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Myths and facts about the PROVE IT Act
Myth: Supporting the PROVE IT Act (S. 1863) does not mean support for carbon taxes.Fact: Many bill supporters readily acknowledge that it will…
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Why the PROVE IT Act would result in carbon taxes
The PROVE IT Act (S. 1863) is not a benign information collection bill on the carbon intensity of domestic and foreign goods. Instead, it…
Daily Caller
Biden’s EPA Says Sweeping Power Plant Regs Won’t Harm America’s Grid — Experts Are Saying The Exact Opposite
CEI’s Marlo Lewis is cited in an article in Daily Caller on the on power plant regulation: “The final rule differs from the EPA’s May…
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Was 2019 the Second Warmest Year, and What Does It Matter?
The temperatures we are experiencing are consistent with a modest warming, and we may be in the zone where modest warming is a net benefit.
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Warmest Decade – Climate Crisis Still a No Show
Is there good reason to believe climate change a “crisis” endangering the survival of civilization and the habitability of the Earth? No. If climate change…
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UN Climate Conference in Madrid Fails to Set Rules for Carbon Trading Market
The twenty-fifth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-25) was supposed to wrap up one issue remaining from last…
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Dutch Supreme Court Upholds Climate Lawsuit against Government
The Dutch Supreme Court on December 20th rejected an appeal by the Dutch government to overturn an appellate court’s October 2018 decision to uphold a lower…
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UN Climate Summit in Madrid: Al Gore Talks, Donald Trump Vindicated
#TimeForAction is the slogan at this year’s Madrid climate conference. #TimeForTalk would be more accurate. The talking is endless. 70,000 hours and counting have been…
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Down in Flames: Judge Dismisses New York Climate Lawsuit against ExxonMobil
New York Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager today acquitted ExxonMobil of all charges brought against the company by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Hausfather Climate Model Paper Not What It’s Cracked up to Be
This week’s press is abuzz with a paper just published by Zeke Hausfather and others in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. It purports to show that early (1970s…
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Activist Groups Demand Pelosi, Castor Implement Green New Deal
Two hundred fifty nine activist groups are demanding that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Chair Kathy Castor…
News Release
New CEI Ad Imagines How the Green New Deal will Change Thanksgiving at Grandma’s
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today launched a new television ad as part of an ad campaign illustrating the costs and tradeoffs associated with the…
The Heartland Institute
Trump Says Goodbye to Paris
The Heartland Institute cites Director of the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on the Paris agreement: Arguably, for America’s sovereignty and…
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Trump Administration Begins Withdrawal from Paris Climate Treaty
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on November 4th that, “Today the United States began the process to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Per the terms of…
Patriot Post
Trump Begins Exit from Socialist Paris Climate Agreement
Patriot Post cites Director of the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on the Paris agreement:…
The Scientific American
Trump Administration Officially Begins Paris Climate Accord Exit
The Scientific American cites Director for the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on the Paris agreement: “This is a great day for…
The Washington Times
Trump Formally Starts Withdrawal from Paris Climate Pact
The Washington Times cites Director for the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on the Paris agreement: Myron Ebell, director of Competitive…
The Epoch Times
US Formally Announces Withdrawal from Paris Climate Deal, Pompeo Says
The Epoch Times cites Director for the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on the Paris agreement: Myron Ebell, director at the…
News Release
Trump Announces U.S. Exit from Paris Climate Treaty: CEI Statement
President Trump’s Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo, today announced the beginning of a yearlong process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement…
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Major Auto Companies Auto Dealers Back Trump Fuel Economy Rule
On October 29, Marlo Lewis testified before the House Oversight Environment Subcommittee on the Trump administration’s Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule. As he noted,…
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Trump’s Wrong Turn on Clean Cars
Chairman Rouda, Ranking Member Comer, and Members of the House Government Oversight Subcommittee on Environment, thank you for inviting me to speak today at this…
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Just in Time for Halloween: Climate Scares Debunked
Sharing scary stories is Halloween tradition and this time of the year reminds us of some folks who try to strike fear in the hearts…
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Trump Administration Challenges Constitutionality of California Climate Pacts
Just when I thought the Trump administration could not get any bolder in challenging California’s self-anointed power to determine national climate policy, the Department of…
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House Panel Holds Hearing to Bash Exxon
The House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties today held a hearing to examine “the oil industry’s efforts to suppress the truth about climate…
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing As Southern Ocean Warms Slightly
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing, but I bet you didn’t read about it in the news.
