by Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon A high-level official at the Environmental Protection Agency used a personal email address to collaborate with a left-wing environmental group on major greenhouse gas regulations, newly released emails show. Michael Goo, then the head of EPA’s policy division, in May 2011 emailed John Coequyt, the director of the [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing on Watts Up With That Former Secretary of State, and presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not the only current or former Obama administration official facing investigation for use of a private email account skirting federal record keeping laws. The list of offenders [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Missoulian The idea of Montana doing things “the California way” doesn’t make much sense. Unfortunately, Montanans might not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon finalize the Clean Power Plan, [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in the Las Vegas Review-Journal The idea of Nevada doing things “the California way” doesn’t make much sense. Unfortunately, Nevadans might not have a choice if the Obama administration has its way. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon finalize the Clean [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel From the moment the whispers of EPA’s new Carbon Pollution Standards were heard, a legal challenge was apparent. As EPA heads toward zero hour, when it will finalize the Clean Power Plan, the agency has managed to only delay the first legal challenge. A three Judge panel of the [...]
by James H. "Smokey" Shott Blue field Daily Telegraph It seems that every few weeks we hear or see some scientific data that seriously challenges the politically correct notion that the activities of man, burning fossil fuels for energy, are irreversibly and catastrophically damaging the Earth’s atmosphere and causing global temperatures to rise to dangerous [...]
by Marlo Lewis Cooler Heads Blog “EPA appears to have dropped its controversial requirement that new coal plants install partial carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) from its draft final new source performance standards (NSPS) that it recently sent to the White House for interagency review, according to one informed source,” Dawn Reeves reported last week [...]
by James Sawhill, Guest Essay Watts Up With That The EPA’s attempt to harness new coal-fired power plant constructions has been exposed as ideological rather than legal. The EPA further ignored the Department of Energy’s (DOE) earlier conclusion that carbon capture and storage (CCS) has not been “adequately demonstrated.” [1] Thanks to commentary from The [...]
by Matthew Hardin FME Law Counsel The DC Circuit will soon decide whether the EPA’s Clean Power Plan - which West Virginia’s Solicitor General says would "reorder the way we use energy, from plant to plug” - is constitutional. Regardless of whether EPA is allowed to go forward with this reordering, however, the Plan has already [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in the Flash Point Report California Gov. Jerry Brown issued an Executive Order Wednesday for a new target for greenhouse gas emissions cuts. Brown said it was critical to address what he called “an ever-growing threat” posed by global warming to California’s economy and well-being. [...]
