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Comment Letter in Support of Renewable Fuel Standard Waiver Petitions
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit public policy group specializing in regulatory issues,…
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Comments on National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
Full Document Available in PDF 1. A Secondary NAAQS for Visibility Either Conflates or Conflicts with the Regional Haze Program; If the…
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Testimony on The 10th Anniversary of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act
John Berlau testifies July 26, 2012 before a House Financial Services subcommittee on the topic of the 10th anniversary of Sarbanes-Oxley.
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Testimony on Examining Consumer Credit Access Concerns, New Products and Federal Regulations
CEI’s John Berlau testified before the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. Berlau explains why reducing unnecessary regulatory barriers will increase competition for…
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Testimony on “The Marketplace Equity Act of 2011”
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a non-profit public policy research organization dedicated to advancing individual liberty…
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Testimony on “Mandate Madness: When Sue and Settle Just Isn’t Enough”
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman Lankford, Ranking Member Connolly, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify before…
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Comment Letter on EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standard
CEI's Marlo Lewis' comments submitted to the EPA on the agency's proposed "Carbon Pollution Standard."…
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CEI’s CLIP Submits Comments Before the FCC on 700 MHz Interoperability
Full Document Available in PDF The Communications Liberty and Innovation Project submits these comments…
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Testimony on Reauthorization of Water Desalination Act of 2011
Full Document Available in PDF Separation of State and Water Water availability is a core infrastructure concern; today, that specific legislative…
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Reply Comments to FCC Re: Verizon Wireless Application to Acquire Spectrum Licenses
Full Document Available in PDF Executive Summary: The Federal Communications Commission should approve the applications of Verizon Wireless to acquire spectrum licenses…
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Testimony on Jobs Before House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade
Full Document Available in PDF Chairwoman Bono Mack, Ranking Member Butterfield, and members of thissubcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to present…
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Comment Letter on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Economy Standards
Full Document Available in PDF Re: 2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy…
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Comments Submitted to U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth
Full Document Available in PDF The path to economic growth and prosperity is not something readily planned from above but rather is…
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CEI Submits Comments to EPA Regarding the Agency’s Regional Haze Power Grab
Full Document Available in PDF The “Good Neighbor Provision” of the Clean Air Act requires that each State Implementation Plan…
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CEI Comments to FTC Regarding the Proposed Agreement with Phusion Projects, LLC
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute has…
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Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Regarding Food and Drug Administration and Food Safety Inspection Service Approaches to Reducing Sodium Consumption
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s and Food Safety Inspection Service’s Approaches to…
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Government Plans To Ban E-Cigarettes Opposed by Public Interest Groups
Full Document Available in PDF The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives and the Competitive Enterprise…
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CEI Comments to the Food and Drug Administration Regarding Medical Device Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments regarding…
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CEI Comments to the Food and Drug Administration Regarding PDUFA Reauthorization
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute appreciates the opportunity to submit these comments regarding…
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Marlo Lewis Testimony Before House Oversight & Government Reform Committee on CAFE Standards, EPA Power Grab
Full Document Available in PDF In the aftermath of a deal between the Obama administration…
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CEI Submits Supplemental Comments on SEC’s Proposed Conflict Minerals Rules
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has submitted supplemental comments regarding Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a provision that would…
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CEI Submits Comments on Conflict Minerals Rules of Dodd-Frank
The Competitive Enterprise has submitted comments regarding the implementation of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which attempts to…
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Testimony of William Yeatman Before House Water and Power Subcommittee
Full Document Available in PDF Chairman McClintock, Ranking Member Napolitano, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify before…
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Statement of Marlo Lewis On S. 388 Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, for the opportunity to submit testimony on S. 388, the Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure…
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Ben Lieberman Before the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs House Committee
Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of this subcommittee, and thank you for inviting me to testify. My name is Ben Lieberman and I am…
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Statement of Angela Logomasini Before the House Committee on Government Reform
Good Morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. I am Angela Logomasini, Director of Risk and Environmental…
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Comments to DOT in the matter of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), 67 Fed. Reg. 69366
Full Document Available in PDF…
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Request for comment on the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program,
On February 14, 2002, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with other department and agency heads, to propose improvements in the 1605(b)…
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Written Submission Of the Competitive Enterprise Institute Regarding the Telecom & High Tech Manufacturing Sector
Full Document Available in PDF Commerce Secretary…
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Comments Regarding the DoE’s Fiscal Year 2004 Priorities for Appliance Standards
Full Document Available in PDF Since its enactment in 1987, the…
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Complaint for Declarative Relief versus John Marburger
Full Document Available in PDF This is an action seeking to apply the Federal Data Quality…
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Specific Comments on Menendez Climate Change Amendment Findings
Finding (1) Evidence continues to build that increases in atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are contributing to global climate change. This statement is pure…
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Response to Citizen Petition Requesting Certain Prescription Allergy Medication be OTC
Commenters believe that the FDCA, read as an integrated whole, generally leaves the determination whether prescription drug or OTC drug labeling should be proposed for…
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Request for Correction of Information: Petition to Cease Dissemination of the National Assessment on Climate Change
Consistent with and following upon CEI’s 3 June 2002 “Comments on Commerce’s Proposed Data Quality Guidelines”, we request “correction” of NACC’s fatal data flaws which,…
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Comments on NOAA/USCCSP’s “Strategic Plan for the Climate Science Program”
CCSP’s document asserts “sound science” principles once presumed in endeavors such as this, though grossly abused in recent years, most egregiously in the “National Assessment…
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Petition to Cease Dissemination of the National Assessment on Climate Change
This document follows and incorporates by reference: 1) the information presented the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Comments Regarding the Constitutionality of FDA Treatment of Product Information
This request for comments represents a welcome departure from FDA’s prior treatment of First Amendment concerns in the context of product advertising, labeling, and promotions.
