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‘With you or without you’ – The growing rift between unions and Democrats

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‘With you or without you’ – The growing rift between unions and Democrats

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/20/2025

A rift is growing between the Democratic Party and the labor movement. It was caused in large part by the party’s inability to move the…

Labor and Employment

Free the Economy podcast: The Reagan legacy in the 21st century with Dan Rothschild

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Free the Economy podcast: The Reagan legacy in the 21st century with Dan Rothschild

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/20/2025

In this week’s episode we cover FreedomFest 2025, the FDA’s war on effective sunblock, good news about critical minerals, and Walmart’s…

Deregulation

FDA can’t stomach fluoride and doesn’t want you to, either

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FDA can’t stomach fluoride and doesn’t want you to, either

  • By: Jeremy Nighohossian
  • 06/18/2025

On May 13, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would begin a process intended to exclude ingestible prescription fluoride products for…

Health and Safety

GENIUS Act needs free market fixes before it graduates to law

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GENIUS Act needs free market fixes before it graduates to law

  • By: John Berlau
  • 06/18/2025

Yesterday, the US Senate voted to approve a regulatory regime for stablecoins. This vote represents one of the most significant milestones for cryptocurrency since the…

Banking and Finance

45Q tax credit could help kill off power plants and reliable electricity

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45Q tax credit could help kill off power plants and reliable electricity

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 06/17/2025

The 45Q tax credit serves as an incentive for power plants and industrial facilities to invest in carbon capture and sequestration/storage.The Inflation Reduction Act…

Energy

The week in regulations: CAFE standards and Christmas tree promotions

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The week in regulations: CAFE standards and Christmas tree promotions

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/16/2025

Israel launched a military strike against Iran. US Senator Alex Padilla was detained for trying to ask a question at a Department of Homeland Security…

Deregulation

The CFPB director’s dominance over adjudication must end

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The CFPB director’s dominance over adjudication must end

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 06/13/2025

On behalf of CEI, I submitted a new comment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) calling on the Bureau to rescind one…

Law and Litigation

CEI’s The Surge: Clean Power Plan repeal, CRA resolutions and more

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CEI’s The Surge: Clean Power Plan repeal, CRA resolutions and more

  • By: Daren Bakst, Jacob Tomasulo
  • 06/13/2025

If you are interested in analysis and perspective on current energy and environmental issues, then we encourage you to subscribe to this new publication and…

Energy and Environment

Congress should deregulate if it will not tackle entitlement spending 

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Congress should deregulate if it will not tackle entitlement spending 

  • By: Carter Johnson
  • 06/12/2025

The Senate is currently reviewing the House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill in an effort to have President Trump sign the bill into…

Deregulation

Trump, Congress overturn California’s gas-car ban

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Trump, Congress overturn California’s gas-car ban

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/12/2025

President Trump today signed three Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions of disapproval to overturn Biden administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waivers greenlighting California’s plans…

Energy

UN report says tree planting can result in more greenhouse gas emissions

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UN report says tree planting can result in more greenhouse gas emissions

  • By: Jacob Tomasulo
  • 06/12/2025

It is common knowledge that trees act as carbon sinks. Through the process of photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen that we…

Climate

New nuclear executive orders come at a time when power demand is rising

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New nuclear executive orders come at a time when power demand is rising

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 06/12/2025

On Friday, May 23, President Trump signed four executive orders related to nuclear power. These lay the groundwork for reforming nuclear regulation and enabling nuclear power…

Energy

AI boom power surge: Plants revived, fossil fuels reconsidered

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AI boom power surge: Plants revived, fossil fuels reconsidered

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 06/12/2025

Rising power demand is causing retired power plants to be reopened and repurposed.  Power demand in the United States was relatively stagnant for many years,…

Energy

Free the Economy podcast: Drug costs and benefits with Sally Pipes

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Free the Economy podcast: Drug costs and benefits with Sally Pipes

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/12/2025

In this week’s episode we cover reforms to the Endangered Species Act, attacks on US tech firms, nuclear power innovation,…

Deregulation

The MAHA Report is a missed opportunity

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The MAHA Report is a missed opportunity

  • By: Jeremy Nighohossian
  • 06/11/2025

Less than six months into the new administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has produced its Make Our Children Healthy Again…

