For decades, CEI has opposed regulatory overreach from the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies that put undue costs on energy industries and consumers. These include President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which would have increased consumer electricity prices without having any discernible effects on climate change. CEI’s research and policy proposals were instrumental in President Trump’s repeal of the CPP.
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Daily Caller
Biden’s Regulatory Blitz On Appliances Figures To Make Life More Expensive, Policy Experts Say
CEI’s Ben Lieberman is cited in Daily Caller on Biden’s blitz on appliance figures: “If these ultra-efficient appliances make sense, homeowners would choose them…
Wall Street Journal
Biden Is Coming for Your Air Conditioner
Your next new home air conditioner could set you back $12,000 or more, with federal regulators contributing to the rising cost of staying cool. Before…
Blog
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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Ben Lieberman Before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs House Committee
Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of this subcommittee, and thank you for inviting me to testify. My name is Ben Lieberman and I am…
Baltimore Sun
Blame Government, Not BGE, For Turning Off the AC
Ratepayers are steamed at Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. for turning off air conditioners in thousands of homes on July 22, the hottest day in…
Baltimore Sun
The Case Against John Bryson
President Obama’s nominee for secretary of commerce, John Bryson, is a terrible choice for a Cabinet department ostensibly dedicated to promoting economic growth and…
Baltimore Sun
Mandated Mischief: Obama’s 54.5 MPG Standard
President Obama today announced a deal with 13 automakers to boost new-car fuel economy standards from 35.5 mpg in 2016 to 54.5 mpg in…
News Release
Obama’s New Fuel Economy Mandates Risk Lives, Compromise Reliability, Increase Costs
Washington, DC, July 29, 2011 – New fuel economy mandates on cars and trucks announced today by the Obama administration will lead to more traffic…
Baltimore Sun
Gingrich Regrets 2008 Climate Ad with Pelosi; Conservatives Still Not Amused
Yahoo! News
D.C.’s Deadly Fuel Mileage Push
Yahoo! News
Inhofe Bill Would Shine Sunlight on Regulation Costs
Washington Times
Greens Go for the Gold, Leave Us in the Red
Washington Times
Chris Horner on “Green” Programs and the War on Styrofoam
Chris Horner addresses the failure of "green" programs, both in terms of cost and purpose. He discusses the many millions wasted by the government…
Washington Times
William Yeatman Criticizes EPA for Killing Jobs
CEI's William Yeatman exposes the anti-job, anti economic growth policies of the EPA. Yet another example of how government regulation fails to prioritize job creating…
Richmond Times Dispatch
Fuel-Economy Standards Need a Warning Label
Richmond Times Dispatch
Group Assists Fight Against Extreme Environmentalism
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 Wall Street Journal
Why Your New Car Doesn’t Have a Spare Tire
Auto makers comply with fuel economy mandates by making cars lighter and more dangerous. Fewer tires, higher taxes. That may be what’s in store for…
National Review
Obama Mandates a Market for His Green Cars
MPR News
Minnesota’s Ethanol Industry Faces Uncertain Future
MPR News
Upton: House Will Vote to Bring Back the Bulb
MPR News
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.
MPR News
Greenhouse Gas Cuts Proving Illusory
MPR News
Will Sen. Inhofe’s New Energy Adviser Moderate the Raging Climate Skeptic?
News OK
Sullivan’s Natural Gas Legislation Draws Opposition Outside Congress
Detroit News
Michigan Target of EPA Carbon Diktat
Orange County Register
Green Won’t Glow If Germany Shuts Down Nukes
Yahoo! News
Taxpayer Watchdogs: $14 Trillion U.S. Debt Leaves No Room For Treasury-Backed Loan Guarantees For Energy Projects
Investors.com
Palin: End All Energy Subsidies
Auburn Journal
EPA HUSH-Gate
The New American
High Gas Prices Set to Cause Double Dip in Economy
NCPA
Cutting Oil Company Tax Breaks Could Push Prices Up, Analysts Say
NCPA
Chris Horner on New Regulations for Icemakers
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses the proposed Department of Energy regulations to mandate increased “energy efficiency” for icemakers…
NCPA
Chris Horner on Green Energy Programs
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner explains how politically dictated “green” energy programs move public money overseas and result in…
NCPA
Chris Horner on High Gas Prices
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses the effects of regulatory uncertainty for the energy industry as well…
NCPA
The Full Price of Ethanol
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how support for ethanol affects the price of many food and consumer items.
