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Twelve Attorneys General Sue the EPA
According to a study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), EPA granted FOIA fee waiver requests to environmental groups 92 percent of the time, but…
Daily Caller
‘Ideological mercenary’: World Bank follows in Obama’s footsteps on coal
“One might say this signals the war on coal has gone global,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Chris Horner told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Daily Caller
Apple, Facebook, Google and others urge greater government transparency
More than 50 parties signed the letter, including the ACLU, American Library Association, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Demand Progress, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch, Salesforce.com,…
Daily Caller
Citizens For Free Markets To Host Free Public Forum To Discuss Costs Of Unionizing
Speakers will include Matt Patterson, labor specialist and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Dr. Charles Van Eaton, labor economist and Don Jackson, former…
Journal Star
EPA’s regional haze program costs Nebraska electric utilities millions
"Its real goal is to impose another costly regulation on electric utilities and force them to shut down their coal-fired generating units. Ultimately, all states…
United Liberty
New study details EPA’s regulatory incompetence
A new study authored by William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute shows that the EPA is…
United Liberty
Should you worry about AT&T gobbling up Cricket?
But Fred Campbell, a former FCC staffer and an analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, disagrees. He contends that Leap’s business strategy, which focuses on…
United Liberty
Anti-, pro-unionization efforts ramp up at Volkswagen
A labor project run by Matt Patterson, a senior fellow at the Washington D.C., nonprofit the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which advocates for “limited government,…
The Gazette
EPA fails to meet deadlines
Ninety-eight percent of Environmental Protection Agency regulations for three core Clean Air Act programs were implemented late, according to a new study by William Yeatman…
The Gazette
Powerful EPA fails to meet deadlines
Ninety-eight percent of Environmental Protection Agency regulations for three core Clean Air Act programs were implemented late, according to a new study by William Yeatman…
The Gazette
House farm bill sows seeds for bigger legislative fight
The Competitive Enterprise Institute said the bill “greatly expands the crop insurance subsidy program.” Some subsidies could become permanent, too, because the bill repeals laws…
The Gazette
Enviros, lefty groups, free-marketeers team up against nuclear corporate welfare
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Tex., has filed an amendment to kill this bailout. A handful of groups from the libertarian-leaning R Street and Competitive Enterprise Institute…
The Gazette
Dodd-Frank, Obamacare And The Erosion Of The Rule Of Law
Just four months later, on July 21, 2010, Obama signed another monstrosity into law: the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, an 850-page bill that has generated…
Washington Times
Approaching economic stall speed
Government regulations not justified on a cost-benefit basis, plus the cumulative weight of all regulations, result in a dead-weight loss to an economy. The United…
Washington Times
Should Online Gambling Be Legalized?
Washington Examiner
What happens in the backroom of a sue-and-settle lawsuit?
William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute discovered the details after a Freedom of Information Act request produced 659 pages of EPA emails.
Capital Reseach
‘Sue and Settle’: Secret backroom deals by bureaucrats and environmentalists hurt the American economy
A recent Chamber of Commerce report by William Yeatman concluded that the sue-and-settle practice is responsible for many of the EPA’s “most controversial, economically significant…
The Washington Times
EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s fatal flaw
Michael Carvin, who argued the Supreme Court’s Obamacare cases last year, is working with the Competitive Enterprise Institute to reverse the agency’s decision. “The…
The Washington Times
July Zeitgeist
The Washington Times
The zero sum rightwing
Anti-immigrant voices on the right should make up their minds: Do they believe in free markets — in freedom itself — or not? If not,…
The Washington Times
This Week in Small Business: Half-Time Report
Red Tape Pete Wise listed five legal myths small-business owners should avoid, including this one: “I don’t need a lawyer.” And David Bier explained…
Cato
Banning Fancy French Cheese
I’m no cheese connoisseur. . .But I understand that some people have more refined tastes, and they feel very strongly about the issue. And they…
American's for Prosperity
The EPA’s Assault on State Sovereignty
Click here to read the new report.
