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Federalist Society Experts Duel on Climate Risks and Regulation

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Federalist Society Experts Duel on Climate Risks and Regulation

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 09/30/2021

Earlier this week, the Federalist Society presented a panel discussion titled “Corporate Social Responsibility, Investment Strategy, and Liability Risks” that addressed some important issues…

Capitalism

Illusory Climate Benefits: CEI Comments on EPA’s Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards

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Illusory Climate Benefits: CEI Comments on EPA’s Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 09/28/2021

CEI submitted comments yesterday on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for motor vehicles during model years 2023…

Energy and Environment

Tobacco Tax Equity Act Perpetuates Economic and Health Disparities

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Tobacco Tax Equity Act Perpetuates Economic and Health Disparities

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 09/28/2021

Mainstream interest in the issue of structural racism is long overdue. Yet nascent efforts to root out vestiges of racism in the U.S. political system…

Innovation

Fighting Income Inequality Won’t Help Workers

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Fighting Income Inequality Won’t Help Workers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/28/2021

I just learned of the latest forthcoming study focusing on the issue of income inequality, this one promising to explain how regulations can exacerbate…

Labor and Employment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/27/2021

CEI held its Julian Simon Award dinner, honoring the development economist William Easterly. We also paid remembrance to 2020’s winner, the late, great…

Deregulation

Cost of Air Conditioning to Heat up, Thanks to New EPA Climate Regulation

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Cost of Air Conditioning to Heat up, Thanks to New EPA Climate Regulation

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/23/2021

We can soon add air conditioning to the long list of products contributing to inflation, thanks to a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule,…

Energy and Environment

Are Unions Losing Hope for the PRO Act?

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Are Unions Losing Hope for the PRO Act?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/21/2021

In a sign that unions are losing hope that the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act can pass Congress, they are now…

Labor and Employment

Not Always an Antitrust Issue: Airline Edition

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Not Always an Antitrust Issue: Airline Edition

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/21/2021

The Justice Department is gearing up to file an antitrust case against JetBlue and American Airlines over an alliance they recently formed. The Wall…

Antitrust

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/20/2021

Inflation remains high at over 5 percent, California’s governor will finish out his term after a recall attempt failed, and culture warriors got outraged at…

Deregulation

More Evidence that the Biden Administration Is Not Following the Science

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More Evidence that the Biden Administration Is Not Following the Science

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 09/17/2021

In a rebuke to the Biden administration’s announcement that it would be rolling out COVID-19 booster shots for adults during the week of September…

Healthcare

Happy Constitution Day!

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Happy Constitution Day!

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/17/2021

When I was a civil servant in the United Kingdom, I had a friend who worked at the Ministry of Defence. Part of his duties…

Legal

Some Questions About the Legality of President Biden’s OSHA Vaccine Mandate

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Some Questions About the Legality of President Biden’s OSHA Vaccine Mandate

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 09/16/2021

On Thursday, September 9, 2021, President Biden announced he is directing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)…

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Regulatory Flexibility: Good for the Booze Business and Consumers

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Regulatory Flexibility: Good for the Booze Business and Consumers

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 09/16/2021

The coronavirus pandemic has taught us a few things, including the economic fragility of many industries. The restaurant industry, with its reliance on in-person dining,…

Food and Beverage Regulation

Must We Be Submissive to the Cops?

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Must We Be Submissive to the Cops?

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 09/16/2021

CEI has just published my paper “They’re Taking My Stuff!”: What You Need to Know about Seizure and Forfeiture.” My interest in this topic…

Legal

Unions on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: That’s Not in Our Contract

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Unions on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: That’s Not in Our Contract

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/14/2021

President Biden’s vaccination mandate announcement on Friday has drawn a notably cool reaction from unions. While none appear to have come out against it, few…

Labor and Employment

Proposed New Restrictions Threaten Opportunity for Middle Class Investors

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Proposed New Restrictions Threaten Opportunity for Middle Class Investors

