Edmond Sun
State leaders decry EPA haze regulations
The EPA has been hurting the coal industry since 2009 with senseless regulations, said William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy & Environment…
Watch Dog
OK’s attorney general wants to clear haze from EPA regional standards fight
Joining Pruitt at Oklahoma City University for an Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Oklahoma forum discussing “EPA Regulations and Your Pocketbook,” were U.S. Rep. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma City,…
Tulsa World
‘EPA Regulations and Your Pocketbook’ forum features agency’s foes
William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, called the EPA "out of control." The…
News OK
PSO plan to phase out coal generation may cost too much, group says
William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said PSO's plan underreported the costs of switching to…
Blog
Court Strikes Down another Obama NLRB appointment
If you cant' get legislation through Congress, then make policy through regulation. Until the courts get in the way. The former has been the Obama administration's…
Blog
CEI Podcast for August 22, 2013: Germany Legalizes Bitcoin
Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray discusses Germany's decision to legalize Bitcoin, a controversial digital currency. With the euro's future up in the air, competing…
Blog
Before Net Neutrality Eats the World (Part 4): FCC Order Creates Political Vulnerability for All Market Participants
(Note: On Septe. 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Verizon’s challenge of the…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Labor unions v Obama DOJ, debit card fees, Windsorgate news, and Germany legalizes Bitcoin
Blog
Fast Food Workers Should Be Wary of Union Tactics
A Big Labor backed coalition is calling for a nationwide strike among fast-food workers on August 29. The walkout is part of a larger campaign,…
Blog
Worker Centers Need Oversight
In response to Rep. John Kline and Phil Roe’s letter to the Department of Labor asking for a determination whether or not “worker centers” should…
Wall Street Journal
Letter to the Editor: Ron Binz Doesn’t Seem to Like Most Power Producers
It should come as no surprise that industry insiders, lobbyists and special-interest groups support Ron Binz, President Obama's choice to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory…
EE News
Jackson hires lawyer as e-mail probes escalate
In a statement today, CEI extended its accusations to current EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has hired a lawyer because she…
Real Clear Markets
Federal Judge Rules Food Stamp Recipients Can Unionize
In a surprise ruling, a three judge panel of the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals issued a unanimous opinion supporting the right of Supplemental Nutrition…
Blog
Germany Legalizes Bitcoin: Competing Currencies Are Here!
While Thailand may have banned Bitcoin, the electronic currency — although some are not so sure — the economic powerhouse of Germany has…
Blog
Detroit’s Pension Fight: Coming to a City Near You?
The bankruptcy of Detroit is an unusual event, but its uniqueness lies mainly in its severity. Municipal governments across the nation are struggling to bring…
Blog
Before Net Neutrality Eats the World (Part 3): The FCC’s Disdain for Markets
(Note: On September 9, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Verizon’s…
Real Clear Markets
United Auto Workers fairy tales
Once upon a time, in Chattanooga a young girl made her way to work, picking flowers to add to her basket of posies which she…
News Release
CEI Experts: Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Has Hired a Lawyer ‘Because She Needs One’
WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug. 21, 2013 – Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has hired an attorney to represent her in a congressional investigation into her use…
Reuters
Diamond, Shareholders Reach Unusual Deal: Class to Receive Stock
Reuters reports on the Diamond Foods class action settlement that is compensating millions of dollars in shares. Reuters asks Ted Frank to share his insights…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Green advocacy polling, net neutrality, and carbon tax campaign faltering
Forbes
My Father: A Eulogy To A Good Man From The Greatest Generation
Blog
Krauthammer on Questioning Climate Science
The left seems to have decided the only way to win at global warming politics at this point is by smearing critics of climate change…
Blog
Before Net Neutrality Eats the World (Part 2): An Alternative Case for Agency Neutrality
(Note: On Sept. 9, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Verizon’s…
Blog
Labor Unions Blast Obama’s American Airlines-US Airways Merger Lawsuit
Last Tuesday, the Department of Justice and six state attorneys general filed suit to block the planned merger of American Airlines and US Airways. I…
Daily Caller
Study: Put regulators on a budget
The idea of a regulatory…
Daily Caller
Today it’s ‘nudge squads,’ tomorrow it’s enforcement
It’s not yet true that the White…
Conservative Way Forward
The Eurocrisis Started in Basel
The popular wisdom about the Euro crisis is that it was all the greedy bankers' fault. Yet, we live in a political world, not a…
