by Ben Maiden corporate secretary Group wants regulator to act on false and misleading claims about climate change The SEC has received the latest request to act on ESG-related disclosures, although agency officials have indicated caution over prescriptive rulemaking in the area. McLean, Virginia-based Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) this week filed a [...]
by Claire Parker Washington Post Two days into her transatlantic voyage aboard a hyper-efficient sailing yacht, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg is already weathering rough seas — and a deluge of online attacks. The Swedish teenager set sail Wednesday on her nearly 3,000-mile trip from Plymouth, England, to New York, where she plans to attend [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe AB 1080 and SB 54 appear to be half-baked and may be shelved First California legislators came for our cigarettes, and banned smoking indoors and in public parks. Then they banned plastic bags, foie gras and shark fin soup. [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe California Campaign Operations Director Job Posting in Steyer Campaign Latecomer Democratic Presidential candidate Tom Steyer is looking for California campaign staffers. And he’s so concerned about diversity, equity, and inclusion, he uses the acronym “(DEI)” in the advertisement. Billionaire [...]
by Somini Sengupta New York Times PLYMOUTH, England — Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist, set sail Wednesday on a racing yacht bound for New York. The boat cast off from the Mayflower Marina here in this old English port city around 3 p.m. local time during a brief pause in the rain... Ms. Thunberg [...]
E&E Legal Petitions SEC to Address Problem of Registrants Making False and Misleading Climate Change Statements For Immediate Release: August 13, 2019 Contact: [email protected] 202-810-2001 Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) petitioned U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to take action to prevent and prohibit registrants from making false and misleading statements [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe CG Water Series: Where is California’s water going? Playing water war games with the people’s water is getting old in California. The winter of 2019 brought 200 percent of average rains and snow pack. Yet the state is still [...]
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in The Daily Sentinel An internationally respected geologist named John Clema recently published an article headlined with the simple truth that "Past, present and future progress requires mining." That statement should not be controversial, since most people must surely be aware of the presence in their lives [...]
by Jason Hopkins The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that staffers did not break protocol regarding a contentious study on glider vehicles, but critics are trashing the audit. While EPA employees failed to “fully adhere to its delegation of authority,” they ultimately complied with the agency’s standard practices when conducting glider vehicle [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe First High Speed Rail Authority removed docs, now the Department of Corrections joins the anti-transparency club Last week California Globe reported that thousands of pages of public records were removed from the highly controversial California High Speed Rail Authority [...]
