Mario Loyola is a Senior Fellow at CEI. Before joining CEI, Loyola worked at the White House, as associate director for regulatory reform at the Council on Environmental Quality and as presidential speechwriter. Loyola has served at the Pentagon as a special assistant to the undersecretary of defense for policy, and on Capitol Hill as counsel to the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, and as a senior advisor to Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. Loyola has been a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He has published extensively on a wide range of foreign and domestic policy issues in National Review, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He received a B.A. in European History from the University of Wisconsin and a J.D. from Washington University School of Law.
Authored by Mario Loyola
News
Comprehensive Permitting Reform is Vital to Unleashing America’s Energy Abundance
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration and many environmental activists insist the United States and the rest of the world must transition to non-fossil fuel energy sources by…
Negatives Outweigh the Positives in Manchin-Schumer Permitting Bill
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the text of a bill proposing minor changes to the federal permitting…
Senate Votes on Sensible Reforms to Fix Broken Environmental Permitting System
In a vote that brings big implications for energy, mining, and infrastructure, the Senate voted today for reforms that would make improvements in the nation’s…
Blog
The “Public Nuisance” Theory of Pharmaceutical Liability for the Opioids Crisis Is … a Public Nuisance
- By: Mario Loyola
The jury in a federal court in Ohio has found three major pharmacy chains—CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens—liable for the opioids crisis in two plaintiff…
Don’t Panic Over Ad Tech
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an antitrust hearing on September 15 to examine Google’s 90 percent market share in online advertising. Senators who would…
Stop State Government Abuse of Clean Water Act
- By: Mario Loyola
Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute led a coalition letter in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule, “Updating Regulations on Water Quality Certification.” The rule would…
Op-Eds/Articles
Wall Street Journal
Renewable Energy? Where’s Your Permit?
- By: Mario Loyola
The U.S. has one of the developed world’s most costly, time-consuming and unpredictable systems for authorizing big infrastructure projects. In the Inflation Reduction Act, Sens. Joe…
Wall Street Journal
How Miami ‘Caught a Wave’ and Became the Hot New Tech Hub
- By: Mario Loyola
This city has become the favorite destination for people escaping progressive dystopias like San Francisco and New York. During the pandemic it had the country’s…
Wall Street Journal
Behind Biden’s EPA Power Grab
- By: Mario Loyola
The Environmental Protection Agency had its way with both the Clean Air Act and the U.S. Constitution for decades. The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday in West…
Studies
Unleashing America’s Energy Abundance
- By: Mario Loyola
As a side deal to the Inflation Reduction Act of August 2022, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) agreed to streamline infrastructure permitting.
The State Antitrust Paradox
- By: Mario Loyola
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY American antitrust law is the bedrock of competition policy in the United States. It has also proven among the most intellectually challenging areas…
Modernizing Environmental Reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act
- By: Mario Loyola
View Full Document as PDF The Trump administration has finalized a new set of rules to implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),…
Citations
City Journal
Food for the Table, Not for the Gas Tank
- By: Mario Loyola
City Journal cites Senior Fellow Mario Loyola on the nature of the Environmental Protection Agency: The EPA has the authority to change or waive…
E&E News
The Case that Could Change Climate Regulation as We Know It
- By: Mario Loyola
E&E News cites Senior Fellow Mario Loyola on how Congress needs to use specific language when creating regulatory powers: But Mario Loyola, a senior…
Marketplace
Democrats In Congress In No Hurry To Overturn Trump-Era Regulations
- By: Mario Loyola
Marketplace cites Senior Fellow Mario Loyola on regulatory reform: Mario Loyola at the Competitive Enterprise Institute said that’s because Republicans were on the same…