Bloomberg
Coal Foe Named to FERC Is Latest Obama Pick Drawing Ire
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission under Binz allowed Xcel to receive a 10.5 percent rate of return on construction costs associated with building natural-gas generators,…
Bloomberg
Is It Time to Fire the House and Senate Intelligence Committees
But instead of being given a voice, opponents of giving the NSA more power through CISPA were ridiculed by the Committee. Chairman Rogers (R-MI)…
Blog
Judge Leon’s Lawless Durbin Amendment Debit Card Decision
Since Judge Richard Leon issued his shocking decision on July 31 that called for even more draconian price controls under Dodd-Frank's Durbin Amendment, some legal commentators…
Newsletter
CEI Today: 3 things about the airline merger lawsuit, the unjust renewable fuel mandate, and regulations of the week
Blog
Labor Department Meddles in California Transit Dispute
California public transit unions seem to have found a new, powerful bargaining tactic: If you don’t get your way in the legislature, threaten your state’s…
Blog
Before Net Neutrality Eats the World, Part 1: Net Neutrality vs. Infrastructure Wealth
On September 9, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Verizon's…
Blog
Tracking the Cultural Exception, Part Five: There Is Another Way
In the final entry to my series, the question I want to address is more difficult to answer: Why haven’t more countries woken up to…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
71 new regulations, from D-Day reenactments to bio-fuel usage.
Detroit News
U.S. needs deregulatory stimulus
Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute recently published the “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.” It is filled…
Saipan Tribune
Weak US foreign policy
“CEI, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is one of a growing group of organizations that monitors and quantifies the 80,000 or so pages of federal regulations…
Blog
3 Things You May Not Know about the US Airways-American Airlines Merger Lawsuit
On Tuesday, August 13, the Department of Justice, six states, and the District of Columbia filed suit to block the planned $11 billion merger…
Blog
Let in More Foreign Doctors to Fix Looming Shortage of Physicians Aggravated by Obamacare
“Bring on the foreign doctors,” writes Slate’s Brian Palmer: If President Obama’s health care reform plan is implemented in its current form, the United…
Blog
ALEC Puts Forth Ideas for State Pension Reform
Public awareness of the scope of the state public pension crisis seems to be growing every day. That's a welcome development, in that it has…
Newsletter
CEI Today: EPA court ruling, energy grid report, and DOJ’s anti-trust suit against airline merger
Blog
CEI Podcast for August 15, 2013: Justice Department Blocks Airline Merger
Fellow in Land-use and Transportation Studies Marc Scribner thinks the charges are overblown, and has ideas of his own for increasing competition.
Saipan Tribune
Sen. David Vitter raising more questions about EPA’s use of personal email accounts
The email between Jackson and the Siemens’ official was obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a group that opposes what it says is overregulation by…
Washington Times
Investigators ask former EPA chief to turn over private emails
While Ms. Jackson was chief of the agency, employees were repeatedly reminded about the rules for private email use, the lawmakers said.
Investor's Business Daily
US Air, AMR Vow To Fight DOJ Lawsuit To Block Merger
"This administration's Department of Justice has a different posture than past DOJs, which had a more conservative approach to antitrust measures," said Marc Scribner, transportation…
GJ Sentinel
Printed Letters
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed 57 clean-energy bills into law. He now directs The Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
News Release
Free-Market Coalition Urges House To Abolish the Renewable Fuel Standard
WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug. 14, 2013 – Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and 10 other free-market organizations called for repeal of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
ABA Journal
Facebook Settlement That Awarded Zilch to Class Members is Challenged in Cert Petition
ABA Journal discusses Center for Class Action's objection to the Facebook privacy settlement because it does not benefit absentee class members or guaruntee that it…
Letters
Free-Market Coalition Urges House To Abolish the Renewable Fuel Standard
The Competitive Enterprise Institute and 10 other free-market organizations called for repeal of the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Blog
President’s Dog Airlifted at Enormous Expense to Taxpayers? Debunking Claims Made Against Budget Cuts
Forbes
Caveat Emptor Banking: Peer-To-Peer Lending Challenges Too-Big-To-Fail Status Quo
Imagine a financial institution that the government cannot deem too big to fail, requires no deposit insurance, can never be subject to a run, needs…
Study
Praying for Growth at the GDP Altar
Blog
CCAF in today’s New York Times
The Adam Liptak article also generously cites my Congressional testimony on cy pres. Earlier: Marek v. Lane; Dry Max Pampers.
