News Release
Murray: British People Will Pay the Cost of May Government’s Incompetent Handling of Brexit
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced a tentative deal for the UK’s exit from the European Union after a 2016 national referendum ended…
LifeZette
Virginia Attorney General Faces Lawsuit For Hiring Privately Funded Environmental Activists
LifeZette cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (shown above right) was…
The Washington Times
Virginia AG Hit With Lawsuit For Efforts To Bring Aboard Bloomberg-Funded Climate Prosecutors
The Washington Times cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring was hit with…
Reason
Trump Brags About Deregulation, But A Huge Number Of His Deregulatory Actions Were Started Under Obama
Reason cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on Trump deregulation policy. President Donald Trump likes to brag about his record of cutting regulations.
Blog
Massachusetts Teachers Union Dues Do Not ‘Stay Local’
Labor unions like to promote the narrative that dues payments stay local. If you peruse union websites, a consistent message appears that reads something like this:…
GOP USA
‘Union Business On The Taxpayer’s Dime’: Trump Administration Cracks Down On ‘Official Time’ At VA
GOP USA cited CEI’s Policy Analyst Trey Kovacs on Virginia union policy. The Department of Veterans Affairs this week will stop paying employees in…
The Daily Caller
Think Tank Sues Virginia For Docs Showing Extent Of Bloomberg’s Climate Crusade
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. A Washington, D.C.-based think tank filed a…
The American Spectator
Blaming An Evil Corporation For Conspiring With Mother Nature
The American Spectator cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s Law Enforcement for Rent report. George Soros-funded government attorney in Texas has been leading…
News Release
CEI Asks EPA to Withdraw “Premature and Speculative” Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment, Proposed Determination
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free market public policy group, today filed a petition asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to either correct or…
News Release
CEI Sues Virginia Attorney General Seeking Information on Privately-Funded Prosecutor
Virginia citizen Christopher Horner and the free-market public policy group Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today sued Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring under Virginia’s Freedom of…
Blog
Repeal Barriers to Competition: Abolish Antitrust
My colleague Iain Murray has some excellent new content out today in the form of a Web Memo titled “How Antitrust Regulation Hinders Innovation and…
Liberty Unyielding
New York Governor Violated First Amendment Through Political Harassment
Liberty Unyielding cited CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Director Myron Ebell in reference to Attorney General Claude Walker’s subpoena case. New York Governor…
Liberty Unyielding
Protectionism Kills Jobs And Candidacies
Liberty Unyielding cited CEI on Trumps deregulation policy. In the 2016 election, the GOP benefited from farm-state opposition to the Obama administration’s bureaucratic…
Inside Sources
What’s Next For Net Neutrality In A Democrat-Controlled House?
Inside Sources cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Ryan Radia on net neutrality. Ryan Radia, a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), however,…
Liberty Unyielding
Tuesday’s Election Was Nothing For Republicans To Smile About
Liberty Unyielding cited CEI on Trump’s deregulation policy. The ideological composition of the judiciary matters for the economy. Yesterday, a judge blocked the Trump…
Reason
The FDA’s Plan To Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes From Most Stores Is Unfair And Dangerous
Reason cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on the FDA’s ban of flavored e-cigarettes. In an effort to curtail underage vaping, the Food…
Reflector
Funding From Green Activists Raises Ethical Questions
Reflector cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on 2017 draft agreement between the Center and the New York AG. In August 2017 the…
One News Page
FDA To Restrict E-Cigarette Flavors
One News Page cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on FDA restriction of flavored e-cigarettes. Competitive Enterprise Institute consumer policy expert Michele Minton:…
Blog
Senate Should Move Forward with Confirmation Votes on Buerkle, Others
With the 2018 election behind us, it’s time to look for opportunities to advance freedom and economic well-being. I don't expect much to happen congressionally given…
Blog
Dockless Bikes, E-Scooters, and Urban Transportation Policy Hypocrisy
In August 2017, I wrote about the municipal government cronyism and monopoly franchise agreements driving the controversy over unsubsidized dockless bikesharing companies. In the rapidly…
Study
How Antitrust Regulation Hinders Innovation and Competition
Few economic concepts elicit such strong reactions as that of monopoly, and the policy intended to address it—antitrust regulations (called competition policy in the European…
Blog
National Labor Relations Board Member Cleared of Ethics Conflict
Republican appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have become the target of an ongoing campaign by Democrats to silence their voices and ability…
Blog
This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
The midterm elections finally happened. The good news is no more political ads for a while; the bad news is that a bunch of politicians…
Blog
The Montreal Protocol—Did it Really Make a Difference?
