Bloomberg BNA
FLSA Litigation’s Greatest Hits: Taking Care of Business, and Working Overtime
Bloomberg BNA discusses the issues with the Department of Labor's overtime rules with Trey Kovacs. Trey Kovacs, a labor policy expert at the Competitive…
Blog
Save the Date – 2016 Annual Dinner and Reception
Forbes
Possibly The Worst Class Action Settlement Ever Approved
Forbes praises Center for Class Action Fairness and highlights portions of their appellate brief. Objectors have appealed Judge Vratil’s decision. Among them is my friend…
The Hill
Tech group sues feds over drone registrations
The Hill reports on CEI's response to the FAA's drone registration rules. Critics have been threatening to sue the FAA over the registration…
Daily Caller
Critics Fear The EPA Is Trying To Circumvent Major Supreme Court Ruling
The Daily Caller discusses with Marlo Lewis EPA administrators' reactions to the Supreme Court's stay on the Clean Power Plan. McCarthy’s remarks signal the EPA…
Blog
Regulatory Threats to Flexible Employment & Worker Freedom: What Can Congress Do?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute hosted a panel of experts last week to discuss the regulatory threats to flexible employment and worker freedom. The panel also…
Blog
Congress Gets Some Common Sense on Nutritional Disclosure
Last week, members of the House approved a bill that giving customers the nutrition information they want while minimizing harm and cost. Now it's up…
Heartland Institute
Obama Official Sued for Access to Private Emails
The Heartland Institute reports on CEI's Freedom of Information Act request for work-related emails on a White HOuse official's private email account. The…
Watchdog.org
Expert: Reversing Clean Power Plan about ‘keeping the lights on’ for economy
Watchdog.org reports on the Clean Power Plan and discusses the issue with CEI's Gregory Conko and Myron Ebell. “Clean power alone will add billions…
Blog
Spinning the Stay
A few days before the start of the COP-21 meeting in Paris, U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern filed a declaration urging the D.C. Circuit Court of…
Blog
Overregulation Turns Sydney into International “Laughing Stock”
American city officials, take note: Sometimes the remedy to a purported problem is worse than the disease. This is a lesson fans of Sydney’s once…
Blog
Presidential Candidates Neglect Regulatory Bureaucracy
Allowing a $19 trillion federal debt when it was obvious that interest rates couldn’t remain zero forever is Exhibit A that legislatures rarely control spending.
Forbes
Memo To Presidential Candidates: Here’s How Oversight Of Federal Red Tape Is A Total Disaster
"[A]s more goals are pursued through rules and regulations mandating private outlays rather than through direct government expenditures, the Federal budget is an…
CNS News
Restaurant Industry Official: ‘Not Every Job Is There to Sustain a Family of Four’
Politico
Politico Morning Transporation: Transpo unions eye post-Scalia SCOTUS decision
Politico's Morning Transportation mentions CEI's rebuttal to the New York Times article against privitatizing air traffic control. The New York Times editorial board…
Blog
News Cycle Contradicts Green Energy Revolution
Last Thursday, The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Bennet and Christina Rogers reported that auto dealers “are telling auto makers to limit production of passenger cars in…
Blog
NYT Editorial Board Repeats Falsehoods on Air Traffic Control Reform
The New York Times editorial board has staked out a position on proposed air traffic control reform legislation, and it doesn’t like it. To anyone…
Blog
RealClear Radio Hour: Government Monopoly & Public Parks
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
The big regulatory news this week is the Supreme Court’s decision to delay the EPA’s big power plant emission regulation. Other than that, agencies issued…
Washington Post
Fading hope for the Supreme Court
I’m saddened by the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia [“Supreme Court conservative dismayed liberals,” front page, Feb. 14]. He applied the law faithfully,…
Blog
A Majority of States Now Right to Work
Today's historic vote in West Virginia means that now in a majority of states, workers can’t be fired from their job if they choose not…
Blog
Democrats’ Debate Further Demonstrates Illegitimacy of Obama’s Climate Pivot
In the wake of Tuesday’s unexpected decision by the Supreme Court to stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, politicians and commentators are…
Blog
How George Washington Propelled First Great Disruptive Technology
News Release
CEI Statement on Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act
The House today passed the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act (HR2017). CEI consumer policy expert Michelle Minton praised this common sense plan. “The…
Blog
The Improvisational Fed, and Unpredictable Regulations
Improvisation can be a wonderful thing when performed by talented hands—Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and the like. The Federal Reserve, especially for the past several…
Blog
House Committee Narrowly Approves Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Deadly E-Cigarette Science Denialism
