journal
House Ways and Means Committee Holds Infrastructure Funding Hearing
AASHTO Journal cited Senior Fellow Marc Scribner’s testimony at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on infrastructure funding. In the future, Marc Scribner, a…
MarketWatch
Key Republican Raises Alarm About Hiking Corporate Taxes to Pay for Infrastructure Overhaul
MarketWatch cited Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on infrastructure spending. “There are very real infrastructure needs in the U.S., but they are not uniform…
Roll Call
5 Ways Congress May Try to Fix the Highway Trust Fund
Roll Call cited Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on mass transit. Marc Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who will testify at Wednesday’s Ways…
Medium
Where Anti-Vaxxers and Anti-Vapers Meet
You might have more in common with anti-vaxxers than you want to believe. You might feel the need to reject the possibility because you would…
SCOTUS Blog
Wednesday Round-Up
SCOTUS Blog cited Senior Fellow Devin Watkins on Kisor v. Wilkie. At the Competitive Enterprise Institute blog, Devin Watkins suggests that after last week’s…
The Lars Larson Show
AUDIO: Michelle Minton Joins the Lars Larson Show
Senior Fellow Michelle Minton discusses vaping and seizures on The Lars Larson Show (1:30:25 mark)…
The Washington Times
Party Time at CEI
CNS News
Facebook Moves on from ‘Move Fast and Break Things,’ Calls for Regulation
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s motto used to be “Move fast and break things.” Now that his company is under increased political scrutiny—and facing calls for…
Bloomberg BNA
Talking Cars Speaking Different Tongues May Make FCC Pick Winner
Bloomberg BNA cited Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on the NCTA’s request to allow unlicensed use of 5.9 GHz airwaves for Wi-Fi calls. Potential…
The Daily Caller
Pelosi’s New Climate Bill Seeks to Make Paris Deal Legally Binding While China Takes a Pass
The Daily Caller cited Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner on Nancy Oelosi’s new climate bill. If the California Democrat wants to legally force…
The Washington Examiner
Mcdonald’s Says It Won’t Lobby on Minimum Wage
The Washington Examiner cited Senior Fellow Ryan Young on McDonald’s and minimum wage. “It’s just trying to get good PR,” Ryan Young, senior…
The Washington Times
D.C. Attorney General Seeks to Kickstart Exxon Climate-Fraud Probe
The Washington Times cited Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner on on District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine and Exxonmobil. Chris Horner, senior fellow…
American Chemistry
IRIS: Bad Science, Real World Consequences
American Chemistry cited CEI’s publication by Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini on the IRIS. In February 2019 the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) provided some important…
Blog
Shed Light on Cryptocurrency ‘Dark Matter’ Regulation at SEC
A few days ago, the Trump administration issued a memorandum strongly discouraging what the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews has called “regulatory dark matter.” The…
Federal News Network
Audio: Automatic Vehicles: Safer Than Humans?
Senior Fellow Marc Scribner joins the Federal News Network to discuss how automated vehicles will reduce the number of injuries and property damage caused by accidents…
Spokesman
Spokane Airport Executive Lobbies Congress for ‘User Fee’ Increase to $8.50 to Finance Improvements
Spokesman cited Senior Fellow Marc Scribner’s participation in a hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Krauter was joined at…
PJ Media
2020 Dems Vote ‘Present’ on Green New Deal
PJ Media cited Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the Green New Deal. “Senate Democrats resort to crazy talk when they call the vote…
DOJ
Deputy Associate Attorney General Stephen Cox Gives Remarks to the Cleveland, Tennessee, Rotary Club
Deputy Associate Attorney General Stephen Cox cited CEI’s publication, 10kc, by Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews. It is hard to fathom how…
Energy Central
DC Attorney General’s Exxon Investigation Raises Questions of Profit Motive, Impartiality
Energy Central cited CEI regarding DC Attorney General Karl Racine. Of likewise concern is how Racine’s office may try to avoid releasing information…
Energy Central
DC Attorney General’s Exxon Investigation Raises Questions of Profit Motive, Impartiality
Energy Central cited CEI regarding DC Attorney General Karl Racine. Of likewise concern is how Racine’s office may try to avoid releasing information…
The New York Times
Trump’s World Bank Nominee Tries to Distance Himself From the President
The New York Times cited Director of the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on David Malpass and the World Bank. Conservatives…
Legal Newsline
SCOTUS Punts on Cy Pres Issue; Millions Would be Paid to Lawyers and Causes of their Choosing, While Class Members Get Nothing
Legal Newsline cited CEI President Kent Lassman on Frank v. Gaos. In Frank v. Gaos, a class action-related case initiated by former Competitive Enterprise…
Blog
Carbon Tax Not a Conservative Policy
