Overlawyered
Ted Frank Enters the Monkey Arena
Overlawyered covers Ted Frank’s amicus brief in Naruto v. Slater. As we highlighted earlier this week, while it was no surprise that…
The Hill
Trump Officials Eying Replacement for Key Obama Climate Rule
The Hill discusses the Trump administration’s possible replacement of the Clean Power Plan with Myron Ebell. The Trump administration is planning to pursue a less…
Blog
Renewable Energy Update: Rolling Blackouts Down Under
Australia’s green energy policies are under siege and California has been stymied in its grid power grab.
Blog
House Passes Riders to Block Social Cost of Carbon and EPA Methane Rule
The House of Representatives this week finished voting on amendments to the Interior-EPA appropriations bill.
The Hill
Stop the Loose Talk About Hurricanes and Global Warming
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has been criticized for his remarks to CNN that the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is not the time…
Blog
Civil Rights Experts Issue Report on Unjustified Federal Meddling in Education
The Obama administration attempted to micromanage educational institutions by imposing new rules that never went through the legally-prescribed rulemaking process.
Blog
CEI Offers Recommendations to Improve Senate’s AV START Act
The draft legislation is another welcome early step from the federal government on self-driving vehicles.
Politico
Trump May Replace Obama’s Big Climate Rule — Not Just Repeal It
Politico discusses nex steps for the Trump administration in regards to the Clean Power Plan with Myron Ebell. The Trump administration is opening the…
Blog
Beacon Center Nominated for Templeton Freedom Award
Congrats to the hard-working folks of the Beacon Center of Tennessee for their “Tackle the Hall Tax” advocacy campaign…
HuffPost
Activists Use Faulty Claims to Push Flame Retardant Ban
“Look before you leap” has long been considered sage advice. But environmental activists today called on regulators at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to…
Blog
Ohio Drug Price Initiative Gives Taxpayer Money to Unnecessary Lawyers
Lawyers and allied interest groups have long enriched themselves at taxpayers’ expense. But usually, it has been by bringing lawsuits, not defending them.
Courier-Post
Footlong Appeal Comes Up Short for Evesham Law Firm
Courier-Post covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. A South Jersey law firm has come up short in a dispute over Subway’s Footlong sandwiches.
Blog
Missouri’s $5 Billion State Pension Underfunding Shows Results of Faulty Accounting
Government pension managers should calculate the state contribution using a more realistic rate-of-return estimate.
Blog
Washington Post Profile on CEI Climate Work Misses Half the Story
The Post’s story was weeks in the making, and although it gets some things right, the story continually injects presumptions and bias, resulting in an…
The Washington Times
Congress Cannot Squander a Rare Opportunity for Reform
Rep. Bill Shuster wrote an op-ed in support of the 21st Century AIRR Act. If you believe Congress should focus on cutting taxes…
The Washington Times
Banishing Regulatory ‘Dark Matter’
Turns out there aren’t just too many regulations, but too many different kinds of them to track. Congress has stalled out on passing regulatory reform…
USA Today
Global Warming Alarmists Shouldn’t Exploit Hurricanes
The outcry over global warming crowds out and obscures the real issues with hurricanes that should be considered by elected officials at all levels. The…
Blog
Conservatives & Libertarians to GOP: Time to Evolve on Marijuana Policy
A bill introduced by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) will prevent the Department of Justice from using taxpayer dollars to prosecute medical marijuana…
News Release
CEI Opposes PETA Monkey Business in Selfie Settlement
The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed an amicus brief today in Naruto v. Slater opposing the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)’s motion to vacate the district…
CNN
VIDEO: Myron Ebell Discusses Climate Change and Hurricanes on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
Myron Ebell, Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, joins Bob Inglis to discuss climate alarmism in the wake of Hurricanes…
Legal Brief
Brief of Amicus Curiae of CEI in Naruto v. Slater
View Full Document as PDF UPDATE: On April 23, 2018 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit…
Blog
Clinton’s ‘What Happened’ Latest Evidence that Climate Mitigation Policy Is Political Poison
Climate change policy is opposed by healthy bipartisan majorities.
News Release
Administrative State Needs Defining to Make Way for Reform
Study
What’s the Difference between “Major,” “Significant,” and all those other Federal Rule Categories?
View Full Document as PDF Bureaucracy, rather than interaction with elected representatives, dominates the relationship of the individual to the government. The…
Blog
NHTSA Releases Improved Federal Automated Driving System Guidance
The Department of Transportation is putting its money where its mouth is in preventing overregulation of automated driving systems.
