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EPA’s Scientific Integrity Policy is unscientific, lacks integrity

  • By: James Broughel
  • 02/27/2024

The Environmental Protection Agency recently released a draft update to its “Scientific Integrity Policy,” which aims to ensure the agency’s science-based decisions and…

Energy and Environment

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What ails the working class?

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 02/26/2024

Late last month I was privileged to be asked to speak at a Heritage Foundation event on the subject of the continuing travails of…

Labor and Employment

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NLRB ruling on college athletes may foul foreign players

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/26/2024

Nothing produces untended consequences like government action, and no one can say that the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) isn’t producing its fare share. The…

Labor and Employment

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Worried about massive federal debt? Time to right-size the regulators

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/26/2024

In the annals of federal bloat, a milestone is looming as noted in another post last week: 2024 interest payments on America’s $34 trillion…

Deregulation

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Space debris and dried prunes

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/26/2024

The privately-built Odysseus spacecraft became the first American moon lander since 1972. President Biden announced new Russian sanctions in response to opposition leader Aleksey Navalny’s…

Food and Beverage Regulation

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I’ve got your ‘common good’ right here

  • By: Iain Murray
  • 02/23/2024

As a classical liberal, I believe in the value of free markets and individual liberty, but as a Freedom Conservative, I also feel that…

Deregulation

Blog

Amazon primal: Retailer calls NLRB unconstitutional

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/22/2024

Amazon has joined the growing chorus of businesses declaring that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) may be unconstitutional. Along with SpaceX and Trader Joe’s,…

Labor and Employment

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Free the Economy podcast: Federal tech with Deb Collier

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/22/2024

In this week’s episode we cover the future of environmental policy, rare earth minerals in Wyoming, and what we can learn from…

Eye on FTC

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Trade is a tool for American national security

  • By: Mitchell Thornton
  • 02/21/2024

Free trade policies have recently come under attack on national security grounds. One of the attackers is Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). His argument does…

Trade and International

Blog

New student loan proposal is regressive, politicized, and won’t stop rising prices

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/21/2024

President Biden this week unveiled a new student debt relief proposal. It would cancel student debt for up to 153,000 people who incurred $12,000…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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NLRB v. EEOC: Damned if you fire, damned If you don’t

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/21/2024

The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) aggressive new enforcement stance is creating a terrible bind for some businesses: if they try to avoiding penalties from…

Labor and Employment

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Today’s federal spending makes the Louisiana Purchase look like pocket change

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/21/2024

The week of Presidents’ Day 2024 comes at a lull before contentious budget battles resume in early March. It is thus an opportune moment…

Business and Government

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Cooking energy and steel plants

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/20/2024

The Federal Register had a 3,000-page week, roughly double its usual tally. It also topped 10,000 pages on the year, landing at 12,741 pages, and…

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George Washington’s marvelous list of liberties and grievances

  • By: John Berlau
  • 02/16/2024

On the federal holiday on Monday and on his real birthday on Thursday, February 22, we celebrate the 292nd birthday of our nation’s first president,…

Human Achievement Hour

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Off-the-rails FTC wrong answer for keeping kids safe online

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/16/2024

This week the Washington Post reported that the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is poised to pass the Senate, but faces hurdles in…

Eye on FTC

Blog

Time to simplify trade agreements

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/16/2024

Over at National Review’s Capital Matters site, Kent Lassman and I make the case that trade agreements should stick to trade. We also argue…

Trade and International

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Red tape? More like chains, thanks to deficit spending and subsidies

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/15/2024

Federal subsidies and grants are infamous for having strings attached. That’s nothing new, but those strings are increasingly chains. Businesses are being seduced into corporate…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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Free the Economy podcast: Federalism wins with Patrick Gleason

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/15/2024

In this week’s episode we cover President Biden’s attack on shrinkflation, barriers to workplace flexibility, and a motherlode of domestic lithium.

Business and Government

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Major asset managers drop climate activism

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/15/2024

It’s all over the business news headlines this morning: Major money managers are exiting an international alliance focused on influencing climate change policy and reducing…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

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CEI’s The Surge: Biden admin particulate matter rule, GOP carbon tax support, and more

  • By: Daren Bakst, Patricia Patnode
  • 02/15/2024

If you are interested in analysis and perspective on current energy and environmental issues, then we encourage you to subscribe to this new publication…

Energy and Environment

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Biden liquefied natural gas export ‘pause’ hurts Americans and our allies

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 02/14/2024

The Biden administration recently announced plans to pause approvals for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to countries in which the United States doesn’t…

Trade and International

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The GOP is souring on free trade

  • By: Mitchell Thornton
  • 02/12/2024

It is no secret that the median voter is either unaware or doesn’t care how most policies actually work, from immigration to health care policy.

