by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in Heartland Freedom Pub How we long for the good old days! That’s the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about Department of the Interior actions under President Trump. The Department’s re-interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty [...]
H. Sterling Burnett, Interviewer Heartland Institute Under President Donald Trump, EPA has begun a concerted effort to end corruption and bring transparency to the science used by the agency to underpin regulations. EPA has ended the use of secret science, instilling rules to increase transparency and testability of the science used by the agency, has [...]
by Larry Bell NewsMax At long last, an Arizona Court has finally ruled to end actions by the University of Arizona (UA) to obstruct requests for public release of e-mails which can shed light upon scientifically dubious and intentionally misleading climate research practices which have had enormously far-reaching and costly government policy consequences. On July [...]
By James M. Taylor and H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal)...trounced government hacks in the grips of climate alarmist mania in two court battles recently. In the first case, Arizona’s appellate court issued a terse, seven-word decision, “Motion for Stay Pending Appeal is DENIED,” in a case in [...]
Junkscience.com founder and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow testified yesterday on a topic he literally wrote the book: science reform. In the testimony he said in part: Since 1990s, EPA grantees like Harvard’s Doug Dockery and Brigham Young University’s Arden Pope have refused to make available to the public the raw data used in their epidemiologic [...]
by Sean Reilly E&E News reporter When acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler laid out the need for more certainty to agency employees in a get-acquainted speech Wednesday, his top priority might have come as a surprise: risk communication. "Risk communication goes to the heart of EPA's mission of protecting public health and the environment," he [...]
by Scott Waldman E&E News reporter Climate change. Secondhand smoke. Air pollution. There's a growing body of science showing that humans are threatened by all three. Policymakers have spent years crafting public health protections based on that research. Steve Milloy just sees junk to debunk. The former securities lawyer and Trump EPA transition official has [...]
by Tom Harris Heartland Institute Earth Day Network’s misguided anti-plastic campaign is a sign of more nonsense to come. Earth Day Network (EDN) chose “End Plastic Pollution” as their theme for this year’s April 22 Earth Day. It is just the tip of the anti-plastic activism that now consumes environmental extremists. A Google search on [...]
by Carolynn Kormann The New Yorker [Ed. Note: Obviously the New Yorker and Kormann are far left and don't understand that transparency and sound science are the cornerstones of developing sound regulations. The 'public health' argument is a straw man with no basis in fact.] “Today is a red-letter day, a banner day,” Scott Pruitt, [...]
by James Delingpole Breitbart Scott Pruitt has signed a proposed rule banning “secret science” from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA reports: The rule will ensure that the regulatory science underlying Agency actions is fully transparent, and that underlying scientific information is publicly available in a manner sufficient for independent validation. “The era of [...]
