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News Release

CEI Sues U.S. Department of Energy for Failing to Comply with Freedom of Information Request

  • Christopher C. Horner, Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/11/2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today sued the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for failing…

CEI Litigation

The Epoch Times

Trump Targets Pair Of Obama-Era Green Rules To Boost Oil, Coal

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/07/2018

The Epoch Times cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on EPA proposed roll back of Obama-era policies. The Trump administration took aim at…

Energy and Environment

The Washington Times

EPA Seeks To Fire Up Coal Industry By Rolling Back Obama-Era Standards

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/07/2018

The Washington Times cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on EPA proposed roll back of Obama-era rules.   The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed…

Energy and Environment

News Release

EPA’s New Proposed Rule on Emissions for Coal Plants Will Safeguard Affordable Energy for Consumers

  • Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/06/2018

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new proposed rule, rescinding the Obama Administration’s carbon dioxide emission standards for new coal power plants.

Energy and Environment

Blog

How Realistic Is National Climate Assessment’s Worst Case Scenario?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/06/2018

How realistic is the National Climate Assessment’s worst-case emissions scenario? A report released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Tuesday sheds some interesting…

Climate

Blog

Latest Bipartisan Carbon Tax Folly

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/30/2018

On Tuesday, November 27th, Representatives Ted Deutch (D-FL), Francis Rooney (R-FL), John K. Delaney (D-MD), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and Charlie Crist (D-FL) introduced H.R. 7173,…

Climate

Blog

National Climate Assessment Still Needs a Reset

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/30/2018

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released Volume II of its Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report last week on November 23rd. Volume I,…

Climate

E&E News

Trump Tries To Quell Climate Attention. It Rises Instead

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/30/2018

E&E News cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the Administration’s response to the recent federal climate report.   One reason the administration is struggling…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Judge Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/09/2018

Montana federal judge Brian Morris ruled on November 8th that the State Department and TransCanada Corporation must discontinue all efforts to construct or operate the Keystone XL…

Climate

Blog

What Do the Midterms Mean for Carbon Taxes?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/09/2018

Washington State’s Initiative 1631 to establish a “carbon emissions fee” went down in flames Tuesday with opponents outvoting supporters by 56 to 44 percent.

Climate

Blog

Hole in the ACE: Legal Flaws in EPA’s Proposed ‘Clean Power Plan’ Replacement

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/02/2018

The comment period closed this week (October 31st) for the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed replacement for the so-called…

Climate

Comment

CEI Comments on EPA ACE Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/01/2018

Among the CPP’s multiple legal flaws, one stands out as most bizarre. The CPP purports to establish carbon dioxide (CO2) emission performance guidelines for existing…

Energy and Environment

Comment

CEI Comments on Joint DOT/EPA Proposed SAFE Vehicles Rule

  • By: Devin Watkins, Marlo Lewis, Jr., Sam Kazman
  • 10/29/2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute hereby submits these comments on the joint DOT/ EPA proposed SAFE Vehicles Rule.  We support this proposal, which would (1) reduce…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Fewer Regulations, More Energy, Lower Emissions

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/20/2018

The Trump administration had cheery news to report this week about deregulation, U.S. energy production, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy

Hoover Institute

Our Latest Global Warming Scare

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/17/2018

Hoover Institute cited Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on “Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, and Human Well Being” article. The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on…

Climate

Blog

Dutch Appeals Court, Citing Paris Climate Treaty, Upholds Climate Lawsuit

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/15/2018

A Dutch appeals court last week upheld a lower court’s June 2015 decision requiring the government to cut Holland’s carbon dioxide…

Climate

The Washington Times

Trump To Raise Limit On Ethanol In Gasoline

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/10/2018

The Washington Times cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on E15 fuel limit raise. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which frequently supports Mr. Trump’s initiatives,…

Automobiles and Roads

Citation

CEI: Reported Trump Administration Plan to Boost E-15 Would Be a Step Backwards

  • By: Ben Lieberman, Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/09/2018

According to reports, the Trump Administration is set to announce a new policy intended to boost use of E-15, an ethanol-blended gasoline.

