Marlo Lewis, Jr. is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Lewis writes on global warming, energy policy, and public policy issues.
Marlo has been published in The Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, TechCentralStation, National Review, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. He has appeared on various television and radio programs, and his ideas have been featured in radio commentary by Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy.
Prior to joining CEI in 2002, he served as Director of External Relations at the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles, California. During the 106th Congress, Marlo served as Staff Director of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs. Marlo has also served as Research Director for the grassroots organization, Citizens Against Government Waste. Earlier, he was a Staff Consultant to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, a Special Assistant at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs and Bureau of International Organization Affairs, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Claremont McKenna College.
He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Claremont McKenna College. His interests include the science, economics, and politics of global warming policy; the precautionary principle; environmentalism and religion; and the moral basis of free enterprise.
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News
SEC seeks end to costly climate-related mandates
The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed rescinding the costly, Biden-era rules mandating that companies provide climate-related information in registration statements and annual reports. The SEC cited a return to the…
Transportation Department seeks to restore sanity to fuel economy standards: CEI analysis
The Trump administration is proposing new fuel economy standards for vehicles that would get rid of unwarranted and unrealistic requirements set during the…
EPA proposes rule to overturn regulatory finding justifying major restrictions on consumer choice: CEI analysis
Today, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s proposed rule that would overturn the 2009 endangerment finding. For 16 years, this finding has…
Blog
RCP8.5: Climate establishment officially retires extreme scenario (Part II)
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Part I can be found here. Victim of its own success? Perhaps to save face or even boast of being right…
RCP8.5: Climate establishment officially retires extreme scenario (Part I)
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Thanks to the scholarship, courage, and perseverance of a handful of independent researchers, notably Roger Pielke, Jr., Justin Ritchie, and Hadi…
DOJ files suit to end California’s unlawful climate and auto power grab
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
The Trump administration’s rollback of Obama and Biden administration climate policies keeps rolling along. The latest initiative is a lawsuit filed by the…
Op-Eds/Articles
Real Clear Energy
Quibbling Over Carbon Metrics: Senator Cramer’s Ill-Advised, Unauthorized Carbon Tax Trojan Horse
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
The U.S. may stumble into a carbon taxed future due to a provision furtively inserted into the House committee report accompanying the energy and…
Watts Up With That
Part 2 Hiding the Endangerment Finding’s Systemic Biases – Politico’s Failed Attack on DOE’s Climate Science Report
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Part 1 can be found here. Marlo Lewis, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute Part 2: Allegations…
Watts Up With That
Hiding the Endangerment Finding’s Systemic Biases – Politico’s Failed Attack on DOE’s Climate Science Report Part 1
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Part 2 can be found here. Marlo Lewis, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute Politico recently…
Studies
Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for Congress
Forward Kent Lassman, President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute President Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Reorganization Plan No.
Why Carbon Taxes Are Anti-Growth, Anti-Consumer, and Politically Dangerous for Conservatives
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
A tax on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, contrary to its advocates’ claims, is a market-rigging policy, not a free market one. Its purpose is…
Lift #NeverNeeded Regulations that Make Energy More Expensive
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Low-income households, which are more likely to suffer from unemployment and other stresses during the COVID-19 crisis, spend much more of their household budget on…
Citations
NPR
Energy Star has emerged stronger after Trump’s EPA tried to end it
NPR cited CEI’s work on the EPA President Trump’s proposed budget last year would have zeroed out Energy Star funding at the…
Master Resource
Modernize EPA! (CEI guidebook is out)
Master Resource cited CEI’s experts on new study in modernizing the EPA “Kudos to CEI for its unwavering dedication to principled scholarship in…
The White House
National Energy Dominance Council Paves Way for Unleashing American Energy
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
The White House cited CEI’s expert on oil imports. Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis: “This is welcome news. Unlike the previous…
Regulatory Comments
CEI comments on NHTSA’s proposed SAFE III Rule to prevent automakers from being forced to produce and sell electric vehicles.
- By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Dear Mr. Bayer, On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), thank you for the opportunity to submit comments on the National Highway…
CEI Comments on EPA Proposed Rule “Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards”
Dear Mr. Stout: On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we appreciate this opportunity to provide comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s…
CEI Comments on the Department of Energy’s Report A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
Dear Mr. Loucks, On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we respectfully submit these comments on the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) July…
Podcast Episodes
Climate Policy Endangerment with Marlo Lewis, Jr.
This week we talk about tariff refunds, Affordable Care Act subsidies, Ryan Young’s Books of the Year for 2025, and how Santa landed on Trump’s...