by David W. Schnare General Counsel EPA received over two million comments on its proposal to shutter about half of all coal-fired power plants using authority it claims it has under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. EPA calls this its “Clean Power Plan” and through the rule would require States to establish a [...]
by David W. Schnare General Counsel Eventually the will of the consumers will win out, regardless of the advertising to which they are subjected and even in the politically correct but economically stupid renewable energy business. The political and bureaucratic dynamics of the renewables market have worked toward supporting uneconomic energy like wind and solar [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel Why does E&E stay so busy? Because forces on the left are always scheming to keep records of their work safe from public scrutiny. The latest example is a new report issued by the Union of Concerned scientists: Freedom to Bully: How Laws Intended to Free Information Are Used [...]
by Alyssa Carducci Heartland Magazine The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined it would be safe to operate a nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The NRC completed the last two volumes of its five-volume safety evaluation in January... Tom Tanton, president of T 2 & Associates, a consulting firm to the energy and [...]
by Valerie Richardson Washington Times People who live in glass greenhouses shouldn’t throw stones. A Democrat-led congressional investigation into the funding sources of scientists they deride as climate-change “deniers” has triggered another scientific law — to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva’s investigation into the funding sources of [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in the Washington Times The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recently circulated an email breathlessly titled, “Governments on Track to Reaching Paris 2015 Universal Climate Agreement — Negotiating Text Officially Published.” The message triumphantly claimed that “Another key step towards a new, universal climate [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in The Sacramento Bee The Center of Biological Diversity’s relentless campaign against domestic energy production in California has reached new lows for distortions and fear-mongering. The opinion piece the group published in The Sacramento Bee was a case in point (“Fracking wastewater threatens [...]
by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell As Appearing in the Lexington Herald-Leader The Obama administration's so-called "clean power" regulation seeks to shut down more of America's power generation under the guise of protecting the climate. In reality, this proposed regulation would have a negligible effect on global climate but a profoundly negative impact on [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in The Flash Point Report This is Part ll of Brown Administration Tied To Scandal That Took Down Oregon Governor. Recent revelations resulted in the Feb. 13, 2015 resignation of Democratic Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber over collusion between the California and Washington State governors’ offices, [...]
For Immediate Release: February 27, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Following Rep. Grijalva Inspiration, E&E Legal Files FOIA Requests with Georgia Tech, Universities of Colorado and Arizona Seeking Records Relating to Researchers' Funding Washington, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), in conjunction with the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic [...]
