Comment
Testimony of Michelle Minton on Post-PASPA: An Examination of Sports Betting in America
Chairman Sensenbrenner, Ranking Member Jackson Lee and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to present comments on behalf of my organization, the…
Multichannel News
FCC Approves 5G Rollout-Related Reforms
Multichannel News cited CEI on FCC 5G reforms. “The FCC’s plan to cut red tape is a step in the right direction for…
Foreign Affairs
MIL-OSI USA: The House Passes Walker’s GOOD Act To Help NC Employers And Force Federal Agencies To Make Regulatory Guidance Transparent
Foreign Affairs cited CEI’s Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Clyde Wane Crews on the GOOD Act. The GOOD Act has received praise from Competitive Enterprise…
Blog
A New Front in the Trade War: Overseas Private Investment
Tariffs get most of the press in today’s trade debate, and for good reason. Tariff rates under Trump have roughly doubled in less than two…
News Release
CEI Commends FCC Vote to Streamline 5G Buildout – America’s Next Generation of Wireless Technology
Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to streamline the buildout of 5G infrastructure, America’s next generation of wireless technology. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Jessica Melugin,…
Inside Sources
Meet The Man Behind The Global Warming Lawsuits Racket
Inside Sources cited CEI on Wendy Abrams obtained emails. Getting the movement off the ground though took money. Emails obtained by the Competitive…
Products
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Urging House Passage of Tax Reform 2.0 Legislation
The Honorable Paul Ryan Speaker U.S. House of Representatives H-232, The Capitol Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Kevin Brady Chairman House…
Legal News Line
Report Details How Bloomberg, NYU Influence Environmental Policy At State Level
Legal News Line cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Christopher Horner’s “Law Enforcement for Rent” report. A recent Competitive Enterprise Institute report says special interests, like…
Washington Examiner
Competitive Enterprise Institute Aims To Debunk Kigali Climate Deal
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Ben Lieberman on Kigali Ammendment. The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute launched a counter-strike Tuesday morning against business…
Environment Guru
CEI Report Debunks Myths Advanced By Special Interest Supporters Of Kigali Amendment
Environment Guru cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Ben Lieberman on Kigali Amendment. Special interests supporting the Kigali Amendment, which would ban refrigerants widely-used by…
Washington Examiner
13 State Reps To Meet With Justice Department On Antitrust Action Against Social Media Giants
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s joint letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. A group of technology activists and think tanks recently …
Inside Sources
Pay To Pay Or Pay To Sue: Liberal Donors Planting Environmentalist Attorneys In State AG Offices
Inside Sources cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Christopher Horner on “Law-Enforcement for Rent” report. “It represents private interests commandeering the state’s police powers to…
News Release
Congress Must End Limbo for Federal Aviation Administration Funding, Though Modernization Still Urgently Needed
Congress is running out of time to pass legislation authorizing spending for the Federal Aviation Administration, with a September 30 deadline looming. CEI transportation policy…
Comment
CEI Comments on Revision of the Regulations for Listing Species and Designating Critical Habitat
The Endangered Species Act has proven bad for wildlife because it is bad for people. The Act’s legislative language as passed by Congress is largely…
Comment
CEI Comments on ESA Proposed Revisions of the Regulations for Prohibitions to Threatened Wildlife and Plants
The Endangered Species Act has proven bad for wildlife because it is bad for people. The Act’s legislative language as passed by Congress is largely…
Blog
National Labor Relations Board Responds to Democrats’ Invented Ethics Concerns
On September 17, Sen. Warren sent a letter to the NLRB warning that it must “fully comply with federal ethics regulations during reconsideration” of whether…
News Release
CEI Report Debunks Myths Advanced by Special Interest Supporters of Kigali Amendment
Special interests supporting the Kigali Amendment, which would ban refrigerants widely used by consumers with air conditioning and businesses that rely on air conditioning and…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Requesting Restraint on Social Media Bias Action
We write to express our concern over your plans to convene a meeting of state attorneys general later this month “to discuss a growing concern…
Washington Examiner
Conservatives To Jeff Sessions: Attacking Facebook Will Empower ‘President Elizabeth Warren’
Washington Examiner cited CEI missive letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “Suppose that, after years of President Elizabeth Warren tweeting…
Conservative Tribune
As Bloomberg Eyes 2020 Run, Report Names Him Kingpin In National AG Scandal
Conservative Tribune cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Christopher Horner on “Law Enforcement for Rent” report. Citing “an analysis by the office of…
Study
The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol: Myth vs. Fact
Beginning in the 1970s, concerns that the refrigerants used in most air conditioners and refrigerators were leaking into the air and depleting the Earth’s ozone…
The Washington Free Beacon
Oregon Legislature’s Counsel: Bloomberg-Funded Lawyer In DOJ Not Entirely Legal
The Washington Free Beacon cited Senior Fellow Christopher Horner on “Law Enforcement For Rent” report. A “special assistant attorney general” who has been…
Fox News
Sessions Urged Not To Go After Social Media Companies By Technology Activists
Fox News cited CEI’s Vice President For Strategy and Senior Fellow Iain Murray on social media letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In a …
Inside Sources
“Donor-Based Government”: Foreign Money Tied To Climate Lawsuits
Inside Sources cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Christopher Horner on “Law Enforcement for Rent” report. According to records obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Investor's Business Daily
CFPB: Will This Dodd-Frank Monstrosity Be Eliminated?