Trade and International

Blog

Adam Smith, national ruin, and human progress

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/12/2024

During the American Revolution, British Member of Parliament John Sinclair wrote a letter to Adam Smith. He was worried about how badly the war was…

Human Achievement Hour

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This week in ridiculous regulations: Horseracing and postal products

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/12/2024

The Supreme Court heard a case about whether Donald Trump should be disqualified from holding public office under the Fourteenth Amendment. A lawyer’s memo called…

Financial Regulation

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Energy and Environment Regulatory Tracker: EV mandates, EPA confuses science and policy, and more!

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 02/09/2024

Keeping track of the most important energy and environmental federal rules can be difficult. The following lists some important proposed rules with open comment periods: …

Automobiles and Roads

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Regulatory reform in the 118th Congress: The POST IT Act

  • By: Narupat Rattanakit
  • 02/09/2024

When navigating federal regulations, small businesses frequently encounter challenges in understanding and adhering to them. This lack of clarity poses significant hurdles for both new…

Government Transparency

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FTC commissioner wants to regulate worker misclassification, decries ‘unfair competition’

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/08/2024

Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya has announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will get into the business of enforcing labor law. That was the…

Eye on FTC

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Free the Economy podcast: Understanding AI with Matthew Mittelsteadt

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/08/2024

In this week’s episode we cover Elon Musk’s controversial pay package, protecting children online, and the Biden administration’s slamming the breaks…

Innovation

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The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: A slush fund for the EPA and favored nonprofits

  • By: Daren Bakst, Jacob Tomasulo
  • 02/08/2024

President Joe Biden signed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law on August 16, 2022. The bill, enacted on a purely partisan basis,…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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Congress takes on anti-consumer furnace regulation

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/07/2024

CEI suggested five bad appliance regulations Congress should reject with the Congressional Review Act last November. Now, Congress has taken up the first target…

Consumer Choice

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‘Right to repair’ advocates likely to fail at the FTC

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 02/07/2024

CEI submitted comments on a 53-page petition for rulemaking last week that asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate rules “to protect consumer’s…

Eye on FTC

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New CEI paper: Toward a US-Swiss Free Trade Agreement

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/07/2024

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have gotten so large and unwieldy that they are almost impossible to pass. The result is lost economic opportunities for America…

Trade and International

Blog

Biden admin’s particulate matter rule: premature, rejects sound science, will hurt American families

  • By: Daren Bakst
  • 02/07/2024

Only six months ago, the Biden administration rightfully declined to revise the ozone standards in part because it wanted to be able to consider…

Water and Air Quality

Blog

Proof of the PROVE IT Act’s carbon tax agenda

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 02/07/2024

A recent post explains how S. 1863, the PROVE IT Act, could empower narrow partisan majorities to enact carbon tariffs and taxes in…

Trade and International

Blog

Trump proposes 60 percent China tariff

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/07/2024

Donald Trump recently pledged to enact a 60 percent tariff against China if he becomes president again. His latest comments indicate, “Maybe it’s going…

Trade and International

Blog

Attention regulators: Be on the lookout for the ALERT Act

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/06/2024

It has been almost a quarter-century since the federal government performed an assessment of the aggregate costs of regulation of regulatory intervention. Late last year,…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Charlotte-area police departments are rolling in forfeiture funds

  • By: Dan Greenberg
  • 02/06/2024

I’ve always loved William Blake’s poem “Auguries of Innocence,” which begins by asking the reader “To see a World in a Grain of Sand.”…

Property Rights

Blog

Federal courts to the rescue on bad appliance regulations?

