by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in The Daily Sentinel If you had $1.2 billion to spend, what would you do with it? Before you answer, there are some strings attached. First, you are required to invest in electric vehicle technology, electric vehicle infrastructure, or something that would result in “zero [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Mark Krebs As appearing in MasterResource Part I This is Part 1 in a two-part article about an abuse of the Request for Information (RFI) process at the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficient and Renewable Energy (EERE). The issue involves revising [...]
by Amy Oliver Cooke, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in The Complete Colorado Last fall, the media reached a new low. According to a Gallup poll, fewer than one-third of Americans expressed confidence in the fourth estate’s ability “to report the news fully, accurately and fairly,” the lowest since Gallup began asking in [...]
Energy & Environment Legal Institute President Craig Richardson today issued the following statement in response to the executive orders issued by President Trump on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines: Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) applauds President Trump for clearing the path for the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in The Daily Sentinel At the risk of repeating myself (this is a recurring theme), there are many examples of major environmental controversies that aren’t really about the environment. Far too often, adversaries face each other across courtrooms arguing not about environmental protection, but about [...]
by Barbara Hollingsworth CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) – Supporters and opponents of Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are gearing up for what is expected to be a contentious confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Wednesday morning... Craig Richardson, executive director [...]
On Friday, January 13, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson appeared on the Alex Jones Show to discuss the group's recently released report, "The Rockefeller Way: The Family's Covert Climate Change Plan." View interview.
by Chris White The Daily Caller One of the wealthy groups bankrolling a year-long investigation targeting Exxon Mobil has a nearly 20-year history with the Los Angeles Times, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The working relationship between Nicolas Goldberg, who runs the LA Times’ editorial board, and the director of [...]
by Alex Newman The New American An unfathomably wealthy banking and oil dynasty has been hijacking governments, media organs, universities, non-profits, and other power centers to expand its control over the economy and the energy sector in particular, according to a recently released investigation by a watchdog group. That dynasty, of course, is the Rockefeller [...]
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press Governor Jerry Brown has just appointed two radical environmental justice activists to the California Public Utilities Commission, replacing two commissioners whose terms expired January 1, 2017. Awaiting Senate confirmation, are Clifford Rechtschaffen and Martha Guzman Aceves—two Brown insiders with shady records [...]
