Inside ARM
BREAKING: Senate Confirms Kraninger As Next Director Of BCFP
Inside ARM cited CEI’s Senior Fellow John Berlau on Kathy Kraninger confirmation. Today, the Senate voted on and confirmed Kathy Kraninger as the…
JD Supra
Anti-SLAPP Movant Fails To Establish Prima Facie Case
JD Supra cited CEI’s case Competitive Enterprise Institute v. Mann. The suit asserted claims for defamation per se, false light invasion of privacy, and intentional…
Investor's Business Daily
Trump Is Right — Subsidies for Electric Cars, Renewable Energy Must End
Investor’s Business Daily cited CEI’s coalition letter opposing extension of electric vehicle tax credits. In a study for the Manhattan Institute’s Economics 21…
Life Zette
Gov’t May Use Dubious Research To Attack E-Cigs, Report Claims
Life Zette cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on electronic cigarettes. Federal agencies and activist groups have been propping up dubious research in…
Gas & Electricity
Trump Administration Tells EPA To Freeze All Grants, Contracts
Gas & Electricity cited CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Director Myron Ebell on EPA freeze. “They’re trying to freeze things to make…
Politico
Morning Transportation
Politico cited CEI Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on Uber’s AV program. The logic behind the pipeline: Snatching up Beuse was widely hailed as a good…
Watertown Public Opinion
Deregulation Contributing to Growing Economy
Watertown Public Opinion cited CEI on the cost of regulations. Trump promised to reduce regulations for small and big businesses. While much has…
Travel Weekly
Airline Consumer Advocates Unhappy With DOT Appointment
Travel 60 Weekly cited CEI President and CEO Kent Lassman and CEI Adjunct Fellow Frances Smith on U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao’s appointment of Smith as…
Washington Examiner
Electric-Car Tax Credits Are Popular — And Congress Can’t Decide Whether To Expand Or Abolish Them
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Director Myron Ebell on electric-car tax credit. “The people who buy these vehicles are…
Watts Up With That?
Analysis Of Court Of Appeals’ Defamation Opinion Holding That Climategate Inquiries Exonerated Michael Mann
Watts Up With That? cited Michael E. Mann v. National Review and CEI, et al. The Court of Appeals issued a lengthy, 111…
Politico
Leadership Change-Ups At FAA
Politico cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on CEI’s adjunct fellow Frances Smith appointment to DOT. CONSUMER RETORT: The Competitive Enterprise Institute shot back…
Breitbart
CFPB Nominee Kathleen Kraninger Clears Cloture Hurdle In Senate
Breitbart cited CEI’s Senior Fellow John Berlau and Policy Analyst Daniel Press on Kathleen Kraninger nomination. The vote was strictly along party lines,…
Northern California Record
Appeals Court Returns Class Action To Lower Court After Only $225,000 Paid Out To Class Members, But $12M Awarded To Attorneys And Third-Party Universities
Northern California Record cited CEI’s Attorney Adam Schulman on Ninth Circuit Frank v. Gaos decision. In its decision based on the objection by…
E&E News
Trump Tries To Quell Climate Attention. It Rises Instead
E&E News cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the Administration’s response to the recent federal climate report. One reason the administration is struggling…
The Epoch Times
Supreme Court Finds Limits To Endangered Species Act
The Epoch Times cited CEI’s Center For Energy and Environment Director Myron Ebell on Supreme Court ruling on ESA. A unanimous Supreme Court overruled…
IA InsideARM
Senate Vote On Kraninger To Lead BCFP Expected Tomorrow
IA InsideARM cited CEI’s Senior Fellow John Berlau and Policy Analyst Daniel Press on BCFP nominee Kathleen Kraninger. As insideARM reported earlier,…
The Washington Times
Free-Market Group Calls On Senate To Confirm Kathleen Kraninger To Lead Consumer Bureau
The Washington Times cited CEI’s Policy Analyst Daniel Press on BCFP nominee, Kathleen Kraninger. A conservative free-enterprise group urged the Senate Wednesday to…
Fox News
John Stossel: Is Vaping E-Cigarettes Really A Health Crisis?
