by Evan Halper The Baltimore Sun Supporters of Donald Trump worried he has lost his appetite for poking the establishment would probably be reassured if he were to make good on his promise to swiftly kick to the curb the Paris agreement on climate change. But the promise to snub Paris is fast becoming a [...]
Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Letter to the Wall Street Journal Editor Regarding your editorial “Highway From the Endangerment Zone” (April 19): Many compelling reasons exist for revisiting the EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. Based on email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and other evidence, the Obama EPA may have [...]
by Jennifer A Dlouhy and Nick Wadhams Bloomberg News An internal State Department memo says the Paris climate accord imposes few obligations on the U.S., bolstering the case for Trump administration officials who want to stay in the deal. The document, marked as a draft, makes no explicit recommendation about whether the U.S. should remain part of [...]
On April 21, Fox News aired a segment on the split in the White House regarding withdrawing from the Paris Treaty. E&E Legal Legal Fellow Chris Horner, an expert on the Paris Treaty, appeared in the segment laying out the case for President Trump to honor his campaign promise and withdraw. Watch.
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Appearing in Daily Caller Scare tactics, bad science and political theater are the few tools remaining in the environmental extremists’ tool belt now that Donald Trump is President and Scott Pruitt is head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). And, since they no longer have a [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in USA Today President Trump’s advisers are debating recommendations on the Paris climate treaty. Reported arguments for staying in it appear to be no more than rationalizations to break Trump’s campaign promise to leave. Consider the line that it is not a treaty because it’s [...]
by Sean Moran Breitart News Oil conglomerates Exxon Mobil and Shell sided withWhite House advisers Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, arguing that the United States should stay in the Paris climate agreement. Senior White House adviser Steve Bannon and Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt argued against staying in the Paris [...]
WASHINGTON -- Today, White House senior advisers are scheduled to meet about the future of U.S. involvement in the Paris Climate Treaty, even though President Trump made a campaign promise to cancel the agreement. Since December 2015, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has made the constitutional, political, economic, and moral case against the Paris Climate Treaty. [...]
by Tom Fitton Breitbart News The administrative deep state – the legions of unelected, entrenched bureaucrats in Washington – thinks it doesn’t have to answer to an elected president, the rule of law, or the American people. We are now seeking to uncover the truth about the particularly notorious fifth column in the Environmental Protection [...]
by MagaZine Donald Trump’s advisors and cabinet officials will today convene a meeting to consider the United States’ commitment to the Paris Agreement, according to reports. Cheniere Energy, a natural gas company, wrote to White House adviser David Banks Monday, urging the administration to stay party to the Paris agreement... Some administration officials did not [...]
