by John Schwartz New York Times WASHINGTON — The debate within the Trump administration over what to do about the Paris climate agreement has reached a critical phase, according to people familiar with the internal negotiations. The decision could hinge on the interpretation of a single phrase in a single provision of a document that [...]
On April 27, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson conducted an interview with InfoWars on the split in the White House over withdrawing from the Paris Treaty, as the President promised on the campaign trail. In addition, the interview covered renewable energy standards that thirty states now have on the books. Watch now.
by Julie Kelly National Review If the climate-change evangelist can’t be bothered to take a House hearing seriously, why should anyone take him seriously? In his testimony to the House Science Committee on Wednesday, Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, told the story of Trofim Lysenko, a plant scientist who worked for [...]
by Alex Newman The New American Obama failed in his mission to make his "global-warming" schemes "Trump proof." Fulfilling some of his key campaign promises to voters, President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to dismantle huge swaths of the unconstitutional “climate” regime imposed on Americans by his predecessor. Among other important targets in Trump's latest executive [...]
by Chaim Mandelbaum, FME Law Executive Director On March 28, President Trump signed an executive order directing the EPA to reconsider the Clean Power Plan imposed by the Obama Administration. This order may temporarily halt the long running legal battle over the plan, thought it surely won’t end it. This directive by the President is critical in [...]
by Tom Johnson NJ Spotlight President Donald Trump yesterday carried through on a vow to roll back key elements of the Obama administration’s efforts to combat climate change, a decision likely to have profound impacts on a coastal state like New Jersey. To environmentalists, Democrats, and other critics of the new president, the step is [...]
E&E Legal's Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, and Craig Richardson, President, issued the following statements regarding President Trump's signing of today's energy independence and climate change policy executive order: Steve Milloy: President Trump did Americans a great service today by issuing his executive order on the Clean Power Plan (CPP). By putting the brakes on the CPP, President [...]
by Michael Bastasch Daily Caller Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt weighed in on an issue the Trump administration has been silent on since taking the reins of government in January. Pruitt said the Paris climate agreement was “a bad deal” that should have been treated by the Obama administration as a treaty, instead [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Washington Times If President Trump wants to put an end to the hoax and economic disaster that is man-made catastrophic global warming hysteria, there’s one order that is essential to issue: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must reopen its “endangerment finding” for greenhouse [...]
by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment, and Thomas Del Beccaro As appearing in Forbes In the church of climate change, carbon emissions are a sin and ending the use of fossil fuels our only prayer. So, the Left regulates and regulates in an effort to reduce so-called greenhouse gases – without ever asking [...]
