by Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal Just before joining climate change activist and former Vice President Al Gore for a press conference in New York City, seven state-level attorneys general huddled with a representative of the Union of Concerned Scientists. The political activist, Peter Frumhoff, called for them and other elected officials to move decisively [...]
By Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency has based its most onerous air pollution regulations on junk science meant to further political goals, says the author of a new book. Lawyer-statistician Steve Milloy’s new book, “Scare Pollution,” shows readers how EPA has distorted the science behind air pollution regulations to hamper politically [...]
by Kathryn Watson Daily Caller A loophole in federal law allows Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees and other federal workers get away with deleting millions of official records created using cellphone text messaging, according to government transparency experts. The Federal Records Act (FRA) and EPA policy allow individual employees who create and receive cell phone [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller The Rockefeller family’s crusade against Exxon Mobil is part of a “covert” campaign to give the oil rich family a leg up in emerging markets, according to a report from an environmental legal group. The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) published a report Tuesday suggesting that the Rockefeller family has pumped [...]
For Immediate Release: December 20, 2016 Contact: David Sanders [email protected] 202-810-2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a non-profit watchdog group, released a report, The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert 'Climate Change' Plan. The report provides a short history of the family's undue influence in U.S. policy making and details how the they [...]
by Stephen Dinan The Washington Times For a decade, he has used open-records laws to pry loose some of the EPA’s secrets. Now Christopher Horner is on the inside, part of President-elect Donald Trump’s landing team at the Environmental Protection Agency, preparing the way for the next administration. Perhaps no issue will see a greater [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Frontpage Mag California Gov. Jerry Brown wants President Barack Obama to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in the state – except of course, on Brown’s personal land. In an attempt to lock in environmental protections before President-Elect Donald Trump takes office in January, [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in Canada Free Press In a fiery speech to the American Geophysical Union conference, California Governor Brown continued his quest regarding climate change, but has apparently revealed a chink in his armor. He threatened incoming President Trump that California will go it’s own way [...]
by Kevin Bogardus E&E News reporter Christopher Horner, a relentless hunter of U.S. EPA documents, is now allowed inside the agency's walls. Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is a member of President-elect Donald Trump's agency landing team for EPA, the transition team announced Friday. As part of the landing team, Horner [...]
