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The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit think tank that receives no government funding. It is privately funded by donations from individuals, private foundations, and corporations. Because CEI is not legally required to disclose its donors, the exact breakdown of all its contributors is not public.

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However, tax filings and investigative reports over the years have revealed several consistent funding streams across its history:

Private Foundations & Donor-Advised Funds: Major contributors include the Charles Koch Foundation, the Bradley Impact Fund, and donor-advised funds like DonorsTrust.

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Energy Companies: Historically, CEI has received substantial funding from the fossil fuel industry, most notably a multi-million-dollar contribution from ExxonMobil

, as well as trade groups like the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers.

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Corporate & Industry Backers: CEI receives backing from businesses across the automotive, tech, and consumer goods sectors, including past donors like Ford Motor Company and large tech firms such as Google.

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Tobacco & E-Cigarette Industries: The institute has historically been funded by organizations and companies in the alcohol and tobacco sectors, such as Altria and Philip Morris.

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CEI maintains that it does not allow donors to direct its research, stating that its policy experts retain independent control over their work and priorities. You can read more about their stated guidelines on the CEI Research Independence

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Following the pledge in a May 13 letter to CEI’s attorney, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker (AG Walker) has withdrawn the District of Columbia subpoena action against the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), yet the original Virgin Islands subpoena remains, meaning AG Walker can move at any moment to continue his unconstitutional intimidation campaign against the free market group and others who oppose his view of climate change. CEI’s motion for sanctions against AG Walker is pending in court and the group continues its pushback against the AG’s wrongdoing.

CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman said, “CEI is going forward with our motion for sanctions because Walker's withdrawal only strengthens our claim that this subpoena was a constitutional outrage from the very beginning, violating our right to free speech and our donors' right to confidentiality, and threatening the right of all Americans to express views that go against some party line. This subpoena was an abuse of process, plain and simple, and we're determined to see that Walker faces sanctions for his illegal actions that he refuses to recognize.”

See the notice of termination here.

See more about CEI’s climate subpoena fight here.

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### The New Congress Should Repeal All :{Energy Efficiency Mandates}:

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...May 8, 2017

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, represented by Myron Ebell, was listed on an open letter to President Donald J. Trump urging him “to withdraw fully from the Paris Climate Treaty and to stop all taxpayer funding of UN global warming programs.”¹²⁷

DeSmog reported that the 40 groups represented in the letter, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), The Heartland Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, have received a combined total of millions of dollars from the Koch Brothers, ExxonMobil, and other industry groups.¹²⁸

Analysis also showed that the groups accepted about $80 million through Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust, two groups that have been confirmed is a key financial source for key U.S-based climate change denial groups.¹²⁹

February 2017

CEI’s general counsel Sam Kazman filed a petition on behalf of CEI with the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) requesting that the EPA review the endangerment finding on CO2 Emissions. Individual petitioners included members of SEPP’s Board of Directors: Donna Bethell, Kenneth A. Haapala, Thomas Sheahen, and S. Fred Singer.¹³⁰

The petition makes a number of statements contrary to the mainstream consensus regarding climate change. First, it claims that “There Has Been No Statistically Significant Atmospheric Warming Despite a Continued Increase in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels” — Citing a post on the personal website of climate change denier Roy Spencer as evidence for the lack of warming.¹³¹

The petition’s second claim is that “Changes in Global Temperatures in Recent Decades Are Far From Unusual.” For this, the citation points to a dead link to theHeartland Institute‘s “Independent Summary for Policymakers,” a document created by the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and Science and Environmental Policy Project.¹³²

Kazman spoke with Michael Bastasch of The Daily Caller regarding the petition, suggesting President Donald Trump may be too distracted to deal with the endangerment finding:¹³³

““I think they’re going to have a lot of trouble on the other things they want to get done without addressing the endangerment finding,” Kazman said.¹³⁴

A similar petition was sent by the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council (CHECC).Breitbart News also gave coverage to the CHECC and CEI petitions.¹³⁵

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You criticize our study of federal agencies, “Ten Thousand Commandments,” for analyzing the costs of regulations without adjusting for their alleged benefits (“Mr. Ryan’s One Idea,” editorial, June 19). You call this approach an “absurdity.”

Would you buy a car from a salesman who hid its price and instead touted some figure that was adjusted for the vehicle’s alleged benefits? When it comes to regulation, government bombards us with claims about its benefits. That’s all the more reason we need to know its straightforward costs as well.

SAM KAZMAN

General Counsel

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Washington

Originally posted to The New York Times.

Oct. 23, 2012

Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann sues National Review, Competitive Enterprise Institute for 'maliciously' attacking his personal reputation.

DailyClimate.org staff report

Michael Mann, an influential climatologist who has spent years in the center of the debate over climate science, has sued two organizations that have accused him of academic fraud and of improperly manipulating data.

Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, on Monday sued the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with CEI analyst Rand Simberg and National Review reporter Mark Steyn.

The lawsuit, Mann's lawyer said in a statement, was based upon their "false and defamatory statements" accusing him of academic fraud and comparing him to a convicted child molester, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Neither Mann nor his lawyer, John B. Williams of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Cozen O'Connor, were available for comment Tuesday afternoon. But on Facebook, where news of the lawsuit was initially posted Tuesday, Mann said the lawsuit was part of "a battle" to assist climate scientists in the fight against those who attack their work.

There is a larger context ... namely the onslaught of dishonest and libelous attacks that climate scientists have endured for years.