Following three government reports in the 1980s highlighting the low cabin air quality caused by cigarette smoking and the health risks of passive smoke,…
Blog
Permanent Moratorium on Internet Taxation in Customs Bill
Today the Senate voted 75-20 in favor of the conference report accompanying H.R. 644, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the so-called customs…
Inside Sources
Bipartisan Bill Allows Government to Continue Salt Experiment on Kids
In the scientific community, it is a breach of professional ethics to conduct research on people without their informed consent. But not for the federal…
E&E News
Judge orders science office to turn over documents
E&E News speaks with Sam Kazman on CEI's FOIA case requesting documents from the Office of Science and Technology. A federal judge is ordering…
The Hill
Panel votes to ban e-cigarettes on flights
The Hill quotes Marc Scribner on the proposal to ban e-cigarettes on flights which was attached to the funding bill for the FAA. Conservative…
News Release
CEI Appeals Hot Fuels Settlement That Awards Millions to Lawyers, Zero to Class
A class action settlement involving gasoline fuel temperature could mean big fees and a lobbying slush fund for lawyers, with no benefit to consumers –…
News Release
CEI Statement on Permanent Ban of Internet Sales Taxes
Letters
Coalition Letter Against Discriminatory Taxes on Reinsurance
Full Document Availible in PDF Dear Chairmen Brady and Hatch and Ranking Members Levin and Wyden: The undersigned members of the Coalition for…
Letters
CEI Joins Organizations Supporting Removal of a Cap on Passenger Facility Charges
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairmen Shuster and LoBiondo and Ranking Members DeFazio and Larsen: We write today in strong support…
Blog
A Banner Day for Rule of Law, Constitution, and Common Sense
In an unexpected and unprecedented decision, the Supreme Court last evening granted an application by more than two dozen states to stay implementation of the…
Blog
FOIA Production on Clinton Email Scandal and Security Training
The following documents were produced in response to CEI's FOIA requests seeking records of IT training by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aids…
Forbes
Super Bowl Ads Need To Reach Both Citizens And Consumers
As an observer of corporate advertising, I found the quality and style of the Super Bowl 50 ads disappointing. Once again, there were plenty of…
National Review
Obamaloans Are Back
As I warned back in 2014, the President’s budget contains a clear sign that he would like to nationalize the small dollar lending market.
Investor's Business Daily
Supreme Court Blockades White House In Obama’s War On Coal
Investor's Business Daily speaks with CEI's William Yeatman on the Supreme Court's order for the EPA to cease implementation of the Clean Power Plan.
Washington Free Beacon
Emails: EPA Rushed to Resolve Tesla’s ‘Million Dollar’ Bureaucratic Snafu
The Washington Free Beacon reports on emails obtained by CEI through their FOIA request, and speak with Chris Horner for more details. The…
The Hill
Congress pressured to ditch cap on passenger fees for airports
The Hill reports on a coalition letter CEI signed which urges Congress to eliminate a cap on passenger fees for airports. Libertarian and good-government groups…
Politico
Judge tells White House to hand over docs in dispute over climate video
Politico reports on CEI's FOIA lawsuit agains the White House's Office of Science and Technology. A federal judge today ordered the White House's…
Politico
Judge tells White House to hand over docs in dispute over climate video
Politico reports on CEI's FOIA lawsuit agains the White House's Office of Science and Technology. A federal judge today ordered the White House's…
Blog
In Defending Clean Power Plan before the Supreme Court, EPA/DOJ Misrepresent Clean Air Act with Lame Editing Tricks
Lawyers for the EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are trying to pull a fast one on the Supreme Court. Through creative formatting, they…
Study
Air Traffic Control Reform: FAQ
The Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act offers big opportunities for much-needed modernization.
Blog
RealClear Radio Hour: Budding CEOs and PC University
Letters
CEI Joins 12 Organizations Supporting Modernization of Air Traffic Control
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Member of Congress: As Congress prepares to craft a comprehensive FAA reauthorization package, lawmakers should explore…
Blog
PITFA a Poor Hostage for Internet Sales Taxes
Despite the premise of many a political cartoon, U.S. senators aren’t stupid. But a few of them are hoping to bamboozle at least 60 of their…
News Release
Report: Obama Overtime Rule Has Big Costs, Few Benefits
The Obama administration overtime pay mandate will put a big burden on small business and won’t necessarily lead to higher wages, a new report from the Competitive…
News Release
FAA 40 Years Behind on Air Traffic Control; Reforms Benefit Consumers
Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released new analysis by CEI fellow and transportation expert Marc Scribner on H.R. 4441, the Aviation…