Myron Ebell was a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the longtime director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment. He also chaired the Cooler Heads Coalition, an ad hoc coalition of over two dozen non-profit groups that question global warming alarmism and oppose energy-rationing policies. CEI and the Cooler Heads Coalition led the successful decade-long fight to defeat cap-and-trade legislation and more recently led the effort to convince President Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate treaty.
Mr. Ebell led the Trump Presidential Transition’s agency action team for the Environmental Protection Agency in 2016 and January 2017. Prior to joining CEI, he concentrated on federal lands and property rights issues throughout the 1990s while working at Frontiers of Freedom, founded by the late Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming. He also worked for Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona and for the American Land Rights Association.
Mr. Ebell grew up on a cattle ranch in Baker County, Oregon. He earned degrees at Colorado College and the London School of Economics and did graduate work at the University of California, San Diego, and at Peterhouse, Cambridge University. He retired from CEI in 2024.
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News
Myron Ebell to retire from CEI in 2024, Daren Bakst promoted to be Director of the Center for Energy and Environment
Myron Ebell, longtime Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment and a key leader on energy and environmental issues, has stepped down from that…
Supreme Court Protects Property Rights from Federal Overreach in Sackett v. EPA Decision
The Supreme Court today ruled in favor of the Sackett family in a property rights dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA claimed…
House Republicans Helpfully Tie Government Reforms to Debit Limit Deal
House Republican leadership yesterday released the text of their debt limit deal which trades a suspension or increase in the debt limit for a number…
Blog
McCarthy-Biden debt-ceiling deal fully funds the climate-industrial complex
- By: Myron Ebell
The deal to raise the debt ceiling announced Saturday by the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) drops the provisions in the…
Repealing green energy subsidies must come before permitting reform in debt ceiling package
- By: Myron Ebell
There are reports that the debt ceiling negotiators are close to agreeing on permitting reform provisions as part of the final package. This may sound…
Climate Fact Check 2022 Report Debunks Mainstream Media’s Tall Tales
- By: Myron Ebell
Climate Fact Check 2022, a report issued this week by CEI and several other nonprofit groups, debunks claims made in the mainstream media this…
Op-Eds/Articles
The Washington Examiner
Our Conversation About the Environment is Broken. What is the Way Forward?
- By: Myron Ebell
In 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin predicted that “accelerating rates of air pollution could become so serious by the 1980s that many…
Arizona Daily Sun
Texas Blizzard is a Preview of Biden’s Blackout Agenda
- By: Myron Ebell
The huge blizzard that knocked out electricity for several days for 10 million Texans in mid-February is a scary preview of what life would be…
The Pipeline
Joe Biden’s Climate Nirvana — and Ours
- By: Myron Ebell
Since Washington was locked down on inauguration day, President Joe Biden was free to spend his first day in office signing stacks of Executive Orders rather than…
Studies
Shrinking Government Bureaucracy
View Full Document as PDF Shrinking Government Bureaucracy is a series of policy proposals by Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) experts to rein in…
Rethinking the Environmental Protection Agency
- By: Myron Ebell
View Full Document as PDF The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget is the most impenetrable of all federal department and agency…
Increase Access to Energy
Citations
Fox News
DC greenlights aggressive electric vehicle mandate despite critics sounding alarm on high consumer costs
- By: Myron Ebell
CEI’s Myron Ebell is cited on Fox News about aggressive EV vehicle mandates: “The only way the electrification of the transportation sector and of home…
The Guardian
Revealed: more than 160 representatives with climate-denying track records got Cop28 access
- By: Myron Ebell
CEI’s Myron Ebell is cited in The Guardian on COP28 Access. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a US libertarian thinktank which earlier this year called the…
The Power Hour
The Power Hour | Free Markets, Free People, and a Clean Environment
- By: Myron Ebell
CEI’s Myron Ebell joins The Power Hour radio show on December 6th, 2023. Listen to the show here.
Regulatory Comments
Testimony of Myron Ebell at the House Western Caucus Roundtable on the Endangered Species Act
- By: Myron Ebell
Chairman Gosar and Members of the House Western Caucus, thank you for inviting me to speak today at this roundtable discussion on reforming and improving…
Myron Ebell Testimony on the Green New Deal for Congressional Western Caucus Policy Forum
- By: Myron Ebell
Chairman Gosar and Members of the House Western Caucus, Thank you for inviting me to speak today at this forum on the Green New Deal. …
CEI Comments on Revision of the Regulations for Listing Species and Designating Critical Habitat
- By: Myron Ebell
The Endangered Species Act has proven bad for wildlife because it is bad for people. The Act’s legislative language as passed by Congress is largely…