An executive summary of the latest scientific compendium on ozone depletion, the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018 is now out. The report was released in…
Blog
Judge Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline
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…
Blog
Happy 50th Anniversary to Reason
Congratulations to our friends at Reason magazine (and the Reason Foundation) on their golden anniversary. Some members of the Competitive Enterprise Institute team were recently…
Blog
Lame Duck Session Should Undo Crippling Rules on Middle-Class Investors and Entrepreneurs
Next year, with Congress divided once again, bipartisan legislation will be the order of the day. Indeed for passage of both chambers, it will be…
Long Room
University Of California Sued Over Stonewalling Of ‘Climate Litigation’ Documents
Long Room cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner in relation to the California Board of Regents climate litigation suit. The University of California…
News Release
FDA Ban on Flavored E-Cigarette Sales Will Put Lives at Risk
The FDA is expected to impose imminent new restrictions on the sale of e-cigarettes by convenience stores, gas stations, and online, according to news reports.
Blog
What Do the Midterms Mean for Carbon Taxes?
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.
Citation
Veterans Department Puts Medical Professionals Back to Work for Veterans Instead of Labor Unions
The U.S. Department of Veterans has long been paying certain employees to conduct labor union business on the taxpayer dime, but today the agency announced…
Blog
What Do the Midterms Mean for Big Tech?
For the big technology firms, the midterm elections were never going to change much. Whatever the result, they were going to face more scrutiny over the…
News Release
CEI Sues University of California for Information on UCLA Law School Involvement with Climate Litigation Industry
The free-market public policy group Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today sued the Board of Regents of the University of California under California’s Public Records Act…
Blog
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Needs to Rewrite Payday Loan Rule
Last week, I wrote a blog post on how the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection could go about narrowly rewriting the payday loan rule. This would…
Bloomberg BNA
High Court Wants More On Standing From Google Parties
Bloomberg BNA cited CEI’s Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. The U.S. Supreme Court wants more information from the parties and the U.S.
Blog
U.S. Officials Wary of United Nations Ozone Treaty Negotiations in Ecuador
The 30th meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) is being held in Quito…
Forbes
The Midterm Election Results Should Inspire A New Trump Executive Order On Federal Regulations
As part of its economic reform agenda, the Trump administration emphasized cutting red tape. It reaffirmed Office of Management and Budget (OMB) cost-benefit review of significant agency rules…
Blog
Infrastructure in Divided Congress Must Include Regulatory, Permitting Reforms
Even before the results were in, the election-night talking heads were speculating on what, if anything, congressional Democrats and Republicans can agree on and get…
Blog
What Do the Midterms Mean for Financial Services?
Blog
Will New Congress Seek Reforms to Highway Taxation?
Could the 116th Congress be the perfect storm for mileage-based user fees? With a divided Congress and with the current surface transportation law expiring at…
Autobody News
Trump’s EPA Rattles Self-Driving Car Industry By Picking ‘Winners And Losers,’ Critics Claim
Autobody News cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on EPA self-driving car Other manufacturers such as Tesla and Mercedes-Benz raised concerns over the…
Blog
What Do the Midterms Mean for Labor and Employment?
The primary labor and employment statutes—National Labor Relations Act and Fair Labor Standards Act—have not been substantially amended for decades. A divided government is not…
Patch Media
Michigan Senate & Governor’s Races
Patch Media cited CEI’s score of Senator Stabenow. Stabenow will receive $159,400 per year from her 22 years in Congress ($174,000 annual salary)…
The Washington Times
Building New Free Trade Alliances
Since the start of the Trump administration, trade has been front and center. The United States has begun raising tariffs and other trade barriers against…
Inside Sources
Displaced Workers Could Benefit From Apprenticeships, but for One Labor Regulation in the Way
By most measures, the economy is booming. Unemployment is at a 49-year low of 3.7 percent. The economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.5 percent last quarter.
The Wall Street Journal
State AGs for Rent
The Wall Street Journal cited the work of Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner.
Blog
What Do the Midterms Mean for Trade?
Trade was a highly contentious issue during President Trump’s first two years. He has doubled tariffs, other countries have enacted equivalent retaliatory tariffs, and tensions…
Blog
What Do the Midterms Mean for Regulatory Reform?