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Repeal of Trump Power Plant Rule Fails in Senate
The U.S. Senate today defeated by 53-41 a Democrat-sponsored Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval that aims to overturn the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule,…
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Are Hurricanes Becoming Blow-Hards?
Last month, as Tropical Storm Imelda slowly dissipated over south Texas, creating yet another Texas-sized flood, I read an article in Business Insider making the…
The Washington Times
Are Hurricanes Getting Worse?
On September 20, Aylin Woodward and Morgan McFall-Johnson wrote a juicy article for Business Insider on Tropical Storm Imelda. Like every other slow-moving storm that…
Letters
CEI Joins AEA Letter Opposing Renewable Fuel Standard Provisions
The undersigned write to object to several of the proposals under consideration regarding the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). It is time for the special favors…
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Progressive States Petition Court to Declare Trump Pre-emption Rule Unlawful
A California-led coalition of 24 states and three cities today petitioned the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to declare unlawful the Trump administration’s One National Program…
Hannity
VIDEO: Climate Doomsday Prediction Featured on Hannity
Hannity features CEI’s report, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions” on Fox News…
The Rush Limbaugh Show
VIDEO: Climate Doomsday Prediction Featured on The Rush Limbaugh Show
The Rush Limbaugh Show features CEI’s report, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.”…
The Story with Martha MacCallum
VIDEO: Climate Doomsday Prediction Featured on The Story with Martha MacCallum
The Story with Martha MacCallum features CEI’s report, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions” on Fox News.
The Mark Levin Show
VIDEO: Climate Doomsday Prediction Featured on The Mark Levin Show
The Mark Levin Show features CEI’s report, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.”…
Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream
VIDEO: Climate Doomsday Prediction Featured on Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream
Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream features CEI’s report, “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.”…
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Trump Administration Terminates California’s Unlawful Power over Auto Industry
Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took the first step towards finalizing…
The Washington Post
Trump Administration to Revoke California’s Power to Set Stricter Auto Emissions Standards
The Washington Post cites Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on auto emission standards: Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the conservative Competitive…
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Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions
Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due…
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Greenpeace Disrupters Arrested for Shutting Down Houston Ship Channel
Ahead of the September 12th Democratic presidential primary debate, activists from the group Greenpeace were arrested after pulling a stunt that briefly held Houston commuters hostage…
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Trump Administration Pushes Back on California’s Fuel Economy Scheming
Since at least March 2018, the Trump administration and the state of California have been engaged in a legal and political struggle over the stringency…
The Washington Examiner
Silver Linings: Hurricane Dorian was Bad, but Super-Accurate Forecasts Saved Lives and Prevented False Alarms
On the surface, Hurricane Dorian looks like a real bad hat. It blasted the Abaco Islands in the northwestern Bahamas, and then traversed Grand Bahama,…
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CNN Hosts Seven-Hour ‘Climate Crisis Town Hall’ with Democratic Presidential Candidates
CNN on September 4th broadcast a seven-hour “Climate Crisis Town Hall” featuring ten Democratic presidential candidates. Each of the following candidates was in the spotlight…
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Ethanol ‘Flex Fuel’ No Solution for Climate—or Political Compromise
Pollster Frank Luntz discussed climate policy Thursday night with Laura Ingraham on her Fox News program “The Ingraham Angle.” In the previous segment, Ingraham interviewed…
