Washington Examiner
Big Green: Don’t Get Hit on the Campaign Trail by This Environmental Wrecking Ball
San Francisco Examiner
Big Green: Global warming and EPA’s threat to regulate everything
San Francisco Examiner
A Capper for Christie?
Blog
An Unpaid Internship at the White House
@whitehouse on Twitter alerted me this morning that applications for internships at the White House are due by October 3. I couldn’t help but look…
Newsletter
Household Energy Efficiency Standards, Barr’s Flip-Flop on Ethanol, and the Pledge to America
Blog
Regulation of the Day 151: Water Heaters
The EPA recommends setting your water heater to 20 degrees Fahrenheit. But OSHA recommends setting it to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Why the difference?…
Newsletter
CEI Weekly: Congress Should Liberate to Stimulate
CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features John Berlau's debate with Heather Boushey from the Center for…
Study
Are Corporations Suicidal?
Full Document Available in PDF…
Washington Examiner
Big Green Regulations Suffocate Jobs, Economic Growth
Washington Examiner
U.S. Citizenship: A Brass Ring for Terrorists?
Washington Examiner
High Cost Is Not Worst Thing About Obamacare (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to criticize Obamacare for being even more costly than many of its opponents expected, but the worst things about it…
Newsletter
Carbon Prices, Elizabeth Warren, and the Pledge to America
Blog
An Annoying Regulation for Every Room in the House
The Obama administration isn’t satisfied giving the American people several big things we don’t want — the stimulus package, expanded bailouts, Obamacare — but it…
Blog
CEI Weekly: Congress Should Liberate to Stimulate
CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blogs from CEI's staff. This week features John Berlau's debate with Heather Boushey from the Center for…
Blog
Five Radicals Approved for Judgeships by Senate Judiciary Committee
Five radicals have been approved for judgeships by the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting along party lines. The committee held over for…
Blog
Bob Barr, [un]Principled Supporter of Ethanol
Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nominee, had a piece in yesterday’s Huffington Post titled Extending Ethanol Tax Credit Makes Sense. It’s…
Products
So. SEIU’s Andy Stern Leaving, or Pushed Out
Study
Al Gore’s Crony Capitalist Crusade
Full Document Available in PDF Al Gore’s crusade for carbon emission controls is poised to enrich those with a vested…
Washington Examiner
No Regulation Without Representation
Having excoriated the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress — on this site and elsewhere — for falling short of principles on TARP…
Washington Examiner
Physician-legislator Dr. Ritze Speaks Out Against ObamaCare
Blog
CEI Podcast – September 23, 2010: The Frankenfish Myth
CEI Senior Fellow Greg Conko, author of The Frankenfood Myth, talks about the promise and imagined peril of genetically modified salmon.
Blog
GOP “Pledge to America” Includes Constructive Reg Reform
The House Republican “Pledge to America” unveiled today has been criticized by RedState’s Erick Erickson and other center-right pundits for a lack of specifics.
Blog
Immelt Has Some “Thought Bullets”
Mr. “Ecomagination” — GE’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt — called on the U.S. to put a long-term price on carbon so this country could compete with…
Blog
Obama Financial Czar Appointment Is Unconstitutional, Liberal Law Professor Says
Obama has appointed controversial Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to informally run the powerful, newly-created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that will regulate the…
Newsletter
The ECPA, Green Energy, and Paycheck Unfairness
Blog
Watch the Center on “Stossel” tonight
The Center for Class Action Fairness will be featured on “Stossel” tonight: Fox Business News, 9 PM and midnight Eastern. I talk with John…
State Journal Register
Illinois Must Get Out of Regional Cap-and-Trade
State Journal Register
China Winning Renewable Energy Race
News Release
Free Market Groups Urge Congress to Update U.S. Privacy Laws
Washington, D.C., September 23, 2010 — If you store sensitive files on your personal computer which law enforcement authorities wish to examine, they generally…
State Journal Register
Welcome Back, Congressional Review Act
The Obama administration, congressional Democrats, and their organized labor allies threaten to exacerbate the economy’s weakness by expanding the size of government by leaps and…
Blog
Motion to Stay Makes Strong Case Court Should Overturn EPA Global Warming Rules
Last Thursday (September 16, 2010), three groups, each led by the Coalition for Responsible Regulation (CRR), filed motions with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to “stay” (put…
Comment
Joint-Statement Submitted to House and Senate Committees on Reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
The House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary held separate hearings on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) on September 22, 2010, and September 23,…
Blog
Canada’s Green Energy and Jobs Programs Butt Up Against WTO Rules, says Japan
Do green energy and green jobs mandates run counter to World Trade Organization rules? Japan says “yes” in relation to Canada’s program for renewable…
Letters
Fearing Voter Disapproval, Senate Resurrects DISCLOSE Act Ahead of November Elections
Full Document Available in PDF We write on behalf of the millions of taxpayers and concerned citizens represented by our respective…
Study
Cap-and-Trade Schemes are Not Markets
Cap-and-trade supporters are trying to get Republican lawmakers on board a new cap-and-trade policy, this time it's "market-based."…
Blog
Many Free Checking Accounts Disappearing Due to Dodd-Frank Financial “Reform” Law
The so-called financial “reform” bill that passed Congress — the Dodd-Frank Act — is wiping out many free checking accounts, since…
Blog
Unfair ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ Shafts Workers With Hazardous Jobs
We wrote earlier about the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill of Orwellian deception that would result in employees unfairly receiving equal pay…
Newsletter
Cybersecurity, Distracted Driving, and Car Free Day
State Journal Register
GM Caught in a Lie, Still Owes The United States Billions
National Review
LaHood: Distracted Regulating
My Northwest
Car Free Day not for Everyone
Blog
Study: Regulations Cost $1.75 Trillion in 2008
State and local regulations, of course, cost extra.
Blog
America: Land of the Free?
Prior to arriving in America I imagined this country as being the land of the free. But somehow, it turned out this was a wrongly…
Blog
Insurers Drop Children’s Health Insurance Due to Obamacare
Insurers have stopped writing children-only health insurance policies due to mandates in Obamacare that ignored basic principles of economics. So if…
Blog
Distracted Driving Kills, But What About Dysfunctional Policy?
The Obama administration, having succeeded in bringing about economic recovery and having nation-built a democratic Afghanistan, has set its sights on another pressing…
My Northwest
What’s the best way to create more jobs?
Unleash the power of small business. The US Senate just passed a bill called the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act. The thrust of…
My Northwest
An Industry, not a Bureaucracy
Online security problems are real, but the increasing tendency to treat cybersecurity as a government-spearheaded function asks for big trouble. Case in point is the…
News Release
Protest World Car-Free Day — Take a Drive!
Washington, D.C., September 21, 2010 — Here we go again – another year, another “World Car-Free Day,” the annual day dedicated to life without…
Blog
General Motors Now Admits It Didn’t Repay Bailout Money
Contrary to its claims in TV ads earlier this year, General Motors has now admitted that it did not repay…
Comment
Supplement to Complaint of Deceptive Advertising Against General Motors Company
Full Document Available in PDF After General Motors admitted in the news media that the…