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Union League Club
38 E 37th Street, New York, NY 10016
The Competitive Enterprise Institute launched a major initiative to change the Environmental Protection Agency and the laws it administers, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. The initial phase of the project produced comprehensive reform ideas for Congress in Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for Congress.
From attempts to eliminate gas-powered cars to pushing unreliable energy sources like wind and solar, the agency regularly exceeds its congressional authority. It bungles the development and application of scientific information for policy. Too often, water and chemical regulation is outsourced to ideologues. The modern EPA operates like an economic planner instead of protecting human well-being and environmental resources.
Join CEI for a lunch discussion on the strategies for advancing consequential EPA reforms with the lead editor of the Blueprint, Daren Bakst, and Kent Lassman.
When: 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Where: Union League Club
38 E 37th Street, New York, NY 10016
This is a private event. Questions? Email [email protected].
Daren Bakst is director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment. Before joining CEI, Bakst was a senior research fellow in environmental policy and regulation at the Heritage Foundation, where he worked for a decade. Before Heritage, he worked on both the national and state levels for leading organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina. Bakst received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from George Washington University. A licensed attorney, he holds a law degree from the University of Miami and a master of laws degree from American University.
Kent Lassman is president and CEO of the feisty and principled Competitive Enterprise Institute. Reforming broken regulatory institutions and removing the unnecessary burdens they produce has taken him across America, to more than a dozen countries, and deep into the dysfunction of the federal government. An optimist by nature, he is a Virginian by choice and is outdoors at every opportunity.