Fox News
Climate Questions for Politicians (That No One Seems to Want to Ask)
The Democrats running for their party’s presidential nomination are focusing more on climate change. Here are five questions reporters should ask to test whether the candidates’ climate…
News Release
CEI Again Asks EPA to Withdraw or Correct Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment
The Competitive Enterprise Institute today announced it sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, demanding a response to CEI’s November 2018 Request for Correction…
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Free-Market Groups Urge Reform of National Environmental Policy Act
CEI and five other free market groups submitted comments on the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Draft National Environmental Policy Act Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse…
News Release
White House Draft NEPA Guidance Unlikely to Reduce Delays and Litigation for Infrastructure Projects
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and several other free market groups submitted comments on the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) Draft National Environmental…
The Heartland Institute
Households Would Pay Big for GND, Analysis Shows
The Heartland Institute cites CEI’s study by President Kent Lassman and Executive Director of Power the Future Daniel Turner: A new study conducted…
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Climate Study Urges Blacklisting of Contrarians
Authors of a study published recently in the journal Nature Communications want editors and journalists to blacklist “climate change contrarians.” Of course, the study doesn’t…
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Climate Rent-Seeking Backfiring on Chemours
In perhaps the most egregious example of climate change-related rent seeking to date, chemical giants Chemours and Honeywell have joined forces with environmental activists to…
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New Rule to Limit State Government Abuse of Clean Water Act for Climate Activism
Making good on a promise made in an April 10th Executive Order entitled Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a rule restricting…
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Climate Blame Game
In “Reformed Climate Deniers Don’t Deserve Redemption,” author Dave Leviton argues that Republican pollster Frank Luntz had no business testifying before the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee…
Florida Daily
Green New Deal Will Cost Florida Households $73,000 in First Year, Study Finds
Florida Daily cites CEI’s recent study with Power the Future, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Power…
The Spokesman-Review
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers to Appear at Town Hall Wednesday at Gonzaga University
The Spokesman-Review cites CEI’s recent Green New Deal study with Power the Future, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household.”…
PJ Media
Washington D.C. Conference Exposes ‘Climate Delusion’
PJ Media cites CEI’s Myron Ebell following a climate conference hosted by the Heartland Institute. Finally, Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise…
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Advocacy Journalism Gears up to Promote UN Climate Conference
The Columbia Journalism Review reported on July 26th that more than 60 news organizations have signed up to devote “one week of focused coverage” to the international…
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Judge Rejects Climate Suit to Establish ‘Right to Wilderness’
Oregon District Court Judge Michael McShane on July 31st rejected a petition by two nonprofit groups—Animal Legal Defense Fund and Seeding Sovereignty—and six individuals who allege the…
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Climate Change Gets 21 Minutes in Five-Hour Presidential Debate
CNN hosted the 2nd Democratic presidential candidates’ debate this week on two consecutive nights (July 30th and 31st). Twenty of the 24 Democratic candidates participated, with 10…
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Senate Highway Bill with First-Ever Climate Title Unanimously Clears Committee
On July 30th, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) passed S. 2302, America's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019. The vote was 22-0.