Fox News cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on e-cigarettes. Yet compared to regular cigarettes, e-cigarettes are “extraordinarily less harmful,” says Michelle Minton…
The Daily Signal
Plastic Straw Ban Crusades Are About Progressive Virtue Signaling, Not Practical Solutions
The Daily Signal cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini on plastic straw ban. Angela Logomasini, a researcher at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…
The Florida Times-Union
Sunday Editorial: Be Smart With Federal Regulations
The Florida Times-Union cited CEI on the federal regulatory state. But regulations serve little purpose when they are unnecessary, encourage crony capitalism or…
Mount Desert Islander
Letter To Editor: Bag Ban Won’t Address Ocean Pollution
Mount Desert Islander cited CEI on plastic bag ban. The Islander has been reporting on Southwest Harbor’s move to ban single-use plastic bags and polystyrene…
Watts Up With That?
Environmental Collusion
Wattsm Up With That? cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s Law Enforcement for Rent report. Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)…
Occupational Health & Safety
DOT Forms In-Flight Sexual Misconduct Task Force
Occupational Health & Safety cited CEI’s Adjunct Fellow Frances Smith’s new position as ACPAC consumer representative. The first meeting of DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection…
Rapid City Journal
Theirs: State AGs Should Eschew Privately Funded Litigators
Rapid City Journal cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on privately funded Attorney Generals. With the courts and Trump Administration rolling back federal…
Reason
Declines In Adolescent Smoking Accelerated As Vaping Rose, Suggesting The FDA’s Campaign Is Fatally Misguided
Reason cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on FDA anti-vaping ads. In the midst of a federal campaign against underage vaping, a new…
Reason
Stossel: Let Them Vape
Reason cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on e-cigarettes. Our government says e-cigarettes and vaping are the latest “epidemic” among teens. So the…
AllOnGeorgia
US DOT Creates National “In-Flight Sexual Misconduct Task Force”
AllOnGeorgia cited CEI’s Adjunct Fellow Frances Smith’s upcoming ACPAC position as consumer representative. U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine L. Chao has announced…
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee And National In-Flight Sexual Misconduct Task Force
DOT cited CEI’s Adjunct Fellow Frances Smith’s upcoming ACPAC position as consumer representative. WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine L.
Washington Examiner
Self-Driving Car Bill’s Backers Seek Senate Vote Before It’s Too Late
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on self-driving vehicle regulatory framework. Lawmakers and American car manufacturers are mounting a last-ditch effort…
The Daily Caller
ACLU Criticized For Suggesting Title IX Proposal ‘Inappropriately’ Favors The Accused
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribdner on ACLU stance towards DOE’s Title IX reform. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is…
Inside Sources
Virginia AG Sued For Records About Bloomberg Funded Attorney Promoting Green Agenda
Inside Sources cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. Michael Bloomberg’s plan to use an environmental law…
The Hill
Time For A Regulatory Budget
The Hill cited CEI on the burden of federal regulations. America’s regulatory burden has thrived in solitude because it’s uncounted, and therefore uncontrolled.The…
LifeZette
Virginia Attorney General Faces Lawsuit For Hiring Privately Funded Environmental Activists
LifeZette cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (shown above right) was…
The Washington Times
Virginia AG Hit With Lawsuit For Efforts To Bring Aboard Bloomberg-Funded Climate Prosecutors
The Washington Times cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring was hit with…
Reason
Trump Brags About Deregulation, But A Huge Number Of His Deregulatory Actions Were Started Under Obama
Reason cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on Trump deregulation policy. President Donald Trump likes to brag about his record of cutting regulations.