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 02/05/2024

The US Supreme Court recently heard a case that could impact how much deference judges give to regulatory agencies. To be certain, any relief…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Energy labels and human food guidance

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/05/2024

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady. Employment grew by 353,000 workers in January. The Energy Department partially backed off its proposed…

Food and Beverage Regulation

Blog

The good and bad of Nippon Steel deal

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 02/02/2024

There is good and bad in everything. This includes Nippon Steel’s planned buyup of US Steel, which politicians from both parties are criticizing. The good…

Trade and International

Blog

CEI’s The Surge: Carbon tariffs, Natural Asset Companies, and weird emissions math

  • By: Daren Bakst, Patricia Patnode
  • 02/01/2024

If you are interested in analysis and perspective on current energy and environmental issues, then we encourage you to subscribe to this new publication…

Energy

Blog

Businesses ask courts if the NLRB is constitutional

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/01/2024

The National Labor Relations Board has made a point in recent years of re-examining the laws and regulations that the federal agency enforces, offering up…

Law and Litigation

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Moving the rocks off the lawn with Andrew Langer

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 02/01/2024

In this week’s episode we cover elite opinion versus the average American, the popularity of vocational training, why Millennials are suddenly investing…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

The full Scope of problems with the SEC’s climate disclosure rule

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 01/31/2024

I have a paper out today, examining the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed rule on mandatory climate disclosures. The SEC’s rule seeks…

Financial Regulation

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Burning trash and methane emissions

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/30/2024

GDP grew at a healthy 3.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2023. Regulators blocked an airline merger, and a carbon tariff moved…

Financial Regulation

Blog

During government shutdowns, Lina Khan shuts down you

  • By: Alex Reinauer
  • 01/30/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) updated its contingency plan for how it will operate if Congress fails to fund the government last week. Likely the…

Eye on FTC

Blog

CFPB Data Breach Shows Danger of its Attempted Power Grab Over Fintech

  • By: John Berlau
  • 01/29/2024

My friend Patrick Brenner, president of regional free-market think tank the Southwest Public Policy Institute, recently had a great op-ed at FoxNews.com on data…

Banking and Finance

Blog

Free the Economy Episode: Sensory Pleasures and Public Health with Michelle Minton

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/25/2024

In this week’s episode we cover an environmentalist culture war, foreign investment in U.S. manufacturing, corporate diversity efforts, and the call…

Capitalism

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Vote on Capito amendment unmasks PROVE IT as carbon tax enabler

  • By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
  • 01/25/2024

Last week, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee approved the PROVE IT Act (S. 1863) by a vote of 14 to 5.

Energy and Environment

Blog

Crushed:  The Weight of Heavy Regulation on Broadband

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 01/25/2024

In the NFL, it’s a penalty for a defensive lineman sacking a quarterback to land on the quarterback with his full body weight.  The NFL…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

The Ray Charles Theory of Marginal Utility

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/25/2024

Musician Ray Charles’ nickname was “The Genius,” given on account of his ability to blend different genres of music – big band, rhythm and blues,…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

The Natural Asset Hydra

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 01/25/2024

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) recently proposed a radical rule to amend its manual for listing public companies to include a new form…

Capitalism

Blog

Use the Congressional Review Act to strike rules not reported to Congress and GAO

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/22/2024

Significant attention is likely to turn to Joe Biden’s ambitious regulatory agenda before summertime.  That’s because rules the administration finalizes “late”—during the last 60 in-session…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Study Finds that Outlawing Work Reduces Employment

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/22/2024

George Mason’s Mercatus Center has provided further proof that California’s AB5 law, which was intended to boost worker employment by preventing them from being misclassified…

Labor and Employment

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: address labels and consumer reviews

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/22/2024

Yet another federal shutdown crisis was averted, this time until March. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee marked up the PROVE It Act,…

Deregulation

Blog

Virginia Senate Democrats block repeal of EV mandate

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 01/21/2024

Democrats on a Virginia state Senate committee voted down Republican attempts to roll back the state’s vehicle emissions law on Tuesday. The law, passed…

Automobiles and Roads

Blog

Nuclear phaseouts strike again

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 01/21/2024

While there has been some good news in the US recently on nuclear power issues, including a partial removal of the Illinois nuclear ban, the…

Energy

Blog

Flight attendants try to decertify union that most never voted for

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/19/2024

One of the underlying flaws with US labor law is that it sees workers and the unions that represent them as synonymous, rather than as…

Private Unions

Blog

The threat to sound economics isn’t over

  • By: James Broughel
  • 01/18/2024

This week, the New York Stock Exchange withdrew its proposal to create a new designation for public companies called Natural Asset Companies, or NACs.

