Hudson Institute
Who Owns The Digital Information About You?
The Hudson Institute covers Carpenter v. United States and CEI’s amicus brief in the case with the Cato Institute and the Committee for Justice. Legal…
Bloomberg BNA
House Bid to Ax Payday Rule Kicks Off With Bipartisan Support
Bloomberg BNA covers introduced legislation that would block the CFPB’s payday lending rule. A House resolution to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s small-dollar…
The Daily Caller
Obama Mega Donor Financially Backed Solar Company Now Seeking Trade Tariffs
The Daily Caller covers new developments in a company advocating for trade tarrifs on solar panels, which CEI has opposed in a letter with the R…
Law360
Justices Won’t Review Airlines’ $40M One-Size-Fits-All Deal
Law360 covers the Supreme Court’s declination of reviewing Yang v. Wortman, previously captioned In Re:Transpacific Passenger Air Transportation Antitrust Litigation. The U.S. Supreme Court on…
The Washington Times
Supreme Court Questions Federal Law Banning State-Sponsored Sports Betting
The Washington Times discusses the Supreme Court’s hearing of oral arguments in Christie v. NCAA with Michelle Minton. The Supreme Court on Monday appeared skeptical of a…
CNBC
Trump Disappoints Fossil Fuel Proponents and Corn Belt Base as EPA Leaves Biofuels Program Mostly Unchanged
CNBC discusses the release of the EPA’s 2018 renewable fuel standard targets with Marlo Lewis. Faced with competing demands from two pillars of President …
CNBC
New House Bill Would Kill Consumer Watchdog Payday Loan Rule
CNBC covers the blockage of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s payday loan rule. Congress has it in for consumer protections enacted by the Consumer Financial…
Forbes
Who Owns the Digital Information About You?
Harold Furchtgott-Roth, writing for Forbes, covers Carpenter v. United States. Legal analysts claim that Carpenter v. United States, argued earlier this…
Consumer Reports
You Still Can’t Sue Your Bank. So What Can You Do?
Consumer Reports covers the repeal of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s anti-arbitration rule. The Senate’s recent vote to let forced-arbitration language …
The Washington Times
Judge Rules in Favor of Trump in Battle over CFPB Leadership
The Washington Times covers the ruling in the fued over leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A federal court rejected efforts by anti-…
The Washington Examiner
CFPB’s ‘NSA-Like’ Surveillance in Limbo with Leadership Tussle
The Washington Examiner discusses Mick Mulvaney’s appointment as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with John Berlau. The fight for control of…
Breitbart
CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney Orders 30-Day Hiring, Regulatory Freeze
Breitbart covers Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Mick Mulvaney’s hiring and regulatory freeze. Mulvaney declared that President Trump “wants me…
The New York Times
Net Neutrality Hits a Nerve, Eliciting Intense Reactions
The New York Times covers the proposed rollback of Net Neutrality regulations. It usually doesn’t take much to get people on the internet worked…
Fox Business
Trump’s CFPB Won’t Be Obama’s: Key Ways It Could Be Different
Fox Business discusses Mick Mulvaney’s appointment as acting director of the Consumer Financiual Protection Bureau with Iain Murray. As the battle wages on over…
The Wall Street Journal
Supreme Court to Weigh Warrantless Cellphone Data Searches
The Wall Street Journal covers Carpetner v. United States. A pillar of modern policing will come under Supreme Court scrutiny Wednesday as the government…
Bloomberg View
Trump Deserves Some Credit for the Rally in Stocks
A. Gary Shilling, writing for Bloomberg View cites Wayne Crews’ “10,000 Commandments.” Reducing government regulation is tough. It’s resisted by all those who benefit, including…
The New York Post
Banks Remain Quiet on Mulvaney CFPB Appointment
The New York Post discusses Mick Mulvaney’s appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Iain Murray. While Washington was buzzing on Monday over…
USA Today
Supreme Court Weighs Privacy Rights in Digital Age in Pivotal Cellphone Case
USA Today covers the upcoming argument of Carpenter v. United States. Timothy Carpenter’s mistake in the armed robberies of cellphone stores in Michigan and Ohio…
Fox News
Trump’s Assault on the Administrative State Will Benefit America
Fox News covers President Trump’s recent regulatory rollbacks. Occurring largely behind the scenes, President Trump’s most significant contribution to a more prosperous America is…
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Under the Radar, Trump, Republicans are in Frontal Assault of Obama-era Regulations
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch discusses the cost of regulations with Wayne Crews. While fights over health care and …
The Daily Caller
Eco-Billionaire Tom Steyer Is Noticeably Absent from Fight Against Solar Tariff Push
The Daily Caller discusses solar tariffs. Billionaire green energy champion Tom Steyer has been strangely silent about a slew of trade tariffs analysts believe…
The Daily Caller
EPA Progresses Through HUNDREDS Of FOIA Requests Left Unanswered Under Obama
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner cited in the Daily Caller’s piece on the EPA progressing through hundreds of FOIA request left unanswered under Obama.