Investor’s Business Daily cited CEI’s petition on constitutionality of the CFPB. The Competitive Enterprise Institute along with The State National Bank of Spring,…
Blog
This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
Hurricane Florence, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual assault allegation, and a ten percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods dominated the news. Meanwhile,…
Blog
Tariffs and Opportunity Costs
Today’s unsubtle trade debate largely ignores a subtle, but vitally important concept: opportunity costs. Direct harms from tariffs are easy enough to point out. Steel…
The Washington Examiner
A Decade after the Financial Crisis, the Government Fuels Another Housing Bubble
Ten years ago this month marks the anniversary of one of the most dramatic events of the 2008 financial crisis: the collapse of Lehman Brothers,…
Blog
‘Energy Independence’ Hawks Caricature Trump Auto Rule
Securing America’s Energy Future (SAFE), a pro-regulatory “energy independence” advocacy group, this week released “The Military Cost of Defending Global Oil Supplies.” The report…
Blog
Making a Living with Free Speech
Free speech protections in the United States are pretty far reaching, including protections for commercial free speech and occupational free speech. If you…
AZ Big Media
What Could Scrapping Mineral Withdrawals Mean For Arizona?
AZ Big Media cited Director Myron Ebell on Arizona mining withdrawals. In a release published by the Arizona Mining Association, Myron Ebell, director…
The Daily Caller
Report Shows Foreign Cash Is Financing Much Of The Climate Crusade Against Exxon
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s “Government for Rent” report. Several members of CIEL’s board are spearheading litigation against Exxon. Attorneys Matt Pawa and…
Washington Examiner
Foreign Money Bankrolls Climate Change Lawsuits Against US Oil Companies
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s study “Government for Rent.” Chris Horner, an attorney with the Competitive Enterprise Institute based in…
Blog
‘Traders of the Lost Ark’ in the News
The excellent recent study on trade policy by my colleagues Iain Murray and Ryan Young, “Traders of the Lost Ark: Rediscovering a Moral and…
Blog
Congress Should Stay out of Sports Betting Regulation
For the first time in twenty-five years, Americans can legally wager on the outcome of sporting events outside of Nevada. Thanks to a Supreme…
Blog
Free-Market Groups Urge Congress to Eliminate, Not Expand, Electric Vehicle Tax Credits
In a joint letter released this week, thirty free market groups urged House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) to oppose “any effort to expand…
Law360
7th Circ. Has Chance To Cut Off ‘Mootness Fee’ Merger Cases
Law360 cited director of litigation for CCAF Ted Frank on the Akron merger. In what’s believed to be the first time a federal…
Blog
Trade Goings-On: U.S.-UK Draft Agreement, New Book, and Peter Navarro’s Conversion
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is not the only group making a principled case for free trade. The UK-based Initiative for Free Trade, headed…
Energy In Depth: Climate & Environment
Green Billionaire Privately Lobbied Illinois AG To Join Climate Litigation Campaign, Emails Show
Energy In Depth cited CEI’s “Government for Rent” report. Emails between Abrams and the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan dating back…
Blog
5 Steps to Buy Influence in a Governor’s Office
Last week, the Competitive Entrerprise Institute released a major new study by Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner, “Government for Rent: How Special Interests Finance Governors to…
The Daily Caller
Free Market Group: Stop Giving Handouts To Rich Tesla Drivers
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Tesla coalition letter to Congress. “We, the undersigned organizations, write to strongly object to any effort to expand…
The Daily Caller
Docs Show Green Billionaire Privately Lobbied Illinois AG To Join Anti-Exxon Crusade
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s “Government for Rent” report. Billionaire activist Wendy Abrams attempted to lobby Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to join…
Blog
Common Myths and Facts about Trade
There are a lot of confusions on both sides of the trade debate. A short CEI WebMemo, published today, seeks to clear up three…
Study
Common Myths and Facts about Trade
International trade, usually a low-key issue, has sparked a heated debate under the current administration. As with any hot issue, several common misperceptions afflict the…
Blog
New Federal Labor Directive Holds Unions Accountable to Workers
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel’s office issued a directive that provides clarification for when field offices should pursue charges “against unions…
Blog
Health and Human Services Secretary Should Halt Grants to UN Cancer Agency
Yesterday, Congress passed an appropriations bill that kept funding intact for the United Nations body known as the International Agency for Research on Cancer…
Forbes
The Rules for Rulemaking: a Cheat-Sheet Glossary of the Administrative State
The following chronological overview of America's regulatory oversight regime emerged from noticing the many categories of rules and regulations in play in the insiders' game…
National Review
A New Kind of Trade Agreement
America’s old trade alliances are breaking down. NAFTA is being renegotiated, and might even exclude Canada. The successful Korea–U.S. deal has also been redone. We…
The Federalist
7 Attorney General Offices are Running Private Investigations for a Billionaire
This is the second scheme we have found of donors and elected officials using nonprofits as ‘cutouts’ to provide staff, consultant, PR and legal support…
News Release
Report: Congress Should Stop Funding International Junk Science Agency
American taxpayers fund an international agency that puts out junk science, scaring consumers and leading to costly jury decisions and unnecessary product bans, a new…