GOP USA
‘Union Business On The Taxpayer’s Dime’: Trump Administration Cracks Down On ‘Official Time’ At VA
GOP USA cited CEI’s Policy Analyst Trey Kovacs on Virginia union policy. The Department of Veterans Affairs this week will stop paying employees in…
The Daily Caller
Think Tank Sues Virginia For Docs Showing Extent Of Bloomberg’s Climate Crusade
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. A Washington, D.C.-based think tank filed a…
The American Spectator
Blaming An Evil Corporation For Conspiring With Mother Nature
The American Spectator cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s Law Enforcement for Rent report. George Soros-funded government attorney in Texas has been leading…
Liberty Unyielding
New York Governor Violated First Amendment Through Political Harassment
Liberty Unyielding cited CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Director Myron Ebell in reference to Attorney General Claude Walker’s subpoena case. New York Governor…
Liberty Unyielding
Protectionism Kills Jobs And Candidacies
Liberty Unyielding cited CEI on Trumps deregulation policy. In the 2016 election, the GOP benefited from farm-state opposition to the Obama administration’s bureaucratic…
Inside Sources
What’s Next For Net Neutrality In A Democrat-Controlled House?
Inside Sources cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Ryan Radia on net neutrality. Ryan Radia, a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), however,…
Liberty Unyielding
Tuesday’s Election Was Nothing For Republicans To Smile About
Liberty Unyielding cited CEI on Trump’s deregulation policy. The ideological composition of the judiciary matters for the economy. Yesterday, a judge blocked the Trump…
Reason
The FDA’s Plan To Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes From Most Stores Is Unfair And Dangerous
Reason cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on the FDA’s ban of flavored e-cigarettes. In an effort to curtail underage vaping, the Food…
Reflector
Funding From Green Activists Raises Ethical Questions
Reflector cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on 2017 draft agreement between the Center and the New York AG. In August 2017 the…
One News Page
FDA To Restrict E-Cigarette Flavors
One News Page cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on FDA restriction of flavored e-cigarettes. Competitive Enterprise Institute consumer policy expert Michele Minton:…
Long Room
University Of California Sued Over Stonewalling Of ‘Climate Litigation’ Documents
Long Room cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner in relation to the California Board of Regents climate litigation suit. The University of California…
Citation
Veterans Department Puts Medical Professionals Back to Work for Veterans Instead of Labor Unions
The U.S. Department of Veterans has long been paying certain employees to conduct labor union business on the taxpayer dime, but today the agency announced…
Bloomberg BNA
High Court Wants More On Standing From Google Parties
Bloomberg BNA cited CEI’s Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. The U.S. Supreme Court wants more information from the parties and the U.S.
Autobody News
Trump’s EPA Rattles Self-Driving Car Industry By Picking ‘Winners And Losers,’ Critics Claim
Autobody News cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on EPA self-driving car Other manufacturers such as Tesla and Mercedes-Benz raised concerns over the…
Patch Media
Michigan Senate & Governor’s Races
Patch Media cited CEI’s score of Senator Stabenow. Stabenow will receive $159,400 per year from her 22 years in Congress ($174,000 annual salary)…
Inside Sources
Displaced Workers Could Benefit From Apprenticeships, but for One Labor Regulation in the Way
By most measures, the economy is booming. Unemployment is at a 49-year low of 3.7 percent. The economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.5 percent last quarter.
The Wall Street Journal
State AGs for Rent
The Wall Street Journal cited the work of Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner.
The Patriot Post
Airline Deregulation At 40: Flying The Friendly Skies
The Patriot Post cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on airline deregulation. Despite those fears about safety and loss of service to some…
ABC News
The Trump Economy: Why New-Car Prices Are Approaching Record Highs
ABC News cited CEI’s Fellow Ryan Young on average price increase of vehicles. $250: The average price increase of a new car due to…
Reuters
Justices Revisit Spokeo Standing At Oral Arguments Over Cy Pres Settlements
Reuters cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. (Reuters) – A funny thing happened on the way…
Bloomberg News
High Court Could Shoot Down Google Settlement On Standing
Bloomberg News cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Ted Frank, who brought the case before the…
Forbes
Money For Nothing: SCOTUS Could Stop Class Action Funds From Being Steered To Non-Parties
Forbes cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Competitive Enterprise Institute attorney …
The Washington Free Beacon
SCOTUS Hears Case Against Google Giving Away Settlement Money To Friends
The Washington Free Beacon cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. “This…
CNET
Supreme Court Appears Divided On Google Settlement That Gave To Charities
