by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller A U.S.-based conservative group is warning Pope Francis against backing environmental policies that could drive people into life threatening poverty while having no impact on global warming.What do you think? A video by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (EELI) claims policies often championed by left-wing politicians and environmental [...]
For Immediate Release: June 15, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Washington, D.C. - In anticipation of Pope Francis' encyclical,Laudato Si, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) has produced a two-minute video imploring the Pope to understand that "climate change policies in the name of social justice" are actually harming "the most vulnerable among us," [...]
On June 15, Chris Horner gave the following video interview on the role of law in the area of the environment.
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Las Vegas Review-Journal The idea of Nevada doing things “the California way” doesn’t make much sense. Unfortunately, Nevadans might not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon finalize the Clean [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel From the moment the whispers of EPA’s new Carbon Pollution Standards were heard, a legal challenge was apparent. As EPA heads toward zero hour, when it will finalize the Clean Power Plan, the agency has managed to only delay the first legal challenge. A three Judge panel of the [...]
by James H. "Smokey" Shott Blue field Daily Telegraph It seems that every few weeks we hear or see some scientific data that seriously challenges the politically correct notion that the activities of man, burning fossil fuels for energy, are irreversibly and catastrophically damaging the Earth’s atmosphere and causing global temperatures to rise to dangerous [...]
by Marlo Lewis Cooler Heads Blog “EPA appears to have dropped its controversial requirement that new coal plants install partial carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) from its draft final new source performance standards (NSPS) that it recently sent to the White House for interagency review, according to one informed source,” Dawn Reeves reported last week [...]
by James Sawhill, Guest Essay Watts Up With That The EPA’s attempt to harness new coal-fired power plant constructions has been exposed as ideological rather than legal. The EPA further ignored the Department of Energy’s (DOE) earlier conclusion that carbon capture and storage (CCS) has not been “adequately demonstrated.” [1] Thanks to commentary from The [...]
by Phil Kerpen American Commitment The EPA proposal to impose a de facto ban on new coal-fired power plants received more than two million comments from the public – but it looks like it was just one five-page comment from the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) that sent EPA scrambling back to the drawing [...]
For Immediate Release: May 22, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 - MEDIA ADVISORY- Attorney-Authors of Regulatory Comments that Raised Serious Legal Issues re: EPA's Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Mandate Available to Discuss Reports that EPA May Drop this Mandate Who/What: Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) Senior Legal Fellow and well-known [...]
