by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe UCLA epidemiologist calls out USC med school professors on big money research used to establish EPA regulations University of Southern California has been grabbing headlines lately over the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scam, billed as the biggest ever college [...]
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As appearing in the California Globe California’s oil and gas industry is one of the highest taxed industries in the nation Having just returned from a trip to Virginia, where gas prices ranged from $2.49 to $2.55, it was astounding to see California gas prices [...]
Mark K. Matthews E&E News reporter Alex Flint sent the email at 5:24 p.m. on a Tuesday, but it had the tone of a middle-of-the-night manifesto. In it, the conservative climate activist attacked one of the biggest barriers to progress on global warming — the continued denial of climate science by key voices on the [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Louisiana Sen. Russell Long famously explained how most people feel about taxes: "Don't tax you; don't tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree." It was an apt description of our natural desire to make other people pay for things we [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Wall Street Journal Climate alarmism isn’t popular with the public, so Republicans don’t need an alternative. The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on a 57-0 procedural vote last month. Not a single senator voted to bring the proposal to [...]
by E&E Legal Craig Richardson As appearing on InsideSources Time is running out for Oakland and San Francisco politicians who are desperately trying to salvage their failing bid to grab billions of dollars from oil companies, including Exxon, Chevron, BP and Conoco Phillips. Their meritless lawsuit was dismissed and now their case hinges on an [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders aimed at speeding up oil and gas pipeline permitting, including limiting the ability of activists and states to block key energy projects. Trump signed the orders Wednesday at an International Union of Operating Engineers’ training center near Houston. Some labor unions [...]
by Karen Kidd Legal NewsLine TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – New Jersey is ahead of the rest of the country in using private lawyers to sue manufacturing companies over chemicals known as PFAS, whose toxicity levels are still being determined by federal regulators while lawsuits stack up. In March, the state's Department of Environmental Protection [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In June of 1954, the career of Sen. Joseph McCarthy began to implode when an Army lawyer, Joseph Welch, interrupted with his now-famous, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" The anti-communist investigations soon ended, and senators voted to censure McCarthy. [...]
by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com Saying the nation cannot regulate itself out of climate change, a GOP lawmaker on Capitol Hill has introduced what he calls a "Green Real Deal." OneNewsNow spoke with someone who says the congressman is trying to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." "History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who [...]