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Comments on the ATF Proposed Rule Regarding Health Claims in Labeling Alcohol Beverages
ATF’s notice of proposed rulemaking seeks to prohibit what it deems misleading statements about the health benefits of alcohol consumption from appearing on alcoholic beverage…
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Comments on Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulation
SUMMARY OF CEI COMMENTS: CEI’s comments cover the following four areas. Consumers’ Right to Know: CEI has long advocated the consumer’s “Regulatory Right to Know.”…
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Comments on Telemarketing Rulemaking Comment Before the FTC
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has several concerns about the FTC’s proposal to create a Do Not Call registry. Part I outlines existing Do Not Call…
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CEI Replies to the National Industrial Transportation League’s Petition for Rulemaking to Adopt Revised Competitive Switching Rules
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of…
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Comments on the EPA Proposed Response to Remand Regarding National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone
In 1999, the United States Court of Appeals struck down the new ozone NAAQS. Among other things, the Court faulted the agency for failing to…
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Comments on the EPA Proposed Response to Remand Regarding National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone
In 1999, the United States Court of Appeals struck down the new ozone NAAQS. Among other things, the Court faulted the agency for failing to…
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Echostar Communications Corporation and Hughes Electronics Corp.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. Since its beginning in…
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Russ Brown to Testify Before the NLRB
Full Document Available in PDF Russ Brown, Vice President at the Labor Relations Institute, will…
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CEI Comments to FTC Regarding the Proposed Nutritional Principles and Guidelines for Food Marketing to Children
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is non-profit organization…
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CEI Submits Comments on the Proposed Inspection System for Catfish
Full Document Available as a PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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CEI Submits Comments on the AT&T — T-Mobile Merger Before the Federal Communications Commission
Full Docmument Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute submits this reply comment regarding the…
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Official Time: Good Value for the Taxpayer?
Full Testimony Available as a PDF Watch Video of the Hearing Here Official time does not represent good value…
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CEI Replies to Consumers United for Rail Equity Before the Surface Transportation Board
Full Document Available as a PDF On behalf…
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Declaration of William Yeatman in Lawsuit against Colorado’s Renewable Electricity Standard
Today American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard, based upon evidence that…
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CEI Submits Supplemental Comments on Railroad Competition Before the Surface Transportation Board
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the…
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CEI Submits Comments on Railroad Competition Before the Surface Transportation Board
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
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CEI Led Regulatory Comment on Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing
VIA E-MAIL TRANSMISSION [email protected] February 22, 2011 Ms. Jennifer J. Johnson, Secretary Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 20th Street and Constitution Avenue,…
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CEI Submits Comments on Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Hours of Service
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
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Chris Horner’s Testimony to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on “Trade and Green Jobs”
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today is considering the idea of becoming a world leading exporter of politically selected technologies and blazing this…
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles
Full Document Available in PDF On behalf…
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CEI Submits Comments to FCC on Mobile Wireless Platforms and Specialized Services
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Joint-Statement Submitted to House and Senate Committees on Reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
The House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary held separate hearings on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) on September 22, 2010, and September 23,…
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Supplement to Complaint of Deceptive Advertising Against General Motors Company
Full Document Available in PDF After General Motors admitted in the news media that the…
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CEI Comments regarding FDA’s Draft Guidance on the Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals
Executive Summary The Competitive Enterprise Institute respectfully submits these comments on the agency’s Draft Guidance on The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial…
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CEI Comments to the FCC in the matter of Framework For Broadband Internet Service
Full Document Available in PDF Reclassifying the transmission component of…
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Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions in Sarbanes-Oxley Case
Full Document Available in PDF The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision soon in a major case involving…
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CEI Comments to the FCC on the “Future of Media” Inquiry
Full Document Available in PDF FCC’s “Future of Media” Campaign vs. Separation of Speech and State The Duty to Expand Communications Liberty…
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CEI’s FTC Complaint Against General Motors Over Bailout ad
Full Document Available in PDF CEI today accused GM of deceptively advertising that it had repaid its government bailout. In a formal complaint…
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CEI Comments on EPA Biopesticides Registration for Biotech Plum
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) appreciates…
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The Future of Manufacturing
What is the Role of the Federal Government in Supporting Innovation by U.S. Manufacturers?…
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Late-Breaking Events Trigger New Call for EPA to Reconsider its Global Warming Decision
In two separate filings Tuesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute challenged massive energy regulations forthcoming from the Environmental Protection Agency. The actions come in the…
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Net Neutrality Comment to the FCC: Net Neutrality vs “BandWealth”
Full Document Available in PDF On Thursday, October 22, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
