Powder & Bulk Solids
Analyst Says Chemical Safety Improvement Act Not an Improvement
Senators David Vitter, R-LA, and Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, surprised the Senate with their introduction of legislation to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act on Wednesday,…
Powder & Bulk Solids
The cost of regulations: Economic tyranny
The big-government Obama administration’s propensity for end runs around Congress exacerbates the unchecked growth of federal regulations that diminish both liberty and prosperity.
Boston Herald
EPA out of control
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative advocacy group, has sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking an explanation of why it has been denied waivers of…
Washington Post
‘Alice in Wonderland’ coercion
Hans Bader, a former OCR lawyer now with the limited-government Competitive Enterprise Institute, notes that this “Alice in Wonderland” — “sentence first, verdict afterwards” —…
Washington Post
More mischief
Now comes word that the Environmental Protection Agency has been abusing the Freedom of Information Act. Agencies can charge FOIA request makers for the…
National Review
The Enviro-Fix Is In
“It’s another insidious angle to this,” says William Yeatman, the assistant director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and the Environment. “In essence,…
One News Now
CEI report: Uncle Sam loves his regulations
Americans spent an estimated $1.8 trillion in 2012 to comply with federal regulations, reports the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The public policy organization has just released…
Breitbart
Cost of Complying with U.S. Regulations Higher Than Canada’s GDP
$1.8 trillion buys a lot of red tape. That’s how much the federal regulatory machine is costing Americans each year, according to the…
Investor's Business Daily
Environmental Fear-Mongering Isn’t Just Silly, It Kills People
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in a Forbes article "Rachel Carson's…
Wall Street Journal
Red Tape Record Breakers
President Obama is opposing a bill passed by the House last week that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission to better measure the costs…
Citation
Obama administration demands that colleges adopt unconstitutional speech codes
The Justice Department and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights have now effectively defined dating and flirting as “sexual harassment,” in addition to demanding…
Newsmax
EPA Waives Fees for Some Groups, But Not Conservatives
The Environmental Protection Agency waives its fees for big "green" groups 92 percent of the time while it waives fees for major conservative groups only…
The Atlantic
No Sex Talk Allowed: What’s wrong with the Obama administration’s definition of sexual harassment
"Federal government mandates unconstitutional speech codes at college and universities nationwide," the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) accurately…
Courthouse News
Lawyers Lose $2M Award for HP Inkjet Settlement
Courthouse News reports on Ted Frank's work to object to settlements that break the Class Action Fairness Act. While two members of the…
Law 360
$1.5M Attys’ Fees Scuttle HP Printer Defect Deal In 9th Circ.
Law 360 reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' victory in their objection to the Hewlett-Packard Co. settlement which benefited the plaintiffs' lawyers more…
Law 360
FCC again balks on telephone network shutdown
According to Fred Campbell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a former bureau chief at the FCC, Friday’s notice is “more likely to…
Human Events
Now Boarding the Obama Administration Scandal Train: the EPA
CEI reviewed Freedom of Information Act requests sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several…
The Business Journals
Conservative group accuses EPA of playing favorites on FOIA fees
That’s according to an analysis of a year’s worth of FOIA requests by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based public policy group…
The Business Journals
EPA makes information requests more difficult for conservatives
According to EPA records obtained by the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute, since January 2012 the agency has granted fee waivers for 75 out of…
The Business Journals
Uh Oh: Obama’s EPA Mistreated Conservative Groups, Too?
It’s not just the IRS that treats groups on the right differently from the rest. According to documents obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the…
The Business Journals
Could Immigration Bill Lead to Big Brother Database?
David Bier, an analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, warned, “The most worrying aspect is that this creates a principle of permission basically to do…
The Business Journals
Consternated Conferences
The conservative movement’s factions also pushed back against the often puzzling decisions of the American Conservative Union board, which controls CPAC. The gay conservative group…
New York Times
This Week in Small Business: Small Data
Adam Liptak says this has been the most business-friendly Supreme Court since World War II. The Senate approves an online sales tax bill,…
New York Times
Why Are Social Security Cards Still Easy To Fake?
