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Motor Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards Are Inefficient: Study
The federal government’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program is a highly inefficient method for reducing either motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions or U.S. oil…
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EPA to Revise Greenhouse Gas Rules for Refurbished Trucks
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this week approved a petition to revise the agency’s heavy truck greenhouse gas emission standards rule.
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Jeff Clark Will Make an Excellent Assistant Attorney General
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote this Thursday on the nomination of Kirkland & Ellis attorney Jeffrey Bossert Clark to be…
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Dramatic Estimates of Future Heat-Related Deaths Hype, Not Fact
Contrary to Killer Heat’s alarming message, U.S. heat-related mortality should continue to decline in coming decades.
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CEI Continues to Support President Trump’s Paris Climate Accord Decision
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EPA Proposes Renewable Fuel Standards for 2018
The gap between statutory obligations and marketplace reality are too big to be managed via ad hoc yearly adjustments.
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Will the Swamp Let Trump Reform Fuel Economy?
The administration should explore the legal implications of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which prohibits states, like California, from adopting or enforcing laws or…
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Kids’ One-Sided Climate Change Lawsuit Scheduled for Trial
Judge Thomas Coffin, U.S. Magistrate for the District of Oregon, yesterday set a trial date of February 5, 2018 to hear a lawsuit by a group of…
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Is Shareholder Activism Surging or Peaking?
We could be seeing the crest of a movement juiced by the false expectation that Hillary Clinton would become president.
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Big Oil Wants Congress to Gouge Consumers
Earlier this week, the carbon tax advocacy group Climate Leadership Council (CLC) announced its List of Founding Members. “Founding Corporate Members” include three oil…
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New Study Finds Carbon’s Private Benefits Exceed Social Costs
Private benefit of carbon dioxide exceeds social cost by anywhere from about 4:1 to 34:1.
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Exiting Paris Should Weaken Carbon Tariff Threat
Will other nations attempt to punish President Trump for pulling out of the Paris Agreement by imposing “border taxes”—aka carbon tariffs—on U.S. exports?…
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Will Paris Exit Harm U.S. ‘Clean Tech’ Firms?
We’ve heard it for months. If President Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement, America will be “hobbled in the global race for clean energy…
The Daily Caller
Obama’s Decisions Doomed the Paris Climate Accord to Failure in the US, Experts Say
The Daily Caller covers President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. commitment from the Paris Climate Accord. Blame former President Barack Obama for the…
The Daily Caller
Inside The ‘Resistance’ To The Paris Climate Accord And How They Held Trump To His Promise
The Daily Caller covers Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. commitment from the Paris Climate Agreement. President Donald Trump announced he would fulfill his…
The Daily Caller
Trump Announces US Withdrawal From The Paris Climate Accord
The Daily Caller covers President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. President Donald Trump has made good on his campaign…
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CEI Commends President Trump’s Decision to Cancel Paris Climate Agreement
Today, President Trump announced he would withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. The Competitive Enterprise Institute commends the decision as a positive…
Washington Examiner
Judgment of Paris — Walk Away From It
Washington Examiner covers the Paris Climate Agreement. There’s already been much wailing and lamentation over President Trump’s intention to withdraw the…
News Release
Why the Paris Climate Agreement Is All Pain, No Gain for Americans
As President Trump weighs his final decision on the Paris Climate Agreement, he should consider the benefits of withdrawing U.S. commitment from this harmful treaty,…
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Trump’s Reported Decision to Withdraw from Paris Agreement Right Choice for America and the World
It is now widely reported that President Trump has decided to keep his campaign promise to “cancel” America’s participation in the Paris Climate Agreement.
The American Conservative
Submit the Paris Treaty to the Senate
The American Conservative covers the Paris Climate Agreement and CEI’s report on it by Marlo Lewis and Christopher Horner. The so-called Paris “Treaty”…
The Daily Caller
Conservatives Urge Trump To Ignore the ‘Swamp’ on the Paris Climate Agreement
The Daily Caller covers a paper by Chris Horner and Marlo Lewis concerning the Paris Climate Agreement. Republican politicians and conservative activists are…
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Dog Bites Man (Climate Science Establishment Attacks EPA Administrator Pruitt)
This week the journal Nature: Scientific Reports published an article by Ben Santer and eight other climate science establishmentarians rebutting a comment made by…
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Paris Agreement: Is the State Department Running Its Own Game?