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VIDEO: Green New Deal’s Bad Science
This week the Competitive Enterprise Institute released a new study by CEI President Kent Lassman and Power the Future Executive Director Daniel Turner on the costs of the…
The Daily Signal
How Faulty Assumptions in Climate Predictions Could Mean Big Costs for Americans
The Daily Signal cites Director of the Center of Energy and Environment Myron Ebell’s comments on the Green New Deal. Other conference speakers…
The American Spectator
Fake Science on Climate Change Threatens Economic and Civil Freedoms
The American Spectator cites CEI’s recent study with Power the Future, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household.” The Competitive…
The Hill
Democratic Moderates Only Fuel the Conservative Case Against Socialism
The Hill cites CEI’s new study with Power the Future, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household.” The “wishlist economics”…
Newsmax
Study: Green New Deal Costs ‘More Than They Can Afford’
Newsmax cites CEI’s recent study with Power the Future, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household.” In an interview on Fox…
CNSNews
Report: Green New Deal Would Cost More Than $70,000 Per U.S. Household in First Year
CNSNews cites CEI’s study with Power the Future, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household.” A new study by the Competitive Enterprise…
The Washington Times
AOC Miffed After Hickenlooper Calls Green New Deal a ‘Distraction’
The Washington Times cites CEI’s study with Power the Future, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household.” A report by the free-market…
Fox News
Fox News The Five Discuss CEI’s Green New Deal Study
Fox News’ The Five discusses CEI’s study, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household,” conducted with Power the Future.
BizPac Review
New Study Shows Green New Deal Would Cost Households at Least $70K Just in First Year
BizPac Review cites CEI’s recent study with Power the Future, “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household.” A new study…
Fox Business
How Much AOC’s Green New Deal Could Cost the Average American Household
Fox Business cites CEI’s study “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household” with Power the Future. A new study released by…
The Daily Caller
Study: Green New Deal Would Suck More Than $70K From Households In Five States In Year One
The Daily Caller cites CEI’s “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household” study with Power the Future. A new study released Tuesday…
The Washington Examiner
Green New Deal to Cost up to $100,000 per Home in First Year
The Washington Examiner cites CEI’s “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household” study with Power the Future. The liberal Green New…
The Daily Wire
STUDY: Green New Deal Would Cost Some States More Than $1,000,000,000,000
The Daily Wire cites CEI’s “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household” study with Power the Future. A new study released jointly…
The Blaze
New Study Reveals the Crippling Economic Burden of the Green New Deal on Average American Households
The Blaze cites CEI’s “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household” study with Power the Future. The study by libertarian…
The Washington Free Beacon
Study: ‘Green New Deal’ Would Cost $75-K Per Household in Year 1
The Washington Free Beacon cites CEI’s “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household” study with Power the Future. The report…
The Washington Times
AOC’s Green New Deal Would Cost $70K-Plus per Household in First Year: Study
The Washington Times cites CEI’s “What the Green New Deal Could Cost a Typical Household” study with Power the Future. In five model…
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Environmental Red Tape Could Roadblock Green New Deal
The Green New Deal reads like a progressive’s letter to Santa, a wish list that is, by the admission of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) chief of staff,…
Fox News
Swing-State Households Would Lose at Least $70G Within First Year of Green New Deal, Study Finds
Fox News cites CEI’s latest study on the Green New Deal, written by CEI President Kent Lassman and Power the Future Executive Director Daniel Turner.
Epoch Times
Conference Urges Republicans to Reject the Left on Climate Change
The Epoch Times cites Director of the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on the Green New Deal. Myron Ebell of the Competitive…
Blog
Major Automakers Cave to California on Trump Auto Rule
The Washington Post reported on July 25th that Ford, Honda, Volkswagen, and BMW North America have “struck a deal with California to produce fleets that are more…
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House Democrats Announce Alternative to Green New Deal
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced on July 23rd the start of a sweeping effort to legislate a 100 percent…
Issues & Insights
The One Person Who Shows Just How Unhinged Global Warming Alarmism Has Become
Issues & Insights cites CEI on climate alarmism. We could carry on for a while longer, but we don’t want to test readers’…
Blog
Post Heat Wave Reflections
The recent heat wave was a hot one. Naturally, progressive commentary “linked” it to climate change. The linkage almost seems tautological. How could rising global…
PJ Media
AOC Chief of Staff: Green New Deal ‘Wasn’t Originally a Climate Thing at All’
PJ Media cites Director of the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell on the proposed Green New Deal. “What they’re proposing is…
Watts Up With That
CEI Files Formal Complaint Regarding NASA’s Claim of 97% Climate Scientist Agreement on Global Warming
