by Chris White The Daily Caller One of the wealthiest Democratic donors in the country was single-handedly responsible for making the environmental movement one of the highest grossing industries last year. Billionaire Tom Steyer contributed 85 percent of the industry’s contributions, or $87 million during the 2016 presidential election, according to a May report published [...]
by Gas & Electricity The “Climate Change Coalition Common Interest Agreement” was signed by state attorneys general in May, two months after they held a press conference to say they would go after Exxon, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil and gas company, and possibly other companies. It provides considerably more detail about the prosecutors’ legal [...]
The following is a statement by E&E Legal's President Craig Richardson regarding the U.S. Senate's failure today to repeal Obama's methane rule: We are deeply disappointed with the outcome of today’s methane rule vote in the Senate, a measure that is projected to cost $530 million annually by 2025. This Obama-era centralized planning approach to [...]
by Jim Stinson PoliZette The White House canceled a second internal meeting Tuesday on the controversial Paris climate agreement. The cancellation is likely a sign Trump is still conflicted about whether to deliver on his campaign promise to withdraw the U.S. from the bargain or to listen to advisers urging him to spare the deal... Attorney Christopher C. [...]
by insidesources ValueWalk It isn’t often that global warming becomes a free speech issue. However, this may be the case in New York, where 11 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief in federal court in support of ExxonMobil in late April. ExxonMobil is in the midst of a lengthy legal battle with New York Attorney General Eric [...]
by Kathryn Blackhurst PoliZette Forty self-described free-market organizations called on President Donald Trump, in a letter released Monday, to keep his campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Reports surfaced in April that Trump’s more politically moderate advisers were advocating the White House keep the nation committed to the Obama-era [...]
Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and forty other free-market and liberty organizations sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump enthusiastically supporting his campaign pledge to"withdraw fully from the Paris Climate Treaty and to stop all taxpayer funding of UN global warming programs." CEI ran an ad recently [...]
by John Schwartz New York Times WASHINGTON — The debate within the Trump administration over what to do about the Paris climate agreement has reached a critical phase, according to people familiar with the internal negotiations. The decision could hinge on the interpretation of a single phrase in a single provision of a document that [...]
On April 27, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson conducted an interview with InfoWars on the split in the White House over withdrawing from the Paris Treaty, as the President promised on the campaign trail. In addition, the interview covered renewable energy standards that thirty states now have on the books. Watch now.
by Jack Fitzpatrick Morning Consult Conservatives have found themselves at odds over the Paris climate agreement, disagreeing not only about whether the U.S. should stay in the international accord, but also whether the deal was a formal treaty, which would require the Senate to approve it. Declaring the Paris deal a treaty would make it [...]