Libertarians oppose such cards for a variety of reasons, one of which is the impact on businesses, according to David Bier, an immigration policy analyst…
New York Times
Online sales-tax bill faces web of opposition in U.S. House
But Jessica Melugin, an adjunct policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., public-policy group, said that would place an unfair burden on…
New York Times
What we learned about immigration reform yesterday
Not a single right-leaning think tank rose in defense of Heritage’s anti-immigration study. The American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, Manhattan Institute, the Competitive Enterprise…
Roll Call
Congress Must Rein In Expensive ‘Sue and Settle’ Tactics by EPA
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar William Yeatman recently shed some light on how the EPA uses the sue and settle…
Reason
Democratic Nativist (Yes, Such a Creature Exists) Strikes At Nikki Haley
Every good liberal knows that GOP is the party of bigoted, narrow-minded “knaves and fools” that is in every way morally inferior to the noble…
Reason
US Senate approves Internet sales tax
Opposing the bill are several trade groups and Internet companies, including TechAmerica, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, eBay, Etsy, the Information Technology…
Spectator
The Busch Doctrine: Tilting For Windmills
The job creation claims rest on two obvious premises: the viability of wind energy and economic efficiency of government investments in it. The first point…
The American Spectator
Financial Experts: Dodd-Frank Exacerbates Instability
These were the standout insights from a panel discussion hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) on April 11. The gathering focused on the Financial…
Online Media Daily
Watchdogs Ask Court to Reject ‘Sponsored Stories’ Settlement
Online Media Daily discusses the Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to the settlement deal in the Facebook privacy case. The law firm Center for…
Online Media Daily
Obamacare Gets New Court Challenge
Opponents of the health-care overhaul have filed a new lawsuit Thursday against the federal government on behalf of four individuals and three employers in the…
Human Events
Business Owners Sue IRS Over Obamacare Mandate
“Agencies are bound by the laws enacted by Congress,” said Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). “Obamacare is already an incredibly massive…
The Hill
Lawsuit claims IRS illegally implementing key part of ObamaCare
“ObamaCare is already an incredibly massive program. For the IRS to expand it even more, without congressional authorization and in a manner aimed at undercutting…
Daily Caller
EPA chief used alias to email with environmentalists
“So, an email account created in the name of a fictitious employee was indeed affirmatively used to present that false identity,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior…
Daily Caller
Jones aims to curb cyber-snooping
Under CISPA, private emails and a user’s Internet browser history could be sent to the federal government. Users would have no way of knowing whether…
Forbes
The Sad Decline of the Word Capitalism
Not everyone is giving up. One example is Fred L. Smith, chairman and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who has launched the…
The American Lawyer
Conscientious Objector
The American Lawyer writes a profile on Center for Class Action Fairness' Ted Frank and his efforts to fight for settlements that benefit class members.
The American Lawyer
Privatize almost everything
Finally, if you are having trouble with the quiz at the beginning, you might wish to go the websites of major free-market think tanks, such…
Overlawyered
NYT Breaks Open Pigford Case, Cont’d
Hans Bader wonders whether the Obama administration might have avoided going down the embarrassing settlement route had it taken more seriously the Supreme Court’s 2001…
Overlawyered
Watchdog group seeks FOIA records on nonprofit EPA ‘bullied’ out of contract
ATI and another nonprofit, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, have also sued the EPA over alleged violation of open records acts, accusing the agency of protecting…
CBN
FAA Blames Flight Delays on Cuts, GOP Blames Politics
Bill Frezza, a policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the delays represent a political calculation. "I don't think there's any doubt right now…
CBN
Pass CISPA. Don’t Pass a Big, Messy Copyright Bill
There’s still the matter of a new FCC chairman. It’s important that we get a humble FCC chairman, not a wild-eyed activist. A letter…
CBN
The Circuit: MetroPCS shareholders approve T-Mobile deal
The letter, dated April 23, is signed by TechFreedom as well as Heritage Action, Americans for Tax Reform and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “We urge…
Free Beacon
Overseeing Failure
The failure of Fisker is indicative of the government’s inability to prop up whole sectors of the economy, said William Yeatman, an energy policy expert…
Free Beacon
The spreading of ‘right to work’ … where will it show up next?
Matt Patterson, senior fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, sees Pennsylvania as one possibility. “There has been some legislation introduced [there]. I mean, that would…
Overlawyered
SCOTUS: U.S. Can’t Play Tortmaster-General to the World
Notably, all nine Justices sidestepped the issue that had caused extensive angst among many popular commentators, namely whether the statute could be applied to corporations…
Forbes
Carbon Tax…Are Republicans Really That Stupid?
As my respected friend Marlo Lewis at the Competitive Enterprise Institute cogently points out, economic arguments that government should tax “bads”, like CO2 emissions,…
Wall Street Journal
Dispute Arises Over Cost of Temp-Help Lawyers
The Wall Street Journal reports on Center for Class Action Fairness’s founder Ted Frank’s objection to fees in a Citigroup class action settlement. Attorneys…