by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The author of one of America’s most famous autobiographies, The Education of Henry Adams, wrote that “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin must be wondering where his influence stops. With [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in the Washington Examiner Democrats are launching a $12 million climate ad campaign with the goal of turning out 2 million "green" voters for the November elections. They imagine the recent passage of the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” including its $369 billion [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Soft lockdown: The parks were closed due to the forecasted heat wave’ It was 105 degrees in Sacramento Sunday. Today it could be 111 degrees. This is what is known as hot summer weather in California. We [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A couple of weeks ago a letter to the editor appeared in this paper and six others around the state, asserting that “Removing trees from Colorado forests will not prevent wildfires from burning.” Really? As if removing all the wood from [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe How will EVs charge with CalISO’s flex alert and energy providers pleading for electricity conservation? Thursday and Friday U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm will travel to Southern California to tour the site of one of the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The Gov. will offer conservation tips while blaming fossil fuels rather than his climate change policies Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday morning he will discuss the heat wave expected to hit California and the entire West Coast [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Lawmakers ignore the additional $3.2 billion in costs in SB 1020, which will be passed on to 27 million ratepayers Assembly Bill 1020, a bill to establish 100% clean energy statewide, and require state agencies to accelerate [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Do the authors of AB 1137 understand that by banning existing oil wells, California will be thrust into immediate energy poverty? Senate Bill 1137, gut-and-amend legislation by Democrat Senators Lena Gonzalez and Monique Limón, would require 3,200-foot [...]
by Jack McEvoy Daily Caller California has passed a new regulation that will ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles; the new emissions rule, which was permitted by the Biden administration, will have wide-ranging effects beyond California and could accelerate the nationwide transition to electric cars. California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) finalized a rule Thursday that [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A quantum physicist named Erwin Schrodinger, in a 1935 discussion with Albert Einstein, suggested a concept known as Schrodinger’s Cat, whereby an animal is both alive and dead, depending on unknowable hypothetical circumstances. There is a modern variation, in which someone [...]
