by Chris White Daily Caller Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy joined an environmental group that was one of the chief lobbyists for former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan. McCarthy announced her decision to lead the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Monday on Twitter, notifying her followers of the new gig. Reports show [...]
by Brian Anderson Washington Examiner Congratulations are in order for former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy. As of this week, she has been tasked with running an environmental group that, for many years, appeared to be running her federal agency. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a behemoth among environmental nonprofit organizations, has named McCarthy [...]
by Kyla Asbury Legal Newsline PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) – Chemicals in a group known as PFAS have been in the headlines a lot lately, from congressional hearings to a new film starring Mark Ruffalo that follows a class action lawsuit against DuPont in the Parkersburg area. Part of that case created a research project [...]
by Steve Milloy, Junkscience.com Founder & E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As Published by Heartland Institute What follows are climate predictions forecast to come true during the 2010s - one for each year. A few timely missed predictions for 2020 are also added as a bonus feature... (View Heartland's video released with the Milloy article). [...]
Today, Junkscience.com founder and E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Steve Milloy filed separate "greenwashing" shareholder proposals with ExxonMobil and Xcel Energy. Following are two separate blog posts Milloy posted to Junkscience.com. Xcel Energy Xcel Energy announced in 2019 it would be the first electric utility to derive 100% of its electricity from sources that don’t [...]
by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com According to a leader in the fight against junk science, there's "zero science" behind a new warning that the world must reach "peak meat" by 2030 to meet environmental targets. The meat and dairy industries have long been thought responsible for a large amount of the emissions that individuals, think tanks, and [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel Washington insiders’ opposition to moving the BLM to Grand Junction reached a new low last week. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), fired another shot at the Interior Department, still trying to stop the move before it starts. The [...]
by Chris Woodward OneNewsNow.com Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named Person of the Year by Time magazine, prompting praise and mockery over the pick. Thunberg, who is 16, won international attention earlier this year when she appeared at a United Nations conference and scolded the body for allowing the planet to die and, [...]
by Kenneth Artz Heartland Institute The Environmental Protection Agency repealed a proposed regulatory reform to limit the agency’s use of studies for which the underlying data is not available for “independent validation to craft major new regulations. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew a regulatory reform it proposed in April 2018 to limit the [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing in The Daily Signal Some key House Republicans have chosen to support a Democratic bill called the Scientific Integrity Act. That nearly every House Democrat is a co-sponsor of the bill was apparently insufficient warning. Recently passed out of the House Science, [...]
