by Kelsey Brugger E&E News reporter In the first half of 2020, Trump officials are hurrying to fundamentally change the way environmental rules are crafted. The administration plans to finalize regulations that could hamstring future presidents from making rules that rely on public health studies or fail to fully consider the benefits to Americans. Trump's [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com founder InsideSources.com President Trump is taking a well-deserved victory lap on his “energy dominance” policy. Speaking at the Shale Insight conference last week in Pittsburgh, Trump recounted a number of his energy policy accomplishments that have unleashed the American energy industry. Not only is America [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe 37 new oil and gas wells drilling on new California land leases over the next 20 years The oil and gas industry in California currently provides 368,000 jobs and more than $24 billion in tax revenues to the state, making this industry vital to the entire [...]
by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal President As Appearing in InsideSources.com America is vulnerable and exposed. Despite increased production, the United States has yet to achieve the level of energy independence adequate for national security or consumer protection. Today’s headlines are full of examples. When Iran captures vessels in international waters, it sends shockwaves reverberating through [...]
by E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow Greg Walcher As appearing in The Daily Sentinel One of the most frustrating aspects of American politics is the failure of elected officials to do what they promised. We resent politicians who campaign on an issue — say repealing Obamacare — and seem to forget it after the election. [...]
by James Osborn Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON – Steve Milloy, a regular on Fox News and publisher of the blog JunkScience.com, has long railed against a culture within the U.S. government of pseudo-scientific research and overregulation that has held back America's energy industries. With President Donald Trump in the White House, promising to roll back the [...]
Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow for the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and author of Junkscience.com, issued the following statement today regarding President Donald Trump speech on America's energy dominance. The Energy & Environment Legal Institute joins President Trump in celebrating American energy dominance and independence. Years ago, the science was settled, the world’s [...]
by Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow As Appearing in the Daily Caller The Trump Administration has proclaimed this week as “Energy Week” – a time to focus on pro-energy initiatives that can actually boost our economy, promote a message of U.S. “energy dominance” and highlight many disastrous Obama-era energy policies that helped stall [...]
by Mark Krebs, Spire Energy, and E&E Legal's Tom Tanton As Appearing in MasterResource “What Secretary Perry has yet to recognize is that the same hostile forces behind the ‘war against coal’ are now focused on eliminating the direct use of natural gas…. By taking a fresh look at the economic importance of natural gas [...]
by Michael Bielawski Vermont Watchdog President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent would mean an easing up on the EPA’s notoriously heavy-handed enforcement and push environmental groups to reset their priorities. The spending cuts — which are light years from a forgone conclusion — would also put pressure [...]