Politico
FCC’s next step on net neutrality: Blocking the states
CEI fellow Jessica Melugin quoted in Politico on the FCC’s next on net neutrality. Some states and cities could still try to impose…
New York Times
Justice Department Sues to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger
New York Times article discusses the Justice Department’s lawsuit to block the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Legal experts were divided on the merits…
The New American
State Dept. Sued for Secret Records on UN Paris Climate Accord
The New American covers CEI’s second FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State. On November 11, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed its second…
Forbes
Online Gambling — None of Washington’s Business (But Its Enemies Don’t Care)
George Leef writing for Forbes cites Michelle Minton’s work on online gambling. One of the things that gives capitalism a bad name is the way…
Medium
A Better World Begins With Better Bureaucracy
Maleka Momand writing for Medium cites Wayne Crews’ “10,000 Commandments.” The U.S. economy loses trillions of dollars every year to regulatory compliance costs, and state…
CNBC
Climate Skeptics and Coal Boosters Gather to Cheer Trump’s Energy Agenda — and Hold His Feet to the Fire
CNBC covers the Heartland Institute’s America First Energy Conference where Myron Ebell spoke. … The conference, preceded by a day of closed-door…
The Daily Caller
Docs Show Dems Are Outsourcing Paris Climate Campaign to Liberal Outlets
The Daily Caller discusses the use of activist groups by Democratic governors to push a climate change agenda with Chris Horner. The coalition of…
The Hill
Credit Trump For Boosting Business And Fueling Our Economic Growth
Andy Puzder, writing in The Hill, cites Wayne Crews’ “10,000 Commandments.” Progressive Democrats are in a tough spot. It is increasingly difficult to ignore that…
The Washington Post
This Group Thinks Trump Hasn’t Done Enough to Unravel Environmental Rules. Here’s Its Wish List.
The Washington Post discusses the effectiveness of environmental deregulation under the Trump administration with Myron Ebell. The activists gathered behind closed doors in a…
Law360
Conservative Think Tank Sues for Paris Climate Deal Info
Law360 covers CEI’s FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State. The Competitive Enterprise Institute sued the U.S. State Department in D.C. federal court Monday,…
Politico
Suit Filed for Obama-era Paris Records
Politico’s Morning Energy covers CEI’s FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit Monday seeking records during the…
The Washington Times
Democratic Governors Outsource Climate Campaigns to Activist Groups, Emails Reveal
The Washington Times covers the use of activist groups by Democratic governors to push climate change agendas. It may look as if Democratic governors…
Techdirt
Lawyer: Without The Monkey’s Approval, PETA Can’t Settle Monkey Selfie Case
Techdirt covers CEI’s brief in the Naruto v. Slater. Ted Frank is a well-respected lawyer who has heroically dedicated much of his career to…
The Daily Caller
State Dept Is Withholding Paris Accord Documents, So a Think Tank Is Suing It
The Daily Caller covers CEI’s second FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State for withholding documents related to the Paris Climate Agreement. The libertarian…
The Washington Examiner
Competitive Enterprise Institute Re-ups Lawsuit Against State Department for Not Releasing Paris Climate Emails
The Washington Examiner covers CEI’s second lawsuit against the Department of State over a FOIA request for documents relating to the Paris Climate Agreement.
