Comment
Comment Letter on EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standard
CEI's Marlo Lewis' comments submitted to the EPA on the agency's proposed "Carbon Pollution Standard."…
National Journal
Nix the U-MACT
The U.S. Senate will vote Wednesday on legislation (S.J.Res.37) to overturn the EPA’s Utility MACT Rule, a regulation establishing first-ever maximum achievable control technology (MACT)…
Forbes
Big Costs, Illusory Benefits: Why Congress Should Nix The Utility MACT
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote soon on legislation (S.J.Res.37) sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) to overturn one of the most costly regulations…
WVNS TV
Machin, Republicans Fight Mercury Emission Rule
From WVNSTV and The State Journal: The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report called "All Pain and No Gain" earlier this month stating…
Study
All Pain and No Gain
The MACT Rule supposedly reduces risk to unborn children by lowering methylmercury concentrations in non-commercial fish. But the EPA provides no empirical evidence that any…
One News Now
Has Ethanol Helped Lower Gas Prices?
From Chris Woodward's column on OneNewsNow: A new study claims the growth in ethanol production over the last 12 years has reduced wholesale…
Reason
Obama Is Losing the Keystone Pipeline Battle
From Ronald Bailey's article in Reason: As analyst Marlo Lewis from the free-market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out…
One News Now
New Cars Affordable to Fewer People
From Chris Woodward's column on OneNewsNow: Marlo Lewis, senior fellow for the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
One News Now
Why the Rush? Re: Solyndra Loan
From Chris Woodward's article in OneNewsNow: Marlo Lewis, senior fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute's (CEI) Center for Energy and Environment, says the…
Legal News Line
The EPA’s Encroachment of Power
From Michael P. Tremoglie's article in Legal Newsline: The past few months have seen the EPA criticized by the very same court which…
National Journal
Carbon Pollution Standard: 4 Ways Weird
EPA’s proposed “Carbon Pollution Standard” requires new fossil-fuel electric generating units (EGUs) to emit no more than 1,000 lbs of carbon dioxide (CO2) per megawatt…
National Review
An EPA Power Grab
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) claim that the Obama administration’s model year (MY) 2017 and later fuel-economy…
National Journal
One Law for Me, Another for Thee
One News Now
Drilling in Alaska a “No-Brainer”
From Chris Woodward's column on OneNewsNow: "What's so terrible about this is that if Bill Clinton had just let this go through in…
Renew America
U.S. Hostages Abroad and High Gas Prices at Home–It’s Jimmy Carter Redux
From Alan Caruba's column on RenewAmerica: The U.S. government has been messing around with the fuel economy program — believe it or not…
Comment
Comment Letter on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Economy Standards
Full Document Available in PDF Re: 2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy…
Heritage
Clean Energy: Cap and Trade Lite
Washington Post
Gingrich’s Out-Of-This-World Ideas
Human Events
Ethanol Subsidies: Down But Not Out
Study
EPA Regulation of Fuel Economy: Congressional Intent or Climate Coup?
Full Document Available in PDF In May 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a rule setting standards for motor vehicle…
Human Events
Biggest Hidden Cost Is to Democracy
(The Environmental Forum is a publication of the Environmental Law Institute.) The biggest hidden cost of the Obama administration’s fuel economy agenda, as…
New York Times
After Three Decades, Tax Credit for Ethanol Expires
Orange County Register
Global Warming Alarmists Try Again
Orange County Register
Secretary Chu’s ‘Clean Energy Race’ Blather
The House Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee grilled Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu for four hours yesterday about his role in approving…
Orange County Register
Dissing the National Interest
For President Obama, approving the Keystone XL Pipeline should have been a no-brainer. All the State Department had to do was conclude the…
Orange County Register
Why Obama Officials Had to Lie to Congress About Fuel Economy Standards
Republicans were in an “Internet uproar” last week over a false report that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson had called them “jack-booted thugs.” Meanwhile, deeply…
Comment
Marlo Lewis Testimony Before House Oversight & Government Reform Committee on CAFE Standards, EPA Power Grab
Full Document Available in PDF In the aftermath of a deal between the Obama administration…
Politico
EPA’s McCarthy: Clean Air Rules Fuel Jobs
Detroit News
House to Hold Hearing on 54.5 mpg Plan
Right Side News
The EPA Gets Caught in a Big Fat Lie
Master Resource
Andrew Dessler Challenges Rick Perry: How Should Perry Respond?