Breitbart
The Truth About Obama and Nuclear Power
We have established that Obama’s war on coal assumed a massive, crash program of 100 new nuclear reactors — for optics purposes, keeping the cost of…
Breitbart
Chris Horner on the Future of Energy
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses the prospects of coal and nuclear power. Horner says the Obama administration wants to use current crises to force…
Study
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,…
Breitbart
As Japan Crisis Unfolds, Energy Secretary Steven Chu Fails Nuclear and Leadership Test
With reactors at the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear plant in danger of a meltdown, the world waits with bated breath for the outcome. Interestingly, physicists, the…
Daily Caller
How a moratorium on nuclear power could stop Obama’s clean energy agenda in its tracks
Fox Business
Japan Crisis Shouldn’t Derail Nuclear Movement in U.S.
Washington Times
Inside the Beltway
Washington Times discusses nuclear meltdowns in Japan with Iain Murray. “Either Secretary Chu is so beholden to the ‘green’ movement that he feels…
Washington Times
Diverse policy groups oppose fed subsidies for ethanol
Washington Times
Will E-15 distribution end before it begins?
Washington Times
Chris Horner on Green Incentives and Broken Promises
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner explains why the District of Columbia is reneging on its promise to reimburse residents…
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…
News Release
How Many Congressmen Does It Take to Screw the Light Bulb?
Washington, D.C., February 9, 2011—The federal government’s push to increase fuel efficiency is ruining the appliances we depend on. That’s the conclusion of “Energy…
Washington Times
The Ethanol Idiocy That Will Not Die
Study
EPA Guilty of Environmental Hyperbole in Mountaintop Mining Veto
On January 13, 2011, the EPA vetoed the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the Mingo…
Washington Times
Chris Horner on Crony Capitalism
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how the government picks winners and losers in the…
Washington Times
The Power of the EPA
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner tells us how the EPA is being used to enforce…
Cigar Magazine
How Many Congressmen Does It Take to Screw the Light Bulb?
Full Document Available in PDF The man at your door appears to be…
Cigar Magazine
Trading Honesty for Votes
Washington Examiner
Obama pushing energy agenda already rejected by voters
Washington Examiner
Obama’s SOTU Speech: More Spending on Democrat Special Interests
Washington Examiner
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,…
Washington Examiner
Dems Prefer Academic Theories of Job Creation to Economic Reality
Washington Examiner
Are Biofuel Policies Fueling a Global Food Crisis?
One News Now
Aged Technologies ‘Don’t Deserve’ Subsidies
Study
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…
News Release
EPA Ratchets Up Campaign to Destroy Jobs
Washington, D.C., January 14, 2011 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute today sharply criticized the Environmental Protection Agency for its decision to revoke a Clean Water…
Big Government
Proponents of California’s Global Warming Law Were Against Renewables Before They Were For Them
Wall Street Journal
Big Lies and Little Ones
Wall Street Journal
Inspector General Says ‘Jobs Saved’ Numbers Are Nonsense; Totals ‘Should Be Offset By Thousands Destroyed’
Wall Street Journal
Chris Horner on UN Climate Summit
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses the United Nations climate conference in Cancun, Mexico. He explains that…
Letters
Coalition letter: Allow the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit to Expire
Full Document Avalible in PDF A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing the subsidies to…
News Release
Obama Offshore Oil Moratorium Breaks Promise, Hurts Economy, Kills Jobs
Washington, D.C., December 1, 2010 — Today, the Obama Administration pulled an about-face on its earlier plan to allow more domestic offshore oil drilling. The…
News Release
Left/Right Coalition Urges Congress to Let Ethanol Subsidies Expire in 2010
Washington, D.C., November 29, 2010 — A coalition of political groups today urged Congress to scrap energy subsidies by allowing the subsidies to expire at…
Shop Floor
EPA: Today Texas, Tomorrow the Nation
Study
Automobile Fuel Economy Standards
Full Document Available in PDF The federal government’s fuel economy standards for new cars are…
One News Now
Obama-Backed Green Company to Slash Jobs, Dump Expansion
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…
Denver Post
Nation Watching Xcel’s Plans for Aging Coal-Fired Power Plants
Denver Post
PUC to Review Xcel Plan
Denver Post
Push Continues to let Ethanol Subsidies Expire Despite oil Subsidy Mountain
Study
Colorado’s Clean Air Clean Jobs Act Will Accomplish Neither
Government Officials and Special Interests Pushed HB 1365 on a Foundation of Fallacies…
Denver Post
Should Ethanol Subsidies Be Gone (With the Wind)?