  • By: John Berlau
  • 09/13/2021

While President Biden and Congressional Democrats have called for reining in big firms through antitrust and other punitive policies, a tax provision contrived by Congress…

Financial Regulation

Texas May Still Be the Wild West, But Its Social Media Shouldn’t Be

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Texas May Still Be the Wild West, But Its Social Media Shouldn’t Be

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 09/13/2021

The Texas legislature passed and Governor Greg Abbott recently signed into law H.B. 20, which he described as “safeguarding the freedom of speech by…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Exorbitant Tax Incentives for Electric Vehicles to Be Voted on in House Ways and Means Committee

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Exorbitant Tax Incentives for Electric Vehicles to Be Voted on in House Ways and Means Committee

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 09/13/2021

If electric vehicles (EVs) are to be judged by the amount of tax incentives needed to induce Americans to choose them, the latest provisions…

Energy and Environment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/13/2021

The 2021 Federal Register surpassed 50,000 pages in a short Labor Day week. Fresh off a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, Congress began work on a $3.5…

Deregulation

Jobless Claims Are Down, but Tensions Remain in COVID Recovery

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Jobless Claims Are Down, but Tensions Remain in COVID Recovery

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/09/2021

Jobless claims are at their lowest levels since the start of the pandemic; 310,000 people filed first-time claims last week, down roughly 95 percent…

Labor and Employment

FDA Shows Its Bias against E-cigarettes as Deadline Approaches

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FDA Shows Its Bias against E-cigarettes as Deadline Approaches

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 09/08/2021

After years facing the constant threat of extinction, it seemed the vapor industry would finally be vindicated. The evidence on e-cigarettes regarding their safety and effectiveness…

Health and Safety

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/07/2021

The United States officially ended its military occupation of Afghanistan. Hurricane Ida killed at least 40 people in the Northeastern U.S., while in the New…

Deregulation

Web 3.0 Requires New Regulatory Thinking

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Web 3.0 Requires New Regulatory Thinking

  • By: Paul Jossey
  • 09/03/2021

“[A] digital economy isn’t simply an industrial economy on the internet.” The Blockchain Innovation Hub at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia…

Innovation

The Cost of Uncertainty in Dealing with the Pandemic

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The Cost of Uncertainty in Dealing with the Pandemic

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/03/2021

If there is one thing that businesses want more than anything else when it comes to regulations, it is predictability. That’s one case where what’s…

Labor and Employment

Fighting Bias and Misinformation, from Pierre Bayle’s 17th Century to the Social Media Age

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Fighting Bias and Misinformation, from Pierre Bayle’s 17th Century to the Social Media Age

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 09/02/2021

Many people insist that media bias and misinformation are getting worse in the social media age, and we need to do something about it. Depending…

Capitalism

UK’s Attempt to Block a Merger Between American Firms Could Cripple Innovation

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UK’s Attempt to Block a Merger Between American Firms Could Cripple Innovation

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 09/02/2021

As I explain in both an op-ed and regulatory comments submitted yesterday, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s version…

Antitrust

Deep Dive on Plastics: CEI Launches Series on Benefits to Mankind and Wildlife

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Deep Dive on Plastics: CEI Launches Series on Benefits to Mankind and Wildlife

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 08/31/2021

Members of Congress have introduced several proposals to regulate plastics, which as I noted here and here, could basically destroy the U.S. plastics…

Energy and Environment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 08/30/2021

Congress seems to have reached a deal to combine the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. A $6 trillion budget bill remains…

Deregulation

Landlords Deserve Protection Too

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Landlords Deserve Protection Too

  • By: Joel Zinberg
  • 08/27/2021

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s extension of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium. While most…

Property Rights

Non-Binding, Non-Enforceable Paris Agreement Poised to Destroy U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry—as We Warned

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Non-Binding, Non-Enforceable Paris Agreement Poised to Destroy U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry—as We Warned

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 08/27/2021

For years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been making the case that the Paris Agreement is a signed but non-ratified treaty that must win…

Energy and Environment

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