by E&E Legal's Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As Appearing in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Last fall, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring his state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels. That ratchets the state’s already severe limits down even tighter, now requiring a reduction to levels [...]
For Immediate Release: June 21, 2017 Contact: Craig Richardson info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 State Department Attempts to Change Rules in Response to E&E Legal Suit in order to Avoid Releasing Requested Paris Treaty Records Washington, D.C. – Yesterday Attorneys for the State Department filed a brief in response to the Energy & Environment Legal Insitute's (E&E Legal's) May Motion for Summary Judgment with the [...]
For Immediate Release: June 19, 2017 Contact: Craig Richardson info@eelegal.org 202-810-2001 E&E Legal Files a Motion to Renew and Reargue with New York Supreme Court Concerning OAG FOIL Case Over Revelation of AG Efforts to Hide Schneiderman Use of Private E-mail New York, NY – Late last week, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), acting on newly revealed information about [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller News Foundation Court documents show that the attorney general involved in a year-long probe targeting ExxonMobil’s climate records used a private email address to conduct official business. Conservative legal group Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) explained in court documents Friday that New York AG Eric Schneiderman submitted a privilege [...]
by Robert Gordon The Daily Signal Does the Environmental Protection Agency care more about its image than it does about the environment? Its behavior in response to the massive 2015 Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado would suggest a very clear “yes.” The Environmental Protection Agency is hiding its incredible recklessness in the affair by [...]
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press On a trip to China to meet with the Communist dictator President Xi Jinping, California Governor Jerry Brown is signaling to the world his fidelity to the unratified and dubious Paris Climate treaty, in spite of President Donald Trump’s recent withdrawal [...]
The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) applauds President Trump’s decision to abandoned the disastrous Paris Treaty that would have destroyed American jobs and led to skyrocketing energy prices putting those most vulnerable at risk. Europe is the model for these failed ‘climate policies,’ and President Trump is correct in not allowing the United [...]
by Ken Silverstein Environmental Leader Just as the president has said the United States would eventually withdraw from the Paris climate accord, the shareholders of the world’s biggest oil company made a very different statement: Exxon Mobil Corp. must increase its transparency and reduce its CO2 releases. It’s a non-binding proposal that Exxon’s management said [...]
Following is the address E&E Legal Senior Fellow and author of Junkscience.com gave today at the Exxon Mobil Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. His comments were in support of his shareholder proposal to end all political activist shareholder proposals. Steve Milloy address at ExxonMobil annual meeting May 31, 2017 My fellow shareholders, we are being [...]
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow As Appearing in Canada Free Press With President Donald Trump reportedly pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord, heads must be exploding in California’s Democratic supermajority State Capitol. However, Trump’s decision fulfills a very important campaign promise he made to “cancel” the accord. California Gov. Jerry Brown [...]
