by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Sentinel John Montagu was a prominent 18th century nobleman, serving as England’s postmaster general, Northern Secretary of State, and First Lord of the Admiralty. He financed Captain James Cook’s explorations of the Pacific, was an early supporter of professional cricket leagues, and [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland New York City, San Francisco, and Oakland have filed lawsuits against the five largest private oil companies—BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell—claiming they are contributing to destructive climate change...New York City’s lawsuit comes just a few months after several cities in California, including San Francisco and Oakland, filed [...]
by Valerie Volcovici Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ailing U.S. coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that could provide a lifeline to lucrative Asia markets. Coal producers filed two recent lawsuits against governments in Washington state and California challenging local decisions to block [...]
“Social investing” campaigns include not only promotion of preferred investments but a determined effort to disable these investments’ competition. That darker flip side involves a “climate risk disclosure” industry. Players in this “CRD” movement include state attorneys general, comptrollers and treasurers, and lawmakers combining with public pension funds, interest groups and, of course, contingency-fee lawyers. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the American Spectator Geologists at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources warn that an imminent landslide threatens the homes of about 70 people along a sliver of land called Rattlesnake Ridge. Residents have been offered five paid weeks at a hotel, and most [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland The co-sponsors of a resolution calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reopen and review its finding that carbon dioxide poses a danger to human health and the environment withdrew the resolution from consideration. A resolution calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reopen and review its finding [...]
by Kevon Martis, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in the Midland Daily News My recent wind energy zoning presentation at Bullock Creek High School on behalf of the Ingersoll Township Concerned Citizens spawned an ill-informed op-ed by Peter Sinclair in which he accuses me of misleading and distorted statements and further questions my [...]
by Janet Levy American Thinker Much of the disagreement over the use of America's natural resources stems from confusion over the difference between conservation and environmentalism. Conservation, a rational, conservative approach to protecting and preserving the environment, is an ethic of resource utilization. Conservationists view man as a natural, invested partner in the endeavor to preserve the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report Environmentalists claim global warming can be mitigated, but only if humans are forced to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This pseudo-science is what California’s leftist politicians have adopted to control human activity, and the unelected bureaucrats at the California Air Resources Board [...]
E&E Legal knows a thing or two about New York shakedown schemes. Through our public records pursuits and subsequent lawsuits, we exposed an intricate scam consisting of green 'rent seekers,' willing public officials like New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his co-ringer leader, former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, big donors like Tom Steyer and ideological scolds [...]
