News Releases

• CEI Staff
• 05/04/2001

Washington, DC, May 4, 2001- The Competitive Enterprise Institute is urging the Bush administration to set a tight timetable for local forest review…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/03/2001

Washington, DC, May 3, 2001- The Competitive Enterprise Institute is urging the Bush administration to revoke the controversial “roadless rule” for national forests,…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/26/2001

Washington, DC, April 26, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute today released grades for President Bush’s first 100 days of environmental policy. Many of…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/23/2001

Washington, DC, April 23, 2001— The Competitive Enterprise Institute praised the Bush administration for its recent announcement that it will postpone the arsenic…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/23/2001

Washington, DC, April 23, 2001—As the Senate prepares to debate a brownfields bill, an adjunct scholar with the Competitive Enterprise Institute says it…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/17/2001

Washington, DC, April 17, 2001— As people around the world prepare to celebrate the 31st Earth Day, this Sunday, April 22nd, concerned individuals…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/09/2001

Washington DC, April 9, 2001 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group, is applauding the Bush White House for…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/05/2001

Punta del Este, Uruguay, April 5, 2001— In a declaration signed today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute joined representatives…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/04/2001

Washington, DC April 4, 2001 – Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Environmental Scholar Robert J. Smith will testify tomorrow on the federal Wildlife Species…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/29/2001

Washington, DC, March 30, 2001—For several months, CEI policy analyst Ben Lieberman has pointed out that Environmental Protection Agency regulations helped to cause…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/29/2001

Washington, DC, March 30, 2001—When the countries involved in the Free Trade Area of the Americas process meet the first week of April,…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/27/2001

Washington, D.C., March 27, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute welcomes Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Todd Whitman's…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/26/2001

Washington, DC, March 27, 2001—The director of risk and environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute is criticizing PBS for its…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/25/2001

Washington, DC, March 26, 2001 – In testimony tomorrow before the House Committee on Government Reform, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/22/2001

Washington, DC, March 23, 2001 – In comments before the House Republican Conference today, Competitive Enterprise Institute Adjunct Scholar Dana Joel Gattuso discussed…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/21/2001

Washington, D.C., March 22, 2001—In recognition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cooler Heads Coalition’s efforts to help prevent the regulation of carbon dioxide…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/20/2001

CEI supports policies that will bring affordable and abundant energy to American consumers. Therefore, we are pleased to join many other organizations in the Energy…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/19/2001

Washington, DC, March 20, 2001—The federal government spends around $6 billion a year to clean up Department of Energy nuclear sites from World…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/13/2001

Washington, D.C., March 14, 2001—The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group, is praising President Bush for his decision not to…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/12/2001

Washington, DC, March 13, 2001 – Today a coalition of public policy and consumer groups announced its plans to…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/08/2001

Washington, D.C., March 9, 2001—Senior Bush Administration officials are pushing regulatory energy policies that will cost Americans more than they will gain in…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/06/2001

Washington, D.C., March 7, 2001 – The release this week of the United Nations’ latest summary reports on global warming have many of the scientists…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/05/2001

Washington, DC, March 6, 2001 – Today in a press conference at the headquarters of the Department of Energy, Senator Bob Smith (R-NH),…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/28/2001

Washington, D.C., March 1, 2001 – In a briefing before congressional staff, members of the press and scientists, Professor Richard S. Lindzen of the Massachusetts…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 02/26/2001

Washington, DC, February 27, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today announced its disappointment with the Supreme Court’s decision concerning the Clean Air…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/25/2001

Washington, DC, February 26, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute commends Senator Frank Murkowski for introducing the National Energy Security Policy Act of 2001. We…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/19/2001

Washington, DC, February 20, 2001 – The United States Supreme Court today declined to review the constitutionality of a federal endangered species restriction…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 01/21/2001

Washington, D.C., January 22, 2001 – Today’s release of the “Summary for Policymakers” by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 01/19/2001

Washington, D.C., January 30, 2001 – “The confirmation of Gale Norton offers the nation an opportunity to rethink and reformulate environmental policy,” said…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 01/17/2001

Washington, D.C., January 18, 2001 – While Congress considers the confirmation of Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior, President Clinton announced the…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 01/16/2001

Washington, D.C.  January 17, 2001 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute issued a strong condemnation of proposed new regulations for genetically-engineered foods released today…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 01/11/2001

Washington, D.C., January 12, 2001 –  Secretary of the Interior-Designate Gale Norton faces an uphill confirmation fight.  Ms. Norton’s history of pursuing innovative…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 01/08/2001

January 9, 2001 — Two developments yesterday on the issue of wetlands regulations demonstrate that, as CEI has long argued, the current federal…

Energy and Environment

• Myron Ebell
• 01/02/2001

Statement On   Statement On The Nomination of Senator Spence Abraham as Secretary of Energy by Myron Ebell Director of Global Warming &…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 12/20/2000

Washington, DC, December 21, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with over one hundred other co-signers, announced ten principles for freedom…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 12/19/2000

