by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew a “no action assurance” notice that delayed enforcement of an Obama admnistration-era regulation the agency is working to repeal, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler decided current regulations limiting the sale of glider kits — refurbished truck engines placed [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel Restaurant owners may know that open-faced sandwiches are regulated by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), part of the Department of Health and Human Services. But if a second piece of bread is added on top, it is regulated by [...]
By James M. Taylor and H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal)...trounced government hacks in the grips of climate alarmist mania in two court battles recently. In the first case, Arizona’s appellate court issued a terse, seven-word decision, “Motion for Stay Pending Appeal is DENIED,” in a case in [...]
by Erin Mundahl InsideSources Environmentalists lost another fight on Thursday, after U.S. District Judge John Keenan dismissed New York City’s lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, Shell, and other major oil companies. In January, the city first filed a lawsuit against the energy companies, arguing that they were liable for damages the city incurred as a result [...]
Craig Richardson, president of the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), issued the following statement in response to a NY Federal Judge's decision to dismiss a copycat lawsuit filed against energy companies by New York City: New York City Mayor’s Bill de Blasio effort to curry favor with the environmental billionaires who want to [...]
Junkscience.com founder and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow testified yesterday on a topic he literally wrote the book: science reform. In the testimony he said in part: Since 1990s, EPA grantees like Harvard’s Doug Dockery and Brigham Young University’s Arden Pope have refused to make available to the public the raw data used in their epidemiologic [...]
E&E Legal signed on to a letter coordinated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) to Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy urging them to bring up a resolution that would severely hurt the U.S. economy. Nearly twenty other free-market organizations signed onto the letter. The letter begins: We write you today to respectfully [...]
E&E Legal joined more than 20 other free market organizations in a letter to President Trump encouraging him to end the 'Kigali Amendment.' The letter, which was organized by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), began: Twenty-two free-market, conservative, consumer, and sound science organizations sent a letter to President Trump on July 2 opposing the Kigali Amendment and [...]
by Sean Reilly E&E News reporter When acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler laid out the need for more certainty to agency employees in a get-acquainted speech Wednesday, his top priority might have come as a surprise: risk communication. "Risk communication goes to the heart of EPA's mission of protecting public health and the environment," he [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel A woman in Austin, Texas tripped over a toddler running inside a store, and broke her ankle. She sued the store owners, claiming they maintained an unsafe environment. The store had to pay $80,000 in damages. Everyone watching the case was [...]