Financial Regulation

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: The culture of economic freedom with Sam Gregg

  • 01/18/2024

In this week’s episode we cover the old-fashioned roots of ESG investing, the blocked merger of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, the future…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Independent contractors and emergency haddock action

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/16/2024

Happy MLK-government snow shutdown days, everyone. There was more shutdown drama last week. The US launched strikes against the Houthis, one of three factions trying…

Business and Government

Blog

Congressional Review Act vote shows cracks in joint employer rule

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/12/2024

A vote in Congress Friday showed off the cracks in the support for the National Labor Relations Board’s new “joint employer” rule. It is…

Labor and Employment

Blog

When the FTC’s anti-merger goals overshadow the prospect of saving lives

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 01/12/2024

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued a ruling on the important case of Illumina-Grail v. Federal Trade Commission. A unanimous 3-0…

Eye on FTC

Blog

Policy hurdles to natural gas delivery pose winter danger for Americans

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 01/12/2024

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) just released its 2023-24 Winter Reliability Assessment and it has concerning implications for the winter ahead.  The report highlighted many…

Energy

Blog

The FCC snares broadband in web of regulation

  • By: Brian A. Rankin
  • 01/11/2024

In the children’s book Walter’s Wonderful Web, a determined spider builds webs that are too “wibbly-wobbly” to withstand the wind but perseveres until he constructs…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Against crony capitalism with Nick Sorrentino

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/11/2024

In this week’s episode we cover emergency federal spending, workplace management trends for 2024, suppressing speech about public health, and defending…

Subsidies and Bailouts

Blog

A promising 40th anniversary year for CEI

  • By: CEI Staff
  • 01/11/2024

This year CEI celebrates 40 years of eliminating excessive regulation and unleashing human potential. To kick off our anniversary year, we unveiled a new logo…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Blog

Appeals court rejects DOE’s attempt to eliminate fast dishwashers

  • By: Devin Watkins
  • 01/10/2024

The days of dishwashers with four-hour cleaning cycles may be coming to an end. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals repudiated the Biden administration’s…

CEI Litigation

Blog

Congress could revoke many costly Biden admin rules with Congressional Review Act. Here’s a list!

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/10/2024

Until April of 2023, a federal rule costing $100 million was considered “economically significant.” Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14094 (Modernizing Regulatory Review) raised that…

Deregulation

Blog

Power to the… regulators? That’s what new worker classification rule will do

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/09/2024

The US Labor Department’s new worker classification rule is a major step backwards, causing trouble for worker and employer alike as they try to…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Don’t make crypto the electricity scapegoat

  • By: Ari Patinkin, James Broughel, John Berlau
  • 01/09/2024

A radical new tax proposed by the Biden administration would make cryptocurrency mining the scapegoat for electricity usage. The so-called Digital Asset Mining Energy (DAME)…

Fintech

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Auto dealers and automated tariffs

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/08/2024

The first week of the new year’s regulations is in the books. Agencies issued new regulations ranging from junk fees to cable tv competition.  On…

Financial Regulation

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Free the Economy podcast: Protecting your property rights with Betsy Sanz

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 01/04/2024

In this week’s episode we cover slow-moving infrastructure projects, the impact of the conservative boycott of Bud Light, good and…

Property Rights

Blog

Unconstitutionality Index going into 2024: 46 rules for every law

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/03/2024

The Biden’s administration’s 3,018 rules and regulations of 2023 is fairly typical of agency output these days. But while rule counts remain relatively stable,…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: 2023 year-end special

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 01/02/2024

The tentative final numbers for new regulations for 2023 are in: The final four-day week of 2023 was relatively slow: 60 final regulations, 34 proposed…

Financial Regulation

Blog

Federal Register 2023 gives Congress 90,402 reasons to restrain the regulators

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/29/2023

As we bid farewell to 2023 and ring in 2024, the Federal Register reveals a noteworthy chapter in regulatory history under the Joe Biden administration.

Deregulation

Blog

Transparent New Year: SEC shows its work after CEI prodding

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 12/29/2023

As we enter the New Year, it is important to reflect on what went well and not so well in 2023. We should do our…

Business and Government

Blog

Liz Warren’s revolving door with Wall Street

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/28/2023

There was an interesting development in the world of big government and big business recently. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) declared that “The abuse of…

Business and Government

Blog

American small businesses are paying through the roof for regulations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/28/2023

In a new column at Forbes, I take look at the National Association of Manufacturers’ (NAM) update of its …

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Avoiding a Central Bank Digital Currency with Nicholas Anthony

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/28/2023

In this week’s episode we cover the legislative record of House of Representatives in 2023, the proliferation of conferences about ESG investing,…

Banking and Finance

Blog

No, we don’t want as many new laws as possible

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/27/2023

The New York Times recently published an article reviewing what happened in the House of Representatives over the past 12 months, and it gives…

