by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Investor's Business Daily California Gov. Jerry Brown has hailed the Golden State as a model to be followed when United Nations climate negotiators convene in Paris this year. If my experience working for the California Energy Commission taught me anything, it's [...]
For Immediate Release: July 14, 2015 Contact: David W. Schnare Schnare@eelegal.org 571-243-7975 In a brief, harmful opinion straying from well-established precedent, on Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in E&E Legal Institute v. Epel condemned the 128,000 poorest families in Colorado, many living well below the federal poverty line, to perpetual [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Philadelphia Inquirer The idea of Pennsylvania doing things "the California way" doesn't make much sense. Unfortunately, Pennsylvanians may not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon finalize the Clean Power Plan, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in the Flash Point Report A bill in the California Legislature is blazing through to mandate the reduction of 50 percent in the use of petroleum-based fuels, 50 percent reduction in energy use by existing buildings and increases the Renewable Portfolio Standard from 33 percent [...]
by Joseph Weber Fox News They worked hard, they played hard. Newly obtained emails reveal a seemingly close relationship, during and after work hours, between an EPA office and influential environmental groups -- showing a top agency official encouraged one such group to write an anti-coal report and even invited members to a summer bash [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller Emails obtained by a free-market legal group show that EPA officials may have been using talking points given to them by a policy expert with the Center for American Progress (CAP) — a think tank founded by Clinton adviser John Podesta and backed by liberal billionaire George Soros. Then-CAP [...]
