Citations

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/18/2014

Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the classic Democracy in America, were born in different times and places.

• By: Gregory Conko
• 04/18/2014

A great deal of media talk is concentrated on genetically modified plant and animal food products. The public is subjected to virtually daily alarmist claims…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 04/17/2014

Anyone wondering why the U.S. economy can't seem to grow at its usual pace should examine one product category where production is booming: federal regulation.

• By: William Yeatman
• 04/17/2014

The Department of Energy ignored warnings by internal solar experts when it subsidized a solar company backed by a major Democratic donor that went bankrupt…

• By: William Yeatman
• 04/17/2014

The Solar Summit at the White House to promote a product that survives on government subsidies contrasts perfectly with the CRS findings on a product…

• By: William Yeatman
• 04/15/2014

As Sen. Mark Begich (D., Alaska) seeks to shore up his energy policy credentials, a now-bankrupt green energy company to which he steered federal subsidies…

• By: Sam Kazman
• 04/10/2014

The energy crisis only made matters worse for designers when, in 1975, Congress introduced the first mandatory Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations that set…

• 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…