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The Surge: Clean Power Plan 2.0 and more
If you are interested in analysis and perspective on current energy and environmental issues, then we encourage you to subscribe to this new publication…
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Time to end China’s “developing nation” dodge on climate treaties
China’s newly-appointed Special Envoy for Climate Change, Liu Zhenmin, will soon meet for the first time with his American counterpart, John Podesta. One of…
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House GOP prepares CRA resolutions against Biden climate-risk rules, including SEC climate disclosure rule
Members of the House Financial Services Committee have passed four Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions targeting four Biden-era climate-risk rulemakings. Among these is a…
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Old Report Re-Ignites Global Warming ‘Flim-Flam’
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Gov Doubts Global Warming Idea
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Louisiana Remains on the Receiving End of Washington D.C.’s Worst Regulations
The Pelican Post
Global Warming Link to Drowned Polar Bears Melts Under Searing Fed Probe
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Reef Madness: The Next Big Green Litigation Campaign?
Now that Russia has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Australia is the only industrialized country besides the United States to reject the U.N.-sponsored climate treaty. However,…
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Roger Bates Speech on Climate Change
Thank you very much, Ron. It appears I’ve been promoted up the batting order. I don’t know if that’s necessarily a benefit to you or…
The Pelican Post
Polar Bear Researcher Suspended, Under Investigation for ‘Integrity Issues’
The Pelican Post
Arctic Scientist Under Investigation
The Pelican Post
Gingrich Regrets 2008 Climate Ad with Pelosi; Conservatives Still Not Amused
Washington Times
Greens Go for the Gold, Leave Us in the Red
Yahoo! News
NASA’s Inconvenient Ruse: The Goddard Institute For Space Studies
Richmond Times Dispatch
Fuel-Economy Standards Need a Warning Label
Portland Daily Sun
Greenhouse Gas Compact Defended in Maine, Challenged Elsewhere
News Release
Multi-State Greenhouse Gas Initiative Violates New York Law, Lawsuit Alleges
Washington, DC, June 28, 2011 – A lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York says the state’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative…
The Hill
Conservative Group Sues NASA for Climate Scientist’s Records
News Release
CEI Launches ‘Resourceful Earth’ to Fight Political Barriers to Natural Resource Production
Washington, DC, June 17, 2011 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment this week launched Resourceful Earth, a new project that will…
The Hill
Chris Horner on Global Cooling
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses the possibility of global cooling and the limits of climate models to determine government policy.
Auburn Journal
EPA HUSH-Gate
Auburn Journal
Do Americans Care About Climate Change Anymore?
Yahoo! Finance
Royale Energy Hosts East Coast Energy Summit
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EPA Whistleblower Criticizes Global Warming Science and Policy in New Peer-Reviewed Study
Washington, D.C., April 1, 2011 – The scientific hypotheses underlying global warming alarmism are overwhelmingly contradicted by real-world data, and for that reason economic studies…
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EPA Case for Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Torn Apart by New Study
Washington, D.C., March 21, 2011- The Environmental Protection Agency is relying on accounting tricks and gimmicks in its claims that clamping down on greenhouse gas…
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Clearing the Air on the EPA’s False Regulatory Benefit-Cost Estimates and Its Anti-Carbon Agenda
The EPA’s anti-carbon campaign threatens to greatly undermine future U.S. economic growth and job creation, while doing virtually nothing to restrict global CO2 emissions, and,…
News Release
Diverse Coalition Opposes Subsidies for Corn Ethanol in Letter to Lawmakers
WASHINGTON, DC — March 1, 2011 – A broad and diverse coalition of 90 business associations, taxpayer advocates, hunger and development organizations, agricultural groups, free-market…
News Release
House Considers Bill To Stop EPA Power Grab
Washington, D.C. February 9, 2011 – A House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee today will hold a hearing on critical legislation – the Energy Tax Prevention…
Yahoo! Finance
Former Connecticut AG Blumenthal Joins Senate Judiciary Committee
Yahoo! Finance
On energy policy, Obama talks down to Americans
“Now, clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what they’re selling. So tonight,…
Yahoo! Finance
Are Biofuel Policies Fueling a Global Food Crisis?