A divided Congress probably means the status quo will reign on regulation. This is a mixed bag from a free-market perspective. President Trump made…
Cayman Financial Review
The Administrative State
King George III, decried Thomas Jefferson in America’s Declaration of Independence, “has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to…
Blog
AFL-CIO’s Own Workers Threaten a Strike
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka frequently lambasts companies for not “sharing the wealth” with employees. Joining a union is a surefire way to see an increase…
The Patriot Post
Airline Deregulation At 40: Flying The Friendly Skies
The Patriot Post cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on airline deregulation. Despite those fears about safety and loss of service to some…
Blog
This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
Regulators were relatively quiet during the week before the midterm election, though CEI wasn’t, with our colleague Ted Frank arguing a case before the Supreme…
Blog
Environmental Groups Petition EPA to Prevent Damage from Renewable Fuel Standard
EarthJustice, the National Wildlife Federation, and other environmental pressure groups have petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to better police the land use requirements in…
Blog
China Caught Cheating on Montreal Protocol Ahead of Major Meeting
A recent study has found that emissions of carbon tetrachloride from East Asia are on the rise, even though production of this chemical has…
Blog
Hole in the ACE: Legal Flaws in EPA’s Proposed ‘Clean Power Plan’ Replacement
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…
Blog
RegData Tracks Extent of Federal and State Regulation
This week our old friend Chad Reese of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University hosts a new podcast about Mercatus’ RegData…
News Release
October Brought 250,000 New Jobs, Despite Bad Trade Restrictions
The American economy added 250,000 jobs in October, the U.S. Labor Department announced today. The unemployment rate was meanwhile unchanged from last month, at 3.7…
Blog
Wealth in Disguise: Why Halloween Costumes Are Better Than Ever
Before we bid farewell to Halloween week 2018 for good, let’s take a chance to glean an economic lesson from the piles of candy, cardboard…
ABC News
The Trump Economy: Why New-Car Prices Are Approaching Record Highs
ABC News cited CEI’s Fellow Ryan Young on average price increase of vehicles. $250: The average price increase of a new car due to…
Reuters
Justices Revisit Spokeo Standing At Oral Arguments Over Cy Pres Settlements
Reuters cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. (Reuters) – A funny thing happened on the way…
Bloomberg News
High Court Could Shoot Down Google Settlement On Standing
Bloomberg News cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Ted Frank, who brought the case before the…
Blog
ACE-ing the Repeal of the Clean Power Plan
The Trump administration is in the midst of moving forward with its proposed Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, a replacement for the Obama-era…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Opposing Section 202 of S.3278 of the Protecting Taxpayers Act
The 17 undersigned organizations together ask Congress to oppose Section 202 of S. 3278, the Protecting Taxpayers Act, and similar efforts to grant the IRS…
Comment
CEI Comments in Response to OST Regarding Impact of Automated Vehicle Technologies on Workforce
On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the Office of the Secretary of Transportation’s (“OST”) Request…
Blog
Can Self-Driving Taxis Reduce Urban Poverty?
In last year’s omnibus spending package, Congress allocated up to $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to conduct a study on the…
Forbes
Money For Nothing: SCOTUS Could Stop Class Action Funds From Being Steered To Non-Parties
Forbes cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Competitive Enterprise Institute attorney …
The Washington Free Beacon
SCOTUS Hears Case Against Google Giving Away Settlement Money To Friends
The Washington Free Beacon cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. “This…
CNET
Supreme Court Appears Divided On Google Settlement That Gave To Charities
CNET cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Critics like Frank take issue with settlements that only…
Comment
CEI Comments on EPA ACE Rule
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…
The Register
Supreme Court Raises Eyebrows At Google’s Cozy $8.5m Legal Deal
The Register cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. The announcement caused howls of…
Market Watch
Supreme Court Scrutinizing Class Action Settlements That Leave Consumers Empty-Handed
Market Watch cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. “This is potentially billions of dollars going from…
The Washington Post
Supreme Court Considers Class-Action Suit In Which Millions Receive $0
The Washington Post cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. “Why would it have been an abuse…
Courthouse News Service
High Court Signals Rejection Of Settlement Snaggle
Courthouse News Service cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Arguing before the Supreme Court on Wednesday,…
USA Today
Supreme Court Divided Over Google Class-Action Deal That Rewarded Lawyers, Nonprofits … But Not Customers
USA Today cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Franks on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Ted Frank, who directs the Center for Class Action Fairness…
Reuters
