CEI Blog Post On July 2, CEI published a coalition letter it coordinated and sent President Donald Trump urging his Administration to Reject the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. The letter began: The undersigned free market, conservative, consumer, and sound science organizations urge you to reject the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. This [...]
by Marlo Lewis Competitive Enterprise Institute E&E Legal joined the joint comment letter Public policy analysts from 20 free-market organizations, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, today filed a joint comment letter in support of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s proposal to repeal the Obama administration’s so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP). “We strongly support repeal of the [...]
Today, E&E Legal joined the Heartland Institute and numerous other free market groups on letter to President Trump in support of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Administrator Pruitt is the target of a well-orchestrated smear campaign by leftwing groups and individuals unhappy with his effectiveness at eliminating economy and job killing regulations that do nothing [...]
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI ) filed suit against the United States Department of State, keying off of a damning email obtained previously by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), to force this agency that is still stonewalling about the Paris climate treaty to release documents about how the Obama [...]
by Jim Stinson PoliZette The White House canceled a second internal meeting Tuesday on the controversial Paris climate agreement. The cancellation is likely a sign Trump is still conflicted about whether to deliver on his campaign promise to withdraw the U.S. from the bargain or to listen to advisers urging him to spare the deal... Attorney Christopher C. [...]
by Kathryn Blackhurst PoliZette Forty self-described free-market organizations called on President Donald Trump, in a letter released Monday, to keep his campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Reports surfaced in April that Trump’s more politically moderate advisers were advocating the White House keep the nation committed to the Obama-era [...]
Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and forty other free-market and liberty organizations sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump enthusiastically supporting his campaign pledge to"withdraw fully from the Paris Climate Treaty and to stop all taxpayer funding of UN global warming programs." CEI ran an ad recently [...]
For Immediate Release: February 10, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-785-8301 U.S. Supreme Court Stays Obama Clean Power Plan; E&E Legal Part of Coalition Seeking Stay Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay halting enforcement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) recent efforts to shut down coal-fired power plants in the United States. The rule, [...]
by Chris Prandoni, Americans for Tax Reform As Appearing in Forbes Last year, the Obama Administration proposed the Clean Power Plan (CPP), an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that would reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent. A necessary result of these carbon reductions is increased electricity costs and reduced grid reliability as coal plants are [...]
by Alexander Hendrie & Chris Prandoni Americans for Tax Reform Americans for Tax Reform today released a coalition letter signed by 32 nationwide conservative or free-market organizations supporting Sen. Mitch McConnell’s work with states to contest the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP). Last June the EPA proposed the legally precarious CPP that [...]
