by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California is an outlier – no other state gets into emissions’ Equipment manufacturing executives met with California Air Resources Board (CARB) leadership in Sacramento on Wednesday for an off-the-record discussion. This followed CARB’s July 2, 2026, approval [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel More than 100 cities and counties have imposed moratoriums on AI data centers, and the state of New York has banned new ones altogether. Fourteen other states considered bans this year and while 13 of those failed, they will be back — because Gallup [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Legislation would also preempt state and local permitting requirements that could delay or block designated projects A new House bill introduced Thursday would allow the president to designate certain interstate oil and natural gas pipelines as critical [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The actual problem is that Democrats’ climate policies are ramping up the cost of living in California There is no “climate crisis” in California. We have the most beautiful weather in the world. But the real crisis [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The real issue is submission: the government needs you to submit to their policies, legitimate or not Sacramento is conducting curbside trash bin inspections to enforce California’s organics recycling mandate. Really. Yet, as the Globe reported in [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Earlier this year U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Tom Schultz announced a major reorganization of the agency, prompting the usual opposition from employees predictably opposing any change in the status quo. A few environmental industry groups expressed skepticism, but the story was mostly ignored [...]
by Adam Kredo Washington Free Beacon The shareholder suit would allege that the Times’s board is failing in its oversight duties by failing to enforce basic editorial standards in the publisher’s journalism A growing coalition of law firms representing a New York Times Company shareholder is demanding the publisher turn over its "books and records" [...]
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) led an effort of 40 free market organizations, including E&E Legal, to send a letter to Congress urging support of the End EPA Abuse Act of 2026 (H.R. 9453 and S. 4931). The letter continues, in part: In recent years, the EPA has sought to expand its CAA authority to levels [...]
by Pamela King Politico Justice Elena Kagan's foreword to a judicial reference manual has triggered calls for her to bow out of an upcoming Supreme Court case. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is distancing herself from a climate science reference for judges that is making waves in an upcoming case. Conservative groups have called for [...]
Press Release National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Washington, D.C. — A new petition submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission demands that the SEC issue guidance to publicly traded companies regarding the widespread abuse of virtual shareholder meetings. The petition, submitted by the National Center for Public Policy Research’s [...]
