15 05, 2015
11 05, 2015
E&E Legal Letters Issues VII: E&E Legal’s David Schnare Debates Sierra Club’s VA Executive Director on “Climate Change”
by Chaim Mandlebaum FME Law Counsel On April 30th 2015, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and WCVE PBS Richmond hosted a debate on climate change and the future. The debate was titled “Living with Climate Change” and it featured the Glen Besa, Executive Director of the Virginia Sierra Club debating with Dr. David Schnare, [...]
23 04, 2015
Daily Mail: Our climate models are WRONG: Global warming has slowed and recent changes are down to ‘natural variability’, says study
by Ellie Zolfagharifard Daily Mail Global warming hasn't happened as fast as expected, according to a new study based on 1,000 years of temperature records. The research claims that natural variability in surface temperatures over the course of a decade can account for increases and dips in warming rates. But it adds that these so-called [...]
20 04, 2015
McConnell: EPA climate rule a disaster worth fighting against
by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell As Appearing in the Kentucky Herald The Herald-Leader's recent attempt to equate those who work in the Kentucky coal fields — along with those of us who support and defend their way of life — with the Southern plantation owners who once enriched themselves off the backs of slaves is [...]
14 04, 2015
Thomas Sowell: The New Inquisition
Thomas Sowell Townhall.com How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it... Congressman Raul Grijalva has been writing universities, demanding financial records showing who is financing the research of dissenting scientists, and demanding their internal communications as well. Mr. Grijalva says that [...]
13 04, 2015
Chris Horner: Rebranding the EPA’s clean air agenda
by Chris Horner Senior Legal Fellow Washington Times [Click here to view the e-mails Horner cites in this article] On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hear an important case, Murray Energy v. EPA, regarding what used to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s global warming agenda. At issue are [...]
31 03, 2015
ATR: Conservative Groups Unify Around McConnell Strategy to Protect States Against EPA Power Grab; E&E Legal One of the Signatories
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 [...]
31 03, 2015
Release: E&E Legal Sues State Department for Emails, Texts with Green Groups re: Climate Treaty
For Immediate Release: March 31, 2015 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 E&E Legal Files Suit to Compel U.S. State Department to Produce Documents Related to its Involvement with Green Activists, Certain Records Concerning "Climate Change" and the Paris, "Kyoto II" Meetings Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) filed a lawsuit to compel the U.S. [...]
31 03, 2015
Heartlander: California Considering Stricter Climate Change Laws
by Bonner Cohen Heartlander Magazine In response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) call to adopt more aggressive targets to combat climate change, California lawmakers are considering several approaches to force state residents to reduce fossil fuel use and increase the volume of renewable and alternative fuels used. In his January State of the State address, [...]
25 03, 2015
E&E Legal Joins CEI and Other Free Market Allies in Submitting Comments re: Council on Environmental Quality’s NEPA Review
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 [...]