Michael Mann

"There is a larger context for this latest development," he wrote, "namely the onslaught of dishonest and libelous attacks that climate scientists have endured for years by dishonest front groups seeking to discredit the case for concern over climate change."

But he faces a high bar: Mann has played a key role in climate science for decades, and the law generally requires a much higher burden of proof from public figures, said CEI general counsel Sam Kazman.

"I don't think he's got a shot at reaching it," Kazman said in an interview. "Our stuff may have been debatable, but it was solidly based and we had a perfect right to say what we did."

"We plan to defend the suit vigorously but we think it is a totally unfounded lawsuit."

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In 1999 Mann published a timeline of global temperatures stretching back almost 1,000 years. The graph showed a fairly stable trend until 1900, when temperatures spiked sharply upward. That so-called "hockey stick" diagram became a lightning rod in the debate on whether humans were influencing the climate.

In 2007 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore and authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changereport for work connecting human activities to global warming.

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Two years later a cache of emails illegally obtained from University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom purported to show climate scientists manipulating data. Many of the emails were to or from Michael Mann.

Upwards of seven organizations, from the National Science Foundation to Penn State, conducted investigations into Mann's work. All declared baseless allegations of academic fraud.

Yet the attacks persisted: Virginia Attorney General spent $500,000 and two years unsuccessfully suing to obtain email correspondence from the University of Virginia, where Mann worked from 1999 to 2005.

A separate attempt by American Traditions Institute, a conservative think tank headed by members of other conservative groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Group and Cooler Heads Coalition, was equally unsuccessful.

One Sandusky reference came in a July National Review blog post by Mark Steyn, who repeated CEI analyst Rand Simberg's comments comparing Mann to the disgraced football coach: "He has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet."

Kazman, CEI's counsel, said the organization removed "a sentence or two" relating to the Penn State sex abuse scandal shortly after it published a post.

Lawyers for the National Review in New York City were not immediately available for comment Tuesday afternoon

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Sam Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the head of theirDeath By Regulation project. CEI, an organization that supports "free market environmentalism" and fervently opposes climate change regulation, receives funding from donors such as Exxon Mobil, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Pfizer, General Motors, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Plastics Council, the Chlorine Chemistry Council, and Arch Coal. ^[1] Kazman is also a speaker at the Heartland Institute sponsored International Conference on Climate Change (2009) in New York City.

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Kazman refutes the scientific consensus on climate change, arguing that "the global cooling we’ve experienced over the last three years" is a sign that although CO2 levels are increasing, the climate is not warming. ^[2] Kazman's critics, however, point out that this argument fails to differentiate between climate change and weather fluctuations. World Meteorological Organization secretary-generalMichel Jarraud states that when examining climate change, ‘"you should look at trends over a pretty long period" and long term "trends of temperature globally [are] still very much indicative of warming." ^[3]

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↑ "CEI Profiles", CEI website, accessed March 2009.
↑ "High Noon Passes--Global Warming Doesn't Show Up at the Inaguration", Openmarket Blog, January 2009.
↑ Brad Knickerbocker, "Gore Launches Climate Change Ad Campaign", Christian Science Monitor Online, April 2008.

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Sam Kazman is general counsel of CEI and heads CEI’s Death By Regulation project. This project focuses on raising public awareness of the often hidden costs of government overregulation—the lives lost, for example, when the Food and Drug Administration delays new medical drugs and devices, or the human toll of downsizing cars to comply with energy-conservation mandates.

In 1992, Mr. Kazman won a federal appeals court ruling that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had illegally concealed the lethal effects on highway safety of its auto fuel economy standards.This marked the first judicial overturning of a fuel economy standard in the program’s history. He has also recently been involved in litigation on such issues as advertising restrictions, property rights, and environmental regulation.

Mr. Kazman’s writings have been featured in such publications as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Regulation. He has testified at a number of congressional hearings and has appeared on such shows as Crossfire, Court TV, Good Morning America, and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He was a script consultant on “Science Under Siege,” CEI’s documentary on politicized science, and he has created a number of CEI radio and television ads.

Mr. Kazman received his JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Ian Forrester says:

“most of them happen to be on Exxon’s payroll but that is probably just a coincidence”…

That doesn’t seem to be the view of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Sam Kazman, when he spoke to the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/18/:{AR}:2006031801305_pf.html

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“…The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which widely publicizes its belief that the earth is not warming cataclysmically because of the burning of coal and oil, says Exxon Mobil Corp. is a “major donor” largely as a result of its effort to push that position.

“I think what attracted them to us was our position on global warming,” said Sam Kazman,CEI’s general counsel. “And we hope to get support from other industries that agree with us.” ”

TheCEI received more than $2 million from Exxon 1998-2005.

The company has specifically stated that its funding to many of these groups was for climate change work.

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March, 2008

CEI released a national ad campaign “on the Impact of Al Gore’s Global Warming Policies.” The campaign focused on“the threat to affordable energy posed by Al Gore’s global warming agenda.”

CEI's Sam Kazman, the ad co-creator, said that “Global warming activists warn us

about the alleged threats from global warming, but are usually silent about the

much more immediate threats from global warming policies.” [7]

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Sam Kazman is the Competitive Enterprise Institute's general counsel.

Prior to joining CEI in 1986, he was managing attorney of the Washington DC office of the Pacific Legal Foundation.

His op-eds and articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and National Review, and he has appeared on nationally broadcast programs such as The Today Show, Stossel, and Washington Journal.

Kazman is a graduate of Cornell University and received his J.D. cum laude at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.

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