CEI Weekly: EPA Administrator Resigns

December 28, 2012

Feature: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced her resignation this week.

FEATURE: EPA Administrator Resigns EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced her resignation yesterday, less than two weeks after the EPA Inspector General launched an investigation into Jackson's deceptive email practices. These practices, which include the use of an alias "Richard Windsor" email account, were exposed by CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner, who called yesterday's news "a good first step." Read more about Jackson's announcement and CEI's reaction here. SHAPING THE DEBATE BPA Resign Replacements May Be More Harmful Angela Logomasini's op-ed in The Hill Federal Rules Cost $10,000 Per Employee Wayne Crews & Ryan Young's op-ed in The Washington Times Clement Moore Revisited: Twas the Night Before Fiscliff Bill Frezza's column in Forbes Lesson From the Google Case: There Is No Such Thing As Antitrust Policy Wayne Crews' column in Forbes EPA Costs U.S. Economy $353 Billion Per Year Ryan Young' op-ed in The Daily Caller Italian Politics: 1970s Stuck on Repeat Matthew Melchiorre's op-ed in EU Observer Richard Windsor Departure From EPA Is a Victory For Transparency Chris Horner's citation in The Washington Examiner Will the Carbon Tax Make a Comeback? CEI's citation in The Wall Street Journal

CEI PODCAST December 19, 2012: The EPA's Regulatory Report Card Fellow in Regulatory Studies Ryan Young talks about the need for more transparency in the world of regulation, as well as CEI’s new EPA Regulatory Report Card. The report card, which collects data about the amount and cost of EPA regulation from numerous sources into one publicly accessible document, is something he argues that all agencies should be doing on their own each year. BEST OF THE BLOGS GM Stock Sale Doesn't End Damage of Government Motors By John Berlau Community Reinvestment Act Induced Banks to Take Bad Risks, Economics Study Finds By Hans Bader France's Anti-Business Orthodoxy By Matthew Melchiorre The Real Hockey Stick By Marlo Lewis