CNET cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Critics like Frank take issue with settlements that only…
The Register
Supreme Court Raises Eyebrows At Google’s Cozy $8.5m Legal Deal
The Register cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. The announcement caused howls of…
Market Watch
Supreme Court Scrutinizing Class Action Settlements That Leave Consumers Empty-Handed
Market Watch cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. “This is potentially billions of dollars going from…
The Washington Post
Supreme Court Considers Class-Action Suit In Which Millions Receive $0
The Washington Post cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. “Why would it have been an abuse…
Courthouse News Service
High Court Signals Rejection Of Settlement Snaggle
Courthouse News Service cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Arguing before the Supreme Court on Wednesday,…
USA Today
Supreme Court Divided Over Google Class-Action Deal That Rewarded Lawyers, Nonprofits … But Not Customers
USA Today cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Franks on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Ted Frank, who directs the Center for Class Action Fairness…
Reuters
UPDATE 1-U.S. Supreme Court Divided Over How Google Settled Privacy Case
Reuters cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. While wrestling over the privacy aspects of Google searches,…
Bloomberg News
NLRB Dodging Questions On ‘Joint Employer’ Rule, Democrats Say
Bloomberg News cited CEI’s Policy Analyst Trey Kovacs on the National Labor Relations Board’s ‘Joint Employer’ Rule. The NLRB responded to those separate…
WSJ
Class-Action ‘Charity’ Racket
WSJ cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos. Google proposed to settle the case by…
USA Today
Google It: Supreme Court Tackles Class Action Settlement That Left Nothing For Millions Of Online Customers
USA Today cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank’s Supreme Court case Frank v. Gaos. Google users got nothing. Enter Ted Frank, who…
Bloomberg News
Charities Could Be Out $5.3M If SCOTUS Rejects Google Deal
Bloomberg News cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Melissa Hoyoak and Senior Attorney Ted Frank on Frank v. Gaos. Holyoak and fellow petitioner Ted Frank…
Northern California Record
California, Other States Grapple Over Climate Change Litigation
Northern California Record cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on climate change litigation. Into this charged debate comes Chris Horner, a senior fellow…
CUtoday
Think Tank Challenges Constitutionality Of Bureau
CUtoday cited CEI’s amicus brief on State National Bank of Big Spring v. Mnuchin case. COLUMBUS, Ohio—The Buckeye Institute is the latest to…
Law 360
High Court Case Threatens Key Source Of Legal Aid Funding
Law 360 cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Frank and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos case. Frank and Holyoak, the petitioners…
Washington Examiner
The Russians Are Meddling In Our Politics – And Michael Bloomberg Is Helping Them
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on environmental SAAG scheam. Then there is the work of Michael Bloomberg. Money from Bloomberg…
Legal News Line
Supreme Court Case To Decide Issue Of Class Action Funds Directed To ‘Pet Causes’
Legal News Line cited CEI’s Senior Attorney Ted Franks and Senior Attorney Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos. The U.S. Supreme Court on…
CNS News
Economy Grew By Healthy 3.5% In Most Recent Quarter
CNS News cite CEI’s Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on Trump deregulation. As Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute noted in 2017, Trump has…
One News Now
Climate Change Activists Making Energy The New Tobacco?
One News Now cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner on Attorney General lawsuit against Exxon. Chris Horner of the …
Investor's Business Daily
Happy 40th Birthday, Airline Deregulation — Despite Complaints, You’re A Huge Success
Investor’s Business Daily cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner airline deregulation. Americans often express mixed feelings about today’s airlines, with their missed schedules,…
American Action Forum
The Community Reinvestment Act: A Primer
American Action Forum cited CEI’s Michelle Minton’s “The Community Reinvestment Act’s Harmful Legacy” report. In assessing the CRA, it is useful to look…
American Council On Science And Health
IARC Retraction Watch Begins: They Faked Images In Controversial Claims
American Council On Science And Health cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Angela Logomasini on IARC weedkiller claims. Schneider is not…
Daily Caller
Bloomberg-Funded Fellow Signed NY AG’s Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s report by Christopher C. Horner, Law Enforcement for Rent. Matthew Eisenson, a special assistant in the New York…
Law360
Disputers Of Google Privacy Deal Cite 9th Circ. Award Ruling
Law360 cited CEI Senior Attorneys Ted Frank and Melissa Holyoak on Frank v. Gaos. “Challengers to Google’s $8.5 million privacy settlement, the fairness…
Breitbart
New York Sues Exxon Mobil Over Climate Change — Four Months After California Suit Tossed
Breitbart cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s “Law Enforcement for Rent” report. In a curious twist, one of the attorneys who signed the…
Watts Up With That?
