CEI Staff Competitive Enterprise Institute Blog Every fall, the leaves turn colors (in most parts of the country), those leaves (and temperatures) drop, and late October brings a celebration of the scary, the macabre, and the delicious. Kids and the kids-at-heart dress up in costume for Halloween with the goal of scaring a friend or [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer is preparing to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on a plan that would fast-track the elimination of nearly every gas-powered vehicle in the country. The Senate’s top Democrat wants to spend a massive amount of money enticing Americans to exchange their gas-guzzling vehicles [...]
by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com For the first time, The Weather Channel is getting directly involved in a political campaign – and some see it clearly as a move away from its mission. The Weather Channel is planning a special next month that will include recorded interviews with presidential candidates on the topic of "man-made climate [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing on Townhall.com While some have suggested that Mayor Pete Buttigieg “won” this week’s Democrat presidential debate, there is no question who, or rather what, was the loser. CNN and New York Times reporters did not ask any candidate any question about climate change and its offspring, the [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in Breitbart Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s former chief of staff recently revealed that the Green New Deal “wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” That possibly explains the weird similarity between it and the constitution ushered in by [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Signal I’m old enough to remember when businesses fought overregulation because it was bad for their bottom lines. That has changed. Now, overregulation is a profit center. There is no better example of this than the ongoing effort to stop the Trump administration from rolling [...]
by Blake Dodge Newsweek With the Nobel Peace Prize becoming more political in the last decade, many were wondering what message the selection committee wanted to send this year. Choosing Reports Without Borders would have bolstered independent journalism in the age of "fake news," while awarding young activists in Hong Kong could have signaled the [...]
E&E Legal Files Supplement to August Petition Now Asking SEC to Address Amazon's False and Misleading Climate Change Statements For Immediate Release: October 3, 2019 Contact: Info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a supplement to it's August 13 petition to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXIV Summer. Click headlines for the full article. E&E Legal Petitions SEC To Investigate False & Misleading Climate Change Statements On August 13, E&E Legal petitioned U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to take action to prevent and prohibit registrants from making [...]
by Craig Richardson, President As the media-created "phenom" Greta Thunberg neared the shores of New York in her yacht to deliver more hot air about how the world's going to hell in a hand-basket, E&E Legal's Steve Milloy and CEI's Myron Ebell released a report reminding people that catastrophic weather predictions are nothing new. Titled, [...]
