Reuters
Lighthizer joins Trump trade team crowded with deal makers
Reuters discusses trade policy with Marc Scribner. “USTR will still have statutory negotiation and enforcement powers, but where the big ideas on trade…
Inside EPA
Pending Litigation Could Be Wild Card For Trump Climate Policy Rollbacks
Inside EPA discusses pending lawsuits on EPA regulations with William Yeatman. Litigation moving through federal courts may play a large role in determining…
Real Clear Policy
Don’t Re-Regulate the Railroads
Real Clear Policy discusses policy on the railroad industry with Marc Scribner. Marc Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute neatly summarized the implications…
Forbes
The U.S. Economy In 2017: Welcome Higher Growth
Forbes highlights Wayne Crews’s study on the number of federal regulations passed under the Obama administration. Today, there is less uncertainty in politics.
Legal NewsLine
Public-interest firm calls $5.5 million settlement with Google over privacy settings ‘unacceptable’
Legal NewLine reports on CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s objection to an unfair Google class action settlement. A public-interest law firm that…
Top Class Actions
Google’s $5.5M Settlement Fails to Benefit Class Members, Objector Says
Top Class Actions reports on and objection to an unfair class action settlement from CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s founder, Ted Frank. Class…
Breitbart
Obama Oversees Year of Mass Regulation, Record 97,000 Pages of Red Tape
Breitbart highlights Wayne Crews’s report on the number of regulations passed during the Obama administration. President Barack Obama’s administration has added record levels…
Washington Times
Obama Sets A Record For Red Tape in 2016
The Washington Times discusses regulation under the Obama administration with Clyde Wayne Crews. Clyde Wayne Crews, CEI’s vice president for policy, said Republicans…
The Hill
Trump could be fighting Obama’s climate policies for years
The Hill discusses expected climate policies under the new administration with William Yeatman. William Yeatman, a senior fellow at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Washington Examiner
Obama unleashes 3,853 regs, 18 for every law, record 97,110 pages of red tape
Washington Examiner discusses regulation under the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. The proof that it was an overwhelming year for rules and regulations…
Daily Caller
Agencies Issued 18 Regs For Every Law Congress Passed In 2016
The Daily Caller discusses Wayne Crews’s report comparing the Obama administrations regulations to laws that Congress passed in 2016. Executive branch agencies under…
InsideEPA.com
Climate: CEI official urges Trump to retain scaled-back GHG rules
InsideEPA.com discusses the incoming Trump administration’s stance on climate policy with William Yeatman. A top official with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the…
The Hill
Pruitt’s confirmation as EPA chief essential to restoring balance of power
The Hill highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of regulations. Regulatory overreach is not a new threat to the constitutional separation of powers and…
Daily Caller
Activists Urge Trump To Stop Obama’s Anti-Business ‘Midnight Litigation’
The Daily Caller reports on a letter CEI and other organizations sent to Mike Pence. Obama’s agencies are poised to file economy-stunting environmental…
Daily Signal
The California Gathering That Hatched Plan to Prosecute Skeptics of Climate Change
The Daily Signal reports on CEI’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against George Mason University. Chris Horner, a lawyer and senior fellow with the…
JD Journal
Boston Globe Exposes Cost Inflating Class-Action Attorneys
JD Journal investigates Boston Globe’s exposer of class- action attorneys While critics of inflated billing exist, they still acknowledge that attorneys who take…
Bloomberg
Make Banks Great Again? G.O.P. Push to Ax Key Agency Poses Risks
Bloomberg discusses the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Iain Murray. “There are all sorts of risks,” said Iain Murray, vice…
Bloomberg BNA
Energy, Environmental Wish List Compiled for Trump
Bloomberg BNA highlights CEI’s energy and environment agenda for the Trump administration. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market group based in Washington, D.C.,…
National Review
The D.C. Court of Appeals Undermines the First Amendment
National Review covers the D.C Court of Appeals decision in Michael Mann’s defamation case against the Competitive Enterprise Institute and National Review. The court…
Bloomberg BNA
Trump EPA Transition Team Lacks Expertise on Chemicals, Water
Bloomberg BNA discusses the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical policy with Angela Logomasini. Angela Longomasini, a senior fellow at CEI, said she is not…
CNN Money
Elizabeth Warren watchdog under siege
CNN Money discusses the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director with John Berlau. CFPB Director Richard Cordray has “inundated Main Street financial…
Reason.com
