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8 05, 2017

E&E Legal Joins CEI, Other Free-Market Groups on Letter Urging President Trump to Keep his Campaign Promise by Withdrawing from Paris Treaty

2017-05-21T15:30:20-04:00May 8th, 2017|"Climate Change", 2015 Paris Talks, Coalitions, Conflict of Interest, Paris Climate Treaty, Richardson|

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 [...]

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10 02, 2016

Press Release: U.S. Supreme Court Stays Obama Clean Power Plan;
E&E Legal Part of Coalition Seeking Stay

2016-02-10T09:23:09-05:00February 10th, 2016|"Climate Change", Clean Power Plan, Coalitions, Green Groups, Press Releases, Scandal, Schnare, U.S. Supreme Court|

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, [...]

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8 04, 2015

Prandoni: Sen. McConnell Is Right; States Should Wait To Get Into Bed With EPA

2016-12-11T17:07:40-05:00April 8th, 2015|111d, Coalitions, War on Coal|

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 [...]

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31 03, 2015

ATR: Conservative Groups Unify Around McConnell Strategy to Protect States Against EPA Power Grab; E&E Legal One of the Signatories

2015-04-01T13:18:52-04:00March 31st, 2015|"Climate Change", Coalitions, U.S. Congress|

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 [...]

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25 03, 2015

E&E Legal Joins CEI and Other Free Market Allies in Submitting Comments re: Council on Environmental Quality’s NEPA Review

2015-03-27T20:28:24-04:00March 25th, 2015|"Climate Change", Coalitions, Comments, Richardson, Schnare, War on Coal|

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 [...]

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20 03, 2015

E&E Legal Joins Other Groups in Urging Congress to Repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard

2016-12-11T17:07:41-05:00March 20th, 2015|Coalitions, Renewable Energy, Renewable Subsidies|

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 [...]

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14 01, 2015

Cohen: Resist EPA’s ‘Clean Power Plan,’ Coalition Urges States

2015-01-15T15:38:57-05:00January 14th, 2015|Coalitions, GHG Rule, Media Coverage|

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 [...]

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4 12, 2014

E&E Legal Joins Other Groups In An Open Letter to State Legislators: Keep Energy Affordable and Protect the Reliability of the Energy Grid by Passing the RASP Act

2014-12-04T14:36:49-05:00December 4th, 2014|Coalitions, GHG Rule, Schnare|

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 [...]

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7 11, 2014

E&E Legal Joins 65 Other Groups in Urging Congress not to Revive Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC)

2014-11-07T11:05:25-05:00November 7th, 2014|Coalitions, Hidden Cost of Wind, Renewable Subsidies|

Tuesday's elections saw a massive tidal wave against the Obama Administration's government overreach - particularly in the area of energy and the environment.  The U.S. Senate changed parties, and the GOP in the U.S. House extended their majority.  With the new Congress poised to bring sanity back to federal energy and environment policies, the Energy [...]

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16 09, 2013

Free Market Groups Join to Call on U.S. Senate Committee to Oppose Ron Binz’s FERC Nomination

2013-09-27T23:02:17-04:00September 16th, 2013|Coalitions, Issues, Legislative Branch, Nominees, U.S. Congress, War on Coal|

WASHINGTON D.C. – The American Tradition Institute (ATI) joined the American Energy Alliance (AEA) and 12 other free market organizations in sending a letter today to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources which called on committee members to oppose the confirmation of Ron Binz as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).  Citing "grave concerns" [...]

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