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CEI Podcast — October 14, 2010: Antitrust Follies and Regulatory Reform

by Ryan Young on October 14, 2010

in Deregulate to Stimulate, Economy, Podcast, Regulation

Have a listen here.

CEI Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews talks about why antitrust actually hurts competition, and offers some ideas for regulatory reform based on his recent articles for BigGovernment.com and The Washington Times, and on his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report.

Congratulations Sam Dealey

by Fred Smith on February 2, 2010

in Odds & Ends

I would like to congratulate Sam Dealey in his appointment as The Washington Times‘ new editor. An innovative, hard-working journalist, Sam has never shied away from going where he needed to get a story – from Afghanistan to Sudan.

Sam’s work has maintained a high standard across several major media outlets – from Time to the PBS “News Hour” to U.S. News & World Report. I expect that he will bring the same level of excellence to his new charge at the Times. I wish him the best, and look forward for CEI to act as a resource for Sam and the paper he will now be leading.

LibertyWeek 62: Soak the Rich, Reap the Wind

by Richard Morrison on September 28, 2009

in CEI Projects, Features, Podcast, Zeitgeist

Your host Richard Morrison welcomes returning guest co-host Jeremy Lott of the Capital Research Center and technical producer Ryan Young as special guest commentator for Episode 62 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We start with the semi-proposed allegedly not-a-bailout of the newspaper industry, Steven Chu’s condescending views on energy policy and Google’s copyright troubles in France. We then look at the what soaking the rich has done to New York’s finances, Obama’s presence at the UN and a good old fashioned Washington, D.C. corruption scandal.

EPA Whistleblower’s Office May Get Shut Down

by Gary Howard on August 26, 2009

in Environment, Global Warming, Politics as Usual

Following a whistleblower report that criticized a global warming rule, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly considering shutting down the agency office in which the critical report originated.  Dr. Alan Carlin, the senior analyst whose report EPA unsuccessfully tried to bury, worked in EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE).  According to a story in last Friday’s Inside EPA, the agency is now considering shutting that office down.
The Washington Times ran an editorial yesterday, critical of the potential shut down of the internal review office by the EPA.
In June, the Competitive Enterprise Institute made waves by releasing internal e-mails from the Environmental Protection Agency. In those messages, a top administrator told a key researcher that the researcher’s new report would not be released. Why? Because it does “not help the legal or policy case” for a controversial decision to treat global warming as a health hazard. In short, because researcher Alan Carlin’s conclusions differed from the administration’s political agenda, his research was ignored.
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman appeared on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show yesterday to talk about the scandal, and the EPA’s plans to shutter the office that produced the controversial report.  Kazman reiterated what he said in a statement on Monday about the issue:
“Economists are the most likely professionals within EPA to examine the real-world effects of its policies,” said Kazman.  “For this reason, the NCEE is a restraining force on the agency’s out-of-this-world regulatory ambitions.  EPA would love to get that office out of the way, especially since it has within it civil servants like Dr. Carlin, who are willing to expose the truth about EPA’s plan to restrict energy use in the name of global warming.”
Blogger Michelle Malkin also takes the EPA to task for the move:

Over the past two months, I’ve chronicled the plight of EPA whistleblower Alan Carlin at the hands of Team Obama’s dissent-stiflers.  My friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute first blew the lid on the story and continue to monitor the war on EPA watchdogs.  The latest development? EPA may get rid of a key internal review office that has provided too many inconvenient truths

Stay tuned for more developments in this story.

LibertyWeek 57: The Scandal That Wouldn’t Die

by Richard Morrison on August 24, 2009

in CEI Projects, Podcast, Zeitgeist

Your host Richard Morrison welcomes back guest co-hosts William Yeatman and the Capital Research Center’s Jeremy Lott for Episode 57 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We start with Blue Dogs and health care legislation, cash for clunkers running on fumes, and AT&T’s response to an iPhone controversy. We continue on with the scandal that wouldn’t die and the architectural historian’s version of Olympic News.

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Smith in Washington Times: ‘Cap and Traitors’

by Gary Howard on July 13, 2009

in Environment, Global Warming, Politics as Usual

CEI President Fred Smith talks about the recent passage of climate legislation in Congress.  Read it here.