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We’re out of the Paris Agreement—again! How Trump can make it stick

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We’re out of the Paris Agreement—again! How Trump can make it stick

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/06/2025

On Inauguration Day (January 20, 2025), President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, the global climate treaty negotiated by the…

Trade and International

Cracks in the regulatory freezeout

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Cracks in the regulatory freezeout

  • By: David S. McFadden, Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/22/2025

On the first afternoon of his second term, President Donald Trump signed 46 executive orders. They included welcome tools for restraining the administrative state. Among…

Deregulation

EPA’s new powerplant rule is the Clean Power Plan on steroids

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EPA’s new powerplant rule is the Clean Power Plan on steroids

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/26/2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced its final rule establishing carbon dioxide (CO2) emission performance standards for existing coal powerplants and new…

Energy and Environment

R.J. Smith – In Memoriam

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R.J. Smith – In Memoriam

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/10/2024

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has lost a treasured friend and mentor, Robert J. Smith. All my thoughts about R.J. run to superlatives. He was a…

Human Achievement Hour

Questions about EPA’s electric vehicle rule—some answered, some not

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Questions about EPA’s electric vehicle rule—some answered, some not

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/28/2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week posted the pre-Federal Register version of its de facto electric vehicle (EV) sales mandate rule. The rule…

Energy and Environment

EPA’s latest unlawful assault on vehicle affordability and choice

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EPA’s latest unlawful assault on vehicle affordability and choice

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/20/2024

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced final emission standards for passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty vehicles for model years 2027 through 2032…

Energy and Environment

Fueling discontent: Minnesota’s costly push for a low carbon fuel standard

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Fueling discontent: Minnesota’s costly push for a low carbon fuel standard

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr., Patricia Patnode
  • 03/15/2024

Lawmakers in Minnesota are considering a Clean Transportation Standard (CTS) that would impose increasingly stringent carbon-intensity reduction targets on all motor fuels used in the…

Climate

40th Anniversary Commemorative: How CEI killed credit for early action

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40th Anniversary Commemorative: How CEI killed credit for early action

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/12/2024

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) turned 40 this month. I’m proud to have been a CEI scholar for more than a quarter century. Our friends,…

Climate

Will EPA empower California to ban gasoline-powered cars?

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Will EPA empower California to ban gasoline-powered cars?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/07/2024

Did Congress authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to outlaw the sale of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles? Did it authorize the EPA to…

Automobiles and Roads

Proof of the PROVE IT Act’s carbon tax agenda

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Proof of the PROVE IT Act’s carbon tax agenda

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/07/2024

A recent post explains how S. 1863, the PROVE IT Act, could empower narrow partisan majorities to enact carbon tariffs and taxes in…

Trade and International

Vote on Capito amendment unmasks PROVE IT as carbon tax enabler

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Vote on Capito amendment unmasks PROVE IT as carbon tax enabler

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/25/2024

Last week, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee approved the PROVE IT Act (S. 1863) by a vote of 14 to 5.

Energy and Environment

Experts weigh in: Sen. Cassidy’s carbon tariff bill would mean more taxes

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Experts weigh in: Sen. Cassidy’s carbon tariff bill would mean more taxes

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/06/2023

A carbon tax is both bad policy and dumb politics. Yet Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) has just introduced legislation, the Foreign Pollution Fee…

Business and Government

Cease and desist, CEI urges National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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Cease and desist, CEI urges National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 10/18/2023

I submitted comments on behalf of CEI to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Monday on its proposed model year (MY) 2027-2032…

Law and Litigation

What I told Congress about the unlawful plan to ‘align’ NEPA with Biden Climate Targets

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What I told Congress about the unlawful plan to ‘align’ NEPA with Biden Climate Targets

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/14/2023

I testified today at the House Natural Resources Oversight Subcommittee hearing on “Examining Systemic Government Overreach at CEQ.” My testimony developed three main points…

Energy and Environment

What I told the EPA about its illegal de facto electric vehicle mandates

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What I told the EPA about its illegal de facto electric vehicle mandates

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/06/2023

Yesterday I submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its proposed greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for model years (MYs) 2027-2032…

Consumer Choice

Another sustainable energy company is failing to sustain itself

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Another sustainable energy company is failing to sustain itself