Blog
Federal Income-Based Repayment Plan Encourages Skyrocketing Law School Tuition
A recent item in The Washington Post explains "how Georgetown Law gets Uncle Sam to pay its students’ bills," averaging $158,888 over three years,…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Union release time, future of wind energy, and global warming causes uptick in violence?
Las Vegas Review Journal
Government moves to block airline merger, warns of higher fares, fees
But the open-market-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute called the Department of Justice action “deeply misguided.” “On the heels of the successful Delta-Northwest and United-Continental mergers,…
Cleveland
NLRB, Now With All Members Confirmed by Senate, Begins First Week Reviewing Labor Cases
This week marked the first in a decade in which all five National Labor Relations Board members were confirmed by the U.S. Senate. . .
National Review
The Pinnacle of Rent-Seeking
In this post, Hans Bader of CEI explains how Georgetown Law School has figured out how to maximize its haul of federal-financial-aid money. You’ve almost…
Forbes
Caveat Emptor Banking: Peer-To-Peer Lending Challenges Too-Big-To-Fail Status Quo
Imagine a financial institution that the government cannot deem too big to fail, requires no deposit insurance, can never be subject to a run, needs…
News Release
CEI Analysts: Let Airlines Merge, Markets Sort Out Winners, Losers
WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug. 13, 2013 – Despite having allowed two huge mergers involving so-called “legacy carriers” in the last three years, the Department of Justice…
Comment
Balance of Competences Review: Trade and Investment
Full Document Available in PDF Iain Murray is a British citizen who is Vice President at CEI and heads the…
Blog
Florida’s Unwrapped Gift to Taxpayers
People who don’t do their jobs are usually held accountable, right? Not if you work for Miami-Dade County. Robert Akras, a Miami-Dade County property surveyor…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
83 new regulations, from sweet cherries to air.
New York Times
When Lawyers Cut Their Clients Out of the Deal
The New York Times reports on Ted Frank's objection to the Facebook privacy settlement. The leading critic of abusive class-action settlements is Ted…
Blog
Some updates
The Ninth Circuit rejected en banc review of our victory in HP Inkjet. Here, for the record, is our successful opposition to the…
Blog
Not With Banks, Not With Retailers, But With Freedom
In explaining my policy positions, I often find myself pointing out I am neither pro-business nor pro-bank, but pro-market. My Competitive Enterprise Institute colleagues and I…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Gov’t surveillance in immigration bill, pesticides and honeybees, and municipal gov’t crisis
Letters
Coalition for Sugar Reform’s “Sweet Facts”
Full Document Available in PDF Leading Free Market Advocates Say “Zero—for—Zero” Makes ZERO Sense • CATO Institute: “… [T]he sugar lobby, and…
Blog
Sixth Circuit victory: In re Dry Max Pampers Litigation
A great opinion protecting class members against predatory attorneys. Congratulations to CCAF attorney Adam Schulman (Georgetown Law ’10), who won his first appellate oral…
Blog
Perspectives on Honeybees and Pesticides
If you believe the headlines, honeybees may soon be endangered, pesticides are to blame, and regulations offer an easy solution. Yet headlines belie the truth…
Blog
CEI Podcast for August 8, 2013: CEI Appeals Dismissal of Dodd-Frank Lawsuit
CEI general counsel Sam Kazman discusses plans to appeal the case.