Collusions Ahoy! Law Enforcement For Rent…Because Climate
Watts Up With That? cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s “Law Enforcement for Rent” report. A new CLW video, citing to a…
The Daily Caller
Bloomberg-Funded Fellow Signed NY AG’s Climate Lawsuit Against Exxon
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s open record AG request. Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum also raised alarms in June after her office hired environmental lawyer…
The Daily Caller
Report: Attorneys General Hold ‘Secret’ Meeting With Donors To Discuss Future Climate Lawsuits
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s “Law Enforcement for Rent” report. Attorneys associated with various attorneys general offices across the…
Legal Sports Report
What We Learned About Sports Betting In Congress: Questions And Answers
Legal Sports Report cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on sports gambling. Minton’s testimony advocates for state regulation of sports betting, noting that…
Washington Examiner
Safety Advocates Try To Hit The Brakes On Driverless Cars
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on Congressional action for driverless vehicles. “I understand there are important things that need to…
Watts Up With That?
Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #332
Watts Up With That? cited Benny Peiser’s global warming talk at CEI. A Crack Developing? Last week, Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy…
Overlawyered
State AGs For Hire On Environmental Activism
Overlawyered cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s “Government for Rent” report. My new Cato post looks at a low-profile program in which a…
Townhall
Trump Regulatory Reform Saved Taxpayers $23 Billion
Townhall cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Clyde Wayne Crews’s “Ten Thousand Commandments 2018” annual report. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) puts out a report…
Inside Sources
Does Air Pollution Kill? New Report Challenges Longstanding Conviction
Inside Sources cited CEI’s Adjunct Scholar Steve Milloy’s “Will the Trump Fuel Economy Reform Proposal Create Deadly Air Pollution?” study. A decade ago,…
Cato Institute
Bloomberg/NYU Center Embeds Lawyers In AG Offices To Pursue Green Causes
Cato Institute cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Chris Horner’s “Law Enforcement for Rent” report. The spotlight on backstage doings at state AG offices arises…
Washington Examiner
Trump’s EPA Rattles Self-Driving Car Industry By Picking ‘Winners And Losers,’ Critics Claim
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on technology neutrality pledge of USDOT Other manufacturers such Tesla and Mercedes-Benz raised concerns over…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
How Much Will Sports Leagues Make From Legal Betting?
West Virginia Public Broadcasting cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Michelle Minton on sports gambling. With more viewers, the leagues will be able to charge…
The Daily Caller
12-To-1: That’s How Many Regulations Trump Reportedly Repealed For Every New One Issued
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crew’s “An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State” report. …
The Daily Caller
Study Supports Trump’s Claims That Vehicle Regulation Rollback Will Save Lives
The Daily Caller cited CEI’s Adjunct Scholar Steve Milloy’s “Will the Trump Fuel Economy Reform Proposal Create Deadly Air Pollution?” study. Critics of…
Lexington Herald Leader
No Sign That Chief Justice Would Deliver On Liberals’ Worst Fears
Lexington Herald Leader cited CEI’s 2015 challenge against ACA legaility. The Supreme Court got another shot at the ACA in 2015, when plaintiffs…
Politico
Morning Shift
Politico cited CEI’s rejection of NLRB nominee Mark Pearce. MORE PEARCE PUSHBACK: More conservative-leaning groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Heritage Action (sister…
ABC News
Inside America: How Steelworkers View The Midterm Elections
ABC News cited CEI’s Fellow Ryan Young on the steel industry job market. Despite the deal with Canada and Mexico, the trade war…
Energy Central
Business Groups Ask SCOTUS to Shut Down Massachusetts #ExxonKnew Shakedown
Energy Central cited CEI’s Chris Horner’s “Law Enforcement for Rent” report. If Healey’s far-fetched investigation is upheld as legitimate, the decision will present companies…