by Marlo News, et al As appearing on The Daily Signal The social cost of carbon is a climate economics construct used to quantify the damages associated with carbon dioxide emissions. The Biden administration wants to use the social cost of carbon in public policy to justify its regulatory agenda. The administration recently invited the [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett The Heartland Institute The Biden administration is pushing a range of policies across various regulatory agencies to force companies, pension fund managers, and portfolio funds to account for and divulge climate-related risks, in their disclosure statements, stock offerings, annual reports, and other public documents... With marching orders from Biden and Harris [...]
by Erin Voegele Biodiesel Magazine A coalition of 24 organizations, including Americans for Prosperity [and E&E Legal], sent a letter to President Trump April 28 urging him to waive Renewable Fuel Standard blending requirements for the remainder of the year. “The pandemic has underscored the need for permanent regulatory reform…” the letter states. “One area [...]
OK Energy Today About two dozen conservative groups are asking President Trump to go ahead and waive the controversial biofuel blending requirements fought by at least one small Oklahoma refinery and others. The groups sent the President a letter this week pitching their request against the Renewable Fuel Standard for the rest of this year. Twenty-three groups [...]
Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), joined with nearly fifty other representatives from free-market organizations in a letter to President Trump expressing support for "the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule. This joint Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rulemaking will reform the federal fuel mandates known as the [...]
The Energy & Environment Legal Institute was one of more than twenty free-market organizations that signed onto the American Energy Alliance's (AEA's) Energy Freedom Resolution. AEA notes, "This resolution is a statement on the relationship between energy, freedom, and human wellbeing. The members of this coalition agree: a free market is the means through which [...]
On December 10, E&E Legal joined the American Energy Alliance (AEA), Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and more than 30 other free-market organizations in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell objecting "to any deal that extends, expands, or enlarges the electric vehicle tax credit," as the letter says. The joint correspondence goes on to say: The [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 11, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: JORDAN McGILLIS (AEA) 202.621-2947 Nationwide Free Market Coalition to President Trump: Hold Firm on CAFE Reform WASHINGTON — A coalition of 30 organizations, led by the American Energy Alliance, sent a letter to President Trump today expressing its unified support for his administration's effort to reform the federal [...]
American Energy Alliance Press Release Free Market Coalition to Congress: No Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Expansion WASHINGTON – Today, a coalition of 34 organizations [including E&E Legal], led by the American Energy Alliance, sent a letter to several members of Congress expressing their unified opposition to any effort to expand the electric vehicle tax credit. Read the [...]
E&E Legal's President Craig Richardson was one of dozens of signatories on letter to President Trump expressing unwavering support for his proposed President’s Commission on Climate Security. The letter, spearheaded by Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and Heartland's Tim Huelskamp, said that such a Commission "would be charged with conducting an independent, high-level [...]