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Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose Greater Risks than Global Warming
Liberate to Stimulate Index Global warming has been described as the greatest threat facing mankind, but the policies designed to address global…
Washington Post
U-Va. Receives New FOIA for Global Warming Documents
Washington Post
Chris Horner on SUV and Truck Sales
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how the sales of larger vehicles such as trucks…
Washington Post
Chris Horner on Global Warming
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner talks about how claims of global warming are used to…
Washington Post
Chris Horner on Global Warming Certainty
ompetitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how global warming is used to explain essentially any…
Washington Post
Global Warming Goes Gaga
It’s the coldest winter on record in Great Britain. Great Britain also has experienced its heaviest snowfalls since the 1920s. The mayor of London, who…
Washington Post
Chris Horner on UN Climate Summit
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses the United Nations climate conference in Cancun, Mexico. He explains that…
The Sacramento Bee
Never Ready for Prime Time
Appeared…
NPR
Rift Over Climate Change Is Social, Not Scientific
NPR
Global Warming Skeptics Ascend In U.S. Congress
News Release
ClimateGate Scandal One Year Later, Many Questions Remain
Washington, D.C., November 18, 2010 — Friday, November 19th marks the first anniversary of the release of the e-mails and files from the University of…
NPR
Chris Horner on Chevy Volt Subsidies
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses why government support is needed to keep…
New York Times
Can Social Scientists Help Ease the Nation’s Rift Over Climate Change?
New York Times
Cap-and-tax is Dead but Kyotoism is Alive and Well at the EPA
Cap-and-tax may be dead in Congress but the Kyoto agenda of stealth energy taxes marches on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Although the Clean…
New York Times
White House Interference: Bad Science or Poor Communication?
Denver Post
Retire the Stealth Tax on Carbon
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Obama Must Fire Climate Czar Carol Browner
Washington, D.C., November 10, 2010 — The Politico late Tuesday broke a story that the White House “rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department…
News Release
EPA Offers Draconian “Guidance” for Global Warming Energy Restrictions
Washington, D.C., November 10, 2010 — The Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency finally today released its “guidance” for how power plants and oil refiners will…
American Thinker
The EPA’s ‘Climate Change’ Tyranny
Politico
Greens Desperate to Avoid Blame
Politico
Global Warming FOIA Suit Against NASA Heats Up Again
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NASA Moves to Quash FOIA Lawsuit, CEI Fights for Public Access
Washington, D.C., November 4, 2010 — NASA continues to block the right of US citizens to gain access to tax-funded global warming research and communications.
Acting On Its Own, EPA Sets New Rules On Truck Emissions
Acting On Its Own, EPA Sets New Rules On Truck Emissions
Acting On Its Own, EPA Sets New Rules On Truck Emissions
Acting On Its Own, EPA Sets New Rules On Truck Emissions
Acting On Its Own, EPA Sets New Rules On Truck Emissions
Big trucks may face fuel consumption regulations
News Release
Ethanol + Wind Power = #Fail
Washington, D.C., October 26, 2010 — Ethanol subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, and, so far, American taxpayers have wasted…
News Release
Obama’s Truck Regulations Are Another Torpedo To US Economy
Washington, D.C., October 25, 2010 — As part of the Obama Administration’s ill-conceived energy-rationing campaign, today the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to target heavy-duty…
Spectator
Go Meat!
Spectator
Scientific Audit of U.N. Climate Panel Concludes Alarmist Claims Lack Evidence
Spectator
Chris Horner on Overestimation of Emissions
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how miscalculated emissions figures were used to…
Spectator
Chris Horner on Overestimation of Emissions
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how miscalculated emissions figures were used to justify pollution regulations in…
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Al Gore’s Crony Capitalist Crusade
Full Document Available in PDF Al Gore’s crusade for carbon emission controls is poised to enrich those with a vested…
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Cap-and-Trade Schemes are Not Markets
Cap-and-trade supporters are trying to get Republican lawmakers on board a new cap-and-trade policy, this time it's "market-based."…
Spectator
Climategate Inquiry Glosses Over the Facts
When the Climategate e-mails were released last year, the evidence of misconduct by the scientists involved was so strong that the climate establishment was forced…
Spectator
Greens Wants Their McCain Back
Spectator
Climate Change: Lingering clouds
Spectator
No Camera, No Debate, No Cameron
Spectator
BP Aftermath Fuels Skepticism Over Global Warming Impact
Canada Free Press
Leading US Physicist Labels Satellitegate Scandal a Catastrophe
Canada Free Press
US Chamber Sues EPA to Challenge GHG Endangerment Finding
Canada Free Press
Policy Issues; Climate Issues; Ag Economy; Biotech; Trade; and GIPSA Rule
Canada Free Press
State Sen. Bob Gibbs claims cap and trade as passed by the House will cost families $1,761 a year
Canada Free Press
U.S. Chamber lawsuit attacks basis for EPA emissions limits
Newsletter
Cloned Meat, Kagan’s Activism and Greenhouse Gases in Texas
Protestors object to the idea of cloned animals being part of the human food chain. Elena Kagan is sworn in as the nation’s 122th Supreme…