Business and Government

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Oxides of nitrogen and approaching of whales

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/27/2023

Congress has adjourned until January, so the Republic is safe until then. The Fourteenth Amendment suddenly became a factor in the presidential race. Meanwhile,…

Financial Regulation

Blog

The existential threat AI poses to the Screen Actors Guild

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/22/2023

The Screen Actors Guild recently concluded a lengthy strike against Hollywood studios with a contract that included new protections for its members from artificial…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Even the University of California system has dropped carbon offsets

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/22/2023

MIT Technology Review just published an article on one of my perennial favorite topics, carbon offsets. According to senior editor James Temple, the University…

Business and Government

Blog

Dear California, just let the trains run

  • By: Patricia Patnode
  • 12/21/2023

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) in April approved regulations to ban the operation of diesel locomotives in California and the rule goes…

Rail and Mass Transit

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: (De-)regulating tech and AI with Adam Thierer

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/21/2023

In this week’s episode we cover social mobility in the 50 states, Elizabeth Warren’s revolving door with Wall Street, the latest…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

A steel sumo that might wrestle China to the mat

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/20/2023

There are ironies a-plenty in the news that Japan’s Nippon Steel Corp. plans to buy U.S. Steel. The fact that a foreign company would own…

Trade and International

Blog

New Liquefied Natural Gas ruling makes Jones Act even more unreasonable

  • By: Paige Lambermont
  • 12/18/2023

A new Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) decision will make compliance with the Jones Act even more onerous for natural gas producers. The…

Energy

Blog

FDA power grab would hurt labs, patients, rule of law

  • By: David S. McFadden
  • 12/18/2023

The Food and Drug Administration has proposed to amend one of its rules for the purpose of unlawfully expanding its jurisdiction over diagnostic tests.

Law and Litigation

Blog

Silver lining? New federal merger guidelines: 11 bad ideas instead of 13!

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 12/18/2023

Today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued their final version of the 2023 Merger Guidelines.

Eye on FTC

Blog

Should government-favored non-profits have their own shadow courts?

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 12/18/2023

Imagine being sued by a private nonprofit that is sanctioned by a federal agency to enforce securities laws. The nonprofit appoints its own judges and…

Business and Government

Blog

This week in ridiculous regulations: Baby formula waivers and phonorecords

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/18/2023

The 2023 Federal Register became the second-largest ever, dating back to 1936. A new CEI study makes the case for reforming administrative law…

Food and Beverage Regulation

Blog

CEI’s The Surge: COP28, House passes car legislation, and carbon taxes

  • By: Daren Bakst, Patricia Patnode
  • 12/15/2023

If you are interested in analysis and perspective on current energy and environmental issues, then we encourage you to subscribe to this new publication…

Energy and Environment

Blog

Defense bill amendment could help undo China’s unfair advantage in environmental treaties

  • By: Ben Lieberman
  • 12/15/2023

Congress is currently considering the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (NDAA), including a long list of amendments added to the bill.

Trade and International

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FTC replies to CEI in auto dealer rule, still full of hot, nitrogen-poor air

  • By: John Berlau
  • 12/14/2023

This week, the Federal Trade Commission issued its long-awaited, nearly-400 page nannyist final rule on auto and other motor vehicle dealers sales. The rule…

Eye on FTC

Blog

Obscuring the SEC’s climate disclosure rule may invite a host of legal problems

  • By: Stone Washington
  • 12/14/2023

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) pending climate disclosure rule has been delayed yet again. The climate disclosure rule will require publicly traded companies to quantify…

Financial Regulation

Blog

Common sense has left the building: The push to redefine joint employer rule

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/14/2023

The National Labor Relations Board did something earlier this year that union leaders and their allies on Capitol Hill have long demanded: It expanded…

Labor and Employment

Blog

Free the Economy podcast: Making Congress work with Kevin Kosar

  • By: Richard Morrison
  • 12/14/2023

In this week’s episode we cover people who fetishize old homes, the big AI risk no one’s talking about, how environmentalist activists…

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America’s unfair second court system

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/14/2023

Stone Washington and I have a paper out today on reforming administrative law courts, or ALCs. We also summarize our findings over at National…

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Federal Reserve to cut interest rates next year?

  • By: Ryan Young
  • 12/13/2023

As expected, the Federal Reserve kept the federal funds rate the same this week, which influences other interest rates, including car and mortgage payments. The…

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