by Marlo News, et al As appearing on The Daily Signal The social cost of carbon is a climate economics construct used to quantify the damages associated with carbon dioxide emissions. The Biden administration wants to use the social cost of carbon in public policy to justify its regulatory agenda. The administration recently invited the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing on GregWalcher.com This month, voters in five counties of eastern Oregon voted to instruct local officials to take action to secede from Oregon, and join Idaho instead. Separatist movements are not especially uncommon in the West – several have sprouted in Colorado over the years [...]
by Varun Hukeri Reporter After a cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline in early May caused a major disruption to the nation’s energy supply, a White House advisory council published a report recommending the Biden administration not to repair or upgrade pipeline infrastructure. A report published May 13 by the White House Environmental Justice Advisory [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel With another federal oil and gas drilling moratorium looming, fewer pundits are accusing the government of picking winners and losers — because it’s difficult to see any winners. It seems more like the old grade-school trick of “heads I win, tails [...]
Watchdog Group Seeks Records to Clarify Biden Administration's Definition of "Equity" and Other Orwellian Terms For Immediate Release: March 10, 2021 Contact: Info@eelegal.org (202-810-2001) Washington, D.C. - On Monday, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a conservative watchdog group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Energy [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing on RealClear Energy It’s fashionable to slam fossil fuels these days. But the oil and gas industry just had a last laugh of sorts. At the end of 2020, the CEO of the Texas-based oil services company Innovex Downhole Solutions wanted to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In the 1980s, when the Clash sang “Should I stay or should I go,” its lyrics include the no-win scenario, “If I go there will be trouble, An’ if I stay it will be double.” That damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t dilemma is a [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held confirmation hearings this week on President Joe Biden’s Interior Secretary nominee, Rep. Deb Haaland. The committee had already approved the nomination of Jennifer Granholm to be Secretary of Energy, and the Environment and [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel After several years of frustration with Congress, President Obama famously said, “We’re not just going to be waiting for legislation. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders… that move [...]
On February 3, 2021, E&E Legal's Steve Milloy joined Kara McKinney's OAN's Tipping Point to discuss the climate hypocrisy of John Forbes Kerry and other issues. https://youtu.be/x3jJPe6G6Jc
