by Lachlan Markay Washington Free Beacon A prominent left-wing group helped formulate Environmental Protection Agency talking points designed to sell a controversial regulatory scheme to skeptical journalists, internal emails show. The emails show Joseph Goffman, the senior counsel of EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, circulating talking points from Center for American Progress climate strategy [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in the Flash Point Report Last week, Pope Francis called for a cultural revolution to correct what he calls the “structurally perverse” economic system of the rich exploiting the poor that is turning Earth into an “immense pile of filth.” Under the sub-heading “Climate as [...]
by Emily Zanotti The Commentary & Policy Blog of the Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency has been working, for some time, to craft regulations on coal plants that would dramatically limit both their carbon emissions and their capacity to provide an energy source – electricity – to the majority of Americans in an affordable way. [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in the Flash Point Report Nearly every climate change and clean energy expert admits that California will achieve the legislatively mandated policy goals of AB 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which said the state has to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels [...]
by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon A high-level official at the Environmental Protection Agency used a personal email address to collaborate with a left-wing environmental group on major greenhouse gas regulations, newly released emails show. Michael Goo, then the head of EPA’s policy division, in May 2011 emailed John Coequyt, the director of the [...]
by Craig Richardson Executive Director, Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal has produced and released a two-minute video that discusses the Pope's encyclical and "Energy Poverty" in Europe) The 1965 Second Vatican Council document, Gaudium et Spes (Joy and Hope) says “the [Catholic] Church…serves as a leaven and as a kind of soul for [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing on Watts Up With That Former Secretary of State, and presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not the only current or former Obama administration official facing investigation for use of a private email account skirting federal record keeping laws. The list of offenders [...]
On Wednesday June 17, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow Chris Horner met with approximately two dozen French academics, journalists, Students for Liberty and policy leaders in the National Assembly to discuss the upcoming COP-21 in Paris and areas where climate- and climate-policy realists can cooperate.
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Missoulian The idea of Montana doing things “the California way” doesn’t make much sense. Unfortunately, Montanans might not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon finalize the Clean Power Plan, [...]
by Chris Horner E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow I met with some old friends and colleagues in Brussels in June, discussing the sorry state of “global warming” politics here and at home. “Climate” is an obsession in Europe, a continent whose leaders insist on hobbling the rest of the world with policies they’ve inflicted upon [...]