Washington Examiner
Europe exits climate money pit as Obama jumps in
Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told me, "The centerpiece of President Obama's climate plan is…
Washington Examiner
In Europe Cutting Taxes and Spending Leads to the Best Results
Matthew Melchiorre, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow, has written a report on so-called austerity in Europe showing that many…
Washington Examiner
Bill to Expand U.S. Database to Verify Hires
“I don’t think people really understand that this creates a regulation not just for every employer, or for every immigrant, but also for every citizen…
Bipps
ALEC shows Kentucky’s issue with the EPA is a matter of state sovereignty
According to the report, titled “the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Assault on State Sovereignty,” the unilateral practice of replacing cooperative federalism with federal command and…
Trib Live
Obama’s climate monstrosity: Fight back, Congress
Thankfully, Obama can't circumvent congressional control of the federal purse strings. “Congress should move immediately to defund as much of this as possible,” says Myron…
Daily Caller
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau compared to NSA
“The CFPB is demanding mounds and mounds of data during the examination process of financial institutions, basically making the implicit threat that they either give…
Daily Caller
Report: Obama’s EPA power balloons
“Since 2009, however, EPA has centralized a great deal of environmental policymaking,” said William Yeatman, author of the report and assistant director of the Center…
US News
The Great Pennsylvania Liquor Store Privatization Battle
Writing for National Review Online, Michelle Minton cites the example of Washington state, which just took the steps Corbett is urging for Pennsylvania. "Now more…
US News
Bad regulation is our biggest public scam
In the US, the Competitive Enterprise Institute recently surveyed the extent and cost of federal regulations. The Federal Register, a compendium of regulations, has swollen…
US News
Coming Soon: A Dramatic Downshift In Company Size, Plus Hours Worked
A recent study on the impact on business growth of regulatory thresholds built into Italian labor laws is quite instructive of how this works. In…
Investor's Business Daily
Climate Models Predict Heat That Hasn’t Occurred
Making the case against the models even stronger is the fact that the observed temperatures were taken from the tropical troposphere where, according to Marlo…
Investor's Business Daily
Now the Environmental Protection Agency
The allegations were first made by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank. It claimed the EPA was not being fair as…
Investor's Business Daily
Government regs hurt passenger rail
That’s the message of this paper from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The writers point out the American safety regulators require passenger rail cars to…
Investor's Business Daily
Plaintiffs press health act fight
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which is coordinating the lawsuit, is following the lead of Oklahoma, which sued last year after the Internal Revenue…
Daily Caller
White House knew about Lisa Jackson’s secret email account
“I’m unclear how grown men and women could think that it’s acceptable to have a nonexistent employee sign in as the test-taker [or to have…
Trib Live
‘Transparency’ through obstruction
But it wasn't the AP that originally uncovered Team Obama's penchant for email sock-puppetry. Chris Horner, Competitive Enterprise Institute fellow and author of “The Liberal…
Trib Live
A Recipe for More Coastal Republicans
Josh Barro points us to a new report from David Edmondson and Marc Scribner on one of my favorite subjects — the fact that FRA…
Trib Live
Top political appointees use secret email accounts
This article was also featured on the Drudge Report. The EPA’s secret email accounts were revealed last fall by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…
Trib Live
Secret Emails Shake Confidence in Embattled Administration
The discovery of the Windsor emails by the Competitive Enterprise Institute created a stir in the world of EPA regulation, especially among those who say…
Washington Post
Ex-EPA chief allegedly used alias e-mail for certification tests on ethics, cybersecurity
Jackson, who left the agency earlier this year, used an e-mail account associated with the pseudonym Richard Windsor to take online training programs on subjects…
Politico
BRB, LOL FOIA
The Competitive Enterprise Institute isn’t happy with the answer it got from EPA to a Freedom of Information Act request for air chief Gina McCarthy’s…
Washington Post
One Ethical Sock Puppet
CEI senior fellow Christopher Horner said that use of an alias account for work activities was troubling. “The best one can say is that if…
Citation
VIDEO: EPA Playing Favorites with Fee Waivers
Competitive Enterprise Institute and Senior Fellow Christopher Horner featured on Fox News’ Special Report. [VIDEO::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ls7i9_XE6o::aVideoStyle]…
Free Beacon
Richard Windsor, Model Employee
Jackson set up a secret email address under the pseudonym “Richard Windsor.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Chris Horner first discovered it in November. Republicans and…
Free Beacon
Abuse of Power Is Clearly Obama Policy
But maybe the answer lies in the workings of the Environmental Protection Agency, which appears to have been operating like a brother from another mother…
Journal of Commerce
Mandatory Switching Proposal for Class I Railroads Draws Fire
“NITL and supporters of its flawed proposal ignore the underlying economics of network industries and seek to require the board to make arbitrary and capricious…
Washington Post
A mandate that is off the rails
Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has recently published his “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.” This year’s…