Washington Times
EPA’s Use of Secret Email Addresses Was Widespread: Report
News Release
West Virginia Chemical Spill Not an Excuse for Regulatory Expansion, Says New Report
Today, Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow and chemical policy expert, Angela Logomasini, Ph.D., released a…
News Release
Latest Senate Report Supports CEI Findings: EPA Officials Continue to Use Secret Email Accounts
Law 360
Netflix-Walmart Deal Hurt Competition, 9th Circ. Hears
Law 360 reports on the objection to the Netflix-Wal-Mart Settlement in which Ted Frank claims that the settlement was not fair for class members.
Blog
West Virginia Chemical Spill: We Have Enough Information to Manage the Risk
In a prior post, I addressed the background related to the recent chemical spill that contaminated drinking water in West Virginia, and I highlighted…
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Union Support for Minimum and Living Wage Laws Based on Self-Interest
Across the country, labor unions advocate for increases in the minimum wage, along with proposals to create "living wage" laws. Unions publicly argue that these…
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Ambush Elections Diminish the Understanding They Seek
Workers would have less time to study for their huge, life-changing test of whether to unionize, under a new, proposed Obama administration rule that nonsensically claims…
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CEI Podcast for February 12, 2014: Are Cell Phones Coming to an Airplane Near You?
CEI Fellow Marc Scribner opposes a bill that would ban in-flight cell phone usage on airplanes. He believes that decision should be left to airlines,…
Blog
No Obamaloans at the Post Office!
While Sen. Elizabeth Warren may proudly brand herself a populist, in her latest crusade, she is casting her lot with fat cats. Warren wants to…
Legal Newsline
Eleven AGs, three organizations file appellate briefs in Dodd-Frank challenge
Legal Brief
Halbig v Sebelius – Supporting Amicus Brief of Jonathan Adler and Michael Cannon
A group of small business owners (and individuals) in six states filed a lawsuit on May 2, 2013 against the federal government over an IRS…
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Obama Major Regulations 29 Percent Higher Than Bush
The 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA) requires agencies to submit reports to Congress on their major rules — frequently defined as those costing $100 million…
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Unintended Consequences of Employee Rights Poster Rule
In the past several years, both the National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor have required various kinds of employers to hang a "poster"…
Free Beacon
Experts Slam Schumer’s Junk Science
AV Web
Aircraft Cell Phone Call Ban Sent To House
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House Committee to Markup Bill Banning In-Flight Cell Phone Calls
Tomorrow morning (Tuesday, February 11), the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will markup the Prohibiting In-Flight Voice Communications on Mobile Wireless Devices Act (H.R.
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Reining in the Executive Branch Bureaucracy, Part 7: Recognize and Reduce Indirect Costs of Regulation
Since the Federalist Papers, America has debated “Energy in the Executive.” But President Obama’s 2014 agenda framed by his…
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
55 new regulations, from kiwifruit administration to dehumidifiers.
Legal Brief
Halbig v Sebelius – Supporting Amicus Brief of Galen Institute
A group of small business owners (and individuals) in six states filed a lawsuit on May 2, 2013 against the federal government over an IRS…
Legal Brief
Halbig v Sebelius – Supporting Amicus of Senators and Representatives
A group of small business owners (and individuals) in six states filed a lawsuit on May 2, 2013 against the federal government over an IRS…
Legal Brief
Halbig v Sebelius – Supporting Amicus Brief of NFIB
A group of small business owners (and individuals) in six states filed a lawsuit on May 2, 2013 against the federal government over an IRS…
Legal Brief
Halbig v Sebelius – Supporting Amicus Brief of Oklahoma and other States
A group of small business owners (and individuals) in six states filed a lawsuit on May 2, 2013 against the federal government over an IRS…
Blog
More Equality in the U.S. Than in Europe: When the Minimum Wage Buys More in the U.S.
France and England may have higher minimum wages than most of the U.S. does, but things cost so much there that minimum-wage workers can afford less stuff…
Wall Street Journal
Non-GMO Cheerios Add No Value
Alisa Gravitz, responding (letters, Feb. 4) to our " General Mills GIS +0.46% Has a Soggy Idea for Cheerios" (op-ed, Jan. 21), is wrong on…
Human Events
Farm Bill Lacks A Dry Match
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
Proposed SEC Rules On Crowdfunding Threaten Access To Capital By Locking Out Ordinary Investors
In submitted comments, John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute argued that the proposed rules could result in “costly, paternalistic requirements on crowdfunding that have…
Crowdfund Insider
Troops Rallying For Smarter Rules Around Equity Crowdfunding
Forbes
Why Bitcoin Must Die. Long Live Bitcoin 2.0.
