Myron Ebell

Ebell ranked in top 10 of most-respected global warming skeptics

by Gary Howard on July 31, 2009

in Environment, Global Warming, Odds & Ends

CEI Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy, Myron Ebell, has been ranked number three on Business Insider’s “The 10 Most Respected Global Warming Skeptics.”  See an excerpt below.

Myron Ebell may be enemy #1 to the current climate change community. Ebell works for the free-market thinktank Competitive Enterprise Institute and, according to his own bio, has been called a climate “criminal” and a leading pusher of misleading ideas.

CEI Praises California Oil Drilling and No-New-Tax Budget Compromise

by Gary Howard on July 21, 2009

in Economy, Environment, Global Warming

But State Still In Trouble With Global Warming Law

WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2009 – Top California lawmakers have included a plan for expanding oil drilling off the Southern California coast, as part of a budget compromise aimed at closing the state’s $26 billion shortfall.  The move drew praise from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
“State Republican legislators, led by Senate Minority Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, are to be commended for forcing Republican Governor Schwarzenegger and the Democratic majority in the legislature to accept a budget deal that includes no tax increases, significant budget cuts, and new offshore oil and gas production,” said Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Ebell, however, also warned that drilling won’t be enough to save the state.  “California’s budget agreement will not bail out California’s economy, but it won’t contribute to further decline.  California must repeal the state’s economically catastrophic global warming legislation.”
The state in 2006 passed legislation requiring carbon dioxide emissions reductions by 25 percent cut mandated by 2020.  The cost of the global warming legislation, according to a new study, will be enormous – over 1 million jobs.
Under the governor’s plan, the state would allow drilling off the Santa Barbara coast, estimated to generate some $1.8 billion in revenue over time. It would reportedly be the state’s first new offshore oil project in four decades.
> Read more on global warming and energy policy at Globalwarming.org.

LibertyWeek 35: Dodd Man Out?

by Richard Morrison on March 24, 2009

in CEI Projects, Podcast

Your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist welcome back special guest co-host Michelle Minton for Episode 35 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We begin with a celebration of human achievement and a peek into the realm of secret government documents. We then investigate how the White House is going to waste another $1 trillion of your money and how the British beer tax has managed to kill off 20,000 jobs. Finally we focus on the history of the scandal-addled Sen. Dodd of Connecticut and the future of U.S. Olympic glory.

BONUS BOOK FEATURE: We congratulate our good friend Steve Milloy on the publication of his new book, Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them. The book is a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive takedown of the entire environmental movement that will open your eyes to a looming threat to our economy, our civil liberties, and the entire American way of life.

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