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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

Dispelling Misleading Claims about the Inflation Reduction Act and West Virginia v. EPA

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Dispelling Misleading Claims about the Inflation Reduction Act and West Virginia v. EPA

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/31/2022

In adversarial proceedings, it is seldom prudent to rely on your opponents’ assessment of the outcome. Alas, some conservatives seem inclined to believe Democrats’ self-serving…

Energy and Environment

Does the Schumer-Manchin Bill Undercut West Virginia v. EPA? No, But Not For Lack of Trying

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Does the Schumer-Manchin Bill Undercut West Virginia v. EPA? No, But Not For Lack of Trying

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/05/2022

This Wednesday on Fox Business with Larry Kudlow and later on Fox News with Sean Hannity, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned that buried…

Energy and Environment

Celebrating Pat Michaels: Colleague, Mentor, and Friend

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Celebrating Pat Michaels: Colleague, Mentor, and Friend

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/19/2022

Dr. Patrick Michaels, a leading light of the climate realist movement and cheerful warrior for scientific integrity and individual liberty, died unexpectedly last week. CEI…

Energy and Environment

DOT’s Doublespeak Carbon Reduction Program

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DOT’s Doublespeak Carbon Reduction Program

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 07/08/2022

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing to require its state and metropolitan counterparts to reduce on-road carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from portions of…

Energy and Environment

The Many Arbitrary and Capricious Aspects of SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule

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The Many Arbitrary and Capricious Aspects of SEC’s Climate Risk Disclosure Rule

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/17/2022

Yesterday (June 16), CEI submitted two comment letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on its proposed rule: “The Enhancement and Standardization of…

Energy and Environment

CEI Comments Explain Why FERC’s Greenhouse Gas Regulatory Policy Cannot Pass a Cost-Benefit Test

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CEI Comments Explain Why FERC’s Greenhouse Gas Regulatory Policy Cannot Pass a Cost-Benefit Test

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/25/2022

Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed comments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) proposal to consider climate change impacts in reviews…

Energy and Environment

SEC Ignores the Easiest Way to Reduce Climate Policy Risks – Oppose the NetZero Agenda

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SEC Ignores the Easiest Way to Reduce Climate Policy Risks – Oppose the NetZero Agenda

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/12/2022

The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rationale for its proposed climate risk-disclosure rule does not pass the laugh test. The SEC claims it seeks…

Energy and Environment

Time for a Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on the Paris Agreement

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Time for a Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on the Paris Agreement

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 04/08/2022

National Journal yesterday confirmed what has become increasingly obvious since October 2021: “Biden’s Climate Goals Are in Peril.” The Democrat-controlled Congress has failed…

Energy and Environment

Climate Police Occupy Wall Street

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Climate Police Occupy Wall Street

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/24/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday, March 21, released its proposed rule to require every “registrant” (i.e., publicly-traded company) to provide more…

Climate

Further Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s Clean Power Plan Case

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Further Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s Clean Power Plan Case

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/17/2022

I heartily recommend the reply briefs by petitioners West Virginia and Westmoreland Mining Holdings, LLC in the Supreme Court’s Clean Power Plan case,…

Energy and Environment

Social Cost of Carbon Litigation – Who Will Have the Last Laugh?

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Social Cost of Carbon Litigation – Who Will Have the Last Laugh?

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/10/2022

The 10-State litigation led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry to block the Biden administration’s use of social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHG) estimates in…

Energy and Environment

Climate Risk, Climate Policy, and the Ukraine Crisis

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Climate Risk, Climate Policy, and the Ukraine Crisis

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/10/2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) sea-level rise report made a media splash when the agency released it in February. Headlines in the…

Energy and Environment

Clean Power Plan Litigation: The Supreme Court Should Rein in the EPA

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Clean Power Plan Litigation: The Supreme Court Should Rein in the EPA

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 03/02/2022

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. Depending on how the Court decides it, the case…

Energy and Environment

FERC Ignores CEI’s Advice to Steer Clear of Climate Policy

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FERC Ignores CEI’s Advice to Steer Clear of Climate Policy

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/25/2022

The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is a deeply flawed attempt to assign a dollar value to the cumulative climate-related damages caused by…

Energy and Environment

Social Cost of Carbon – Pretzel Logic Cannot Save NetZero Agenda

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Social Cost of Carbon – Pretzel Logic Cannot Save NetZero Agenda

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/28/2022

A new paper by economists Nicolas Stern, Joseph Stiglitz, Kristina Karlson, and Charlotte Taylor calls upon the Biden administration to set a “social cost of carbon…

Energy and Environment

The Fed Is Not a Climate Regulator

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The Fed Is Not a Climate Regulator

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/14/2022

On Tuesday, January 11, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on the re-nomination of Jerome Powell to be Federal Reserve chairman. If Powell…

Energy and Environment

CEI’s Advice to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Steer Clear of Climate Policy

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CEI’s Advice to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Steer Clear of Climate Policy

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/12/2022

On Friday, January 6, CEI submitted comments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s November 2021 Technical Conference on Greenhouse Gas Mitigation under Sections…

Energy and Environment

CEI’s New Anti-Carbon Tax Study

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CEI’s New Anti-Carbon Tax Study

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 12/02/2021

CEI has a new study out this week titled, “Why Carbon Taxes Are Anti-Growth, Anti-Consumer, and Politically Dangerous for Conservatives.” It develops the following…

Energy and Environment

Deregulate to Stimulate: 15 Republican Governors Launch ‘Operation Open Roads’ to Unclog Supply Chains

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Deregulate to Stimulate: 15 Republican Governors Launch ‘Operation Open Roads’ to Unclog Supply Chains

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/24/2021

Some cheery holiday news reported in the Epoch Times: Fifteen Republican governors, led by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, have launched “Operation Open Road,”…

Deregulation

NEPA Is Not a Climate Policy Framework. CEI Submits Comments on Biden Proposal

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NEPA Is Not a Climate Policy Framework. CEI Submits Comments on Biden Proposal

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/23/2021

CEI submitted comments yesterday opposing the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) proposal to repeal regulations adopted by the Trump CEQ in July…

Energy and Environment

New Car Prices Are Soaring Biden’s Policies Would Make Things Worse

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New Car Prices Are Soaring Biden’s Policies Would Make Things Worse

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/19/2021

New car prices are soaring, according to a report released last week by Kelley Blue Book. From Kelley’s press release:  New-vehicle prices jumped…

Energy and Environment

1.5C Is Not a Tipping Point

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1.5C Is Not a Tipping Point

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 11/12/2021

A report released on Tuesday by Climate Action Tracker (CAT) made waves at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. CAT finds that with…

Energy and Environment

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