Yesterday’s E&E News ran an article titled “Inside conservatives’ disarray on climate.” E&E reporter Mark Matthews was inspired to write the piece by an email…
The Washington Times
Feds’ Climate ‘Propaganda’ Boosts Support for Trump Panel: ‘It’s the Deep State that Says this’
The Washington Times
Feds’ Climate ‘Propaganda’ Boosts Support for Trump Panel: ‘It’s the Deep State that Says this’
The Washington Times cited CEI lead coalition letter to President Trump backing his proposed climate change review panel. Among the signers are right-of-center…
Politico
Conservatives Back White House Climate Panel
Politico cited CEI Director of the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on a recent coalition letter to President Trump regarding a climate change…
The Washington Examiner
Energy Agenda, Stalled
The Washington Examiner cited Director of the Center for Energy and Environment on President Trump’s planned climate change review panel. The administration is…
The Daily Caller
Dozens of Scientists, Orgs Rally Behind Trump’s Planned Climate Change Panel
The Daily Caller cited Director of the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on President Trump’s planned climate change review panel. “If the alarmists…
Blog
FDA Created the Youth Vaping Epidemic, Now It’s Doubling Down
E-cigarettes pose less risk than smoking. The science is clear: while cigarettes kill about half their users, e-cigarettes have perhaps five percent of the risk.
Comment
CEI Comments to FDA on Modifications to Compliance Policy for Certain Deemed Tobacco Products
Dear Dr. Gottlieb: The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) welcomes the opportunity to offer the following comments on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed modifications…
Blog
This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
In a remarkable human achievement, scientists took the first-ever image of a black hole. The effort took eight telescopes on five continents, five petabytes of…
Blog
Restrictions on Debt Collection Impede Access to Credit
In a market economy that is based on private property and the rule of law, the efficient and effective enforcement of contracts is indispensable. Without…
Blog
Administration Takes on Anti-Infrastructure Misuse of Clean Water Act
President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order on April 10th that is intended to limit the misuse of the Clean Water Act of 1972…
Blog
Proposed Climate Science Review Continues to Attract Support and Opposition
The proposal by Dr. William Happer of the White House’s National Security Council staff to create an independent panel of experts to do a critical…
Blog
Support Builds for EPA to Reconsider Endangerment Finding
In the 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court held that Environmental Protection Agency had the power to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant…
Blog
Americans Optimistic about Role of Tech and Platforms
At a time when big tech companies are being attacked over bigness, privacy, elections, and the ordering of their news feeds, the Charles Koch Institute…
News Release
OMB Guidance on Major Rules & Regulatory Dark Matter is a Real Step Toward Stopping Regulatory Abuses
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) yesterday released new guidance re-asserting the requirement that agencies submit major notice-and-comment rules and certain major sub-regulatory guidance…
News Release
CEI Files Closing Brief in Lawsuit Against the FCC over Charter-Time Warner Merger Conditions
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and four individuals – John France, Daniel Frank, Jean-Claude Gruffat, and Charles Haywood – filed their closing brief yesterday in…
Real Clear Policy
Federal Pot Prohibition Nears its End
America has made up its mind on marijuana. Most Americans think it should be legal, and all but two states have decriminalized or legalized the drug in…
News Release
CEI Congratulates David Bernhardt on Confirmation as Secretary of Interior
Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm David Bernhardt as Secretary of the Interior. Bernhardt was confirmed by a vote of 56-41.
News Release
House Bill Seeks to Resurrect Unnecessary, Heavy-Handed Regulation of the Internet
The House of Representatives passed a bill today aimed at reinstating heavy-handed regulation of the Internet put into place under the Obama Administration. The bill…
News Release
SEC Threatens Access to Cryptocurrency and Other Digital Goods
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released a report warning that government regulation of cryptocurrency as a “security” threatens innovation in financial transactions and other consumer…
Study
Cryptocurrency and the SEC’s Limitless Power Grab
Many questions are being asked about cryptocurrency. Is it a major innovation that will improve standards of living in ways we cannot yet imagine? Or…
Blog
On Climate Policy, ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ May Not Be So Tasty
On Wednesday, April 10, the House Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing called Investing in America's Energy Infrastructure: Improving Energy Efficiency and Creating a Diverse…