by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As appearing on the Washington Examiner President Donald Trump campaigned on ending what he calls the “Green New Scam.” Toward that end, he issued an executive order on his first day in office titled “Unleashing American Energy” that reads, in part, “All agencies shall [...]
by Garrett Downs, Kelsey Brugge E&EDaily The Trump administration plans to end the agency’s 2009 scientific finding that undergirds U.S. climate policy. Democrats on Capitol Hill erupted at the news that Donald Trump’s EPA plans to scrap a landmark scientific finding that underpins U.S. climate policy. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s move to challenge the endangerment [...]
by Matthew Daly Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a potential landmark action, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has privately urged the Trump administration to reconsider a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action against climate change. In a report to the White House, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called [...]
by Dino Grandoni Washington Post It’s a bedrock court case on climate change. Now it has a bull's eye on its back. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg may eventually result in a reassessment — or at least, a narrower reading — of the Supreme Court’s first and most important ruling on rising global temperatures. The landmark [...]
by H. Sterling Burnett Heartland The co-sponsors of a resolution calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reopen and review its finding that carbon dioxide poses a danger to human health and the environment withdrew the resolution from consideration. A resolution calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reopen and review its finding [...]
by Zach Colman ClimateWire NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The conservative movement might have given U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt cover for one of the few climate change fights he's hesitated to embrace. Pruitt has expressed cautiousness about challenging the endangerment finding, the tome of scientific evidence for the harmful impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on human health. He's [...]
by Tom DiChristopher CNBC HOUSTON — Clips of President Donald Trump extolling the virtues of fossil fuels played over a bed of soaring music, in the well-appointed hotel ballroom, as images of coal miners and the Statue of Liberty flashed across the screen. When the video came to a close, the audience erupted in applause [...]
On Tuesday September 27, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute's President Craig Richardson appeared on David Knight's Real News to talk about energy poverty. E&E Legal recently released a revised Energy Poverty video.
Emily Holden Politico EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s attacks on mainstream climate science are causing discomfort in a surprising corner — among many of the conservative and industry groups that have cheered his efforts to dismantle Barack Obama’s environmental regulations. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, political groups backed by the Koch brothers and the top lobbying [...]
Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Letter to the Wall Street Journal Editor Regarding your editorial “Highway From the Endangerment Zone” (April 19): Many compelling reasons exist for revisiting the EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. Based on email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and other evidence, the Obama EPA may have [...]
