CEI Weekly: Former EPA Administrator Hires Lawyer

from the Competitive Enterprise Institute

Friday, August 23, 2013

 

 

Featured Story: Former EPA Administrator Hires Lawyer

 

Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has hired a lawyer to represent her in a congressional investigation into her use of private and secret email addresses to conduct agency businesses. Her deceptive email practices were first made public by CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner last year. Read more here.

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CEI Podcast

 

August 22, 2013: Germany Legalizes Bitcoin (Listen here)

 

Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray discusses Germany’s decision to legalize Bitcoin, a controversial digital currency. With the euro’s future up in the air, competing currencies are one way to ensure monetary stability in case the worst happens.

Shaping the Debate

 

Ron Binz Doesn’t Seem to Like Most Power Producers (Link)

Chris Horner & William Yeatman’s letter to the editor in The Wall Street Journal

 

The Eurocrisis Started in Basel (Link)

Iain Murray’s op-ed in Forward Mogazine

 

Why Sue to Stop the U.S. Airways-American Airlines Merger? (Link)

Marc Scribner’s radio interview on WRVA

 

Today it’s Nudge Squads, Tomorrow it’s Enforcement (Link)

Michelle Minton’s op-ed in The Daily Caller

 

Jackson Hires Lawyer as Email Probes Escalate [subscription] (Link)

Myron Ebell’s citation in Greenwire

 

Coal Foe Names to FERC Is Latest Obama Pick Drawing Ire ​(Link)

William Yeatman’s citation in Bloomberg News

 

Study: Put Regulators on a Budget (Link)

Wayne Crews’ citation in The Daily Caller

 

PSO Plan to Phase Out Coal Generation May Cost Too Much, Group Says (Link)

William Yeatman’s citation in The Oklahoman

Best of the Blogs

 

Inconvenient Truth Update (Read on GlobalWarming)

By Marlo Lewis

 

Labor Unions Blast Obama’s American Airlines-U.S. Airways Lawsuit (Read on OpenMarket)

By Marc Scribner

 

Before Net Neutrality Eats the World: Part 4 (Read on OpenMarket)

By Wayne Crews

 

Fast Food Workers Should Be Wary of Union Tactics (Read on WorkplaceChoice)

By Trey Kovacs

 

                      

 

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