by Bonner Cohen Heartland Institute An obscure, Maryland-based environmental group that has pocketed tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money over the past 14 years is at the center of a congressional investigation after posting a letter on its website urging President Barack Obama to use racketeering statutes against those questioning predictions of an [...]
by Craig Richardson Executive Director In a makeshift convention hall adjacent to the UN's official site for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop 21), NGOs, and corporate sponsors showed off the latest 'sustainable' technologies and had other fancy presentations in display areas. One such exhibit included a charging station that featured seats where [...]
by Craig Richardson Executive Director Yesterday, December 9, I went to the UN's 2015 Paris Climate Conference - COP 21, which is being held in a suburb of France's capital city. I interviewed E&E Legal's Senior Legal Fellow Chris Horner, who is a veteran of these UN climate conferences, and he provided some excellent analysis of the Paris summit thus [...]
by Craig Richardson Executive Director The lead stories on television read in a haunting monotone by familiar anchors declare if we don't do something immediately, mankind could cease to exist, and despite the warnings, it may already be too late. Scientists all agree this climate phenomenon is irreversible and the consequences are devastating! And what [...]
by Craig Richardson Executive Director While world leaders, United Nations officials, green activists, and thousands of friendly media and corporate supporters meet in the suburbs of Paris in an attempt to ink a 'climate change' agreement at COP-21, a small but hearty group of 'climate realists' dared to enter the French capital to provide an [...]
by Stephen Dinan Washington Times Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa was explicit earlier this year when asked what it would take for developing countries to sign up for the emerging U.S.-led climate deal: “Money." His candor was recounted in an April email between two of the Obama administration’s top global warming officials, who called the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report California Governor Jerry Brown inherited the Golden State, the land of opportunity. However, A 2014 Stanford study found the heaviest burden for climate change regulation costs falls on people – especially lower income groups – and not corporations, because companies ultimately [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue IX: Fall 2015. Click on headlines for the full article. E&E Legal Releases ‘Energy Poverty’ Video for Papal Visit E&E Legal firmly believes that humanity has a moral obligation to protect and preserve the environment. However, the Pope’s strategy to address ‘climate change’ – [...]
Pope Francis and other faith leaders have made addressing ‘climate change’ one of most important ‘moral’ issues of our time. During his historic visit to the United States in September, the Pope in an address to a joint session of Congress said, “I call for a courageous and responsible effort to 'redirect our steps' and [...]
On October 9th, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court regarding the suit E&E Legal brought against the State of Colorado concerning the constitutionality of its Renewable Energy Standards (RES). E&E Legal has now asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review this case [...]
