by Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) failed to comply with its legal obligation to reduce the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions, according to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled in favor of four teenagers supported by Our Children’s Trust, the Conservation Law Foundation, and the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance. The [...]
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 Dylan Brown E&E reporter Conservative advocacy groups sued the Obama administration yesterday for internal communications regarding how the Interior Department developed a proposal to increase protections for streams near coal mines. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute and Free Market Environmental Law Clinic are seeking all email and text message correspondence during certain time [...]
by Ann Purvis Heartland Institute After fighting a request for information for several months, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) responded to a subpoena from Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. In June 2015, NOAA published a study in the journal Science claiming newly recalibrated temperature data adjusted to reflect [...]
by Nancy Smith Sunshine State News Some time ago I had an epiphany about climate change. I came to realize it's not so much that conservatives don't buy into it, it's that they don't trust a word out of the mouth of the Obama Administration's lawless, monster of an Environmental Protection Agency. The agency has [...]
by Craig Richardson Executive Director In a makeshift convention hall adjacent to the UN's official site for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop 21), NGOs, and corporate sponsors showed off the latest 'sustainable' technologies and had other fancy presentations in display areas. One such exhibit included a charging station that featured seats where [...]
by Craig Richardson Executive Director Yesterday, December 9, I went to the UN's 2015 Paris Climate Conference - COP 21, which is being held in a suburb of France's capital city. I interviewed E&E Legal's Senior Legal Fellow Chris Horner, who is a veteran of these UN climate conferences, and he provided some excellent analysis of the Paris summit thus [...]
by Craig Richardson Executive Director The lead stories on television read in a haunting monotone by familiar anchors declare if we don't do something immediately, mankind could cease to exist, and despite the warnings, it may already be too late. Scientists all agree this climate phenomenon is irreversible and the consequences are devastating! And what [...]
by Stephen Dinan Washington Times Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa was explicit earlier this year when asked what it would take for developing countries to sign up for the emerging U.S.-led climate deal: “Money." His candor was recounted in an April email between two of the Obama administration’s top global warming officials, who called the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As appearing in the Flash Report California Governor Jerry Brown inherited the Golden State, the land of opportunity. However, A 2014 Stanford study found the heaviest burden for climate change regulation costs falls on people – especially lower income groups – and not corporations, because companies ultimately [...]