UPDATE 1-U.S. Supreme Court Divided Over How Google Settled Privacy Case
Reuters cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. While wrestling over the privacy aspects of Google searches,…
Bloomberg News
NLRB Dodging Questions On ‘Joint Employer’ Rule, Democrats Say
Bloomberg News cited CEI’s Policy Analyst Trey Kovacs on the National Labor Relations Board’s ‘Joint Employer’ Rule. The NLRB responded to those separate…
Washington Examiner
Supreme Court’s review of class-action settlements could have huge implications for consumers
But then, imagine that when the attorneys settle the case, they take all the money for themselves, plus a few other class members, and…
WSJ
Class-Action ‘Charity’ Racket
WSJ cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos. Google proposed to settle the case by…
USA Today
Google It: Supreme Court Tackles Class Action Settlement That Left Nothing For Millions Of Online Customers
USA Today cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank’s Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Google users got nothing. Enter Ted Frank, who…
Bloomberg News
Charities Could Be Out $5.3M If SCOTUS Rejects Google Deal
Bloomberg News cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Melissa Hoyoak and Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Frank v. Gaos. Holyoak and fellow petitioner Ted Frank…
Northern California Record
California, Other States Grapple Over Climate Change Litigation
Northern California Record cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on climate change litigation. Into this charged debate comes Chris Horner, a senior fellow…
Blog
Feds, Telecom Industry, Mayors Pledge Cooperation on Building Smart Cities
Charter Communications here in D.C. held a fascinating policy event this morning, “Partnering with Communities Today to Build the Smart Cities of Tomorrow.” The…
News Release
Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Unfair Class Action Settlement that Gives Millions to Attorneys, Zero Dollars to Class Members
Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a landmark case brought by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) challenging…
Blog
Q&A on Frank v. Gaos, Class Action Lawsuit Headed to Supreme Court
Q: What is the main question at issue in Frank v. Gaos? A: The Supreme Court will consider whether a class action settlement is fair under…
Blog
How to Rewrite the Payday Loan Rule
Last Friday, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection announced that it will be reconsidering its’ controversial Payday, Vehicle Title, and High-Cost Installment Loan rule.
Real Clear Policy
Can DOJ Define the Crimes It Prosecutes? The Court Must Decide.
Herman Avery Gundy was convicted of sexual assault in Maryland and served time in the state’s prison system. After his prison term ended, Gundy failed…
CEI Planet
CEI Planet Summer 2018
Comment
CEI Comments on Joint DOT/EPA Proposed SAFE Vehicles Rule
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…
CUtoday
Think Tank Challenges Constitutionality Of Bureau
CUtoday cited CEI’s amicus brief on State National Bank of Big Spring v. Mnuchin case. COLUMBUS, Ohio—The Buckeye Institute is the latest to…
Law 360
High Court Case Threatens Key Source Of Legal Aid Funding
Law 360 cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos case. Frank and Holyoak, the petitioners…
Washington Examiner
The Russians Are Meddling In Our Politics – And Michael Bloomberg Is Helping Them
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on environmental SAAG scheam. Then there is the work of Michael Bloomberg. Money from Bloomberg…
Legal News Line
Supreme Court Case To Decide Issue Of Class Action Funds Directed To ‘Pet Causes’
Legal News Line cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Franks and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos. The U.S. Supreme Court on…
CNS News
Economy Grew By Healthy 3.5% In Most Recent Quarter
CNS News cite CEI’s Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on Trump deregulation. As Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute noted in 2017, Trump has…
One News Now
Climate Change Activists Making Energy The New Tobacco?
One News Now cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on Attorney General lawsuit against Exxon. Chris Horner of the …
Blog
This Week in Ridiculous Regulations
Lots of contentious issues are in the news, from the midterm election to immigration to a disturbing rash of bombs sent to politicians and media…
Blog
New York State Latest to Sue Over Climate Change
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood launched a lawsuit on October 24th against ExxonMobil Corporation over the company’s treatment of climate change-related risks and costs. The…
Blog
Greens Want to Hide the Truth about Chlorpyrifos
Environmental crusades to ban pesticides often exaggerate chemical risks with little, if any, consideration of how bans undermine food production. And there is a reason…
Products
Is Capitalism Destroying Democracy?
When Duke University historian Nancy MacLean released her book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America” last Summer,…
Products
CEI Comments on Incentives for Connected or Autonomous Vehicles
On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (“CEI”), I respectfully submit these comments in response to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (“NHTSA”) and Environmental…
Blog
Food Truck Freedom Marches on in North Carolina
There is good news for fans of the Poor Piggy’s BBQ food truck. The town of Carolina Beach, North Carolina has reversed its anticompetitive…