Heartland Institute
World Leaders Warn of Possible Climate Agreement Failure
Heartland Institute cites CEI's expert Chris Horner on the Paris Treaty. Attorney Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says…
The Daily Caller
How Unions are Being Given Free Rein to Use Public Employees
The Daily Caller cites Trey Kovac's report on how much public sector unions cost the federal government and tax payers. In general the…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
In another busy week, federal agencies issued new regulations for everything from tomato plants to airplane seats. On to the data: Last week, 76 new…
Blog
On Added Sugars, Canada Gets Right What the U.S. Got Wrong
Last month, I wrote about how the new nutritional labels might end up making Americans fatter and sicker. Particularly dangerous, in my opinion, is the addition…
Study
Government’s Unfounded War on BPA
During the past decade, the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has become a target of environmental activists who make a host of unfounded claims about the…
One News Now
EPA’s newest rule a job-killer, says CEI
One News Now cites Myron Ebell on EPA regulations. Meanwhile, Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute tells OneNewsNow that smog levels have…
Blog
Are Tropical Storms Becoming More Destructive? Will They?
Lin & Chan, 2015, a study published in Nature Communications, finds that the destructive potential of tropical cyclones (“typhoons”) in the most active and…
Blog
VW Diesel Scandal Exposes Conflicting Regulatory Mandates
The Environmental Protection Agency on 18th September charged that Volkswagen had sold approximately 480,000 diesel cars in the U. S. that contained “defeat devices” that allowed…
Blog
Professor Who Advocates Criminalizing Global Warming Skepticism Has Taken $63 Million in Federal Grants
In early September, twenty professors sent a letter President Barack Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and White House science adviser John Holdren that congratulates the President…
Blog
EPA Issues Job Killing Ozone Rule
The Environmental Protection Agency released its final rule to reduce ozone levels on 1st October. The current National Ambient Air Quality Standard of 75 parts…
Letters
Comment Letter on Phase 2 EPA NHSTA Greenhouse Gas Economy Rule
Blog
Why Isn’t There a Joint Union Standard?
On September 29, an official and members of Boston’s Teamsters Local 25 were indicted on extortion charges, which U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz described as…
Blog
Fed Reacts to Job Reports, Why Doesn’t Department of Labor?
We had another jobs report below expectations this morning, coupled with a rare revision downwards of last month’s jobs report. This ends a summer of jobs…
Daily Caller
Critics Accuse EPA Of Fudging The Math On Its Global Warming Rule
The Daily Caller references a CEI study in relation to EPA's new Clean Power Plan. A 2012 study by the free-market Competitive Enterprise…
The Daily Caller
Stalled Unemployment Spells Bad News for the Economy
The Daily Caller cites CEI's report by Iain Murray on the recent announcment of job editions. Palley also argued the Federal Reserve should not…
Blog
Ed Snider: A Sports CEO Talks Leadership and Success
This week the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business was host to an excellent event on business leadership, featuring Comcast-Spectacor CEO and…
Blog
A Class Merger: CEI and the Center for Class Action Fairness Get Hitched
Litigation has been an important part of CEI since its earliest years—from our NYC rent control case in the 1980s, to our lawsuits against the…
USA Today
EPA moves to restrict ozone emissions
USA Today quotes CEI expert Myron Ebell on EPA's new restrictions on ozone pollutants. The pro-business Competitive Enterprise Institute said compliance costs of…
Washington Post
Free-market (think tank) merger
Washington Post announces CEI's merger with the Center for Class Action Fairness. Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Center for Class…
The Courier-Journal
Schnatter: Free enterprise benefits society
The Courier-Journal discusses why Papa John's CEO John Schnatter supports free enterprise by referencing data from a report by CEI. Simply look at…
Epoch Times
8 Reasons Congress Should End Taxpayer Support for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Epoch Times references CEI's Ryan Young for information on why Congress should allow the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's charter to expire. OPIC claims…
News Release
Competitive Enterprise Institute and Center for Class Action Fairness Announce Merger
Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) announced a merger with the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF), a public interest law firm. CEI and…
Comment
CEI Issues Comment to EPA on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles
View Document as PDF Comments Submitted by Marlo Lewis (Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute), Wayne Brough (Chief Economist and Vice President of…
Blog
Bill Introduced in Senate to Strip NLRB of Adjudicatory Power
