Citations

• By: Myron Ebell
• 04/02/2014

When the calendar changed to 2014, the multi-billion dollar wind energy production tax credit expired, but that doesn’t mean wind companies still aren’t reaping benefits…

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/31/2014

Thus far, Norman Bay's nomination to lead FERC has been marked more by what hasn't happened than by what has. Bay, the current enforcement chief…

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/30/2014

Exhibit A, as reported by The Washington Beacon’s Lachlan Markay: Midland, Texas, has the lowest unemployment rate of any metro area in the United States,…

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/29/2014

William Yeatman explains the concept of Human Achievement Hour.

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/28/2014

Go ahead. Turn on the lights, throw a margarita in the blender or dance around while an industrial-sized sound system plays ‘80s music. So say…

• By: CEI Staff
• 03/28/2014

Few cries for attention are less effective than turning off the lights and sitting in the dark for an hour. Who can watch if they…

• By: Marc Scribner
• 03/28/2014

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has filed comments on DOT’s proposal to ban in-flight cell phone calls, going against what most groups have said by opposing…

• 03/28/2014

This week I remarked upon the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. I just learned there is an alternative sponsored by…

• By: Aloysius Hogan
• 03/26/2014

All raising the minimum wage is going to do is keep women at home, counters Aloysius Hogan, a senior research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise…

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/21/2014

Critics of federal support for green energy projects say Agua Caliente, and the discrepancy between the economies of Yuma and Midland, is indicative of a…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/10/2014

Typically, successful litigation of this sort transfers control over an important issue like school funding from branches of government that are accountable to taxpayers and…

• By: William Yeatman
• 03/03/2014

Critics say it's an abuse of taxpayer dollars — and a risky investment.  "I could see no rational reason why anybody would put money behind…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/28/2014

The Environmental Protection Agency’s anti-transparency shenanigans are as entertainingly bizarre as they are pathetic. The agency has been stonewalling Chris Horner, a senior fellow at…

• By: William Yeatman
• 02/28/2014

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) has been granted the right to intervene in environmentalists’ pending suit seeking to force EPA to act on stalled…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 02/25/2014

We shouldn’t be completely surprised by his defense of population control. This has long been part of his left-wing environmentalist agenda. As Myron Ebell, the…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/21/2014

Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), said the EPA's actions are akin to the IRS targeting of conservative groups. "We…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/20/2014

"Hans Bader, a lawyer with the Competitive Enterprise Institute who formerly worked in the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights sums up the argument against…

• By: William Yeatman
• 02/18/2014

William Yeatman, a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Newsmax: "EPA engages in sweetheart litigation in order to cede its regulatory initiative to…

• 02/18/2014

Meanwhile, Obama seems bent on doing all he can to strangle the economy, raise prices and kill jobs. He’s driven the national debt to World…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 02/18/2014

Podesta’s group also belittled government watchdogs’ calls for more Obama administration transparency regarding IRS officials targeting Tea Party groups, State Department officials failing to disclose…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/16/2014

“They want input from liberal activists and Democratic partisans without public scrutiny,” said Competitive Enterprise Institute official John Berlau, who last year represented a Mississippi…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/15/2014

“Racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem today,” Duncan claimed in announcing the new policy. But chances are he outsourced this “solution.” “I…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 02/13/2014

“So this is just the latest example of President Obama’s contempt for obeying the Constitution and our laws,” Myron Ebell, director of the Center of…

• By: Christopher C. Horner
• 02/13/2014

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who helped expose the email scandal, said the inspector general’s investigation was flawed because auditors…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/12/2014

Their suit, which alleged there are no effective checks and balances in the law, also took issue with the CFPB, which was created by the…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/11/2014

Schumer and Hari “appear to have it backward,” said Wayne Crews, vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a former FDA economist.

• By: Marc Scribner
• 02/11/2014

Although surveys show widespread support for making smartphone users let their fingers do the talking, there are some opponents. Mark Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/08/2014

 One such letter was submitted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s John Berlau, and the letter was summarized in a recent release. "Every day on the…

• By: Marc Scribner
• 02/06/2014

"I think the biggest challenges related to the security systems necessary to protect the data that's being shared, and a related challenge to that is…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/04/2014

Economist Doug Holtz-Eakin, who heads the conservative American Action Forum and has been warning for years about the law’s ill-effects isn’t surprised. He e-mails, “The…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/04/2014

"Don't expect these zones to achieve much," said Iain Murray, vice president…

• By: Hans Bader
• 02/03/2014

Two marriage penalties enshrined in Obamacare are proof of the government’s continued efforts to erode traditional marriage. Consider this: the Affordable Care Act requires…

• By: Fran Smith
• 02/01/2014

“The farm bill continues the command-and-control sugar policy—with its domestic production…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 01/31/2014

“Since the Republicans won control of the House in the 2010 elections, [Podesta] has criticized the Obama White House for wasting time on legislation that…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/30/2014

Hans Bader and others have argued that in some parts of the country, the increased wage could conflict with another statute, the Service Contract Act,…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/28/2014

Thus, any federal panel or lower court would have to uphold the 1996 decision, said Hans Bader, senior attorney for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…

• By: Myron Ebell
• 01/27/2014

“Gore’s agenda for saving the world from global warming has always included population control,” Myron Ebell, director of global warming and international environmental policy at…

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/24/2014

“People respond to incentives,” said Ryan Young, a regulatory studies fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “Unemployment benefits reduce one’s incentive to look for a…

• By: William Yeatman
• 01/22/2014

Much of the current energy policy debate pivots on the validity of climate science and the tension between environmental and economic priorities. William Yeatman, an…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

"This decision guts the choice made by a majority of the…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

“The court’s ruling today delivers a major blow to the states that chose not to participate in the Obamacare insurance exchange program,” said Sam Kazman,…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

Small business owners in six states that don't run their own exchanges filed the lawsuit. They plan to appeal Friedman's ruling, said their attorney, Sam…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 01/15/2014

"The court [ruled with the government] despite its own finding that our arguments…