Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XIV Winter 2017. Click headlines for the full article. President Trump’s Clean Power Plan Executive Order Corrects Obama EPA’s Overreach by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Executive Director On March 28, President Trump signed an executive order directing the EPA to reconsider the Clean Power Plan [...]
by Chris Horner, Senior Legal Fellow This week marks the one-year anniversary of nearly two dozen state attorneys general, alongside “green” investor and former vice president Al Gore, announcing a coalition to investigate, as fraud, opposition to the climate change political agenda. Since that blustery event, however, all signs are that ringleader New York Attorney [...]
by Alex Newman The New American Obama failed in his mission to make his "global-warming" schemes "Trump proof." Fulfilling some of his key campaign promises to voters, President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to dismantle huge swaths of the unconstitutional “climate” regime imposed on Americans by his predecessor. Among other important targets in Trump's latest executive [...]
by Chris White Daily Caller New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is hiding emails showing he is colluding with wealthy environmentalists to take down ExxonMobil, a conservative legal group argued in court Tuesday. E&E Legal believes the New York Democrat is refusing to disclose documents indicating environmentalists Tom Steyer and members of the Rockefeller Family [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Executive Director On March 28, President Trump signed an executive order directing the EPA to reconsider the Clean Power Plan imposed by the Obama Administration. This order may temporarily halt the long running legal battle over the plan, thought it surely won’t end it. This directive by the President is critical in [...]
by Matt Hardin, FME Law Counsel In the modern world, government employees increasingly turn to GMail, text messaging, and phone “apps” for personal communications. So long as those communications are personal communications, there’s nothing wrong with that. But what happens when government employees use Gmail to communicate with fellow staff about work-related topics? While federal [...]
by Tom Johnson NJ Spotlight President Donald Trump yesterday carried through on a vow to roll back key elements of the Obama administration’s efforts to combat climate change, a decision likely to have profound impacts on a coastal state like New Jersey. To environmentalists, Democrats, and other critics of the new president, the step is [...]
by Julia Marsh New York Post State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is trying to hide e-mails about his support of a climate-change policy that’s being targeted by President Trump, a conservative group charged in Manhattan court Tuesday. The organization, E&E Legal, sued Schneiderman last year claiming he led a group of AGs in silencing climate-change [...]
E&E Legal's Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, and Craig Richardson, President, issued the following statements regarding President Trump's signing of today's energy independence and climate change policy executive order: Steve Milloy: President Trump did Americans a great service today by issuing his executive order on the Clean Power Plan (CPP). By putting the brakes on the CPP, President [...]
by Hannah Hess E&E News ...Today marks one year since Schneiderman joined former Vice President Al Gore and a coalition of state attorneys general to announce a multistate effort to tackle climate change, including further investigations into whether fossil fuel companies lied to investors and the public about the impacts of global warming (Greenwire, March [...]