Canada Free Press
Accusations of Flawed Climate Science are Rejected by the EPA
Canada Free Press
EPA Rejects Claims Challenging Threat Posed By Climate Change
Canada Free Press
EPA Rejects Claims Challenging Threat Posed By Climate Change
News Release
EPA Refuses to Reconsider Harmful Energy Regulations
Washington, D.C., July 30, 2010 – The EPA Thursday rejected petitions to reconsider the agency’s move to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a “public endangerment”…
Newsletter
The Origins of Environmentalism, a Shady Attorney General and Immigration Lawsuits
The inability of the Democratic majority in Congress to pass a climate change bill causes activists to question the state of the environmental movement. CEI…
Canada Free Press
Alarmist ‘State of the Climate’ Report Draws Fire
Canada Free Press
Research Says Climate Change Undeniable
Newsletter
Big Labor’s Agenda, the Death of Cap and Trade and the Politics of ‘Mad Men’
Big Labor has been pushing hard to make Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren the new consumer protection czar. Besides the possibility of a lame-duck session, the…
Canada Free Press
Chris Horner on the Politics of Cap and Trade
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner debates the politics and economics of a cap and trade scheme for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Canada Free Press
Climate Alarmism
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Cap and Trade, Financial Regulation and Toyotas and the Truth
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) mentions plans to pass a cap-and-trade bill in a post-election “lame duck” session if necessary. President Obama signs the Dodd-Frank financial…
Canada Free Press
Offsets Are Crucial in Cap and Trade (Letter to the Editor)
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency implies (“Cap and Trade Will Work Well Again,” Letters, July 20) that because cap and trade worked…
Newsletter
Financial Regulation, Immigration and Climate Legislation
The Senate prepares to vote on a financial regulation bill. A Heritage Foundation report finds that deportation of undocumented immigrants has fallen during the Obama…
Newsletter
Climategate, Wine Regulations and the Jones Act
A recent report appears to clear scientists involved in the “Climategate” scandal of most wrongdoing. Congress sidelines a bill that would have created new restrictions…
Canada Free Press
The Greenhouse Protection Racket
“Are you gonna come along quietly, or do I have to let the California Air Resources Board (CARB) muss ya up?” That was pretty…
Canada Free Press
Gene Lyons: Climategate Gets Burned by Reality
Newsletter
EPA’s Gangster Style, LibertyWeek Turns 100 and Comparing BP to Enron
The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gain the auto industry’s support for new fuel economy standards. The LibertyWeek podcast records…
Canada Free Press
Climategate Burned by Reality
News Release
Global Warming ‘ClimateGate’ Investigation Yields Whitewash Report
Washington, D.C., July 7, 2010 – In the wake of the recent, notorious “ClimateGate” scandal, the university at the epicenter of the scandal has…
CEI Planet
CEI Planet: May – June 2010
To view this issue of the CEI Planet, please click here to download the PDF file. Below are selected articles from the May-June 2010 issue: Collective…
Newsletter
Climate Skeptics, The Case Against Cap and Trade and Oil Spill Red Tape
The National Academy of Sciences recently published a report attacking the credentials of climate change skeptics. The Gulf oil spill has…
Canada Free Press
Obama Uses Oil Spill to Push Failed Energy Policies
In his speech, President Obama used the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to push his failed energy policies, such as…
Canada Free Press
Obama’s Actions Prevent Timely Clean-Up By U.S. Allies
Crucial offers to help clean up BP’s oil spill “have come from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that … possess some of the world’s most…
Canada Free Press
Obama Blocks Louisiana, Foreign Allies from Oil Spill Clean-Up
The Obama Administration recently used red tape to force Louisiana to stop using 16 barges that were cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico…
Canada Free Press
Chris Horner on Obama Energy Policy
CEI's Senior Fellow Chris Horner explains the problems with President Obama's energy policies.
Newsletter
EPA Disapproval, Oil Spill Politics and Ethanol Technology
Last week, the Senate rejected Lisa Murkowski’s resolution of disapproval against the EPA. President Obama has refused offers from several European countries to help clean…
Newsletter
Nuclear Power, AmeriCorps Fraud, and Climate Change ‘Denial’
The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future has drawn public ire for their decisions regarding nuclear power. President Obama is…
Canada Free Press
Obama Refuses to Waive Law to Allow Foreign Help With Oil Spill
Crucial offers to help clean up BP’s oil spill “have come from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that . . . possess some of…
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- Climate
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Sam Kazman
Counsel Emeritus
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Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Senior Fellow
- Climate
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
Ben Lieberman
Senior Fellow
- Climate
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- Energy and Environment
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
- Automobiles and Roads
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Kevin D. Williamson
Writer in Residence
- Climate
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