News Releases

• CEI Staff
• 05/06/1999

Washington, DC, May 6, 1999 – The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee may consider an amendment today to the federal Clean Air Act…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/30/1999

Washington, DC, April 30, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today denounced the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) forthcoming auto emissions proposal as an incredibly…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/27/1999

Washington, DC, April 27, 1999 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today congratulates Dr. Bruce Ames for his receipt of the National Medal of…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/19/1999

Vice President Al Gore and environmental activists argue that suburban development, pejoratively called “urban sprawl,” is destroying the environment. Loss of farmland and open…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/16/1999

April 22 should be a time of reflection on the great efforts by the thousands of people who work diligently to preserve some small…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/15/1999

Information is a valuable tool, but sometimes misinformation is more powerful. As we approach Earth Day 1999, CEI observes the state of environmental information…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/14/1999

The debate over human-induced global warming is far from settled. Listening to radical environmental activists and Vice President Al Gore, however, would give one…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/13/1999

Most Americans want a clean environment. That is no surprise. What surprises traditional environmental activists is that most people don’t support extensive federal regulation.

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/13/1999

America’s support for strong environmental protection does not translate into strong support for heavy-handed federal regulation. CEI’s just released National Environmental Survey demonstrates that…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/13/1999

America’s support for strong environmental protection does not translate into strong support for heavy-handed federal regulation. CEI’s just released National Environmental Survey demonstrates that…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/12/1999

Using children to politicize environmental issues is a common tactic of activist environmental groups. Professional environmental educators, however, are more subtle. The North American…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/11/1998

Washington, DC, June 11, 1998 — A Clinton Administration ocean conference now under way is a misguided effort to generate controversy and justify unwarranted…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/05/1998

Washington, DC, June 5, 1998 — The Cooler Heads Coalition, a working group within the broader National Consumer Coalition founded by Consumer Alert, today…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 05/22/1998

Washington, DC, May 22, 1998 — The Cooler Heads Coalition, a working group chaired by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) within Consumer Alert’s broader…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 05/06/1998

Washington, DC, May 6, 1998 — Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt’s announcement today that some two dozen species will be delisted under the Endangered Species…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/17/1998

Washington, DC, April 17, 1998 —Saving the planet is a nice idea, but the focus on Earth Day has for too long been on…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/29/1998

WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 1998 — “Every high school civics student knows that two-thirds of the Senate must approve a treaty before it becomes…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/24/1998

Washington, DC, March 25, 1998 — “If the Clinton administration’s ‘Comprehensive Electricity Competition Plan’ is to deregulate electricity, government oversight of the power industry…

Energy

• CEI Staff
• 03/24/1998

Washington, DC, March 25, 1998 — CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. today called for an end to federal subsidies for research and development…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/19/1998

Washington, DC, March 20, 1998 — Exempting municipalities from Superfund liability will hinder real environmental reform according to a new study released by the…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/15/1998

WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 1998 — “The Kyoto Protocol is a dangerous treaty, and President Clinton should not sign it,” said Marlo Lewis, Jr.,…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/03/1998

Washington, DC, March 4, 1998 — Today a prominent environmental expert denounced Republican Senators Dirk Kempthorne (ID) and John Chafee (RI) for waging a…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/04/1998

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free market think tank, today announced its entry into the electric power market and demanded that utilities open…

Energy

• CEI Staff
• 01/28/1998

Washington, DC, January 29, 1998 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that it will be co-sponsoring a congressional and media briefing on S.1180…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 01/27/1998

Washington DC, January 28 –”President Clinton’s State of the Union message makes it clear that the era of big government is not over,” said…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 01/20/1998

Washington, DC, January 21, 1998 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blasted Governor Christie Todd Whitman’s (R-NJ) plan to lock up one million acres…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 12/09/1997

Industrialized nations have tentatively agreed to a global warming protocol covering six “greenhouse gases” — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/07/1997

Kyoto Gets Gored Al Gore flew into Kyoto this morning — allegedly not to solicit funds at the more than 100,000 Buddhist temples…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/04/1997

