News Releases

• 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