Energy

Blog

Twelve States Ask Court to Dismiss Climate Lawsuit against Big Oil

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/07/2018

A dozen states led by Indiana this week filed an amicus brief asking the federal district court in Seattle, Washington to dismiss a climate…

Climate

Blog

Booker and Holt Caricature Science Transparency Rule at Senate Hearing

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/05/2018

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing this week on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to strengthen the transparency…

Climate

Blog

Coal Plant Developers Still Building, Investing Despite Paris Agreement

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/04/2018

“Since the Paris Climate Agreement was negotiated in December 2015, the world’s installed coal-fired capacity grew by 92,000 MW—an increase equal to the combined operating…

Climate

News Release

CEI Praises Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Sound and Transparent Science Rule

  • Angela Logomasini, Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/04/2018

Ahead of today’s Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee hearing on oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency’s implementation of the Sound and Transparent Science rule,…

Energy and Environment

The Daily Caller

Here’s What WAPO Neglected To Mention In Its ‘Scoop’ On Trump’s Climate Deregulation

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/01/2018

The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on RCP8.5.   RCP8.5 is often cited as the “baseline” or “business as usual” scenario for…

Climate

Blog

Trump Auto Rule: Washington Post’s Non-Shocking Non-Discovery

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/28/2018

Today in the Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis, and Chris Mooney bash the Trump Administration’s SAFE Vehicles Rule, a proposal to freeze…

Climate

Blog

‘Energy Independence’ Hawks Caricature Trump Auto Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/21/2018

Securing America’s Energy Future (SAFE), a pro-regulatory “energy independence” advocacy group, this week released “The Military Cost of Defending Global Oil Supplies.” The report…

Climate

Blog

Free-Market Groups Urge Congress to Eliminate, Not Expand, Electric Vehicle Tax Credits

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/20/2018

In a joint letter released this week, thirty free market groups urged House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) to oppose “any effort to expand…

Antitrust

The Washington Times

Al Gore’s Claim About Hurricane Florence Doused By Scientists

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/17/2018

The Washington Times cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis Jr. on “Al Gore’s Science Fiction: A Skeptic’s Guide to an Inconvenient Truth.”   Numerous…

Climate

Blog

California’s Gov. Brown Issues Carbon Neutrality Order, Signs Renewable Energy Bill

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/14/2018

California Governor Jerry Brown (D) on September 10th issued Executive Order B-55-18 establishing a statewide goal to “achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, and…

Energy

Pacific Research Institute

Advice for Global Climate Summit-goers: Don’t Do What We’re Doing!

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/12/2018

Pacific Research Institute cited Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the Global Climate Action Summit. PRI co-hosted a policy summit in Vancouver earlier this summer with…

Climate

Blog

Ninth Circuit Opens Pandora’s Box in Oregon Fuel Standards Case

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/12/2018

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld Oregon’s Low Carbon Fuel Standards (LCFS), dismissing a lawsuit filed by U.S. refiners, truckers,…

Climate

Blog

Energy Dominance: Department of Interior Breaks Previous Records for Oil and Gas Lease Sales

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/07/2018

“In a testament to the Trump Administration's America First Energy Plan, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) third-quarter oil and gas lease sale in New…

Energy

Comment

CEI Comments In Support of EPA Transparency Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/16/2018

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to strengthen transparency in regulatory science.[1] The comments…

Suburban Newspapers Inc.

Another Climate Change Concern: Soil May Be Belching Carbon

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/15/2018

Suburban Newspapers Inc. cited Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis Jr. on carbon pollution. In a blog post last year, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which…

Energy and Environment

The Heartland Institute

U.S. Senate Launches Probe of NSF Climate Grants

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/13/2018

The Heartland Institute cited Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis Jr. on NSF Climate Grants. The politicization of the climate issue through government grants is…

Energy and Environment

Investor's Business Daily

Trump’s Fuel Economy Plan is a No Brainer – It Saves Money and Lives

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/13/2018

Investor’s Business Daily cited Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis Jr. on the proposal to postpone Obama-era CAFE standards. Obama’s rules would have required average…

Energy and Environment

Blog

IPCC Overestimates Climate Sensitivity: Study

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/12/2018

A new study by climate scientists Judith Curry and Nic Lewis, published in the August 2018 edition of Journal of Climate, estimates median values…

Climate

Blog

Securities and Exchange Commission Drops Probe of ExxonMobil over Climate Risk

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/11/2018

The Wall Street Journal reported late last Friday that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulators have “decided against trying to penalize the energy giant over its…

Banking and Finance

Blog

Trump Revision of Obama-era Fuel Economy Rules Is No Climate Disaster

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/10/2018

In a recent article in Energy and Environment News, several prominent climate scientists bash the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of the Obama administration’s…

Automobiles and Roads

Blog

Mileage Rule for New Cars Everything Free Marketers Hoped

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/03/2018

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on August 2nd proposed to revise Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and…

Automobiles and Roads

News Release

CEI: Proposed Changes to CAFE Standards Are Good News for Consumers

  • Marlo Lewis, Jr., Myron Ebell, Sam Kazman
  • 08/02/2018

Today, the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency released proposed revisions to future fuel economy standards set under the Obama Administration.