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…
Study
Is Wind the Next Ethanol?
One “Renewable” Energy Source Follows another’s History of Failure…
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…
National Review
Obama’s Tax Cut for Rich Oil Companies
National Review
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Champions Renewable Fuel Standards
National Review
An Appeal to End Ethanol Tariffs, Subsidies
National Review
Biofuel or Bust? Ethanol Subsidies Should be Dropped
The long struggle to make ethanol a viable and relevant auto fuel in America got a boost recently from the Environmental Protection Agency, but allowing…
National Review
Ben Lieberman on consumer costs of regulations
CEI Senior Fellow in Environmental Policy Ben Lieberman explains how new environmental regulations for household appliances will end up costing consumers more money. These increased…
National Review
Browse More Videos Ben Lieberman on Government Regulations
Senior Fellow in Environmental Policy Ben Lieberman discusses the extent of federal regulations in our daily lives.
Kiowa County Signal
CFL bulbs kills U.S. jobs
Kiowa County Signal
Chris Horner on Overestimation of Emissions
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how miscalculated emissions figures were used to…
Kiowa County Signal
Chris Horner on Overestimation of Emissions
CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses how miscalculated emissions figures were used to justify pollution regulations in…
NCPA
GE Closes Last Incandescent Light Bulb Plant, Jobs Sent to China
State Journal Register
Illinois Must Get Out of Regional Cap-and-Trade
State Journal Register
China Winning Renewable Energy Race
Study
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."…
Study
Colorado’s Great Green Deception
If HB 1001Seems too Good to Be True, It’s Because It Is…
Kiowa County Signal
The Lights Go Out on 200 Jobs and an Era
Newsletter
Stimulus, Tax Reform, and Incandescent Light Bulbs
Hans Bader points out that, according to the CBO, the stimulus will shrink the economy "in the long run." Chris Horner explains why this new…
Newsletter
Bailouts, Wind Energy, and Credit Card Regulation
Hans Bader argues that the new bailout makes responsible citizens "Suckers." Myron Ebell thinks it is doubtful that wind farms will survive Hurricane Earl. John…
Kiowa County Signal
Christie’s at Sea With That Windmill Scheme
Kiowa County Signal
Chris Horner discusses new car stickers
Senior Fellow Chris Horner discusses the government's proposal to grade cars and have a sticker displaying the grade.
Kiowa County Signal
No More Ethanol for America, Please
In “Ethanol for America,” Jim Nussle accuses opponents of subsidized ethanol of misleading the public, while trumpeting ethanol’s alleged success story. As is the case…
Kiowa County Signal
China, Economic Growth, and “Green Jobs”
The news about China overtaking Japan as the world’s second-largest economy is actually quite relevant to the US climate and energy policy debate, which…
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Sam Kazman
Counsel Emeritus
- Antitrust
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Paige Lambermont
Research Fellow
- Capitalism and Free Enterprise
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Senior Fellow
- Climate
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
Ben Lieberman
Senior Fellow
- Climate
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
- Automobiles and Roads
- Aviation
- Business and Government