News Release
CEI Responds to NHTSA Self-Driving Car Guidance Updates
Marc Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute responded today to the NHTSA announcement of updated guidance for self-driving cars: “The Department of Transportation’s…
Fox News Channel
VIDEO: Myron Ebell Discusses Hurricane Harvey on Special Report with Bret Baier
Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, discusses the supposed link between climate change and Hurricane Harvey on Fox…
Blog
Media Hype ‘Extreme’ Weather Events
Every week, the mainstream news media have some new weather phenomenon to entertain their viewers.
Transportation Today
Flyers for Fairness Stumps for a Modernized ATC System
Transportation Today discusses the 21st Century AIRR Act with Marc Scribner. The average airline passenger in coach seating is being taken for a ride…
Bloomberg
Trump’s Regulators Ease the Path for Self-Driving Cars
Bloomberg discusses President Trump’s upcoming rules for self-driving cars with Marc Scribner. The Trump administration will alter the course set by the Obama administration on…
American Public Media
VIDEO: Marc Scribner Discusses the 21st Century AIRR Act on Marketplace
Marc Scribner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses the 21st Century AIRR Act with Kimberly Adams on American Public Media’s Marketplace.
Blog
Congress Moves on Financial Reform Bills
Nearly a decade on from the 2007-08 financial crisis, it is clear that the federal regulatory regime is not working.
Blog
Net Neutrality Rules Threaten Internet Free Speech
The supposed good intentions of net neutrality advocates don’t justify the real world harm of those regulations. …
Reason
Too Many Calories in Your Candy? That’s a Lawsuit!
Reason covers food-based class-action suits like the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. Last week, the Chicago Tribune reported that an area man had sued…
Bloomberg BNA
Posner Leaves ‘Enormous Imprint’ on Class Actions
Bloomberg BNA discusses Judge Richard Posner with Ted Frank. Judge Richard Posner’s many class action rulings over the years have been “enormously influential,”…
Federal Times
Report Calls for Drastic Workforce Cuts at Regulatory Agencies
Federal Times covers CEI’s publication Shrinking Government Bureaucracy. The non-profit Competitive Enterprise Institute is all about shrinking government. In a newly released report…
Newsmax
98.5 Percent of Federal Crimes Never Approved by Congress
Newsmax cites 10,000 Commandments by Wayne Crews. There are congressionally approved laws against approximately 4,450 federal crimes. Overall, bureaucrats have approved regulations…
Washington Examiner
Bill Shuster Pushes Back Against Conservative Group’s Opposition to Air Traffic Control Privatization Bill
The Washington Examiner covers the American Conservative Union Foundation’s claim that the 21st Century AIRR Act would not privatize air traffic control. Read Marc Scribner’s…
Washington Times
DeVos to Overhaul ‘Shameful’ Obama-Era Campus Sexual-Assault Regulations
The Washington Times discusses Betsy Devos’ proposed overhaul of the Obama administration’s Title IX guidelines with Hans Bader. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos…
Blog
Germany Expected to Miss Carbon Dioxide Reduction Goals
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has pledged to reduce emissions by 40 percent by 2020.
Blog
House Moves on Interior-EPA Appropriations Bill with Policy Amendments
The House of Representatives this week considered an appropriations bill that combines eight separate spending bills for FY 2018.
Blog
Fuzzy Math behind Xcel’s New ‘Colorado Energy Plan’
The Colorado utility is claiming that unnecessarily retiring cheap power and then replacing it with new expensive power would somehow save ratepayers money.
Blog
Senate Appropriations Committee Disappoints Again on Climate Funding
The Senate Appropriations Committee this week voted 16 to 14 to restore funding for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the UN…
Blog
Study Challenges Warming Link to Syrian Civil War
There is no clear and reliable evidence that anthropogenic climate change was a factor in Syria’s pre-civil war drought…
Blog
American Conservative Union Statement Wrong on Air Traffic Control Reform
Spinning off air traffic control responsibilities into a nongovernmental nonprofit will save taxpayers more than $10 billion per year.
Blog
The Equifax Breach and Regulation
In the Equifax breach, regulation is a likely contributor to the problem. It is probably not a good solution.
Blog
Ten Years of Analysis and Advocacy for Affordable Energy
Here’s to ten more years of expanding production and supplies of affordable energy for all.
News Release
Equifax Data Breach Evidence that Congress Should Deregulate Credit Reporting
Competitive Enterprise Institute Vice President Jim Harper commented on the Equifax data breach. “When Congress passed the Fair Credit Reporting Act forty-five years ago,…
Politico
Member Up
Politico’s Morning Transportation covers a coalition, including CEI, advocating for legislation relating to self-driving cars. Lyft, Third Way, the American Council of the…
Forbes
Appeals Court Tosses One of the Most Absurd Class Action Cases of All Time
Forbes Online covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. The plaintiffs’ bar has perfected a system for extracting money from firms. It works like this:…