Automobiles and Roads

Blog

Will Trump Auto Rule End California’s Regulation of Fuel Economy?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/01/2018

The Trump administration is expected tomorrow to release its proposed revisions of the Obama administration’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and motor vehicle greenhouse…

Climate

Blog

Final Repeal of Obama-era Clean Power Plan Expected in 2019

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/29/2018

“EPA will not complete a replacement for the Clean Power Plan until at least early next year,” E&E News reported July 27, citing the Environmental…

Energy

Blog

You Don’t Have to Be a Climate Skeptic to Oppose a Carbon Tax

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/27/2018

In an op-ed published yesterday by CNS News, I explain why a carbon tax is not a conservative policy. The occasion for the piece…

Climate

CNS News

Sorry, GOP Rep. Curbelo: A Carbon Tax is Not a Conservative Policy

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/26/2018

Is a carbon tax a conservative idea whose time has come? Carbon tax proponents have been preaching that message for years. It is nonsense.

Energy

Blog

Federal Judge Dismisses Big Apple Suit against Big Oil

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/21/2018

U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan on July 19 dismissed New York City’s climate change lawsuit against British Petroleum, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, and…

Climate

News Release

CEI Supports Resolution Opposing a Carbon Tax

  • Marlo Lewis, Jr., Myron Ebell
  • 07/19/2018

This week, the U.S. House will vote on an anti-carbon tax resolution, introduced earlier this year by Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and David McKinley (R-WV),…

Blog

Interior Department Announces Region-wide Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/13/2018

On July 12, Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will offer approximately 78 million acres offshore…

Energy

Blog

Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, and Human Well Being

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/11/2018

Climate campaigners demand ever-greater government control over energy markets, resources, and infrastructure. Many believe the best thing governments can do with fossil energy is “…

Climate

Blog

Pruitt Leaves EPA Well Positioned to Advance Trump Pro-Growth Agenda

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/06/2018

Scott Pruitt resigned as EPA administrator following months of controversy over a growing list of purported administrative improprieties. Ousting Pruitt has been a progressive movement objective from…

Climate

Blog

Federal Judge Dismisses California Cities’ Climate Lawsuit

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/28/2018

U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup this week dismissed the climate change lawsuit brought by Oakland and San Francisco against British Petroleum, Chevron,…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Should FERC Consider Potential Climate Impacts of Proposed Interstate Gas Pipelines?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/22/2018

As CEI's Marlo Lewis notes in comments submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, neither the National Energy Policy Conservation Act nor the Natural Gas Act…

Climate

Comment

CEI Comments on The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Notice of Inquiry Regarding the Certification of New Natural Gas Facilities

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/21/2018

This comment letter addresses questions C3, C4, C6, and C7, which concern whether, and if so how, FERC should take into account greenhouse gas (GHG)…

Energy

Blog

Solar ‘Incentives’ Are Busting Out All Over

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/17/2018

Ever wonder why installations of household solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and utility-scale solar power have surged since 2014? The declining cost of solar technology is…

Banking and Finance

Blog

EPA Asks for Public Comment on Improving Cost-Benefit Analysis of Regulations  

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/08/2018

On June 7, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking soliciting information on how the agency estimates costs and benefits in…

Energy and Environment

The Washington Times

Freezing the Paris Climate Accord is a job for the Senate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/06/2018

The Washington Times published an article written by Marlo Lewis reviewing the future of American energy independence and the shackling of the American economy under…

Energy

Washington Timres

Freezing the Paris Climate Accord is a job for the Senate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/01/2018

Why would we want to remain in a club that’s organized to pressure and browbeat us into acting against our best interests and better judgment?…

Energy and Environment

Blog

The Constitutional Cure for the Paris Agreement

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/01/2018

Today marks the first anniversary of President Trump’s Rose Garden speech announcing his intention to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. That speech…

Climate

The Washington Times

Trump Was Right on Paris Climate Decision, But Needs to Do More

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/31/2018

Why would we want to remain in a club that’s organized to pressure and browbeat us into acting against our best interests and better judgment?…

Energy and Environment

News Release

CEI on Paris Climate Decision Anniversary: Trump Should Tell the Senate to Vote It Down

  • Christopher C. Horner, Marlo Lewis, Jr., Myron Ebell
  • 05/31/2018

This Friday marks the one-year anniversary of President Trump withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate treaty. The Competitive Enterprise Institute strongly supported Trump’s…

