While some improvements has been made nationally in both air pollution and water cleanliness, both laws have resulted in the most complex, comprehensive, and costly environmental laws in existence.
Additionally, environmental improvements in both areas began to improve prior to the 1970s when both laws were enacted. Through pragmatic regulatory reform of both laws, the Competitive Enterprise believes Americans can have clean water and improved air quality without submitting to undue regulations that strangle industry and harm our economy.
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Will EPA Establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Greenhouse Gases?
Will the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) propose to establish national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs)? The…
News Release
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…
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Washington Post Trashes EPA Benefit Cost Analysis Rule
The Washington Post last week published an inaccurate and misleading analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recently finalized benefit-cost analysis (BCA) rule…
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The Data Access Law: Promoting Accountability and Privacy
With the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1966, our society decided to promote government transparency: what is done in government’s name…
Publication
Court Invalidates EPA Rules
With a pro-regulation White House and a timid Republican Congress, the judicial branch currently stands as the only real roadblock to federal regulatory excesses.
Op-Eds
Politically Incorrect Washing Machines
Federal government officials think your clothes washer is contributing to global warming—and they are going to do something about it. Over the past few years,…
Study
The Data Access Law: Decreasing Secret Science While Increasing Accountability
As the federal bureaucracy grows and Congress delegates more of its power to the agencies, the need for agency accountability increases. In October…
Study
Clean Air, Congress and the Constitution: Why The Delegation Ruling Was Correct
View Full Document as PDF On May 14, 1999, in American Trucking Associations v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Court…
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The Clean Air Act’s Federal Terrorist Assistance Program
View Full Document as PDF In recent years the United States has experienced the horrors of the terrorist attack of a…
Staff & Scholars
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment
- Climate
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
Sam Kazman
General Counsel
- Antitrust
- Automobiles and Roads
- Banking and Finance
Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Senior Fellow
- Climate
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
Ben Lieberman
Senior Fellow
- Climate
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
Angela Logomasini
Senior Fellow
- Chemical Risk
- Consumer Freedom
- Energy and Environment
Patrick J. Michaels
Senior Fellow
- Climate
- Energy
- Energy and Environment
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
- Automobiles and Roads
- Aviation
- Business and Government
Robert J. Smith
Distinguished Fellow
- Energy and Environment
- Lands and Wildlife
- Water and Air Quality