On September 28, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced The Protecting American Jobs Act, S. 2084, which would relieve the National Labor Relations Board of its…
Blog
Betting on the Future: 25 Years Later
Today is the 25th anniversary of the famous bet between economist Julian Simon and biologist Paul Ehrlich over the price of five metals: chromium, copper,…
Blog
USDOT Wants it Both Ways with Off-Peak Freight Movements
Over at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Fastlane blog, Greg Nadeau, administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, has a post touting USDOT’s support for off-peak freight…
News Release
How Government Labor Unions Undermine Upward Mobility
The Hill
A Simple Way to Grow America’s Economy and Create Jobs
Coauthored with Lindsay Lewis, executive director of the Progressive Policy Institute. It’s hard to find common ground between the two parties in Washington these days,…
Examiner
Trump’s immigration stance resonates with voters
Examiner references CEI's report on immigration for data behind Donald Trump's stance on illegal immigration which resonates with voters. The average cost to illegally…
Study
How Government Unions Undermine Upward Mobility
Full Document Available in PDF A common claim made by government employee unions and their supporters is that they stand up for…
Blog
NLRB Doubles-Down on Expanded Joint-Employer Standard
As I detailed here last week, in a case involving Browning-Ferris Industries, the National Labor Relations Board decided to greatly expand when an employer is…
Blog
Free Enterprise: Sometimes We Forget
When we find ourselves debating specific issues having to do with economics and business, we often forget how overwhelming the evidence is for the superiority…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
A slow week closed with a bang, with Friday’s Federal Register containing 15 proposed regulations, 25 final regulations, and 502 pages. Throughout the week, new regulations cover…
The Daily Caller
OPIC Is The New Ex-Im: House GOP Could Split Again Over Crony Capitalism
The Daily Caller mentions Ryan Young’s report on the Overseas Private Investment Corporation: A recent report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)…
Blog
American and Chinese Presidents Agree To Continue To Work Together To Raise U. S. Energy Prices
Blog
Hillary Clinton Opposes Keystone XL Pipeline
Blog
Pope Francis Barely Mentions Climate Change in Speeches at the United Nations, Congress, and the White House
Blog
Celebrating a Great Editor: Max Borders and The Freeman
Yesterday the Foundation for Economic Education’s “Anything Peaceful” blog carried the news that editor Max Borders was leaving his position directing content for FEE.org and FEE’s…
Blog
Education Department Power Grabs Criticized in Congress
Yesterday, The College Fix published an interesting story titled “Department of Education shredded for lawless overreach in Senate hearing.” It was about Congress getting annoyed with…
Blog
World Bank Increases Number of Poor
The World Bank is considering changing its definition of what constitutes extreme poverty, raising the level below which someone is treated as extremely poor from $1.25…
Litigation
True v. American Honda Motor Company
The Center for Class Action Fariness’s client objected to this settlement over fuel-economy advertising because plaintiffs’ lawyers sought nearly $3M for themselves and merely coupons…
Litigation
TD Ameritrade Accountholder Litigation
In this settlement over a data security breach, plaintiffs’ lawyers were seeking $1.87M for themselves and only vouchers for the class: the district court upheld…
Litigation
Sobel v. Hertz Corporation
The Center’s client objected to this settlement over car rental fees wherein plaintiffs’ lawyers sought $1.5M for themselves but only coupons for the class; the…
Litigation
Lonardo v. Travelers Indemnity Company
In this settlement over insurance pricing, the Center’s client objected that plaintiffs’ lawyers sought $6.6M when the class would only receive $2.8M; in response, the…
Litigation
Classmates.com Consolidated Litigation
The Center’s client objected to a settlement over deceptive advertising that promised over $1M to plaintiffs’ lawyers and about $100,000 to the class. The court…
Litigation
Robert F. Booth Trust v. Crowley
The Center objected to this shareholder-derivative settlement offering no value to shareholders and $925,000 to plaintiffs’ lawyers. The district court denied the Center’s motion to intervene,…
Litigation
Nachshin v. AOL, LLC
This settlement over email advertising inappropriately channeled settlement funds to third parties unrelated to the class. The Ninth Circuit sustained the Center’s objection and reversed…
Litigation
Dewey v. Volkswagen AG
Litigation
Bluetooth Headset Products Liability Litigation
Plaintiffs sued three manufacturers of Bluetooth headsets alleging consumer fraud for failure to adequately warn of hearing loss risk. CCAF objected to the settlement that…
Litigation
American Express Anti-Steering Rules Antitrust Litigation
The Center for Class Action Fairness successfully objected to the settlement of an antitrust case where the class would only receive injunctive relief of uncertain…