Energy and Environment

Blog

On Honesty and ‘Honest Brokers’ in Government Science

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/23/2018

Today’s E&E News has an interesting article about Richard Yamada, a Ph.D. mathematician who is the key official helping Administrator Scott Pruitt reshape science…

Climate

Blog

UK Climate Campaigners Demand More Market Rigging

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/20/2018

Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom “are warning of a ‘dramatic and worrying collapse’ of clean energy investments in Great Britain in the last…

Climate

Blog

Justice Department Brief Defends Oil Companies against California City Lawsuits

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/18/2018

The Department of Justice last week filed an amicus brief supporting oil companies’ motion to dismiss claims by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco that the firms…

Energy

Blog

Zero Emission Vehicles Can Increase Air Pollution: Study

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/15/2018

A new report by economist Jonathan Lesser of the Manhattan Institute challenges the conventional wisdom that zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) are superior to new internal…

Automobiles and Roads

Blog

California to Require Solar Panels on New Homes

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/12/2018

“California is set to become the first state to require solar panels on all newly built single-family houses,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Not…

Energy

Blog

New York Attorney General and Climate Campaigner Schneiderman Resigns

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/12/2018

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned on May 8th within hours of The New Yorker publishing an exposé in which four former girlfriends…

Climate

Blog

Do Tourists Cause Global Warming?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/08/2018

Nature Climate Change yesterday published a study measuring the “carbon footprint of global tourism.” It’s big. Taking into account all tourism-related expenditures for transport, shopping,…

Climate

The Hill

Fuel Economy: California’s Empty Suit

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/06/2018

California, joined by 16 states and the District of Columbia, have petitioned the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to “review,” i.e. overturn, EPA Administrator Scott…

Climate

Blog

Multi-State Petition against EPA Vehicle Standards Makes Weak Legal Case

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/02/2018

California joined by 16 states and the District of Columbia yesterday petitioned the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to stop Environmental Protection Agency administrator…

Automobiles and Roads

Blog

House Panels Grill Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Pruitt

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/29/2018

On April 26th, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testified in separate hearings before the environment subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce and…

Climate

Blog

Scalise, McKinley Introduce Anti-Carbon Tax Resolution

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/28/2018

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) on Thursday introduced H. Con. Res. 119, which “Expresses the sense of Congress…

Climate

Blog

Free Market Groups Call for Repeal of Clean Power Plan

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/26/2018

Public policy analysts from 20 free-market organizations today filed a joint comment letter in support of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s proposal to repeal…

Climate

News Release

CEI to EPA: Repeal Unlawful and Destructive Clean Power Plan

  • Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/26/2018

Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) submitted comments in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to repeal the so-called Clean Power Plan…

Energy and Environment

Comment

CEI Comments on EPA’s Proposed Rule to Repeal the Clean Power Plan

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/26/2018

View Full Document as PDF Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2017–0355 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Environmental…

Energy and Environment

News Release

CEI Applauds Introduction of Resolution Opposing a Carbon Tax

  • Marlo Lewis, Jr., Myron Ebell
  • 04/26/2018

Today Reps. Steve Scalise (R, LA) and David McKinley (R, WV) introduced a resolution “expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be…

Energy and Environment

Inside Sources

Fossil Fuels — Curse or Blessing?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/23/2018

Earth Day turns 48 this year and thousands of activists will “recycle” their calls for greater government control over energy resources and infrastructure. Is that…

Energy and Environment

Blog

What Exxon Knew: AEI Panel on Recent Climate Change Litigation

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/22/2018

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) this week held a panel discussion titled “What did they know, and when did they know it?” on the growing swirl of…

Climate

Blog

Massachusetts Court to Exxon: Turn Over All Climate Documents Since 1976

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/17/2018

Another day, another investigation in search of a crime. “Massachusetts’s top court on Friday ordered Exxon Mobil, Inc. to turn over company records to the…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Misfiring on All Cylinders: New York Times’ Attack on Pruitt’s Fuel Economy Reset

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/06/2018

Greenhouse gas/fuel economy standards encourage automakers to reduce average vehicle size and weight. That is hardly surprising. It takes less fuel to move smaller, lighter…

Climate

WMAL

AUDIO: Marlo Lewis on WMAL to Discuss Fuel Economy Standards

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/04/2018

CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis recently joined The Larry O’Connor Show on WMAL to discuss the EPA repealing Obama-era fuel economy standards.

Energy and Environment

Citation

AUDIO: Marlo Lewis discusses EPA mandates on The John Batchelor Show

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/04/2018

CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis recently joined The John Batchelor Show to discuss the beginning of the end of the Obama Administrative…

Energy and Environment

San Francisco Chronicle

Cutting Tailpipe Emission Not That Effective Against Global Warming

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/03/2018

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it will reconsider the federal government’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for passenger cars for model years 2022-25.

