by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Washington Times If President Trump wants to put an end to the hoax and economic disaster that is man-made catastrophic global warming hysteria, there’s one order that is essential to issue: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must reopen its “endangerment finding” for greenhouse [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Thomas Del Beccaro As appearing in Forbes In the church of climate change, carbon emissions are a sin and ending the use of fossil fuels our only prayer. So, the Left regulates and regulates in an effort to reduce so-called greenhouse gases – without ever asking [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As appearing in the Washington Times Recent media reports suggest a conflict within the Trump White House over whether to keep the president’s campaign promise “to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement,” the successor to the rejected Kyoto Protocol. President Trump also promised to roll Barack Obama’s controversial [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Mark Krebs As appearing in MasterResource ...With a renewed focus on energy consumers and less on environmental cronyism, DOE can gain new found respect from the American public and help drive a resurgent economy. With this purpose in mind, we offer the following [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller House lawmakers introduced legislation to block the EPA from appointing science advisers who are currently taking money from the agency. The bill stipulates EPA advisers “shall have no current grants or contracts from the [EPA] and shall not apply for a grant or contract for 3 years following the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel President Trump this week kept a campaign promise, one especially important to the West, ordering the EPA to withdraw its controversial “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) regulation. It’s a welcome decision, though a great deal of work must be done now. [...]
by Alex Newman New American President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday ordering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and reconsider the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) regulation, a radical decree issued by the Obama administration purporting to regulate virtually all water and much of the land across America. While [...]
by Brandi Buchman Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN) – Fearing that the State Department helped organize climate-change activists before President Barack Obama left office, a coal-funded think tank has brought a federal complaint to access the agency’s emails. The group behind Monday’s lawsuit is called the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. Read more.
Craig Richardson, president of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, issued the following statement regarding President Trump's signing of an executive order instructing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule: President Donald Trump broke down a major barrier to economic [...]
by Hannah Hess E&E News Reporter A conservative free market group sued the State Department yesterday for records related to possible involvement by environmental advocacy groups in the department's efforts to collaborate with China on climate during the Obama administration. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the [...]