Blog
Senate Immigration Bill Authorizes E-Verify as Surveillance Tracking
The Senate immigration bill (S. 744) is immense, so most Americans (and, more importantly, journalists) can be forgiven for missing the part that authorizes…
Newsletter
CEI Today: 100 people to watch, gov’t stonewalling, Big Sugar, and pesticide politics
Blog
Not Going Gently: Rogue NLRB Lands One More Blow
For the first time in a decade, the National Labor Relations Board is composed of five legitimately appointed members. However, one of the last decisions…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Keystone pipeline, BPA & infertility, and menu labeling that doesn’t work
Blog
Europe’s Continued Stagnation Is Not Surprising, Given Lack of Reform
The Guardian reports that Italy’s record-long economic slump has continued for another quarter. This isn’t much of a surprise given Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s…
News Release
Unhappy Anniversary: A Year of Treasury Department Stonewalling
WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug. 7, 2013 – Today marks one year since the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed two Freedom of Information Act requests for documents…
National Journal
Keystone XL: Not Enough Attention to Core Issues
In the protracted conflict over the Keystone XL Pipeline, too much attention is paid to peripheral issues and not enough to the core issues. Peripheral…
National Journal
Uber Wars
Instead of playing favorites with existing cab services that are resistant to change, city officials should encourage competition, Matt Patterson, a labor-policy analyst with the…
National Journal
Is ‘zero for zero’ a sugar industry ploy?
The U.S. sugar lobby is promoting a supposedly free market idea: to get rid of the U.S. sugar support program if Brazilian producers give up…
ABA Journal
Diaper deal that gave $2.73M to lawyers, one-box refund to customers is nixed by 6th Circuit
ABA Journal details the class action settlement against Proctor & Gamble, which the Center for Class Action Fairness objected to, and was later overturned. A…
ABA Journal
New study proves menu labeling doesn’t work as promised
Does calorie labeling on restaurant menus encourage healthier eating? A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health suggests not, concluding that calorie…
Daily Caller
Fight erupts over Obama’s pick for top US utility regulator
“In Colorado, Binz actually participated in the crafting of legislation that mandated fuel switching from coal to gas for 1,000 megawatts of electricity generation, at…
Journal Star
EPA’s regional haze program costs Nebraska electric utilities millions
"Its real goal is to impose another costly regulation on electric utilities and force them…
Washington Examiner
‘War on coal’: 207 coal plants will close in the next decade
William Yeatman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute agrees. "President Obama campaigned on a promise to bankrupt coal, and EPA is now backing up his words,"…
Forbes
We’re In A Cultural War Between The Forces Of Economic Dynamism And Stasis
In a recent column, I noted that our tribal ancestors viewed entrepreneurs with suspicion. In their view, entrepreneurs were too willing to violate…
The Wall Street Journal
Appeals Court Says Legal Fees in Diaper Suit are Ir-rashional
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog discusses the Center for Class Action Fairness' In re Dry Max Papers Litigation case. A U.S. appeals…
Law 360
Lessons From CCAF On Designing Class Action Settlements
Law 360 reports on Center for Class Action Fairness' win in the In re Dry Max Pampers case. The recent decision by the…
Blog
Senate NLRB Deal Backfires on GOP…Again
Just over a week ago, Democrats suckered Republicans into a deal to avert what Senator Harry Reid referred to as the “nuclear option” that would…
Newsletter
CEI Today: House anti-carbon tax vote, EPA takeovers, and the UN treaty on disabilities
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
82 new regulations, dairy import licenses to information sharing.
The Hill
Sen. Durbin’s vendetta against supplements
Cincinnati Business Courier
P&G’s diaper rash settlement flushed by court
The Cincinnati Business Courier describes the In re Dry Max Pampers Litigations case and Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to the Proctor & Gamble…
Cincinnati Business Courier
P&G’s diaper rash settlement flushed by court
The Cincinnati Business Courier discusses with Ted Frank why the Center for Class Action Fairness is challenging a settlement which paid large sums to the…
Grist
Sally Jewell Doesn’t Want Any Climate Deniers At Interior
Such moralizing would be funny were it not for the chilling effect it is bound to have in an agency already mired in group think.
Forbes
Appeals Court Flushes Papers Settlement That Paid Lawyers $2.73 Million, Clients Zero
Forbes discusses Center for Class Action Fairness' case objecting to the Procter & Gamble settlement that benefited the plaintiffs' lawyers far more than the class members they…
Blog
The Misleading Push for the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Last year, the Senate did not ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, with supporters falling just short of the two-thirds…
Legal Brief
District Court grant of motion to dismiss
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by CEI, 11 state attorneys general, and the State National Bank of Big Spring challenging the…
Blog
‘Universal’ Health Care Universally Loathed
Once upon a time labor unions and all their Labor Bosses loved Obamacare. But not anymore. Unions are slowly opening their eyes and accepting the…
Blog
$26.7 million victory for CCAF in Citigroup Securities case
Details at Point of Law.