by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In 2006, Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking said, “Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming…” and suggested colonizing other planets to ensure the survival of the human species. Some [...]
E&E Legal, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC), and Truth in Energy and Climate released another version of "Climate Fact Check," this time for May 2024. The edition highlights sensationalized stories about the climate, which is typical for the corporate [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel California recently adopted a zero-emission requirement for all railroad locomotives in the state by 2030, which many critics are saying could cripple the nation’s freight rail network. That’s because California doesn’t have its own separate fleet of locomotives. So to keep [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Judges don’t weigh the correctness of an environmental report’s conclusions, only its sufficiency’ Judge Samuel T. McAdam of the Yolo County Superior Court denied an environmental lawsuit to halt the Sites Reservoir project, addressing the streamlined legal [...]
E&E Legal joined CEI and other free-market organizations on a May 30, 2o24, letter to Congress supporting a CRA resolution of disapproval on the EPA Power Plant Rule. The letter stated in part: The bottom line is that, for coal powerplants, 90-percent carbon capture is not an “adequately demonstrated” “best system of emission reduction” (BSER), [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Reader asks ‘Whatever happened to the reservoirs that the residents of California approved to be built in 2014?’ Gov. Gavin Newsom is bragging about more than $140 million coming from the Biden-Harris Administration to support “critical water [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Shelter in Place coming so you don’t die from the heat! For a week now most news outlets have issued dire warnings that California will be under an “extreme” heat wave this coming week. Fox News reported [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) famously said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” No fan of academic studies, he had learned how statistics can be used to make almost any point the researcher wants to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Our obsession with the study of antiquities goes back centuries, at least since Renaissance poet Petrarch wrote, “Among the many subjects which interested me, I dwelt especially upon antiquity, for our own age has always repelled me.” But what exactly is [...]
https://youtu.be/0_WdCbVi0BU On May 21, 2024, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder appeared on Fox Business's "The Bottom Line." He discussed the wreckless Biden Green agenda that aims to destroy our electric grid.