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson caused a stir when, on May 11, he signed the Fairbanks Declaration at the Tenth Ministerial Meeting of…
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Dirty Dozen
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Two GOP Governors Support Paris Agreement, But President Trump Shouldn’t Be Impressed
So, if the Governors’ stated reasons don’t explain their support for the Paris Agreement, what does? Perhaps cheap environmental virtue combined with a belief that…
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President Trump Should Ignore Advice of Obama Administration Officials on Paris Agreement
Trump’s greatest contribution to American democracy and international energy policy would be to repudiate the politics of plunder, starting with its most grandiose embodiment—the Paris…
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Industrial Energy Consumers to White House: “No Benefit” to Paris Agreement
There is “no benefit” to U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement, the Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) argues in a letter sent to President…
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Trump Must Show Energy Companies He Will Fight Politics of Plunder
Energy producers will stand up for themselves only if Trump shows, by his actions, that he will fight for them.
The Daily Caller
Al Gore Personally Pleaded With Trump to Stay in the Paris Climate Agreement
The Daily Caller discusses President Trump’s meeting with Al Gore about the Paris Climate Agreement with Marlo Lewis. Former Vice President Al Gore…
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Paris Agreement: Carbon Tax Elders Offer More Bad Advice
The same GOP elders who have been pushing what American Enterprise Institute economist Ben Zycher charitably calls “The Deeply Flawed Case for a Carbon Tax”…
The Daily Caller
Trump Says ‘No’ To A Global Cap-And-Trade Plan
The Daily Caller discusses Trump’s decision not to abide by an international cap-and-trade plan to keep Obama’s promise as part of the Paris Agreement.
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The Paris Agreement and the Imperial Presidency: My Response to David Bookbinder
The Paris Agreement thus casts a long dark shadow not only on U.S. energy producers but our future as a self-governing polity.
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Misdirected Paris Agreement Debate Fixates on Meaning of ‘May’
This being Washington, D.C., the world capital of misdirection, debate on whether President Trump should keep his campaign promise to “cancel” America’s participation in the…
Washington Post
The Daily 202: 10 Storylines to Follow as the House Votes on Health Care
The Washington Post’s Daily 202 highlights a paper on the Paris Climate Treaty by Marlo Lewis and Chris Horner. As the White House…
The Daily Caller
Ivanka Will Privately Meet EPA Chief To Talk About The Paris Agreement
The Daily Caller discusses why President Trump should withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty by citing Marlo Lewis and Chris Horner’s report. Conservative…
The Daily Caller
Architect Of Paris Agreement Undercuts Arguments In Favor Of The Climate Deal
The Daily Caller discusses an interpretation of the Paris Climate Treaty with Marlo Lewis. A key architect of the Paris climate agreement says…
Washington Post
In the Trump White House, the Momentum has Turned Against the Paris Climate Agreement
The Washington Post highlights Marlo Lewis and Chris Horner’s paper on the legal and economic case for exiting the Paris Climate Treaty. Meanwhile…
Daily Caller
Policy Experts Call On Trump To Abandon ‘Unconstitutional’ Paris Climate Treaty
The Daily Caller reports on a report by Chris Horner and Marlo Lewis on the costs imposed by the Paris Climate Treaty. Competitive…
Politico
Legal Concerns Make Paris’ Future Uncertain
Politico’s Morning Energy highlights a study by Chris Horner and Marlo Lewis on the cost of remaining in the Paris Climate Treaty. ANOTHER…
Washington Examiner
Critics Increase Pressure on Paris Climate Deal as Trump Mulls Exit
Washington Examiner reports on Marlo Lewis and Chris Horner’s study on the cost of remaining in the Paris Climate Treaty. The free-market Competitive…
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Paris Agreement: Why Trump Should Ignore Obama Officials’ Legal Counsel
President Trump is expected to decide soon whether he will keep his campaign promise to “cancel” America’s participation in the Paris Agreement.
News Release
CEI Releases New Report on Serious Economic and Legal Consequences of Remaining in Paris Climate Agreement
Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute released “The Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Climate Treaty,” a new report outlining why President Donald…
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The Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Climate Treaty
Failure to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty would entrench a constitutionally damaging precedent, set President Trump’s domestic and foreign policies in conflict, and ensure…
Daily Caller
Inside the Coal Industry’s Split Over The Paris Agreement
The Daily Caller discusses those advising President Trump to stay in the Paris Climate Treaty with Marlo Lewis. Paris agreement critics said it’s…
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Options for Addressing President Trump’s Paris Climate Pact Promise
View Full Document as PDF This memo analyzes two principal options for dealing with the Paris Climate Agreement, U.S. participation in which…
Bloomberg BNA
EPA Science Policies Go Under Congressional Microscope
Bloomberg BNA discusses with Marlo Lewis two bills setting limits on the science driving Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Industry advocates, however, say the…
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Trump Issues Executive Order on ‘America-First Offshore Energy Strategy’
President Trump issued an executive order on Friday directing the Departments of Interior and Commerce to “encourage energy innovation, exploration, and production” in U.S. offshore areas including…
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VIDEO: Marlo Lewis Discusses the Paris Climate Treaty on One America News
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March for Climate Another Demonstration of Groupthink
Trump threatens the climate industrial complex by questioning its certitudes, demoting its policy priorities, and proposing to cut its budget.
