by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon The business arm of billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer’s political advocacy network worked behind the scenes with senior administration officials to undermine a study by a federally commissioned group that criticized environmental regulations, internal emails show. Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a Steyer-funded trade association, briefed senior administration officials on [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Arizona Business Daily In the midst of the controversy over Arizona’s net metering policy, one expert at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) suggests several policy reform strategies. “Costs that are incurred by the grid and (non-solar) customers [...]
by Dylan Brown E&E reporter Conservative advocacy groups sued the Obama administration yesterday for internal communications regarding how the Interior Department developed a proposal to increase protections for streams near coal mines. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute and Free Market Environmental Law Clinic are seeking all email and text message correspondence during certain time [...]
by Eric Wolff Politico: Morning Energy GROUP SUES FOR STREAM RULE DOCS: The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed a FOIA lawsuit. asking the U.S. District Court in D.C. to force the Interior Department to have over communications regarding the development of the stream rule. E&E Legal is seeking stream rule-related communications between EPA and [...]
by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon An environmental consulting firm that has secretly worked behind the scenes to support Environmental Protection Agency regulations released a study on Wednesday declaring one of the agency’s most controversial regulations sound. M.J. Bradley & Associates released an analysis of the EPA’s regulations on carbon emissions from existing power plants [...]
by Ann Purvis Heartland Institute After fighting a request for information for several months, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) responded to a subpoena from Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. In June 2015, NOAA published a study in the journal Science claiming newly recalibrated temperature data adjusted to reflect [...]
by Nancy Smith Sunshine State News Some time ago I had an epiphany about climate change. I came to realize it's not so much that conservatives don't buy into it, it's that they don't trust a word out of the mouth of the Obama Administration's lawless, monster of an Environmental Protection Agency. The agency has [...]
Wall Street Journal Opinion States and businesses are suing to stop the Obama Administration’s anticarbon Clean Power Plan, and now they have new evidence to seek a preliminary injunction. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute has obtained government emails that show the EPA secretly worked with environmental lobbyists to craft its Clean Power Plan regulating [...]
by Kimberley A. Strassel Wall Street Journal Some scandals come on fast, and some creep up on Washington. The slow-rolling outrage of 2015—Obama administration secrecy—received a small correction in this week’s omnibus budget bill, but it deserves far more attention. It’s time for the federal government to come back on the grid. A steady drip [...]
by Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) is investigating ExxonMobil over allegations the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change and to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business. The state’s 1921 Martin Act gives New York’s attorney general (AG) sweeping power [...]