For Trump And Icahn, Experts Say Regulatory Reform Should Be More Than a Numbers Game
Reason.com discusses regulatory reform under the Trump administration with Wayne Crews and Kent Lassman. To get below the surface, Trump’s team could look…
The Washington Post
Making Defamation Law Great Again: Michael Mann’s Suit May Continue
Jonathan Adler of The Volokh Conspiracy blog covers the D.C. Court of Appeals ruling in Michael Mann’s defamation suit against Rand Simberg, Mark Steyn, National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. …
Washington Times
One Obama executive order that makes sense
The Washington Times discusses regulations from the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. In retrospect, it’s easy to surmise that Mr. Obama’s executive order…
The Hill
Trump plots two-for-one assault on Obama regs
The Hill discusses with Wayne Crews a plan from President-elect Donald Trump that would eliminate two regulations for every new rule issued. It’s unclear…
National Review
Time to Get Rid of the EPA? Scott Pruitt May Be Just the Guy to Do It
National Review highlights Ryan Young’s estimate of the annual cost of compliance with the EPA’s regulations The EPA’s expansive and ever-expanding regulations impose…
The Hill
State attorneys general chill climate debate with government subpoenas
The Hill reports on an attempt to silence free speech in a form of a subpoena that CEI recieved from Attorney General Claude Walker. …
Arkansas Business
‘He Wasn’t Unkind, but He Was a Crook’ – Best Quotes of 2016
Arkansas Business lists a quote by Ted Frank as one of the best quotes of 2016. “The fact of the matter is that…
The Daily Signal
Here’s the Tool Congress Can Use to Curtail Obama’s Regulation Legacy
The Daily Signal highlights Marlo Lewis’s writing on last minute regualtions from the Enviornmental Protection Agency. Not surprisingly, efforts are being made to enact…
One News Now
Trump’s transportation pick in for a ride
One News Now discusses President-elect Trump’s pick for secretary of transportation with Marc Scribner. “No one really knows where that money is going…
Cato At Liberty
The Feds Want to Track Your Car
Cato At Liberty highlights a quote by Marc Scribner on regulating vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology. While the risks of mandatory V2V systems are significant,…
Wall Street Journal
Uber’s Clash With Regulators Moves to Self-Driving Cars
The Wall Street Journal discusses Uber’s use of self-driving cars in San Fransisco with Marc Scribner. “This is right out of the playbook…
Tulsa World
Credit Reports Used by Insurance Companies
E&E News
In right’s energy-subsidy clash, shades of Koch vs. Pickens
E&E News
The Obfiscation Agenda
Beverage Industry Today
Health Benefits of Alcohol Defended
Washington Post
Feds not Needed
Blue Grass Policy
Big Labor’s Making Us Offers We Can Refuse
Blue Grass Policy
CEI and Crossroads GPS Announce Launch of Big Labor vs. Taxpayers
Blue Grass Policy
CEI and Crossroads GPS Announce Launch of Big Labor vs. Taxpayers
College Insurrection
Maryland Bd of Ed – How About We Have Disciplinary Quotas by Race?
From College Insurrection: Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute discusses what happens when legally and factually misconceived notions of racial fairness result…
College Insurrection
Immigration Reform to be Discussed During Obama’s State of the Union Address; Critics Weigh in on Rubio’s E-Verify Work Plan
“Using employers as a fourth arm of the government is not the framework that the founders of this country envisioned when they created the Constitution,”…
Breitbart
Obama Admin’s School Guidelines Criticized By Legal, Education Experts
Breitbart
“Court Ruling A Big Blow to ‘Open Internet'”
“Verizon was joined in its fight by conservative and business groups that oppose neutrality rules, such as the Competitive…
The Boston Globe
Critics hit law firms’ bills after class-action lawsuits
The Boston Globe discusses Thornton Law Firm’s legal fees in class-action lawsuits with CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s founder Ted Frank. Critics of…
Boston Globe
Critics hit law firms’ bills after class-action lawsuits
Boston Globe discusses the State Street Bank and Trust Lawsuit by the Thornton Law Firm Critics of the way lawyers are paid in…
Washington Examiner
Obama legacy: Most red tape in history, 35 days still left
Washington Examiner speaks with Clyde Wayne Crews on this year's record-breaking Federal Register's page count. According to regulation watcher Clyde Wayne Crews of…
Bloomberg
On Climate Change, Who Will Censure the Censors?
Bloomberg discusses the subpoena CEI received from an attorney general as an attempt to silence our free speech on climate change. Eight months…
New York Post
Controversial FCC boss to exit agency before term ends
New York Post discusses Federal Communication Comission's head Tom Wheeler's exit from the agency with CEI. The Competitive Enterprise Institute issued a negative…
Bloomberg
How Climate Rules Might Fade Away
Bloomberg discusses the Social Cost of Carbon with Marlo Lewis. Trump can’t undo the SCC by fiat. There is established case law requiring…