by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe Unreliable renewal energy is ideology over necessity Over the weekend, PG&E turned off power in Napa, during a heat wave, only restoring power later in the day. More power outages came at 9 p.m. to customers in Butte County, [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel The Trump Administration's crackdown on imports from China, intended to address a $420 billion trade deficit, may produce some unintended consequences. It was just revealed, for example, that the higher tariffs on Chinese goods might end the availability of free Bibles [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transferred a top official who critics see as a key resistor of President Donald Trump’s agenda, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Christopher Grundler, director of EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, will be moving to another agency division in early August. [...]
by Michael McGrady InsideSources.com New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has announced she is leading the effort in the U.S. Senate to pass legislation forcing the Trump administration to comply with the Paris Climate accords. Known as the International Climate Accountability Act, Shaheen’s bill is the Senate companion bill to H.R. 9, or the Climate Action Now Act, [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe The DOJ’s agency within an agency appears redundant In February of 2018, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra created the Bureau of Environmental Justice within the Environment Section at the California Department of Justice. The mission of this agency within [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel Rob Reiner's first comedy classic as a director, 1984's "The Sure Thing," is a saga of everything that can possibly go wrong for two students falling in love on a cross-country road trip. The ride they arranged from a bulletin board [...]
by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research “Beginning in the 1980s, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund became leading advocates of the global warming agenda. … In their Sustainable Development Program Review, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund boasts of being one of the first major global warming activists, citing its strong advocacy for both the 1988 formation of the U.N. Intergovernmental [...]
by Jessica R. Towhey InsideSources A tweet war broke out this week between environmental activists trying to interrupt Chevron and ExxonMobile shareholder meetings and pro-energy and pro-consumer groups drawing a stark line about what they see as the stakes in the battle over oil exploration in Alaska. Leading the charge for the environmentalists was the [...]
Scott Waldman and Mark K. Matthews E&E News reporters As some Republicans inch toward climate policy for the first time in years, those in the party who reject climate science are getting nervous that a more permanent shift is coming. And they're going on the attack against their former allies. A group called Energy & [...]
by Zennie Abraham Oakland News The students that went over to San Francisco to protest the Bank of Montreal on Friday, did so on the basis of a lie. The Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal (OBOT) is not a coal terminal. It’s a multi-commodity facility designed to accept commodities like iron ore, coal, and sulphur, [...]