One day, there will be a global digital currency in widespread commercial use whose value will not be controlled by central banks. Governments can forestall…
Legal Brief
Halbig v. Sebelius – Supporting Amicus of Kansas and Other States
A group of small business owners (and individuals) in six states filed a lawsuit on May 2, 2013 against the federal government over an IRS…
Legal Brief
Halbig v Sebelius – Supporting Amicus Brief of Pacific Research Institute and Cato
A group of small business owners (and individuals) in six states filed a lawsuit on May 2, 2013 against the federal government over an IRS…
Blog
CEI Podcast for February 6, 2014: Keystone XL Pipeline Inches towards Approval
Have a listen here. Marlo Lewis examines a State Department report finding that Keystone serves the national interest and finds opposing arguments wanting.
Blog
More Regulation Is Not the Answer to West Virginia Chemical Spill
The recent chemical spill in West Virginia has green groups clamoring for more regulation, including expansion of Environmental Protection Agency power under the…
Comment
Comments to the SEC by John Berlau on Crowdfunding
In comments submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), CEI Senior Fellow John Berlau warns that new SEC rules impacting crowdfunding could…
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Waxman’s Last Stand on Net Neutrality
It was announced that Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is proposing new net neutrality legislation. The proposed bill has likely been made…
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Reining in the Executive Branch Bureaucracy, Part 6: Deal with the Deadweight Cost of Regulation
Since the Federalist Papers, America has debated “Energy in the Executive.” But President Obama’s 2014 agenda framed by his…
One News Now
Talking Vehicles’ Hit Brick Wall: ‘A Variety Of Deployment Challenges
News Release
Dodd-Frank “Diversity” Hiring Quotas Unconstitutional
Washington, DC, Feb. 6, 2014 – The Dodd-Frank Act regulates the financial sector, but what many people do not know is how far its…
News Release
Proposed SEC Rules on Crowdfunding Threaten Access to Capital By Locking Out Ordinary Investors
Washington, DC, Feb. 6, 2014 – This week marked the deadline for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to accept public comments on proposed…
Comment
CEI comments on Dodd-Frank proposed diversity statement Docket No OP-1465
Blog
New York Alcohol Bill Benefits Big Business at Consumers’ Expense
New York’s consumers and small alcohol retailers could soon be paying more for their tipples, for the benefit of big wholesalers. A bill now making…
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NLRB Proposes Ambush Election Regulation
As I previously noted in a December post, as soon as the National Labor Relations Board settled its lawsuit with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce…
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Farm Bill Passes Senate, Goes to President
With the U.S. Senate’s passage February 4 of a farm bill by a vote of 68-32, a nearly $1 trillion (over 10 years) farm…
Legal Brief
Michael Mann v. National Review, CEI, et al. – Mann’s Motion to Amend Complaint, and Amended Complaint
The Competitive Enterprise Institute received a letter on August 21, 2012 from an attorney representing Penn State University Professor Michael E. Mann that demands that…
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Two Million Jobs Will Disappear Due to Obamacare, CBO Predicts; Deficit to Rise
“The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.3 million jobs and contributing to a $1 trillion…
Washington Post
Inconvenient Facts for Obamacare
Newsmax
Cuomo’s ‘Tax-Free’ Plan for NY Is Not So Tax-Free
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NLRB Pro-Union Bias Takes Away Worker Choice
Now that the National Labor Relations Board -- the agency responsible for governing private-sector labor disputes -- has a full quorum, it is ready to…
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USDOT Calls for Connected Vehicle Mandate; Security and Privacy Concerns Remain
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced today it would chart a regulatory path that would require all new automobiles to be equipped with…
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Should States Legalize Sports Gambling? Yes!
With Super Bowl XLVIII in the history books, all that remains now is for the losers to lick their wounds and for the victors to…
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Regulation without Representation
Over at The Hill's Congress blog, Wayne Crews and I make the case for reining in the regulatory state as a way to improve the…