Third World Fumes COP-3 in Kyoto is the culmination of earlier summits — the Rio Conference in 1992, the implementation of energy curtailment…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/03/1997

Poor Countries Still Oppose Energy Starvation Diet Developing countries continue to signal their unwillingness to sign binding emissions reduction targets in Kyoto. The…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/02/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, December 3, 1997 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) began an ad campaign this morning attacking the proposed climate treaty being negotiated…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/02/1997

Many at COP-3 are behaving as if the Clinton-Gore administration speaks for the U.S — as if the eager quest for an aggressive global…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/01/1997

COP-3 opened as a Victorian drama, with the U.S. position in imminent peril as its prime defender, Undersecretary of State Tim Wirth, suddenly abandoned…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 11/30/1997

(Kyoto, December 1, 1997) Japan’s Foreign Minister opened the UN climate conference, known as “COP-3,” by calling it “an event that could change the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/22/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, October 22 , 1997 — President Clinton’s long awaited announcement today that he will officially propose reducing greenhouse gas emissions to…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/09/1997

Anticipation Builds for Kyoto Finale The mood of the climate conference turned positively euphoric with US lead negotiator Stu Eisenstat’s proposal to create…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/07/1997

UN Corruption Exposed in Kyoto P.J.O`Rourke suggests that everybody wants to save the planet; nobody wants to help wash the dishes. UN employees…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/06/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1997 — Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that its president and founder, Fred L. Smith, Jr. will testify before the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 10/03/1997

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 3, 1997 — Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) announced today that they will run an advertisement in the Sunday Outlook section of the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 09/26/1997

Monday, September 29 11:00am- 1:00pm 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building RSVP – Nicole Hamilton, 202-331-1010, x 239…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 09/16/1997

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 16, 1997 — Newly introduced GOP legislation to reauthorize the U.S. Endangered Species Act is a disaster for property rights and…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 07/15/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, JULY 15. Over 160 People gathered at the National Press Club today to learn more about the cost and impact of the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/19/1997

HARARE, ZIMBABWE, Thursday, June 19, 1997 — The ivory ban has ended for three southern African nations, despite intense opposition from the U.S. government.

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/07/1997

WASHINGTON, DC June 6, 1997 – Binding limits on greenhouse emissions will be devastating to families in the United States and other countries according…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/05/1997

Washington, DC June 5, 1997 – The fears that hurricanes will increase in both number and intensity as a result of global warming are…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/03/1997

WASHINGTON, DC June 3, 1997 – A proliferation of international treaties aimed at protecting the “global environment” are involving the United Nations increasingly in…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/29/1997

WASHINGTON, DC April 29, 1997 —Denouncing the Army Corps of Engineer's Section 404 wetlands restoration program as “costly, ineffective, and unnecessary” Environmental Policy Analyst…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/22/1997

WASHINGTON, DC April 22, 1997 —The Basel Convention, a United Nations treaty which regulates world trade, is due to ban all trade in “wastes”…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/17/1997

WASHINGTON, DC April 17, 1997 —America is gaining wetlands, according to a new study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The study found that over…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/21/1997

WASHINGTON, DC March 22, 1997—Imposing mandatory uniform environmental standards on industrial firms will result in both environmental and economic harm according to a study…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/11/1997

WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 1997 The Environmental Protection Agency's proposals to tighten air quality regulations are likely to do more harm than good, according…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/27/1997

Establishing, tradable grazing rights will go a long way to resolving the differences between ranchers and environmentalists, according to a new study released by the…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/12/1997

Urging caution in the face of calls for drastic action over the issue of global warming, the Competitive Enterprise Institute responded to today's press conference…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 12/01/1996

The Clinton administration suffered a major setback in its efforts to incorporate environmental restrictions into world trade rules with the completion of talks in the…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 10/17/1996

Voicing concern that today’s children are being taught incompletely or even falsely when it comes to the environment, two authors have written a book that…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/14/1992

May 14, 1992—(Washington, DC) The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that FDA’s delay in approving Interleukin-2 may have cost as many as 3500 lives.  IL-2…

Lands and Wildlife