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Is It ‘Mission Accomplished’ for the EPA?
Does it make any sense to spend ever greater sums of money for ever fewer environmental benefits? That’s the very fair question that’s been asked…
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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations: 2016 Wrap-Up
The 2016 Federal Register’s record-setting page count ends at 97,110 pages—more than 15,000 pages above the previous record, set in 2010. The difference is more…
Real Clear Policy
Don’t Re-Regulate the Railroads
Real Clear Policy discusses policy on the railroad industry with Marc Scribner. Marc Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute neatly summarized the implications…
Forbes
The U.S. Economy In 2017: Welcome Higher Growth
Forbes highlights Wayne Crews’s study on the number of federal regulations passed under the Obama administration. Today, there is less uncertainty in politics.
Legal NewsLine
Public-interest firm calls $5.5 million settlement with Google over privacy settings ‘unacceptable’
Legal NewLine reports on CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s objection to an unfair Google class action settlement. A public-interest law firm that…
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What Paul Ehrlich’s “Eco-Catastrophe!” Tells Us about Climate Change Alarmism
In “Eco-Catastrophe,” the bad guys are “obtuse agriculturists and economists” whose false bill of goods (the green revolution) plunges the globe into anarchy. In real…
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RealClear Radio Hour: The War on Science and the Economy
Check out RealClear Radio Hour’s last episode with free market stalwarts John Tierney and Peter Wallison.
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Trump Administration Will Have Legal Authority to Halt Clean Power Plan
It would not be illegal for President Trump to order the Environmental Protection Agency not to enforce the Clean Power Plan.
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Best of the Blog 2016
Certain topics were especially popular with readers in 2016.
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NRDC Is Wrong: Trump Can Issue Day 1 Executive Order Declaring Clean Power Plan Illegal
The Clean Power Plan in its current form is illegal, and there is no problem with the President issuing an executive order to this effect…
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New Opportunities for a Free Market Veteran
After 23 years Greg Conko, who most recently served as CEI’s Executive Director, has decamped for the other side of the Potomac.
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Libertarianism.org Video Contest Winners
2016 Libertarianism.org Video Contest Winners…
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The 2017 Unconstitutionality Index: 18 Federal Rules for Every Law Congress Passes
Federal agencies in 2016 issued 18 rules and regulations for every law Congress passed.
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Two Recommendations for EPA: 1) Revise, Don’t Repeal; 2) Do Your Job
There is a climate policy that’s even worse than EPA regulations written by Natural Resources Defense Council lobbyists: state torts for injunctive or monetary relief…
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A New Year’s Toast to Whiskey
New Year’s Eve is a world-wide celebration. Across the globe, people will welcome the coming year with their own unique traditions, and the people of…
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Preparing for the Challenges and Opportunities of 2017
At this time of year, it is easy to focus on endings. The end of the general election campaign in November, however, also marked a…
The Wall Street Journal
Obama’s Regulations Aren’t the Only Trump Target
Overregulation didn’t start during the Obama administration. President-Elect Trump and the new Congress need to go further.
Top Class Actions
Google’s $5.5M Settlement Fails to Benefit Class Members, Objector Says
Top Class Actions reports on and objection to an unfair class action settlement from CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s founder, Ted Frank. Class…
Breitbart
Obama Oversees Year of Mass Regulation, Record 97,000 Pages of Red Tape
Breitbart highlights Wayne Crews’s report on the number of regulations passed during the Obama administration. President Barack Obama’s administration has added record levels…
Washington Times
Obama Sets A Record For Red Tape in 2016
The Washington Times discusses regulation under the Obama administration with Clyde Wayne Crews. Clyde Wayne Crews, CEI’s vice president for policy, said Republicans…
The Hill
Trump could be fighting Obama’s climate policies for years
The Hill discusses expected climate policies under the new administration with William Yeatman. William Yeatman, a senior fellow at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Washington Examiner
Obama unleashes 3,853 regs, 18 for every law, record 97,110 pages of red tape
Washington Examiner discusses regulation under the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. The proof that it was an overwhelming year for rules and regulations…
Daily Caller
Agencies Issued 18 Regs For Every Law Congress Passed In 2016
The Daily Caller discusses Wayne Crews’s report comparing the Obama administrations regulations to laws that Congress passed in 2016. Executive branch agencies under…
InsideEPA.com
Climate: CEI official urges Trump to retain scaled-back GHG rules
InsideEPA.com discusses the incoming Trump administration’s stance on climate policy with William Yeatman. A top official with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter on Midnight Litigation
View full document as PDF Dear Vice President-Elect Pence: It has come to our attention that a number of Departments and independent…
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Obama’s National Monument Designation: Second-Term Environmental Policymaking at Its Worst
It is outrageous that President Obama, on the way out the door, would try to irrevocably federalize 1.3 million acres in the state, in spite…
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Worker Freedom Coming in the New Year
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115th Congress Should Halt Government Assault on Freight Rail
Forced reciprocal switching has been a goal for coal, petrochemical, and agriculture shippers for decades, but regulators have generally made it extremely difficult.