Health and Safety

Your family’s share of federal red tape last year was…

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Your family’s share of federal red tape last year was…

  • By: Jeremy Lott, Ryan Smith
  • 06/11/2025

Most people can see taxes on their pay stubs, but there’s another sort of tax that’s much less visible: the cost of government regulations. These…

Deregulation

Matt Ridley’s wisdom on trust and trade 

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Matt Ridley’s wisdom on trust and trade 

  • By: Nadav Sternheim
  • 06/11/2025

In 1834, Charles Darwin encountered a group of natives in Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America. Although both parties were unable…

Trade and International

Africa (and America) need free trade and deregulation, not generosity

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Africa (and America) need free trade and deregulation, not generosity

  • By: Ryan Hwang
  • 06/11/2025

Here is a letter I recently wrote to the Wall Street Journal. Africa (and America) need Free Trade and Deregulation, not…

Trade and International

Good things happen when spectrum is allocated to the marketplace

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Good things happen when spectrum is allocated to the marketplace

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 06/10/2025

There has been recent legislative activity on spectrum allocation, so it is a good time to remind ourselves why moving as much spectrum as…

Tech and Telecom

Trump’s newborn nest egg accounts

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Trump’s newborn nest egg accounts

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/10/2025

In the face of recurring economic shocks—we’ve suffered 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, and COVID-19 in the 21st century alone—the reflex to throw hundreds of…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

The broken window fallacy: America doesn’t know what it pays for

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The broken window fallacy: America doesn’t know what it pays for

  • By: Ryan Hwang
  • 06/09/2025

If a kid breaks a shopkeeper’s window and a glazier fixes it, is the economy better off? It has created work for the glazier, so…

Capitalism

The week in regulations: Paper packaging promotion and bridge conditions

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The week in regulations: Paper packaging promotion and bridge conditions

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/09/2025

President Trump ordered National Guard troops to deploy against American citizens. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from hot air balloons to authorizing ski areas.  On…

Deregulation

Congress should codify the National Listing Workplan

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Congress should codify the National Listing Workplan

  • By: Jacob Tomasulo
  • 06/06/2025

In the 15 years after the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed in 1973, it was repeatedly amended. Congress passed major amendments that updated…

Lands and Wildlife

Chapter and verse: The case against mandatory ESG standards

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Chapter and verse: The case against mandatory ESG standards

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/06/2025

This week De Gruyter Brill published the book ESG Investing: Current Theory and Practice, edited by John Hill of Fairfield University’s Dolan School…

Business and Government

CBO likely overestimates effects of Medicaid reforms

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CBO likely overestimates effects of Medicaid reforms

  • By: Jeremy Nighohossian
  • 06/06/2025

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimates of the costs, both financial and in coverage, of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act…

Healthcare

Free the Economy podcast: Tariffs and corruption with Justin Callais

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Free the Economy podcast: Tariffs and corruption with Justin Callais

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 06/05/2025

In this week’s episode we cover Autumn Billings on donor privacy, Wayne Crews on the DOGE legacy, and Joey Politano on the…

Deregulation

The total cost of federal red tape last year was…

Blog

The total cost of federal red tape last year was…

  • By: Jeremy Lott, Ryan Smith
  • 06/04/2025

$2.15 trillion is CEI’s latest estimate of the costs of all federal regulations. It is an intentionally conservative estimate. Think of it as a floor,…

Deregulation

Two courts, one message: Tariffs need congressional backing

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Two courts, one message: Tariffs need congressional backing

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 06/04/2025

Within the last few days, two courts have enjoined President Trump’s tariffs under International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) finding them unlawful. First, the US…

Law and Litigation

Don’t socialize health care through private insurance

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Don’t socialize health care through private insurance

  • By: Jeremy Nighohossian
  • 06/04/2025

Four senators have introduced the “Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act,” which would mandate full coverage, no copays, no out-of-pocket costs for beneficiaries…

Healthcare

Clearing the tracks: CEI’s three-point blueprint to DOT deregulation 

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Clearing the tracks: CEI’s three-point blueprint to DOT deregulation 

  • By: Izam Karukappadath
  • 06/03/2025

Background  The Trump administration has made good on some of its promises of deregulation – namely with two executive orders from the beginning of this…

Transportation

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