Townhall
Beware the Dangers of Online Gambling Says Wildly Rich, Totally Uninterested Casino Owner
Writing for Townhall, Brian McNicoll cites Michelle Minton’s work on online gambling. Sheldon Adelson is concerned about problem gambling. He’s also concerned about underage gambling,…
InsideSources
Business Community Makes Final Push to End Obama-Era Franchise Rule
InsideSources covers the passage of the Save Local Business Act. The business community is ramping up its efforts to underscore the dangers of a…
The Washington Free Beacon
Congress Stands Up for Ronald (McDonald)
The Washington Free Beacon covers the passage of the Save Local Business Act. The House of Representatives passed a bill that could roll back…
Bloomberg Politics
How Trump White House Wound Up Releasing Dire Climate Report
Bloomberg Politics discusses the Trump administration’s release of Obama-era climate reports with Myron Ebell. The Trump administration has …
Reason
VIDEO: Self-Driving Cars Will Make Most Auto Safety Regulations Unnecessary
Jim Epstein of Reason discusses self-driving cars with Marc Scribner. Federal auto safety regulations fill nearly 900 pages with standards that determine everything…
The New York Times
Departures Promise to Reshape the House, Whether or Not Election Does
The New York Times covers the retirement of Lamar Smith from the U.S. House of Representatives. In his five years…
RealClear Markets
Undoing President Obama’s Damage Will Take Time
RealClear Markets covers the Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2017. Indeed, another reason to oppose new government undertakings is that each creates groups…
Reason
Trump’s Deregulatory ‘Juggernaut’?
Reason cites Wayne Crews’ “Red Tape Rollback.” “While the Republican machine that emerged from the 2016 election may be sputtering on other fronts,” The Wall Street…
The New York Times
U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials
The New York Times covers the release of Obama-era climate reports by the Trump administration. Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on…
The Daily Caller
Trump Continues Successful Deregulatory Blitz with Repeal of CFPB Rule
In an op-ed for The Daily Caller, Edward Woodson cites “10,000 Commandments.” The stock market is booming. Unemployment beneficiary numbers have fallen to a …
The Washington Times
Trump Signs Legislation to Repeal Obama-era Arbitration Rule
The Washington Times discusses the repeal of the anti-arbitration rule with Iain Murray. President Trump signed legislation Wednesday afternoon repealing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s…
The Daily Caller
Solar Industry Prepares for Possible Upheaval as Trade Officials Move on Tariffs
The Daily Caller covers a coalition letter, signed by CEI, urging the Trump administration to not put tariffs on solar panels. The solar industry…
The Daily Signal
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Bars Government-Funded Science Advisers from Panels
The Daily Signal discusses EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to prohibit scientists who receive grants from the agency from serving on the agency’s advisory boards with…
The Hill
EPA Blocks Scientists Who Get Grants from Its Advisory Boards
The Hill covers EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to prohibit scientists receiving grants from the agency from serving on the agency’s advisory boards. The…
Law360
Airlines’ $40M One-Size-Fits-All Deal Unfair, Justices Told
Law360 covers CEI’s petition for certiorari in Yang v. Wortman. An advocacy group asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to review a $39.5 million…
National Review
The Criminal-Justice Reform No One’s Talking About
Rafael A. Mangual, writing for National Review, cites Wayne Crews’ “Unconstitutionality Index” when talking about criminal justice reform. In early October, Senate Republicans introduced three bills…
National Review
When the Power of the State Was Used to Bully Climate-Policy Dissenters
Todd Myers, writing in National Review, covers CEI’s climate change subpoeana pushback from 2016. Last year, Washington attorney general Bob Ferguson announced that he would…
The Washington Examiner
Scott Pruitt Bars EPA Grant Recipients from Serving on Advisory Boards
The Washington Examiner covers EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to block scientists who receive agency funding from serving on advisory boards. Environmental Protection Agency…
The Daily Caller
Pruitt Is Right To Withdraw Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’
Tom Harris, in an op-ed for The Daily Caller cites an article by Marlo Lewis, Jr. regarding the Clean Power Plan. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator…
InsideSources
BICEP Companies, Including Nike and eBay, Urge ITC Not to Recommend Solar Tarriffs
InsideSources covers a coalition letter, signed by CEI, urging the Trump administration to reject a tarrif on solar panels. It’s almost Halloween and things…
Real Clear Politics
It’s Time for Trump to Kill the Regulatory Swamp Monsters
In Real Clear Politics, Steve Forbes cites CEI’s “The Case against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.” President Trump has successfully taken a chainsaw to some…
The Washington Examiner
Ten Free-Market Groups Advise Trump to Reject Solar Tariffs
The Washington Examiner covers a coalition letter, signed by CEI, urging the Trump administration to reject a proposal to place tariffs on solar panel imports.
