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Undid revision 1170526936 by Hob Gadling (talk) They have no source and the quote in the section beneath contradicts the notion that climate change denialism is an accurate term to describe what the CEI is saying. They literally say climate change is human caused - just because you don't like someone
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{{Conservatism US|think tanks}}
 
The '''Competitive Enterprise Institute''' ('''CEI''') is a [[non-profit]] [[Libertarianism in the United States|libertarian]] [[think tank]] founded by the political writer [[Fred L. Smith (political writer)|Fred L. Smith Jr.]] on March 9, 1984, in [[Washington, D.C.]], to advance principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty. CEI focuses on a number of regulatory policy issues, including business and finance, labor, technology and telecommunications, transportation, food and drug regulation, and energy and environment in which they have promoted [[climate change denial]]. Kent Lassman is the current President and CEO.
 
According to the ''2017 Global Go To [[Think Tank]] Index Report'' ([[Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program]], [[University of Pennsylvania]]), CEI was number 59 (of 90) in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States".<ref name="Global Go To">{{cite web |author=James G. McGann (Director) |author-link=James McGann |url=https://guides.library.upenn.edu/c.php?g=476482&p=3254045 |title=2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report |date=December 4, 2017 |access-date=February 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724202710/http://guides.library.upenn.edu/c.php?g=476482&p=3254045 |archive-date=July 24, 2017 |url-status=dead }} Other "Top Think Tank" rankings include #43 (of 65) of Environment Think Tanks and #47 (of 75) for Best Advocacy Campaign.</ref>
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=== Energy and environment ===
 
Academic research has identified CEI as one of the [[Conservatism in the United States|Conservative think tanks]] funded to overturn the [[environmentalism]] of the 1960s, central to promoting [[climate change denial]]. It was involved in assisting the anti-environmental [[climate change policy of the George W. Bush administration]].<ref name="DryzekNorgaard2011">{{cite book|author1=John S. Dryzek|author2=Richard B. Norgaard|author3=David Schlosberg|title=The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RsYr_iQUs6QC&pg=PA147|date=18 August 2011|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-956660-0|pages=147–}}</ref> CEI promotes environmental policies based on limited government regulation and property rights and rejects what it calls "[[global warming]] alarmism".<ref name="CEI Energy & Environment page">{{cite web |title=Energy and Environment |url=https://cei.org/issues/energy-and-environment |website=CEI.org |access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref> The organization's largest program, the Center for Energy and Environment, focuses on energy policy, chemical risk policy, [[Clean Air Act (United States)|Clean Air Act]] regulation, land and water regulation, the [[Endangered Species Act]], and private conservation policies.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}
 
CEI is an opponent of government action by the [[Environmental Protection Agency]] that would require limits on [[greenhouse gas emissions]]. It favors [[free-market environmentalism]], and supports the idea that market institutions are more effective in protecting the environment than is [[government]]. CEI President Kent Lassman wrote on the organization's blog that, "there is no debate about whether the Earth's climate is warming", that "human activities very likely contribute to that warming", and that "this has long been the CEI's position".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cei.org/blog/cei-will-surmount-crimethink-persecution |title=CEI Will Surmount Crimethink Persecution |last=Lassman |first=Kent |date=April 13, 2016 |website=Competitive Enterprise Institute |publisher=Competitive Enterprise Institute |access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref> In March 1992, CEI's founder Fred Smith said of [[anthropogenic climate change]]: "Most of the indications right now are it looks pretty good. Warmer winters, warmer nights, no effects during the day because of clouding, sounds to me like we're moving to a more benign planet, more rain, richer, easier productivity to agriculture."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/fcons.asp |title=Consequences of Global Warming |publisher=NRDC |access-date=2011-08-25}}</ref>
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