by Valerie Richardson Washington Times aA court has ordered New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to turn over documents related to a multistate confidentiality agreement on climate change investigations. New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Henry F. Zwack ruled that Mr. Schneiderman has 30 days to comply with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s May 5 request [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Democratic mega donor Tom Steyer is signaling he might be considering taking a crack at the White House in 2020, Politico reported Monday. The billionaire’s decision to pivot from discussing local and state politics in California to talking more broadly about American politics has prompted the media to report [...]
RESTON, VA – The Media Research Center (MRC) announces the launch of its new documentary titled, Collateral Damage: Forgotten Casualties of the Left’s War on Coal. Several organizations, including, Americans for Tax Reform, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Cornwall Alliance, E&E Legal, and The Heartland Institute, have joined the MRC’s effort to tell the story the liberal [...]
For Immediate Release: November 16, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 703-981-5553 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) was forced to file an open records suit with exhibits against yet another “Green 20” state attorney general (AG), this time Virginia’s Mark Herring. Herring was an early signatory to the aborted political coalition among activist AGs [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As Appearing in Inside Business Daily Billionaire Tom Steyer vowed to make climate change a major issue in the 2016 election. His plan was to link arms with the AFL-CIO to mobilize the Democratic base and recruit Millennial voters to rise up to defeat Donald Trump and put [...]
by Donald van der Vaart, Secretary of North Carolina’s Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources As Appearing in The Hill President-elect Donald Trump has named Myron Ebell to head up his transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The news was met with name-calling, even though Ebell agrees with the same position taken by a former [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer’s enormous financial effort to prevent President-elect Donald Trump failed in epic fashion Tuesday. The Democratic megadonor spent more than $75 million on this year’s election, with most of his efforts going toward registering millennials to vote, mostly on environmental issues. His money didn’t seem to matter, because [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute A New York state judge has ordered Exxon and the accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to turn over documents demanded by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D-NY) in his ongoing investigation of Exxon’s statements on climate change. The judge rejected Exxon’s claim Texas law protects accountant-client privilege, saying New York [...]
by Julie Kelly National Review Online The prognosis for a controversial cancer agency looks terminal. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) now faces congressional inquiries, legal challenges, and harsh criticism from the scientific community that are shredding the agency’s credibility and threatening its future. The Lyon, France–based group is an arm of the [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal Executive Director As appearing InsideSources One name surfaces again and again in WikiLeaks’ email to expose the corrosive influence of the Greens’ “rich uncle,” hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer. The eye-opening leaks show a pattern of Steyer wielding his fortune to bend Democratic politics in pursuit of his personal green [...]