Washington Times
Trump Advisers Propose Declaring Obama’s Climate Deal A ‘Treaty,’ Sending It To Senate To Die
The Washington Times reports on White House advisors meeting on the Paris Climate Treaty and the ideas of CEI’s Christopher Horner and Marlo Lewis discussed. …
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Activist Attorneys General Urge Trump to Stay in Paris Agreement
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is the gift that keeps on giving. Yesterday, Schneiderman and 13 other Democratic attorneys general urged President…
Bloomberg
State Department Memo Boosts Case to Stay in Paris Climate Pact
Bloomberg discusses the Paris Climate Treaty with Marlo Lewis and Chris Horner. Opponents of the agreement, including Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at…
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Energy Policy in Trump’s First 100 Days
President Trump’s energy and climate record is one of solid achievement so far. However, until Trump cancels America’s participation in it, the Paris Agreement will…
Bloomberg
China Doubts U.S. Climate Pledge as Trump Mulls Paris Withdrawal
Bloomberg discuss withdrawing U.S. comittment to the Paris Climate Treaty with Marlo Lewis. Conservatives arguing in favor of a U.S. pullout from Paris…
PJ Media
The ‘March for Science’ Is Actually a Threat to Science Itself
PJ Media discusses the March for Science’s agenda to politicize science with Marlo Lewis. “When they behave like partisan hacks in the name…
Arizona Daily Sun
Big Crowds Expected for ‘March for Science’ Events in Flagstaff, Tucson, Phoenix
Arizona Daily Sun discusses the March for Science events in Arizona with Marlo Lewis. But opponents say that scientists engaging in activism is…
Breitbart
Oil Giants Join Ivanka, Jared to Defend Paris Climate Agreement
Breitbart discusses withdrawing U.S. commitment to the Paris Climate Treaty with Marlo Lewis. Critics of the Paris accord warn that environmentalists sue the United…
Daily Caller
Libertarian Think Tank Urges Trump To Withdraw From The Paris Climate Agreement
The Daily Caller speaks with CEI’s energy and environment experts on why President Trump should withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty. The battle…
Bloomberg
Exxon, Shell Join Ivanka Trump to Defend Paris Climate Pact
Bloomberg discusses the Paris Climate Treaty with Marlo Lewis. “The Paris agreement is designed to undermine American self government over the long term…
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Saving Coal: Most Foolish Reason to Support Paris Agreement
A gaggle of coal-industry interests is aggressively lobbying the Trump administration to stay in the Paris Agreement, which they claim President Trump could modify to…
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White House Floats Excuses to Break Trump’s Promise to Cancel Paris Climate Treaty
This week, White House senior advisers will meet to discuss the future of U.S. involvement in the Paris Climate Treaty.
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Yet Another Study Confirms Ecological Benefits of Carbon Dioxide
So-called carbon pollution has done much more to expand and invigorate the planet’s greenery than all the climate policies of all the world’s governments combined.
American Spectator
Government Makes the Poor Poorer
American Spectator discusses environmental regulations that harm the poor with Marlo Lewis. Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out that the…
Washington Times
How government makes the poor poorer
The Washington Times discusses how an enviornmental regulation harms the poor with Marlo Lewis. Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out…
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Capitol Hill Climate Science Dispute Yields Advantage to Skeptics
Earlier this week, American Meteorological Society executive director Keith Seitter clashed with University of Alabama atmospheric scientist John Christy over global warming claims.
Investor's Business Daily
Stephen Moore: Government Makes The Poor Poorer
Investor’s Business Daily discuss how certain enviornmental regulations can hurt the poor with Marlo Lewis. Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute points…
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The Great Greenhouse Rollback Begins
On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump signed his Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth. The E.O. directs agencies to suspend, revise,…
Bloomberg BNA
Is Pruitt’s 2014 Plan a Blueprint for Carbon Rule Replacement?
Bloomberg BNA discusses EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s plan on carbon dioxide reductions with Marlo Lewis. A plan that Scott Pruitt floated when he…
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Trump Must Avoid ‘Read My Lips’-style Blunder on Carbon Tax
Someone should remind Trump that carbon-tax elder statesman and CLC leader James Baker is recycling the fatal advice he gave to President George H. W.
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Concerns over Vintage Climate Change Video Ignore Current Science
A 1991 climate change documentary is being touted by environmental activists as evidence of irresponsible corporate behavior.
