by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Washington Times The original rationale for fuel efficiency standards, originally triggered by the 1970s energy crisis and fears of “peak oil," was put to rest about 10 years ago by the advent of fracking. Neither shortages nor dependence on foreign [...]
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing on RealClear Markets Joe Biden says he wouldn’t ban fracking. But the Democratic National Committee’s climate advisory panel, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, says fracking should be banned. What are we to believe? Biden is the candidate, of course, and the position should be [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXVII Spring. Click headlines for the full article. Corporate Green ‘Disclosures’ Are Often Mere Marketing by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Wall Street Journal Climate-change partisans on both sides often accuse one another of dishonesty. Here’s [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal President As Appearing on Townhall.com Cities and states are suing energy companies in a desperate attempt to erase their poor spending choices. Local officials argue oil and gas companies contribute to climate change and must be held accountable, but beneath this façade, leftist politicians are trying to win the lawsuit [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing on RealClear Energy Congress held a hearing last week on “the relationship between disproportionate exposures to environmental pollution and disproportionate effects of the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.” The spotlighted news hook for the hearing was a recent study published by Harvard researchers claiming that PM2.5 air pollution (soot/dust in the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel It is fashionable for pundits to quote the old adage, “the cure is worse than the ailment,” referring to the imposition of martial law, under the guise of public health. Many Americans now think even coronavirus may hurt the country less [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe ‘How dare you talk about Enviro racism when your policies favor your coastal elitists friends’ California Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) went off on California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols Monday night after she posted an unbelievably self-serving and stupid Tweet: “‘I can’t breathe’ speaks [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel One of the great objectives of conservation is to restore a more natural condition to our environment, to erase the ravages of mankind’s mistakes, and put things back the way they were. I am a strong advocate for environmental restoration, and [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on Junkscience.com Below is my 3-minute presentation of my shareholder proposal at today’s ExxonMobil annual meeting. Although I lost the shareholder vote — both management and institutional shareholders are climate bedwetters or activists — I got enough votes to have my proposal [...]
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders May 27, 2020 10:30 AM ET Company Participants Stephen Littleton - Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Secretary Darren Woods - Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Liz Gordon - New York State Common Retirement Fund John Chevedden - Shareholder Steve Milloy - Shareholder Lila [...]
