News Releases

• Kent Lassman
• 02/21/2017

Today the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) announced the 2017 recipient of the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award, Associate Professor of geography at the University…

• Myron Ebell
• 02/06/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute supports H.J.Res. 44, a Congressional Review Act resolution, aimed at rescinding the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Planning…

• Jim Harper, Kent Lassman
• 01/30/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is pleased to welcome Jim Harper to the organization as Vice President. Harper’s background in free market advocacy, technology and…

• Ryan Radia, W. Thomas Haynes
• 01/25/2017

More than 30 million Americans wear contact lenses. In recent years, contact lens technology has improved, leading to increased sales and changes in the policies…

• Michelle Minton
• 01/24/2017

“When it comes to the salt in our food, regulators and health activists are wrong to push a one-size-fits-all sodium-restriction plan on everyone,” said CEI…

• Jessica Melugin, Ryan Radia
• 01/24/2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) congratulates Ajit Pai on his designation as the 34th chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A strong advocate of…

• 01/12/2017

A coalition of eight free-market groups led by the Competitive Enterprise Institute on Thursday urged Vice President-Elect Mike Pence and U.S. Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions…

• 12/15/2016

Providing guidance in five different issue areas, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today offers its free market policy reform agenda for the incoming Trump Administration.

• Marc Scribner
• 12/13/2016

Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) put forward its controversial proposed rule on vehicle-to-vehicle communications. CEI transportation expert Marc Scribner criticized the…

• 12/08/2016

The Competitive Enterprise Institute responded to the report that Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has been nominated as the next EPA Administrator under President-elect Donald…

• 12/08/2016

Statement by Trey Kovacs on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. "Andy Puzder understands that the…

• 12/06/2016

The Competitive Enterprise Institute today filed comments with the Seattle Department of Finance and Administrative Services opposing provisions of a proposed collective bargaining rule that…

• 12/02/2016

The Competitive Enterprise Institute on Friday submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opposing plans to pressure food makers to significantly lower…

• 12/01/2016

On December 1, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor appealed a November 22 injunction against a rule expanding an employer mandate on overtime pay for…

• 11/28/2016

Last week the Supreme Court of New York ruled for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and against the New York Attorney General holding that the…

• 11/23/2016

On November 22, 2016, Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court in Texas placed an injunction against the U.S. Department of Labor's rule expanding…

• 11/22/2016

Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the R Street Institute, and TechFreedom together sent comments to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) expressing concern…

• 11/15/2016

Congress and the president have an opportunity to stop costly regulations that make it hard for businesses to succeed and create jobs. Specifically, Congress should…

• 11/14/2016

At the 2016 Television, Internet & Video Association (TIVA) of DC Peer Awards, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Passing Lane Films were awarded…

• 11/10/2016

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit is a finalist at this weekend’s 2016 Television, Internet & Video…

• 11/03/2016

With reports that the mosquito-borne Zika virus is rapidly becoming endemic in the United States, now is the time for the federal government to…

• 10/27/2016

Today, a coalition of free market groups led by the Competitive Enterprise Institute sent a letter to congressional leaders opposing an effort by regulators to…

• 10/20/2016

Attorneys general from 17 states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a circuit court’s approval of a class action settlement agreement that leaves…

• 10/19/2016

CEI filed with the D.C. Superior Court a copy of an order issued last week by a federal judge in Texas, in Exxon’s challenge to…

• 10/14/2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning sodium reduction targets for food manufacturers, with the first of two public comment periods ending on…

• 10/13/2016

In The Morality and Virtues of Capitalism and the Firm, Competitive Enterprise Institute founder Fred L. Smith, Jr. argues that businesses help people develop relationships…

• 10/12/2016

Today marks the launch of I, Whiskey: The Human Spirit, a documentary-style short film that tells the story of how the freedom to innovate, enjoy,…

• 10/11/2016

“This is a great day for limited government and the constitutional separation of powers,” said Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) General Counsel Sam Kazman, following a…

• 09/29/2016

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with 19 other signers, submitted comments today to the EPA on a component of the Clean Power Plan that is…

• 09/26/2016

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), The Rutherford Institute, and two CEI employees filed the opening brief today in their lawsuit challenging the Transportation Security Administration…

• 08/31/2016

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today sued New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for refusing to disclose any Common Interest Agreement entered into by…

• 08/24/2016

A new Competitive Enterprise Institute report offers a blueprint to make Brexit Britain a global economic superpower and tear down barriers to opportunities and entrepreneurship.

• 08/24/2016

Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Class Action Fairness achieved a victory on behalf of the shareholder class in In re Pepco Holdings, Inc.

• 08/23/2016

“No American should fear being singled out and harassed by a government official who takes a different point of view on public policy questions.” –…

• 08/10/2016

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit invalidated the Federal Communication Commission's 2015 rules, which attempted to restrict the ability of states…

• 08/08/2016

CEI fellow Ryan Young offered a quick take on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s economic speech in Detroit today, as it related to…

• 08/08/2016

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA) filed the opening brief today in their lawsuit challenging a…

• 08/05/2016

Ten groups today, led by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), submitted comments to the Department of Justice concerning the proposed partial consent decree in…

• 08/03/2016

While today marks the theoretical one year anniversary of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, CEI’s Marlo Lewis points out that it’s not actually a true…

• 07/19/2016

A resuscitation of Glass-Steagall Act has been added to the 2016 GOP platform, in a move supported by the Trump campaign. Glass-Steagall prohibited commercial banks…

• 07/18/2016

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the EPA’s Regional Haze federal plan for Texas on Friday. Competitive Enterprise Institute's Senior Fellow…

• 07/11/2016

Members of Congress are taking to the floor Monday and Tuesday evening in a McCarthy-style attempt to shut down the democratic process and publicize the…

• 07/11/2016

The House vote on extending reauthorization of the big Federal Aviation Administration funding bill buys more time to educate people on beneficial reforms to air…

• 07/05/2016

The DC Circuit court today ruled that agency records including “departmental emails on an account in another domain” must be searched or produced in response…