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House to Vote on Carbon, Oil Taxes

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/09/2016

The House is scheduled to vote Friday on two bills opposing efforts to rig U.S. energy markets against fossil fuels.

Energy

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Heavily Scrutinized NLRB Joint Employer Standard Heads to Court

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 06/09/2016

Most people can pretty easily tell you who their boss is, but the Obama administration has made that a difficult question. In a decision last…

Labor and Employment

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GIGO Strikes Again: EPA’s Social Cost of Methane

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 06/08/2016

The Environmental Protection Agency’s final methane emission standards for new, modified, and reconstructed oil and gas sources were published in the Federal Register last Friday.

Climate

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FCC Could end up “Protecting” Consumers from Cheaper Internet Access

  • By: Joe Kane
  • 06/08/2016

Net neutrality proponents have seen their lines splinter over the issue of “zero rating,” the practice of not counting data used to access certain sites…

Antitrust

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Time to End the Failed Experiment of “Sin” Taxes

  • By: Michelle Minton
  • 06/07/2016

It seems like an economic no-brainer that if you can raise the cost of a good or service, people will buy and consume less of…

Consumer Freedom

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Affordable Energy Is Important to Conquering Poverty

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 06/07/2016

When economists and politicians talk about income inequality, they rarely consider the effects of their policies on the poor, as my co-author Ryan Young has…

Energy

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Obama Illegally Diverts Money Needed to Fight Zika to UN

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/07/2016

President Obama raided $500 million needed to fight the Zika virus, and instead illegally gave it to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund. Sen. James…

Climate

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Controlling Federal Agency Guidance Documents: A To-Do List for Congress and Reformers

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 06/06/2016

When I wrote about the proliferation of federal agency guidance documents and other regulatory “dark matter” that skirts Congressional oversight and even normal…

Regulatory Reform

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A Complaint We Didn’t Expect to Hear: Virgin Islands Attorney General Now Says We’re Wasting His Time

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 06/06/2016

Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker filed his opposition last week to CEI’s motions for attorney fees and sanctions. As you may know if you’ve…

CEI Litigation

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RealClear Radio Hour: Fighting Injustice & Igniting Prosperity

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/06/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour, professors Stephanos Bibas and Donald Boudreaux discuss injustice in the plea bargain system and the dangers of the dismal…

Labor and Employment

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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 06/06/2016

Last week’s Federal Register fell short of 2,000 pages, mainly because it was a four-day work week due the Memorial Day holiday. While the Federal…

Regulatory Reform

2016 CEI Dinner Movie: A Night in Casablanca

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2016 CEI Dinner Movie: A Night in Casablanca

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 06/03/2016

"Of all the think tanks, in all the towns, in all the world, she had to come back to CEI."…

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First Amendment Forbids Ideological Discrimination in Protecting Rallies

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/03/2016

Anti-Trump demonstrators beat up Trump supporters outside a Trump rally in San Jose, California this week, while police initially did nothing but watch. As Buzzfeed…

Free Speech

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Attorney General Lynch Refuses to Defend Law to Speedily Terminate Wrongdoers

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 06/03/2016

Attorney General refuses to defend law passed by Congress to speedily terminate wrongdoers One of an Attorney General’s fundamental duties is to defend laws passed…

Labor and Employment

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Administration’s War on Work Reflected in Jobs Numbers

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 06/03/2016

The administration and its allies are currently engaged in a regulatory onslaught on employers that can only be described as a war on work. Today’s…

Labor and Employment

Six People You’ll See at the CEI Dinner

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Six People You’ll See at the CEI Dinner

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 06/02/2016

It is no secret that we put a lot of love into our Annual Dinner and Reception. The dinner is fun. In fact, some have…

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The Seventh Circuit Considers a Costly But Useless Shareholder Settlement in the Walgreens Merger

  • By: Sam Kazman
  • 06/02/2016

OK, that’s a slight exaggeration. In recent years, about 97 percent of sizable mergers (those valued at $100 million or more) have been hit by…

CEI Litigation

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One Enlightened Statesman: Sen. Rand Paul Pauses TSCA Bill

  • By: Angela Logomasini
  • 05/31/2016

Three cheers to Senator Rand Paul for actually caring enough to read legislation before voting on its passage. Last week, he held up legislation…

Chemical Risk

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Inequality: Policies That Work, and Policies That Don’t

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/31/2016

CEI recently released a pair of papers by Iain Murray and me about economic inequality. The first encourages activists to ask the right questions: think…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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RealClear Radio Hour: Latin American Politics, Jazz, and Freedom

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/31/2016

This week on RealClear Radio Hour, I’m joined by three freedom fighters for a discussion of Latin American politics, economics, and culture. We focus much…

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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/31/2016

The Congressional Review Act deadline for the possible midnight regulation rush has now likely passed, though the Federal Register once again topped 2,000 pages last week. That…

Regulatory Reform

Federal Regulations Affecting Small Business

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Federal Regulations Affecting Small Business

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 05/26/2016

It is often said that there is no such thing as a free lunch, something particularly true for the small businessperson. The “Small Business…

Regulatory Reform

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NLRB Downplays Pro-Union Threats

  • By: Trey Kovacs
  • 05/26/2016

Union bias permeates the actions of the current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This is hardly surprising since a former union lawyer, Richard Griffin,…

Labor and Employment

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Court Will Soon Decide Fate of FCC’s Ill-Conceived Internet Regulations

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 05/26/2016

Any day now, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is expected to release its decision in U.S. Telecom Association v. FCC.

Tech and Telecom

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More on “Inequality”

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 05/25/2016

In serendipitous timing, the Institute of Economic Affairs in London released a new study this week entitled “Never Mind The Gap: Why we…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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Unions and Environmentalists Oppose Plan to Address California’s Rising Housing Costs

  • By: Ivan Osorio
  • 05/25/2016

Everyone’s for affordable housing—except, it seems, some unions and environmentalists. On May 18, a coalition of unions and environmental advocacy groups—including the State Building &…

Energy and Environment

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Raise, Don’t Level: New CEI Papers on Inequality and Poverty Relief

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 05/25/2016

Economic inequality is one of today’s defining issues. How to address it? Iain Murray and I offer an unconventional approach in a new two-part CEI…

Business and Government

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Obama Administration Harms Students in Many Ways

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 05/25/2016

The Obama administration has promoted campus speech codes that take away freedom of speech: It demanded censorship at the University of New…

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CEI Asks Court to Sanction U.S. Virgin Islands AG for Baseless, Retaliatory Subpoena

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 05/24/2016

On Monday, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker agreed to revoke a subpoena he obtained from the D.C. Superior Court last month,…

CEI Litigation

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Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists: No Illusions about Germany’s “Energy Turnaround”

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 05/24/2016

In a previous post I poked fun at the “Doomsday Clock” of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. For 60 years, the Bulletin has…

Climate

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