Washington Times
Donald Trump and Environmental Regulation
While President Trump will need legislative approval by Congress to accomplish parts of his economic policy agenda, he can also implement several critical initiatives on his sole…
The Hill
Pruitt’s confirmation as EPA chief essential to restoring balance of power
The Hill highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of regulations. Regulatory overreach is not a new threat to the constitutional separation of powers and…
Daily Caller
Activists Urge Trump To Stop Obama’s Anti-Business ‘Midnight Litigation’
The Daily Caller reports on a letter CEI and other organizations sent to Mike Pence. Obama’s agencies are poised to file economy-stunting environmental…
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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
As the Obama administration heads into its home stretch, agencies passed new rules ranging from gloves to canned vegetables.
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Can Any Branch of Government Oversee the EPA?
Federal regulatory agencies have escaped effective oversight from the Congress and the courts.
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The ‘Fake News’ Problem: Health and Safety Edition
The moniker “fake news” may have entered the mainstream lexicon in 2016, but phony and misleading news stories have always been a problem—and it’s a…
Daily Signal
The California Gathering That Hatched Plan to Prosecute Skeptics of Climate Change
The Daily Signal reports on CEI’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against George Mason University. Chris Horner, a lawyer and senior fellow with the…
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Obama Couldn’t Win a Third Term, Because He Would Have To Own His Global Warming Policy
I strongly doubt that President Obama would win a third term, as he claimed yesterday.
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EPA’s Clean Power Plan Lies Undermine Congressional Oversight
Congress’s primary means of investigation are hearings and follow up questions, but these mechanisms are rendered meaningless when the agency lies.
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Five New Year’s Resolutions for a New Administration
Now is the perfect time for members of the incoming Trump administration to reflect on where America is and set policy goals for the coming…
The Hill
New President, New (Anti-)Red Tape Agenda
Federal regulators issue thousands of regulations every year. Decrees range from the Environmental Protection Agency’s gargantuan Clean Power Plan and “Waters of the United States”…
JD Journal
Boston Globe Exposes Cost Inflating Class-Action Attorneys
JD Journal investigates Boston Globe’s exposer of class- action attorneys While critics of inflated billing exist, they still acknowledge that attorneys who take…
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RealClear Radio Hour: Executive Actions and Blockchain Technology
In this episode, Andrew Grossman proposes executive actions Trump can take to undo problematic portions of Obama’s pen and phone legacy and Donatien Adou discusses…
Forbes
Obama White House Releases Final Cost Of Regulation Report
The day before Christmas Eve, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the 2016 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits…
News Release
GM’s Deceptive Advertising: Company First Claimed It Repaid Bailout Money, Now Admits It Didn’t
Washington, D.C., September 20, 2010 – Contrary to claims by General Motors earlier this year, the company has now admitted that it did not repay its…
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The Libertarian Holiday Gift Guide
Cheers to the brilliant production team at Reason TV, who have provided some welcome comedy this holiday season with their new video, “The Libertarian Holiday…
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Property Rights Are the Key to Protecting Land
We often hear that only government can protect the environment through outright land ownership or heavy regulatory control of private land.
Bloomberg
Make Banks Great Again? G.O.P. Push to Ax Key Agency Poses Risks
Bloomberg discusses the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Iain Murray. “There are all sorts of risks,” said Iain Murray, vice…
Forbes
Coal In The Stocking – Obama Regulatory Rulebook Breaks Record By 13,000 Pages
When I was a kid, Dad always told my sister and me that if Santa Claus caught us awake on Christmas Eve, he’d put pepper…
Bloomberg BNA
Energy, Environmental Wish List Compiled for Trump
Bloomberg BNA highlights CEI’s energy and environment agenda for the Trump administration. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market group based in Washington, D.C.,…
National Review
The D.C. Court of Appeals Undermines the First Amendment
National Review covers the D.C Court of Appeals decision in Michael Mann’s defamation case against the Competitive Enterprise Institute and National Review. The court…
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The Future of Free Trade under a Trump Administration
My colleague Iain Murray has an excellent analysis today in Brexit Central of how a future international trade deal between the United States and a…