Wall Street Journal
VIDEO: Opinion Journal: Arbitration Vote: Lawyers Lose, You Win
Iain Murray, Vice President for Strategy at CEI, joins Mary Kissel of the Wall Street Journal to discuss the repeal of the CFPB’s anti-arbitration rule.
Marketplace
AUDIO: How Restrictions on Class Action Lawsuits Affect the Arbitration Industry
American Public Media’s Marketplace discusses arbitration and class action fairness with Ted Frank. View the interview here on the Marketplace website. …
The Daily Caller
Senate Kills Obama-Era Financial Rule
The Daily Caller discusses the repeal of the CFPB anti-arbitration rule with Ted Frank. The Senate narrowly laid to rest a Consumer Financial Protection…
The Hill
Right-Leaning Groups Back International Data Privacy Bill
The Hill covers CEI and other groups’ support of the International Communications Privacy Act. A coalition of right-leaning groups is pressing Congress to act…
Reuters
Republicans, Wall Street Score Victory in Dismantling Class-Action Rule
Reuters discusses the Senate’s CRA vote regarding the CFPB’s anti-arbitration rule with Ted Frank. Banks, credit card issuers and other financial companies will be…
The Federal Times
Politics Divide Regulatory Reform Efforts
The Federal Times covers the House Oversight Committee’s “Regulatory Reform Task Forces Check-In.” A recent House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing on agency…
Bloomberg BNA
Business Groups Attack ‘America First’ Merger Review Bill
Bloomberg BNA discusses the United States Foreign Investment Review Act of 2017 with John Berlau. Senate legislation to increase scrutiny of mergers proposed by…
Law360
Trump Deregulatory Push Puts New Rail, Truck Rules In Doubt
Law360 discusses freight rail regulation with Marc Scribner. The STB in July 2016 agreed to draft new rules that would compel a rail…
City Journal
Well-Heeled Fliers Against Air-Traffic Reform
City Journal discusses air traffic control reform with Marc Scribner. A CEO on a Gulfstream doesn’t make a great poster child for government welfare,…
The Daily Caller
EXCLUSIVE: Podesta’s ‘Green Company’ Forced to Close Because Hillary Lost the Election
The Daily Caller discusses the closing of a biofuels company headed by John Podesta with Marlo Lewis. Joule Unlimited, a secretive green energy company that…
The Daily Signal
EPA Chief Set to Bar Government-Funded Experts From Agency’s Science Panels
The Daily Signal discusses the EPA’s changes to its scientific advisory boards with William Yeatman. Pruitt revealed that he will issue a directive aimed…
OneNewsNow
How Could EPA Avoid ‘Sue and Settle’ Problem?
OneNewsNow discusses the EPA’s “sue and settle” directive with Chris Horner. Lawsuits involving environmental groups and the EPA may not be going away, even…
Politico
New Challenge to Endangerment Finding
Politico’s Morning Energy covers a coalition letter, led by CEI, urging the EPA to review the “endangerment finding.” A group of 60 skeptics of…
Bloomberg BNA
Longer, Costlier Legal Battles Ahead as EPA Vows No Settling
Bloomberg BNA discusses the EPA’s ‘sue and settle’ directive with William Yeatman. EPA Administer Scott Pruitt’s refusal to settle environmental lawsuits means longer and…
The Washington Times
Conservatives Fear More Left-Leaning Media with AT&T, Time Warner merger
The Washington Times discusses the AT&T-Time Warner merger with Wayne Crews. The proposed AT&T merger with Time Warner has some conservatives nervous about its…
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Think Tank Releasing Report on New Jersey Challenge to Sports Betting Act
Las Vegas Review-Journal covers Michelle Minton’s “Let States Regulate Sports Gambling within their Borders.” When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on the…
The Daily Caller
Conservatives Renew Campaign to Invalidate a Key Pillar of Obama’s Global Warming Legacy
The Daily Caller covers our joint letter with the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) with 60 climate and health experts urging the EPA to reconsider…
Fox Business Network Online
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Hurting Those it Was Designed to Protect?