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/23/2023

CNBC’s “Sustainable Future” page reports today that “Siemens Energy shares plunge more than 37% as wind turbine worries deepen.” A “sustainable energy” company failing…

Energy and Environment

Elephant in the elevator: How government manipulates the social cost of carbon to justify regulations

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Elephant in the elevator: How government manipulates the social cost of carbon to justify regulations

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/22/2023

Four CEI colleagues and I each submitted comments this month on the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed update of Circular A-4—OMB’s…

Energy and Environment

EPA’s new coal rule: Still unlawful after all these years

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EPA’s new coal rule: Still unlawful after all these years

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/18/2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week posted the pre-publication draft of its proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) emission performance standards for fossil-fuel power plants…

Energy and Environment

EPA’s almost bare-naked electric car mandate

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EPA’s almost bare-naked electric car mandate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/09/2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week proposed new greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for model years (MYs) 2027-2032 passenger cars, light trucks,…

Automobiles and Roads

Texas v. EPA could save the day for cars that go vroom

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Texas v. EPA could save the day for cars that go vroom

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/20/2023

The Competitive Enterprise Institute this week filed its reply brief for private petitioners in State of Texas et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency.

Energy and Environment

Skepticism about EPA’s PM2.5 Rule Is Healthy

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Skepticism about EPA’s PM2.5 Rule Is Healthy

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/14/2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed to tighten the annual national ambient air quality standard for fine particulate matter. My colleague Daren Bakst…

Energy and Environment

Too Clever by Half – EPA’s De-Facto Electric Vehicle Mandate

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Too Clever by Half – EPA’s De-Facto Electric Vehicle Mandate

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/12/2023

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced new, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles. The standards would increase in…

Automobiles and Roads

CEI Advises CEQ to Withdraw Its NEPA Guidance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change

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CEI Advises CEQ to Withdraw Its NEPA Guidance on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/15/2023

Last week I submitted comments advising the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to withdraw its proposed guidance on consideration of greenhouse gas (GHG)…

Energy and Environment

Less is More – EPA’s Methane Rule and the Social Cost Paradox

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Less is More – EPA’s Methane Rule and the Social Cost Paradox

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/16/2023

CEI this week submitted comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed rule to establish new and more stringent methane emission standards for…

Energy

DOE’s Press Release on Federal Building Energy Standards Is Inaccurate, Misleading, and Unserious

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DOE’s Press Release on Federal Building Energy Standards Is Inaccurate, Misleading, and Unserious

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/14/2022

The Department of Energy (DOE) last week released the pre-publication version of a proposed rule to “establish energy performance standards for the construction of…

Energy and Environment

Some Climate-Related Items that Recently Caught My Eye

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Some Climate-Related Items that Recently Caught My Eye

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/02/2022

Manhattan Contrarian Francis “Buddy” Menton hit two homers this week. In “Don’t Be So Sure the Climate Extremists Have Won,” Menton offers hopeful words…

Energy and Environment

Climategate 2.0: EPA’s New Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases Report

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Climategate 2.0: EPA’s New Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases Report

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/17/2022

When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week proposed to adopt more aggressive methane emission standards for the oil and gas sector, it also…

Energy and Environment

Are Nord Stream Methane Leaks “Catastrophic for Climate”?

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Are Nord Stream Methane Leaks “Catastrophic for Climate”?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/30/2022

Despite acknowledging that the Nord Stream pipelines were likely bombed by saboteurs, the Associated Press yesterday focused on the ruptures as a climate threat…

Energy and Environment

Inflation Reduction Act and West Virginia v. EPA: Legislative History Refutes Sen. Carper’s Spin

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Inflation Reduction Act and West Virginia v. EPA: Legislative History Refutes Sen. Carper’s Spin

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/13/2022

“And whatever interpretive force one attaches to legislative history, the Court normally gives little weight to statements, such as those of the individual legislators, made after the…

Energy and Environment

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Implications for West Virginia v. EPA: A Response to Professor Dan Farber

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The Inflation Reduction Act’s Implications for West Virginia v. EPA: A Response to Professor Dan Farber

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/06/2022

An environmental reporter last week asked for CEI’s thoughts on University of California, Berkley law professor Dan Farber’s article on the Inflation Reduction…

Energy and Environment

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