Watts Up With That cites Attorney Devin Watkins on a recent CEI petition to correct a climate science statistic on NASA’s website. The…
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Climate Risk Disclosure Proposal Would Destroy, Not Protect, Shareholder Value
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday introduced legislation (S. 2075) to require publicly-traded companies to disclose climate-related risks to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
PJ Media
Libertarian Group Demands NASA Remove False ’97 Percent Consensus’ Global Warming Claim
Pajama Media cites CEI’s recent petition to correct a climate change statistic on NASA’s website. On Tuesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sent…
Washington Free Beacon
Group Asks NASA to Remove Dubious Climate Change Stat
The Washington Free Beacon cites CEI’s petition to correct a climate change statistic on NASA’s website. The petition from the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Blog
Affordable Clean Energy Rule Improves Obama-era Policy, Still Contains Fatal Flaw
The Federal Register yesterday published the Environmental Protection Agency’s final Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, along with the agency’s response to public comments on the…
Washington Times
Sunday Talk Shows Falter In The Ratings
The Washington Times cites Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on public opinion regarding climate change. “Support for climate action drops precipitously when people consider…
Newsbusters
New York Times Loads Story With ‘Climate Denialist’ Label for Free-Market Groups
Newsbusters cites CEI’s climate positions after a New York Times article. The Sierra Club doesn’t get a liberal or leftist label, and its “alarmism” is…
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Climate Policies, Not Climate Change, Are Bigger Threat to World’s Poor
The most recent United Nations climate report, this one from the Human Rights Council, is titled “Climate Change and Poverty” and asserts that “climate change…
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Resources for Making the Case against Carbon Taxes
Thanks to everyone here in Washington, D.C. who was able to attend the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s most recent Capitol Hill briefing, The Case Against Carbon Taxes. We hope that…
The Epoch Times
VIDEO: Climate Change Narrative is Driven by Agenda of Political Control
CEI Director for the Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell joined the Epoch Times to discuss the climate change debate.
Blog
Reuters Poll: Do Americans Want Aggressive Action on Climate?
Do Americans want “aggressive action” on climate change? That’s the subject of a new opinion poll conducted by Reuters. “Americans demand climate action (as long…
The Epoch Times
Climate Change Narrative is Driven by Agenda of Political Control: Myron Ebell
The Epoch Times cites Director of the Center of Energy and Environment Myron Ebell about climate change and the political narrative surrounding it. Myron…
Blog
White House Releases Revised Guidance for Climate Policy
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently released the pre-publication draft of their proposed National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Guidance on Consideration of…
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EPA Releases Final Rule to Replace ‘Clean Power’ Plan
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler on June 19th signed the final rule to replace the so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP). The new rule to regulate greenhouse gas…
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ACE Rule Massive Improvement over ‘Clean Power’ Plan
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday finalized its Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal power plants under Section 111(d)…
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Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Not Popular with Americans: Poll
A recent survey conducted for the American Energy Alliance clearly shows that the public does not support congressional efforts to extend or expand federal tax credits for purchasers of…
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‘Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change’ Exposes Activist Falsehoods
Climate change is not a hoax, but as a political matter, it is a perpetual pretext for expanding government control over the economy, redistributing wealth,…
News Release
CEI Paper: Citizens Have More to Fear from Alarmists’ Agenda than Climate Change Itself
Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a new paper detailing important but seldom discussed facts about climate change. The paper argues that the planetary…
Study
A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change
Climate change is not a hoax, but as a political matter, it is a persistent pretext for expanding government control over the economy, redistributing wealth,…
Letters
CEI Joins Coalition Letter Opposing Carbon Tax
We oppose any carbon tax. A carbon tax raises the cost of heating your home in the winter and cooling your home in the summer. It…
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Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Senior Fellow
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Ben Lieberman
Senior Fellow
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Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
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Kevin D. Williamson
Writer in Residence
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