Study
The EPA Runs Amuck
Full Document Available in PDF On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives…
Master Resource
Bureaucrats Have Gone Rogue
G.O.P. presidential candidates should emphasize that reining in the E.P.A. is a constitutional imperative. Yes, Americans are worried about jobs and the economy, but arguing…
One News Now
Beware the Environmental Left-Wing Agenda
The Pelican Post
Louisiana Remains on the Receiving End of Washington D.C.’s Worst Regulations
Comment
Statement of Marlo Lewis On S. 388 Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, for the opportunity to submit testimony on S. 388, the Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure…
Study
Reef Madness: The Next Big Green Litigation Campaign?
Now that Russia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Australia is the only industrialized country besides the United States to reject the U.N.-sponsored climate treaty. However,…
Letters
Comments on Workshop to Modify the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program (VRGGP)
Many thanks to you and your colleagues for conducting an informative workshop on the Bush Administration’s proposal to modify the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases…
Comment
Request for comment on the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program,
On February 14, 2002, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with other department and agency heads, to propose improvements in the 1605(b)…
Comment
Specific Comments on Menendez Climate Change Amendment Findings
Finding (1) Evidence continues to build that increases in atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are contributing to global climate change. This statement is pure…
Letters
Letter on Voluntary Reporting Comments
I am writing on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit free-market public policy group based in Washington, D.C. This letter responds to…
The Pelican Post
Mandated Mischief: Obama’s 54.5 MPG Standard
President Obama today announced a deal with 13 automakers to boost new-car fuel economy standards from 35.5 mpg in 2016 to 54.5 mpg in…
Blog
The ALEC Controversy — Much Ado About Nothing
Detroit News
Michigan Target of EPA Carbon Diktat
Reuters
Revamped Vehicle Fuel Economy Stickers Add GHG, Savings Data
Mercury News
Informative New Window Labels for 2013 Vehicles Unveiled
The New American
High Gas Prices Set to Cause Double Dip in Economy
NCPA
Cutting Oil Company Tax Breaks Could Push Prices Up, Analysts Say
Heritage
Drivers Don’t Need a Mandate for Choice
Heritage
Coburn Moves to Eliminate Ethanol Subsidies
Heartland
The Safety of Nuclear Energy Generation
Heritage
We Need a Real Fix to the EPA’s CO2 Power Grab
Heritage
EPA’s Greenhouse Power Grab: Baucus’s Revenge, Democracy’s Peril
Last week, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) introduced an amendment to S. 493, a bill reauthorizing small business research and technology programs. Baucus’s amendment would essentially codify…
Trading Charts
Coalition of Right/Left Groups Support Coburn/Cardin Bill Ending Ethanol Subsidy
Trading Charts
Put the REINS on EPA
EPA’s end-run around democracy — the agency’s hijacking of climate policy via the backdoor of Clean Air Act regulations — is meeting stiff resistance on Capitol…
Trading Charts
Will Congress Stop EPA’s End-Run around Democracy?
Cap-and-tax may be dead in Congress but the Kyoto agenda of stealth energy taxes marches on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Although the Clean…
Comment
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf…
Washington Examiner
Obama pushing energy agenda already rejected by voters
Blog
Don’t Believe Everything You Think!
National Post
Kent’s deft touch will be an asset
National Post
The Environmental Protection Agency’s End-Run Around Democracy
In a recent issue of the Daily Caller, reporter Jonathan Strong asserts that EPA’s global warming regulations are “no end-run around Congress,” because “This time Congress…
National Post
Will the Supreme Court Empower Trial Lawyers to ‘Legislate’ Climate Policy?
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from five electric utilities in a case called State of Connecticut v. American Electric Power. …
National Post
Ethanol’s Policy Privileges: Heading for History’s Dustbin?
The lame-duck Congress has a rare opportunity to avoid $25-30 billion in new deficit spending over the next five years, ease consumers’ pain at the…
Letters
Coalition letter: Allow the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit to Expire
Full Document Avalible in PDF A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing the subsidies to…
The New American
Groups Continue to Urge for Expiration of Ethanol Subsidies
Heartland
EPA Greenhouse Gas Restrictions Raise Concerns About Economic Costs
Heartland
EPA Greenhouse Gas Restrictions Raise Concerns About Economic Costs
Shop Floor
EPA: Today Texas, Tomorrow the Nation
Shop Floor
Cap-and-tax is Dead but Kyotoism is Alive and Well at the EPA
Cap-and-tax may be dead in Congress but the Kyoto agenda of stealth energy taxes marches on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Although the Clean…
The New American
EPA Power Grab over Greenhouse Gases Threatens Economy
American Thinker
The EPA’s ‘Climate Change’ Tyranny
National Review
Obama’s Tax Cut for Rich Oil Companies
Letters
Coalition Letter Against the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit
Full Document Available in PDF To Members of the United States Congress: …
Energy Tomorrow
Is EPA Protecting Human Health?