Fox Business Network Online covers CEI’s “Case against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” by Iain Murray. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been a…
Newsmax
EPA Proposes Clean Break with Dirty Energy Politics
Newsmax discusses the EPA’s proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan with Marlo Lewis. Last week, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt issued…
The Washington Examiner
EPA Has ‘Plenty of Tools’ to Battle Climate Change Without Obama Regulations, Experts Say
The Washington Examiner discusses the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan with Myron Ebell. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt could…
The Guardian
Fightback Begins Over Trump’s ‘Illegal and Irresponsible’ Clean Power Repeal
The Guardian discusses the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan with Myron Ebell. The US is set for a fresh battle…
The Washington Free Beacon
Clean Power Plan Repeal Will Save $33 Billion in Compliance Costs
The Washington Free Beacon covers the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan. Repealing the Clean Power Plan will save $33 billion…
The Daily Caller
Despite EPA Actions, Obama’s Climate Agenda ‘Has Not Been Fully Dismantled Yet’
The Daily Caller discusses the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan with Myron Ebell. While Republicans and industry groups cheer the…
Breitbart
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Proposes to Save $33 Billion with Repeal of Obama-Era Energy Plan
Breitbart covers the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt proposed to repeal the agency’s…
Bloomberg Politics
Trump Plays Down Health Hazard in Making Climate Rule Repeal
Bloomberg Politics discusses the Trump administration’s proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan. When President Barack Obama unveiled his plan to pare emissions from…
The Hill
Overnight Energy: EPA to Propose Clean Power Plan Repeal
The Hill covers the proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt announced Monday that the formal proposal…
Breitbart
Exclusive–Trump’s EPA Transition Chair Myron Ebell: ‘Scrapping’ Clean Power Plan ‘Key Part of Deregulatory Agenda’
Breitbart covers the proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan. Myron Ebell, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) director of Energy and Environment programs and…
Breitbart
Exclusive: EPA Document Proposes to Eliminate Clean Power Plan ‘in Its Entirety’
Breitbart covers the proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to repeal the agency’s Obama-era climate change program,…
The Washington Post
Gorsuch Could Strike a Mortal Blow to Unions
The Washington Post covers Janus v. AFSCME and CEI’s brief in the case. Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it would…
HuffPost
Trump Administration to Propose Scrapping Major Obama-Era Climate Change Policy
HuffPost covers the proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan. The Trump administration is poised to scrap a policy limiting greenhouse gas emissions from…
The Hill
Abolish Financial Protection Bureau Before it Does More Harm
The Hill covers CEI’s “Case against the Financial Protection Bureau” by Iain Murray. With each passing week, the speculation grows that the activist liberal…
The Washington Examiner
The Media are Missing Trump’s Much-Needed Regulatory Relief
The Washington Examiner covers Wayne Crews’ “Red Tape Rollback Report.” For decades, the federal government kept adding regulations without taking any old ones off…
The Daily Caller
Trump Will Soon Unveil His Own ‘Global Warming’ Policy – Here’s What That Might Look Like
The Daily Caller discusses the possible replacement of the Clean Power Plan with Will Yeatman. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to repeal…
Greenwire
Trump Is Biggest Rule Cutter Since Reagan – CEI Analysis
Greenwire covers Wayne Crews’ “Red Tape Rollback Report.” President Trump has shown a strong commitment to deregulation during his first eight months in office,…
Politico
CEI Sues for Paris Documents
Politico’s Morning Energy covers CEI’s FOIA lawsuit against the State Department regarding Paris Climate Treaty documents. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed …
The Packer
Trump living up to anti-regulation rhetoric
The Packer cites Senior fellow Clyde Wayne Crews on regulations. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has put some stats together that said the Trump Administration’s…
The Daily Caller
State Department Sued for Internal Records on the Paris Climate Accord
The Daily Caller covers CEI’s FOIA lawsuit against the State Department. A libertarian think tank filed suit against the State Department for records regarding…
InsideSources
Free-Market Coalition Urges Action on Franchise Rule
InsideSources covers a coalition letter, led by CEI, in support of the Save Local Business Act. A coalition of free-market advocates sent a letter…
Politico
Joint Employer Bill Draws Support
Politico’s Morning Shift covers a coalition letter, led by CEI, in support of the Save Local Business Act. A coalition of 28 pro-business groups…
The Washington Examiner
Competitive Enterprise Institute Sues State Department for Climate Change Communications of Obama Officials
The Washington Examiner discusses CEI’s FOIA lawsuit against the State Department with Chris Horner. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed suit Tuesday against…
The Washington Examiner
Trump Ahead of Reagan’s Record in Cutting Regulations
The Washington Examiner covers Wayne Crews’ “Red Tape Rollback Report.” President Trump is keeping his promise to cut regulations and is on a course…
