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.
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News
Final NEPA Rule Will Encourage Anti-Development Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Projects
The White House today released its final rule updating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the law governing permitting and environmental review for new federal…
Unless Biden Admin Reverses its Anti-Energy Policies, Russian Oil Imports Ban Will Hurt American Consumers
The Biden administration announced a ban on oil imports from Russia, in response to the invasion of Ukraine. CEI experts reacted to the decision. Director…
New CEI Paper Outlines Key Reforms to Aim State Antitrust Efforts Toward Consumer Welfare
In his 1978 book The Antitrust Paradox, Judge Robert Bork argued that the only benefit of antitrust law was to improve “consumer welfare.” Rarely has…
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
A Judicial Ruling Challenges the SEC’s Illegal Power
- By: Mario Loyola
The Fifth Circuit says the agency violates the Constitution by acting as prosecutor, judge and jury. The U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers was meant to…
The New York Sun
Why the EPA Needs a Lesson in Constitutional Law
- By: Mario Loyola
The Supreme Court on Monday has a chance to remind the Environmental Protection Agency that there are limits to its power. During the Obama administration,…
The New York Sun
Welcome to Jimmy Carter’s Second Term: It’s Worse Than the First
- By: Mario Loyola
President Carter’s dreary four years in the White House discredited the Democratic Party for a generation. After he left, it took Democrats 12 years to…
Studies
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),…
Repeal or Reform the Jones Act
- By: Mario Loyola
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Tens of millions have lost their jobs. Unleashing the innovation and productivity…
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…