The Competitive Enterprise Institute advocates for free market reforms that ensure abundant and affordable energy and better protect our environment. CEI has been instrumental in fighting decades of climate alarmism and anti-energy policies that constrict energy supplies, raise prices, and stoke unjustified pessimism about human adaptive capabilities.
Conclusions of CEI’s research and analysis include: Abundant, affordable energy is a blessing underpinning the unprecedented improvements of the past two centuries in life expectancy, health, standards of living, food and nutrition, and industrial production. The climate catastrophe narrative is based on global climate models that inflate greenhouse gas emission scenarios and have been falsified by the past four decades of temperature data. The real costs of proposed solutions to the alleged crisis hugely exceed their hypothetical benefits.
Coalitions led by CEI were instrumental in defeating ratification of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, defeating enactment of the 2009 Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, and convincing President Trump to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate treaty.
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CEI Files Opening Brief in Case Seeking More Lenient CAFE standards
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed its opening brief in CEI v. NHTSA, contending the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Environmental…
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Most Americans Still Buy Large Gasoline-Powered Vehicles, According to Latest EPA Data
There is a deep divide between the vehicles that climate activists and their political allies prefer and those that the public actually wants and buys,…
The World News
Trump Officials Removed From White House After Faking Approval For Papers Which Downplay Climate Crisis
The World News cites Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels on NCAs: Another paper, on the four National Assessments of Climate Change conducted by the US…
Studies
Modernizing Environmental Reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act
View Full Document as PDF The Trump administration has finalized a new set of rules to implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),…
Deploy Rational Science-Based Policies for Medical Plant Sterilization
Several medical supply sterilization plants have shut down during the past year because of unwarranted fearmongering about ethylene oxide (EtO), a gas used to sterilize…
Lift #NeverNeeded Regulations that Make Energy More Expensive
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…
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Will the Next Labor Secretary Support Job-Killing Climate Measures?
President-elect Biden has selected most of his nominees to head the federal departments, and he has made clear to them that addressing climate change should…
EPA Rule Will Strengthen Transparency and Accountability in Agency Science
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week finalized its science transparency rule. The rule requires the EPA to clearly identify the “pivotal” scientific studies…
Biden Names Climate Alarmists to All Top Environment and Energy Positions
President-elect Joe Biden this week announced his choices for the top environment and energy positions in his administration. All are climate alarmists, which confirms earlier…
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EPA Administrator Wheeler Unveils Final Science Transparency Rule During CEI Forum
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler unveiled the agency’s final rule on strengthening transparency in pivotal science this morning during a policy…
State AGs’ Lawsuit Against Energy Dept. Dishwasher Rule Will Soak Consumers
In response to a lawsuit filed by 15 state attorneys general and the City of New York against the Department of Energy’s (DOE) final…
New Law Banning Refrigerant Will Harm Consumers and Benefit Special Interests
WASHINGTON, DC – Congress intends to include ban a chemical commonly used in air-conditioners and refrigerators and extend billions in existing government spending toward unreliable…
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Washington Examiner
2020 Wasn’t All Bad: There’s Good News About Climate Change
Two important climate stories have somehow evaded media attention. The first is that the authoritative International Energy Agency now recognizes that the high-emissions (and therefore…
The Telegraph
Commentary: Angela Logomasini — Dangerous Consequences of Junk Science
Author Richard Weaver was certainly correct when he asserted that “ideas have consequences” in his 1948 book by the same name. It’s also true that…
The Intelligencer-Edwardsville
Commentary: Myron Ebell — Treaty withdrawal a cause to celebrate
The most consequential deregulatory action taken by President Donald J. Trump — the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate treaty — finally…
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Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment
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Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Senior Fellow
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Angela Logomasini
Senior Fellow
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Patrick J. Michaels
Senior Fellow
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Ben Lieberman
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Robert J. Smith
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Mario Loyola
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