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Is the Solar for All program authorized?

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Is the Solar for All program authorized?

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 03/26/2025

In 2022, Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) without a single Republican vote in the House or Senate.One of the most controversial IRA…

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Otherwise Objectionable episode 2: ‘The Dawn of the Internet’

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Otherwise Objectionable episode 2: ‘The Dawn of the Internet’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/25/2025

The second episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, focuses on…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Trump should eliminate this troubled risk assessment program

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Trump should eliminate this troubled risk assessment program

  • By: James Broughel
  • 03/24/2025

Among Washington’s sprawling regulatory bureaucracies, one program has quietly shaped environmental policy for decades. The EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System, known as IRIS, influences…

Energy and Environment

This week in ridiculous regulations: Volatile gas and the Gulf of Mexico

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Volatile gas and the Gulf of Mexico

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/24/2025

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, and President Trump put on some pressure to lower them. Trump also fired Democratic FTC commissioners on unclear…

Deregulation

SEC restores corporate control over ESG proposals

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SEC restores corporate control over ESG proposals

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/21/2025

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has wasted no time in reforming controversial regulations under the Trump administration. Beyond targeting formal rules, GOP commissioners have…

Energy and Environment

Free the Economy podcast: Tariffs, tax cuts, and trustees with Dominic Pino

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Free the Economy podcast: Tariffs, tax cuts, and trustees with Dominic Pino

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/20/2025

In this week’s episode we cover retirement investing, pivoting to India for global trade, new housing on federal land, and priorities…

Trade and International

Trump SEC makes tremendous progress against crypto-stifling regulation

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Trump SEC makes tremendous progress against crypto-stifling regulation

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/19/2025

Gary Gensler’s SEC worked at a frenetic pace to shut down innovation in the crypto sector. Without rhyme or reason, the Biden-Gensler SEC moved fast…

Banking and Finance

Let the deconstruction commence

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Let the deconstruction commence

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/18/2025

Congress’s actionable hierarchy for administrative state burial & constitutional resurrection Alongside restoring fiscal sanity, Congress must establish a hierarchy of actions to make Donald Trump’s…

Deregulation

Trump cancels Biden’s heat pump crisis

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Trump cancels Biden’s heat pump crisis

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 03/18/2025

It isn’t easy figuring out the single most ridiculous Biden administration climate policy, but its declaration that electric heat pumps are critical to the…

Energy

Otherwise Objectionable Podcast episode 1: ‘The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet’

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Otherwise Objectionable Podcast episode 1: ‘The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/18/2025

Otherwise Objectionable is the brand-new limited series podcast that tells the true story of how a previously-obscure defamation law, Section 230 of the 1996…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

14 priorities in slashing spending and regulation before ‘America 250’—#7 will shock you!

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14 priorities in slashing spending and regulation before ‘America 250’—#7 will shock you!

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/17/2025

This past week, the House and Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) that preserves Biden-era spending levels while largely turning a blind eye to…

Regulatory Reform

Let’s cut the cord on federal funding for NPR and PBS

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Let’s cut the cord on federal funding for NPR and PBS

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 03/17/2025

They are products of a media landscape that no longer exists. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was born through the Public Broadcasting Act…

Innovation

Will BlackRock revive Social Security reform?

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Will BlackRock revive Social Security reform?

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/14/2025

Earlier this week mega asset manager BlackRock hosted a high-profile public event in Washington, D.C. focused on retirement savings, with several A-list panelists from…

Banking and Finance

Gov. Youngkin should veto restrictive credit bill

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Gov. Youngkin should veto restrictive credit bill

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 03/14/2025

While many watchful eyes focus on the economic impacts of actions of federal lawmakers inside the Beltway, pending legislation in a statehouse 100 miles south…

Fintech

Free the Economy podcast: Broadcasting liberty with Jeff Westling

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Free the Economy podcast: Broadcasting liberty with Jeff Westling

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/13/2025

In this week’s episode we discuss Trump tariffs (via AEI’s Jim Pethokoukis and Apricitas Economics’s Joey Politano), the death…