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Science Committee Spotlights Major Flaws in Calculating ‘Social Cost’ of Carbon Dioxide
Estimating the "social cost" of carbon is a highly speculative enterprise that should not be guiding federal policy on energy and the environment.
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Failure to Renounce Paris Climate Deal Would Create Major White House Policy Conflict
On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “cancel” U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement. He now appears to be back-pedaling.
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EPA Urged to Reconsider Last-Minute Obama Mileage Rules
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers petitioned Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt this week to re-evaluate greenhouse gas emission standards for new cars that were…
Watchdog.org
Despite impending plant closures, coal’s death could be ‘greatly exaggerated’
Watchdog discusses with Marlo Lewis the current financial struggle of coal plants, and the future the coal industry is facing. Marlo Lewis, a…
One News Now
Spreading the wealth to increase the poor
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Will Trump EPA Challenge California’s De Facto Authority to Regulate Fuel Economy?
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is now Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pruitt led the coalition of 27 states, more than…
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GOP Beltway Veterans Pitch Trump on Carbon Tax
A group of former Republican White House and cabinet officials advocated a carbon tax in a meeting with Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn, Ivanka Trump,…
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Congress Should Nullify Obama’s Unlawful and Wasteful Methane Rule
This week, the U.S. House will consider a Congressional Review Act joint resolution of disapproval to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s methane capture rule.
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Senate Should Disregard Spurious Public Health Charges against EPA Nominee Pruitt
The Senate should disregard accusations that EPA Administrator-designate Scott Pruitt is somehow responsible for asthma rates in his home state of Oklahoma.
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Update on Pruitt Recusal Kerfuffle
During the January 18 Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee hearing on Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s nomination to be Environmental Protection Agency…
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Climate Scientist Judith Curry Files Legal Brief Supporting CEI’s Free Speech Rights
Climate scientist Judith Curry today filed an amicus brief with the D.C. Court of Appeals supporting the petitions for full-court review of a three-judge panel’s…
CNN
Trump has EPA on notice
CNN discusses changes in the Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump administration with Myron Ebell and Marlo Lewis. The EPA under a Donald…
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Trump Reverses Obama Rejection of Keystone XL Pipeline
President Trump today signed executive orders aimed at reviving the Keystone XL Pipeline and rescuing the Dakota Access Pipeline from death by regulatory delay.
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Pruitt Cool under Fire at Senate Confirmation Hearing
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Scott Pruitt to be Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Can Trump, Congress Undo EPA’s Midnight Fuel Economy Regulation?
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Questions Senators Should Ask Rex Tillerson
Tillerson is probably the only influential person President-elect Trump would ever nominate as Secretary of State who supports both a carbon tax and the Paris…
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…
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Can Trump (or Congress) Rescind Obama’s Arctic Drilling Ban?
President Obama yesterday designated “the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas…
Fox News
Here’s why the Senate should help Trump repudiate the Paris climate agreement
The election of Donald J. Trump to be the next president will soon enable congressional advocates of pro-growth energy policy to go on the offense…
The Daily Signal
Here’s the Tool Congress Can Use to Curtail Obama’s Regulation Legacy
The Daily Signal highlights Marlo Lewis’s writing on last minute regualtions from the Enviornmental Protection Agency. Not surprisingly, efforts are being made to enact…
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Can Congress Veto EPA’s Fuel Economy Rush Job?
The Environmental Protection Agency’s recent proposal to keep in place the agency’s model year greenhouse gas emission standards for new motor vehicles is the epitome…
Bloomberg
How Climate Rules Might Fade Away
Bloomberg discusses the Social Cost of Carbon with Marlo Lewis. Trump can’t undo the SCC by fiat. There is established case law requiring…
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Trump Picks Scott Pruitt to Head EPA
Yesterday, President-elect Donald Trump picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The nomination is significant in several ways.
Watchdog.org
Midnight in the garden of good intentions: Small biz fears end-of-administration regulations
Watchdog.org reports on CEI's work to track federal regulations and speaks with Marlo Lewis on the regulatory burden. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which…
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EPA Rushes to Lock in Obama Administration Fuel Economy Standards
The Environmental Protection Agency last Wednesday released its proposed Mid-Term Evaluation (MET) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for model year (MY) 2022-2025 passenger vehicles.
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Drain the Swamp: Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard
“Draining the swamp” includes abolishing the RFS.
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Federal Biofuel Programs Headed for Failure
Today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released two reports on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
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Clean Power Plan Is Dead
David Bookbinder, formerly chief climate counsel for the Sierra Club and now a consultant with the Niskanen Center, is one of the sharpest policy experts…
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Which of Obama’s Midnight Regulations Will Get Rolled Back?
Yesterday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and every Republican House Committee Chairman sent a one-paragraph letter to all executive agencies cautioning them “against finalizing…