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Anti-Plastics Bill Could Eliminate Jobs, Raise Prices on Consumers and Create Shortages of Critical Products
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a new paper today, arguing the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act (S. 984, H.R. 2238),…
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New CEI Paper Highlights Facts about Plastics in the Ocean an Offers Workable Solutions to the Problem
WASHINGTON – In a new paper released today, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) senior fellow Angela Logomasini, PhD argues legislation pending before…
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New CEI Paper Highlights the Risks Banning Plastics Poses to Humanity
WASHINGTON – In a new paper released today, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) senior fellow Angela Logomasini, PhD argues destroying the U.S. plastics…
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New CEI Paper Highlights the Benefits Plastics Products Provide Wildlife and the Environment
In a report released today, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) senior fellow Angela Logomasini argues that misguided legislation before Congress could destroy the…
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New CEI Paper Calls on EPA to Revise Faulty Assessment of Key Medical Supply Sterilant
A new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) finds faulty science by an EPA program led to an unfounded health scare around…
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#NeverNeeded Regulation Report: Trump Administration Should Stop Funding WHO Agency Pushing Faulty Findings About Cancer Risks
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is calling for the Trump Administration to defund the International Agency for Research on Cancer. A division of the World Health…
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Dr. Nancy Beck Will Bring Thoughtful Consideration of Science to Consumer Product Safety Commission
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will today hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Dr. Nancy Beck to be chair…
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Report: State, Local Governments Should Lift #NeverNeeded Plastics Regulations and Bans – Permanently
Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a report urging state and local governments to end bans and restrictions on single-use plastics, like shopping bags…
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#NeverNeeded Regulation Report: Deploy Rational Science-Based Policies for Medical Plant Sterilization
After an EPA program produced a highly flawed assessment in 2016 that vastly overstated the risk of Ethylene Oxide (EtO), a critical gas used for…
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Trump Administration Should Eliminate Funding for EPA-NIH Programs Pushing Agenda-Driven Science
As the federal government observes Children’s Health Month in October, a new report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) calls on the Trump Administration and…
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EPA Wise to Reject Activists’ Proposed Chlorpyrifos Ban Based on Junk Science
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced it rejected a petition by green activists to ban chlorpyrifos, an important pesticide farmers rely on for assisting…
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House Hearing on EPA’s IRIS Program Seeks to Advance False Political Narrative
The Democratic majority on the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Environment is scheduled to hold a hearing today titled “EPA’s IRIS Program: Reviewing…
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CEI Report Calls for Elimination of EPA’s Flawed Integrated Risk Information System
A new report released today by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) shows EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) has significant problems with methodology, relies on…
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CEI Expert Says EU Proposal to Ban Single-Use Consumer Plastic Items “Won’t Help the Environment”
On Wednesday, the European Union put forward a proposal to ban ten single-use plastic items, including straws and cotton swabs, by 2021. The proposal is…
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CEI Praises Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Sound and Transparent Science Rule
Ahead of today’s Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee hearing on oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency’s implementation of the Sound and Transparent Science rule,…
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Report: Congress Should Stop Funding International Junk Science Agency
American taxpayers fund an international agency that puts out junk science, scaring consumers and leading to costly jury decisions and unnecessary product bans, a new…
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CEI: Court Decision against Weed Killer Based on Bad Evidence Could Raise Food Prices, Harm the Environment
Last week, a jury in California awarded $289 million to a former school groundskeeper who claimed glyphosate, an ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, caused…
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CEI Report: EPA’s Science Transparency Rule Makes Science Stronger
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing on its proposed rule, “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science,” aimed at increasing transparency of…
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CEI Commends EPA’s Move to End Use of Secret Science
Today, Competitive Enterprise Institute policy experts attended an event at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a proposed rule to…
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CEI Fellow Praises Trump EPA Refusal to Ban Chlorpyrifos
Decision is Science-Based; Ban would Undermine Food Affordability As members of Congress develop proposals to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, CEI’s Angela Logomasini, praises EPA…
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Polluted Logic Taints WHO Reports on Children’s Health
A misleading World Health Organization report defines children's health challenges as driven by environmental hazards and ignores the real issue.
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New Study Highlights Need for Overhaul of NIH Carcinogen Listing Process
Washington, D.C., January 18, 2012 — Just a week after the National Institutes for Health revised its process for listing carcinogens, the Competitive Enterprise…
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New Study Debunks Myths About Bottled Water
Recent activist campaigns against bottled water have been filled with myths and half-truths, and have been motivated more by environmentalist ideology than evidence, according to a new study released…
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CEI’s Angela Logomasini Debates the Bush Administration’s Environmental Policies with the League of Conservation Voter
On Monday, June 30, on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CEI Director of Risk and Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini debated League of Conservation Voters (LCV)…
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CEI Comments to NRC on Arsenic
Competitive Enterprise Institute Competitive Enterprise Institute Comments to the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology National Research…