Energy and Environment

News Release

CEI Commends EPA for Reviewing CAFE Rules

  • Marlo Lewis, Jr., Myron Ebell, Sam Kazman
  • 04/02/2018

This is a step forward to ensure the future of automobiles will be cars that are safe, affordable, and what consumers want to buy.

Energy and Environment

Fox News

Earth Hour or Human Achievement Hour: Which is the enlightened choice?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/26/2018

Two very different events will take place from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, local time, around the world. Participants in Earth…

Energy

Blog

California Climate Change Litigation: Will Big Oil Learn How to Fight? 

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/23/2018

This week, Chevron lawyer Ted Boutrous told federal Judge William Alsup that “There’s no debate about climate science.” His company “accepts the consensus of the scientific…

Climate

Blog

Climate Policy: What It Means for Pompeo and Kudlow to Be Replacing Tillerson and Cohn

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/19/2018

If people are policy, the Trump administration’s commitment to the President’s pro-growth energy agenda has become clearer and firmer. Last week, Mr. Trump …

Climate

News Release

CEI Commends Trump’s Choice of Larry Kudlow for Top Economic Post

  • John Berlau, Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/14/2018

President Trump is expected to name Larry Kudlow as director of the National Economic Council this week. CEI experts commend Trump for selecting an adviser with…

Banking and Finance

Blog

Trump Ousts Tillerson: What’s Next for the Paris Climate Treaty?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/13/2018

President Trump this morning ousted Rex Tillerson from his post as Secretary of State and plans to replace him with CIA director Mike Pompeo.

Climate

Blog

Everything You Need to Know about the Clean Power Plan

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/10/2018

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, nineteen other state attorneys general, and the head of the Mississippi department of environmental quality recently filed a superb …

Energy

Blog

Some Critical Points Often Overlooked in the Climate Policy Debate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/01/2018

To date, the political process has determined that the potential risks of carbon dioxide regulation outweigh the benefits. That’s why despite more than 20 years…

Climate

CNBC

Trump Disappoints Fossil Fuel Proponents and Corn Belt Base as EPA Leaves Biofuels Program Mostly Unchanged

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/01/2018

Marlo Lewis was cited by CNBC for the negative impact which not scaling back on the renewable fuel program will have on taxpayers and those…

Energy

Blog

Clean Power Plan: Just Repeal, Don’t Replace

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/27/2018

The Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of repealing President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, the principal regulatory component of his Paris Climate Treaty emission-reduction…

Climate

Comment

Comments of Marlo Lewis on a Potential Clean Power Plan Replacement Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/26/2018

View Full Document as PDF Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) advance notice of…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Fourth National Climate Assessment: Pat Michaels Calls for “Reset” of U.S. Global Change Research Program

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/09/2018

The comment period for the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Fourth National Climate Assessment closed on January 31, 2018. Cato Institute scientist Patrick Michaels identifies two…

Climate

CNS News

Carbon Tax Is Political Poison for Conservative Movement

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/07/2018

A carbon tax is political poison for conservatives and free marketers. The struggle for hearts and minds in this country is to no small degree…

Energy

Blog

Climate Litigation: ExxonMobil Strikes Back

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/26/2018

ExxonMobil this week asked a Texas district court for authority to depose and obtain documents from “ExxonKnew” campaign legal strategist Matt Pawa and…

Climate

Washington Examiner

Repealing The Clean Power Plan Will Benefit All Americans

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/26/2018

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's proposal to repeal the so-called Clean Power Plan is the most notable step President Trump and his team have…

Energy

Blog

Will Trump Finally Pull the Plug on the Paris Climate Treaty?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/24/2018

In his upcoming state of the union address, President Trump should finally reject the Paris Agreement, explain his reasons, and announce a plan to get…

Climate

Blog

Will Trump EPA Reconsider California Greenhouse Gas Waiver?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/07/2018

The Trump Justice Department will no longer use Clean Air Act enforcement penalties to provide multibillion-dollar subsidies for electric vehicle infrastructure.

Energy

Blog

Cheery News for the New Year: Our Increasingly Livable Climate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/03/2018

Humanity in the Age of Global Warming is healthier, wealthier, and less at the mercy of extreme weather than the people of previous times.

Climate

Blog

Trump Liberates Pentagon from Obama’s Climate Obsession

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/18/2017

Defense analysts and military planners should focus on bona fide threats to U.S. national security and international stability, not on the speculative impacts of greenhouse…

Climate

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