by Jim Stinson PoliZette The White House canceled a second internal meeting Tuesday on the controversial Paris climate agreement. The cancellation is likely a sign Trump is still conflicted about whether to deliver on his campaign promise to withdraw the U.S. from the bargain or to listen to advisers urging him to spare the deal... Attorney Christopher C. [...]
by Kathryn Blackhurst PoliZette Forty self-described free-market organizations called on President Donald Trump, in a letter released Monday, to keep his campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Reports surfaced in April that Trump’s more politically moderate advisers were advocating the White House keep the nation committed to the Obama-era [...]
Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and forty other free-market and liberty organizations sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump enthusiastically supporting his campaign pledge to"withdraw fully from the Paris Climate Treaty and to stop all taxpayer funding of UN global warming programs." CEI ran an ad recently [...]
For Immediate Release: February 10, 2016 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-785-8301 U.S. Supreme Court Stays Obama Clean Power Plan; E&E Legal Part of Coalition Seeking Stay Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay halting enforcement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) recent efforts to shut down coal-fired power plants in the United States. The rule, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
E&E Legal was one of nearly twenty free market oriented groups who provided comments to the Honorable Michael Boots, Chair, regarding the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review. In the summary, the letter said: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review is an inappropriate framework for making climate policy. Project-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should not be a [...]
Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) joined the American Energy Alliance (AEA), Heartland Institute, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and 13 other groups in a letter sent to U.S. House Representatives urging them to support H.R. 703, a bill introduced by Cong. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), which would repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In [...]
by Bonner Cohen Senior Fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research As Appearing in The Heartland Institute's Magazine In the latest challenge to the Obama administration’s intensifying regulatory actions, a coalition of free-market and conservative organizations is calling on state governments to resist the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. In a December letter [...]
Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute joined Americans for Prosperity, and several other organizations in an open letter to state legislators urging them to pass the Reliable, Affordable and Safe Power (RASP) Act. The RASP Act is aimed at pushing back on "the Environmental Protection Agency proposed unprecedented regulation on our nation’s energy producers and [...]