Blog
EPA Ozone Standard Would Destroy 7.3 Million Jobs, Study Estimates
A recent study by the Manufacturer’s Alliance/MAPI finds that EPA’s proposed revision of the “primary” (health-based) national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for ozone (O3) would have…
Blog
Sen. Baucus, I Salute You! OK, I Will Salute You If…
In a message titled, “EPA WILL REGULATE GLOBAL WARMING IN STATES WITH OR WITHOUT AUTHORITY,” the ever-vigilant Maryam Brown of the Senate Republican Policy Committee reports:…
Blog
Obama’s Rooftop Solar Panel: Back to the Future Carter
Energy Secy. Steven Chu kicked off a three-day federal “sustainability” symposium today by announcing that the Department of Energy will install solar rooftop water-heating panels…
Blog
Prop 23 Will Boost California Employment By Half Million In 2012, 1.3 Million in 2020, Study Estimates
If approved by the California electorate this November, Proposition 23 will suspend the implementation of AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act, until the State’s unemployment rate…
Energy Tomorrow
Let’s You and Him Fight
Cap-and-trade is dead because the public finally caught on that it is a stealth energy tax, a big reason being that it makes coal –…
San Francisco Examiner
Big Green: Global warming and EPA’s threat to regulate everything
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…
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
Will Grading Cars Dispell or Enhance “MPG Illusion”?
As discussed in my recent post “Obama’s EPA: School Marms R Us,” EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSHA) are…
Blog
Greenhouse Protection Racket — An Update
Last week, the Obama Administration filed a brief on behalf of industry petitioners urging the Supreme Court to vacate an appeals court decision (State of Connecticut et…
Blog
Obama’s EPA: School Marms R Us
The Obama Administration’s EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSHA) are proposing new rules “labeling each passenger car with a government letter grade from A…
San Francisco Examiner
Obama Urges Court to Vacate AGW Decision. I Smell a Rat (or Two!)
Last week, in a brief filed on behalf of six large electric power producers, the Obama administration urged the Supreme Court to vacate…
Blog
National Security Risks of Biofuel Mandates — Corrected*
Those amazing Idsos who run the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change review a paper recently published in AMBIO: A Journal…
Blog
Is GOP Opposition to Cap-and-Trade Self-Contradictory?
Betsy Moler of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership and Phil Sharp of Resources for the Future would like Republicans to think so. After all, if…
Blog
BlueGreen Alliance Forgets their Aristophanes
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) mothballed cap-and-trade legislation when it became apparent that he could not muster the three-fifths super-majority required to end a…
Blog
Primer on Extreme Weather Mortality
The indomitable Indur Goklany — “Goks” to his friends — has just posted a primer on extreme weather-related mortality entitled, Global Death Toll From Extreme…
Blog
Spinning the Defeat of Cap-and-Trade
Barring the trickery of a lame duck conference committee, cap-and-trade is dead in the 111th Congress. Some blame Obama for not taking a…
Blog
Not So Ancient History – How CEI (and friends) Nixed Early Action Crediting (on three separate occasions)
I’m posting three relatively obscure items by which CEI and friends killed a mischievous Trojan Horse strategy for Kyoto-style regulation variously known as credit for early action, credit for voluntary…
Blog
TCEQ to EPA: Don’t Mess with Texas
In a blistering letter published earlier in the week, the head of Texas’s environmental agency and the State’s attorney general told the U.S. Environmental Protection…
Blog
Rockefeller Bill – Is It Good Enough?
Blog
Will the Party of No Foil the Half-Baked Greenhouse Machiavellis?
Many have already written the obituary for the Kerry-Lieberman bill and other cap-and-trade legislation in the current Congress. In today’s Politico, however, columnist Darren Samuelsohn…
Blog
Blowout Prevention Act – Will Rs Get Buyer’s Remorse? (Modified July 18, 2010)
Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved H.R. 5626, Chairman Henry Waxman’s Blowout Prevention Act. Here’s the version of the bill…
Spectator
Frankly, More Sense is Spoken by His Plants
Blog
“[Cap-and-trade] is not in my vocabulary” — Reid
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will bring a sweeping energy and climate bill to the floor as early as the week of July 26, including…
Blog
Mommy, Are We Beyond Petroleum Yet?
No, Sylvester, not even close! As noted in a previous post, on Earth Day (April 22), a Navy F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet became the first…
Spectator
The Greenhouse Protection Racket
“Are you gonna come along quietly, or do I have to let the California Air Resources Board (CARB) muss ya up?” That was pretty…