WASHINGTON, DC December 20, 2000—New standards for organic foods may violate First Amendment free speech rights, the Competitive Enterprise…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 12/12/2000

Washington, DC, December 13, 2000 – An international coalition of public health and advocacy groups applauded United Nations’ recent vote against erecting a…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 12/03/2000

Washington, DC, December 4, 2000 – CEI today filed regulatory comments with the Department of Energy (DOE) in opposition…

Energy and Environment

• Myron Ebell
• 11/29/2000

Statement of Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policyat the Competitive Enterprise Institute, on the breakdown in talks at the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 11/29/2000

Washington, DC, November 30, 2000 – The lack of any agreement at the United Nations’ recently concluded negotiations on climate change in the…

Climate

• James L. Gattuso
• 09/20/2000

                                                                        September 21, 2000     The Honorable…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/15/2000

June 15, 2000 –  With gas prices surging, and EPA responsible for up to 40 cents of the record-high price in the Midwest…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/12/2000

Washington, DC, June 12, 2000 – The so-called National Assessment on Climate Change (NACC) formally released today by a federal government panel is a…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/08/2000

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Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/08/2000

Washington, DC, June 8, 2000 – “Today, EPA has begun its effort to regulate away the public’s ability to protect itself from disease-carrying…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/05/2000

Ecology, Liberty & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader Jonathan H. Adler, Editor Publication Date: Spring 2000Price: $16.95ISBN #1-889865-02-8 Click here to order Ecology, Liberty…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/01/2000

June 1, 2000 – “Americans may face increased risks of contracting potentially deadly and debilitating diseases under a recently proposed rule,” said Jennifer…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 06/01/2000

Washington, DC, June 1, 2000 – A meeting today of the U.S. Global Change Research Program should raise concerns among global warming and legal experts,…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 06/01/2000

Washington, DC, June 1, 2000 – Activist groups will likely post information on the Internet that would help terrorists select targets and maximize…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/25/2000

Washington, D.C., May 25, 2000 – The claims that global warming would harm agricultural productivity are contradicted by a wealth of scientific and…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 05/22/2000

What:<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> A 1-day conference on global warming science during which climate experts from around the globe will…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 05/11/2000

Washington, DC, May 11, 2000 — The Competitive Enterprise Institute charged that fires like the one raging at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/11/2000

Washington, D.C., May 11, 2000 – In the same week the national laboratories at Los Alamos were evacuated due to out-of-control wildfire on government…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 05/01/2000

May 1, 2000 — Ah, how the time flies. It’s been 30 years since Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and company sponsored the first Earth…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/26/2000

Washington, DC, April 26 – “Congress scored only a limited victory for public safety by ensuring that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 04/21/2000

Washington, DC, April 21, 2000 – There will be a lot to celebrate tomorrow when millions of people around the world gather on the 30th…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 04/06/2000

Washington, D.C., April 6, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today accused the U.S. Public Interest Research Group of misleading the American public about…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/27/2000

The gloves come off April 7. That’s when Ron Bailey, adjunct scholar at CEI and the editor of Earth Report 2000, squares off…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/24/2000

Debate: Should The Kyoto Protocol Be Ratified? *** MEDIA ADVISORY*** CEI Scholar…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/21/2000

 *** MEDIA ADVISORY*** The Cooler Heads Coalition Invites you to A Global Warming…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/19/2000

Washington, DC, March 20, 2000 – In January 1993, the Competitive Enterprise Institute warned the Environmental Protection Agency that the plan to increase the…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 03/16/2000

“Higher taxes on fossil fuels…is one of the logical first steps in changing our policies in a manner consistent with a more responsible approach…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/09/2000

Washington, DC, March 10, 2000 – “The Norwegian Parliament’s decision yesterday to proceed with natural gas-fired power plants is a major setback for the…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 03/05/2000

Washington, DC, March 6, 2000 – Environmental journalist Ronald Bailey proved Al Gore and his radical Green friends wrong today with his new article…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 02/28/2000

Washington, D.C., February 29, 2000 – “The Pew Center on Global Climate Change continued their mythmaking campaign today with the release of their latest…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 02/27/2000

Washington, DC, February 28, 2000 – The U.S. Global Change Research Program is holding a public seminar today on Capitol Hill, “Climate Change in…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/27/2000

Washington DC, February 28, 2000 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute today accused Physicians for Social Responsibility of releasing a misleading and politically motivated report…

Climate

• CEI Staff
• 02/13/2000

Washington, DC, February 14, 2000 – “According to the League of Conservation Voters’ (LCV) Congressional Scorecard, most Americans are ‘anti-environmental,’” said Angela Logomasini, Director of…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 02/02/2000

Washington DC, February 3, 2000 – Today the Clinton-Gore Administration has proposed adding billions of dollars to that already wasted on failed energy and…

Energy and Environment

• CEI Staff
• 01/24/2000

Washington, DC, January 25, 2000 – Over the weekend, local weathermen predicted that the East Coast, and probably Washington, DC, would be hit by…

Climate