“Social investing” campaigns include not only promotion of preferred investments but a determined effort to disable these investments’ competition. That darker flip side involves a “climate risk disclosure” industry. Players in this “CRD” movement include state attorneys general, comptrollers and treasurers, and lawmakers combining with public pension funds, interest groups and, of course, contingency-fee lawyers. [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XVI Summer 2017. Click headlines for the full article. Paris Treaty Withdrawal Spawns ‘Climate Resistance’ Movement by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow, and Chaim Mandelbaum, E&E Legal General Counsel In June of 2017 President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Fellow and Chaim Mandelbaum, General Counsel In June of 2017 President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the so-called ‘Paris Climate Agreement’. Paris was illegitimately entered by President Obama given it is, by its own terms, custom and practice, a treaty for United States purposes. This [...]
by Stephan Dinan Washington Times Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who used a secret email alias during her time at the agency, lashed out Tuesday at the Trump administration for destroying the agency’s credibility by being “non-transparent.”... In Ms. Jackson’s case, she used the alias “Richard Windsor” for her official EPA email account — including [...]
Washington, D.C. – A study published by Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes has made clear that the investigations by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his "Green 20" coalition of state AGs — a scheme first exposed by E&E Legal in documents obtained under open records requests, and now the subject of multiple lawsuits over [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in USA Today Another week of the Trump presidency, another bout of fevered reporting on claims promoted by the career (and holdover) federal employee “resistance.” But particularly when it comes to climate change, it seems the ordinary way of doing things is simply too much [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in the Washington Times The New York Times on Aug. 24, 2014, broke a major news story: “Obama pushing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty.” It’s a clumsy headline — no one dared claim the Kyoto Protocol was anything other than a treaty requiring Senate ratification, [...]
by James Delingpole Breitbart On my Delingpole podcast this week we solve one of the great political mysteries of our time: how did President Donald Trump get to be so totally darned amazing on the environment, energy and ‘climate change’? My guest Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute is pretty sure he has the answer. [...]
London, England -- On July 10, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow Chris Horner gave a talk in the UK House of Lords, hosted by Lord Lawson of Blaby and Dr. Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Attended by several members of the House and other interested parties, Horner's talk and the discussion afterward centered [...]
On July 19, 2017, Breitbart's James Delingpole released a podcast of an interview he conducted with E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow Chris Horner. Horner was in the United Kingdom in early July, and his trip included a briefing to the House of Lords regarding President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate [...]