Innovation

Shutdowns are fake, but government growth is very real

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Shutdowns are fake, but government growth is very real

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/12/2025

With a government funding deadline looming on March 14, the House passed a continuing resolution (CR) to freeze non-defense spending at Fiscal Year 2024…

Deregulation

Plans to build gas plants respond to increased power demand

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Plans to build gas plants respond to increased power demand

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 03/11/2025

Energy companies respond to surging AI demand with behind-the-meter solutions. Rising power demand, led by the buildout of data centers for Artificial Intelligence (AI), is leading…

Energy

Chavez-DeRemer exemplifies Trump’s complicated relationship with unions

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Chavez-DeRemer exemplifies Trump’s complicated relationship with unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/11/2025

The Senate confirmed former Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer in a 67-32 vote Monday as President Trump’s new labor secretary. CEI and others…

Labor and Employment

Russia tariffs won’t bring peace

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Russia tariffs won’t bring peace

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/11/2025

President Trump seems to think that tariffs can accomplish almost anything. My colleague Iain Murray recently pointed out that Trump believes tariffs can raise…

Trade and International

This week in ridiculous regulations: NEPA and refrigerators

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This week in ridiculous regulations: NEPA and refrigerators

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/10/2025

President Trump delayed some tariffs against Canada and Mexico, but let others take effect. He also enacted a sixth round of tariffs against China and…

Deregulation

Free the Economy podcast: Striving for shareholder value with Matt Cole

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Free the Economy podcast: Striving for shareholder value with Matt Cole

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 03/07/2025

In this week’s episode we discuss executive branch powers at the Supreme Court, BP’s pivot back to being an oil and gas…

Deregulation

Legislation would restore the full power of the Seventh Amendment

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Legislation would restore the full power of the Seventh Amendment

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 03/07/2025

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) has introduced a bill offering the first legislative step toward administrative law court (ALC) reform. Known as the Seventh…

Law and Litigation

Trump EO on crypto reserves rightly eschews government purchases

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Trump EO on crypto reserves rightly eschews government purchases

  • By: John Berlau
  • 03/07/2025

After much anticipation, President Donald Trump’s newly issued executive order (EO) on a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” and “digital asset stockpile” does not call for…

Banking and Finance

The CFPB drops its misguided case against Zelle

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The CFPB drops its misguided case against Zelle

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 03/06/2025

Seemingly as part of the general order to stop work by acting director Russ Vought, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has dropped…

Banking and Finance

You want hiring freezes with that? The effects of California’s minimum wage increase

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You want hiring freezes with that? The effects of California’s minimum wage increase

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/05/2025

California officially raised its minimum wage to $20 an hour last April in an attempt to help the state’s working poor. What those folks…

Labor and Employment

DOGE’s first cut at bureaucracy: A target inventory

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DOGE’s first cut at bureaucracy: A target inventory

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 03/04/2025

Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14219, “Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Regulatory Initiative,” has set the stage for a major…

Deregulation

CEI’s The Surge: CRA resolutions, Climate Disclosure Rule, and more

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CEI’s The Surge: CRA resolutions, Climate Disclosure Rule, and more

  • 03/04/2025

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

Pressure brought to bear to delist ‘threatened’ grizzlies

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Pressure brought to bear to delist ‘threatened’ grizzlies

  • By: Jacob Tomasulo
  • 03/03/2025

On February 5th, Reps. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Russ Fulcher (R-ID), Ryan Zinke (R-MT), and Troy Downing (R-MT) sent a letter to President…

Lands and Wildlife

White House requires federal agencies to disclose time spent working for unions instead of taxpayers

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White House requires federal agencies to disclose time spent working for unions instead of taxpayers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/03/2025

The Trump administration has restored reporting and transparency requirements for so-called “official time,” the practice where government workers are allowed to act exclusively on behalf…

Government Unions

This week in ridiculous regulations: Crab specifications and dominant postal products

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Crab specifications and dominant postal products

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 03/03/2025

More tariffs are on the way against China. President Trump announced that delayed tariffs against Canada and Mexico will go through. The actor Gene Hackman…

Deregulation

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