by Ellie Zolfagharifard Daily Mail Global warming hasn't happened as fast as expected, according to a new study based on 1,000 years of temperature records. The research claims that natural variability in surface temperatures over the course of a decade can account for increases and dips in warming rates. But it adds that these so-called [...]
by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell As Appearing in the Kentucky Herald The Herald-Leader's recent attempt to equate those who work in the Kentucky coal fields — along with those of us who support and defend their way of life — with the Southern plantation owners who once enriched themselves off the backs of slaves is [...]
Thomas Sowell Townhall.com How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it... Congressman Raul Grijalva has been writing universities, demanding financial records showing who is financing the research of dissenting scientists, and demanding their internal communications as well. Mr. Grijalva says that [...]
by Chris Horner Senior Legal Fellow Washington Times [Click here to view the e-mails Horner cites in this article] On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear an important case, Murray Energy v. EPA, regarding what used to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s global warming agenda. At issue are [...]
by Chris Prandoni, Americans for Tax Reform As Appearing in Forbes Last year, the Obama Administration proposed the Clean Power Plan (CPP), an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that would reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent. A necessary result of these carbon reductions is increased electricity costs and reduced grid reliability as coal plants are [...]
For Immediate Release: April 2, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 E&E Legal Launches Sierra Club Unearthed, a Special Project to Expose How the Sierra Club's Been Hijacked by National "Players," and to Serve as a Portal for Local Club Members Seeking to Restore the Group to its Original Mission Washington, D.C. -- Today, the [...]
by Ethan Barton Washington Examiner A nonprofit government watchdog is suing the Department of State seeking to force the agency to disclose email and text message records of its communications with environmental activist groups like the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and World Wildlife Fund. The suit follows two Freedom of Information Act requests [...]
by Alexander Hendrie & Chris Prandoni Americans for Tax Reform Americans for Tax Reform today released a coalition letter signed by 32 nationwide conservative or free-market organizations supporting Sen. Mitch McConnell’s work with states to contest the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP). Last June the EPA proposed the legally precarious CPP that [...]
by Jean Chemnick E&E reporter A conservative group is suing the State Department under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for records related to possible involvement by environmental advocacy groups in the department's preparations for this year's high-stakes round of U.N. climate negotiations. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute filed suit in U.S. District Court for the [...]