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Response to the Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule
Full Document Available in PDF In…
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Amended Petition to the EPA on the Proposed Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases
On October 5, CEI petitioned EPA to reopen its Endangerment Proceeding because of a disclosure by the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU)…
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Marlo Lewis Comment on EPA’s Proposed Greenhouse Gas Motor Vehicle Standards
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Submitted Testimony of Christopher C. Horner to the House Select Comittee on Energy Independence on “Astroturfing”
Mr. Chairman, thank you for inviting me to testify today, and I would like to thank the Members of this Committee for allowing me to…
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Petition to the Environmental Protection Agency to Reopen the Proceeding on Proposed Endangerment for Greenhouse Gases
Petition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute To Reopen This Proceeding on the Basis of New Evidence Concerning the Destruction of Data, and To Reopen the…
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Notice of Appeal – FOIA Request – Communications Regarding “Cap-and-Trade”
Excerpt Listed Below Full Appeal Available in PDF …
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Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act
Full Document Available in PDF For all of the reasons cited in the comments, we object to EPA…
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Comments on the FDA’s Draft Guidance for Industry, Presenting Risk Information In Prescription Drug and Medical Device Promotion
In comments on an FDA draft guidance document for drug industry advertising, CEI challenged the agency to bring its “1960s approach to prescription drug advertising…
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Letter to Securities and Exchange Commission: Reforming Shareholder Director Nominations
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to submit comments on the proposed rule governing shareholder nominations of corporate directors on behalf of the…
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Comments on the Federal Communications Commission Report ‘A National Broadband Plan for our Future’
The Commission’s record of alleged “regulatory restraint” toward the telecommunications sector over the past 13 years has come under fire by a number of commenters…
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Comments on “Charting the Course for Ocean Science” submitted to the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Re: Update of Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States for the Next Decade: An Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy…
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Proposed NCEE Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emisions
Full EPA study available in PDF. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has charged that a senior official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency actively suppressed…
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Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on Proposed Endangerment Finding
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit, free-market public policy organization, hereby submits these…
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Letter to Governor Charlie Crist Regarding HB 1171 “The ‘Consumer Choice’ Bill”
Dear Governor Crist: I am writing to strongly encourage you to sign HB 1171 into law. This bill, rightfully dubbed the “consumer…
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Comment on Endangerment Proposal
CEI advises EPA not to adopt Endangerment Proposal…
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CEI Comments on National Broadband Plan for Our Future
Full Document Available in PDF The Federal Communications Commission faces one of the most significant undertakings in its history with the…
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CEI Comments on Draft FDA Risk-Benefit Assessment of Fish Consumption
CEI applauds the FDA's even-handed approach.
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Testimony before the Committee on Energy and Commerce on the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act
Full Document Available in PDF Introduction: Chairman Waxman, Chairman Markey, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting…
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CEI Comment on EPA’s Reconsideration of California’s Request for a Waiver to Establish Emission Standards for new Motor Vehicles
Full Document Available in PDF EPA should stick…
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Comments on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act
CEI’s Christopher C. Horner filed this comment urging EPA not to make an endangerment finding with respect to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new motor…
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Free market groups submit a joint comment on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act
CEI’s Marlo Lewis and representatives of 28 other free market and conservative organizations filed this joint comment urging EPA not to make an endangerment finding with…
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Comments on EPA’s ANPR on Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act
In this comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA),…
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Testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act
My name is Marlo Lewis. I am a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market, non-profit public policy group. I have been active…
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Comments to The Property and Casualty Insurance© Committee
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Comments before the National Conference of Insurance Legislators on the Geller/Keiser Resolution
Comments before the National Conference of Insurance Legislators Geller/Keiser Resolution As Prepared for Delivery July10, 2008 New York, New York Eli Lehrer Senior Fellow,…
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Testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on the Privacy Implications of Online Advertising
Privacy dilemmas are inevitable on the frontiers of an evolving information era, but CEI maintains that competitive approaches to online privacy and security will be…
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Testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Introduction Chairman Markey, Chairman Eshoo, Ranking Member Sensenbrenner, Ranking Member Issa, and Committee Members: Thank you for the opportunity to share my views on global…
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Comments Submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on Broadcast Localism
CEI Recommends Liberalizing Broadcast Industry…
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Comments to National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Emptying the insurance policy shelves: Why price controls are a bad idea even in insurance markets.
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Brief of Amici Curiae In the Matter of Deseret Power Electric Cooperative
Before the Environmental Appeals Board United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC In the matter of:…
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